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I got up early and was on the water by 5:30am.  The weather was going to be mostly clear and hot, so I planned to get off the water early.  The water color was nice and there was a hazy sunrise.

The water level was the same as yesterday (3.5 feet at Point of Rocks).  I set up to work the tip of an island with topwaters.  I started with the whopper plopper and noticed very little surface activity,  I tried the little buzzbait and even a spinnerbait.  I finally got a small one on the whopper plopper.   After no more bites, I moved up to work an island shoreline.  I ended up catching one about 14.5" on the whopper plopper.

I caught one more small one on the WP, then switched to a grub and landed this healthy 15"er.


The bite slowed down and I decided to work the shady shoreline on the MD side.  I ran up and floated the shoreline and I only caught one small fish on a tube.  It had chased something to the surface and I cast to where it was and it bit the tube.  No more bites on that shoreline.  I floated the middle a while and tried different lures, bit no bites.  I finally caught one on an underspin at the head of an island.

I ate my lunch and started to float the next island down.  I caught a 15"er in a shady spot under a tree with a grub.  I nicked it's gill and it was bleeding, so no picture.  It was getting hot and I decided to call it a day.  I was off the water about 11:50am and ran into Ernie and John at the ramp.  They were just putting in. 

Different day, bite was slower and caught no fish on the buzzbait, but still manged 7 fish for the morning.

Last edited by drxfish (May-29-19 9:58AM)