The temp hovered around 67. Fished around goat island, pulsey.
Drifted shad neat the bottom split shot 30 ish plus nothing less than 25ft. Deep water was always close Not big numbers but caught fish through out the day. Four measured 19 or so, not any bigger.
At dark the lake was active with shad flippen on the surface, around wolf & obey area. Still catchen a lot of 14-16 inch fish
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notice the 2nd picture there is a trace of that black fungus we see so much of on the large mouth we catch in colder weather....

Tues AM: Caught 6-7 bigger fish this morning: Temp was 64 start,
bottom fished in 22 ft of water next to the channel. Used shad.
The biggest was well over 20, none would touch, all good healthy fish, didnt weigh any but all were solid. The bite was fast all morning, One picture is of one of the fish with the black (stuff) inside the mouth...The last 2 pic's was the pm sunset last night and the am sunrise today, (save u some time lol)

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black spot in the mouth next
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pm/am sunset
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