Nickajack Bass 4/24

[HangnMoss]

Had a good evening after work. Put in at Bennetts Lake around 4:30 Central. Fished a few docks, then moved to Mullen's cove, catching mostly smaller males. Around 7:30 Central, we moved to deeper water and found schools of shad. Our last 30 minutes on the water yielded three females in the 3 lb range (2.5 lb bodies, with guts the size of softballs), and one fish that fell a few ounces shy of 4 lbs. All very healthy-looking and hard-fighting fish. Water temps around 73 degrees. Best 5 went a little over 14 lbs. Pic of brother holding the largest.

 

[fisherpal2k]

Good job HangnMoss. Nice fish and sounds like a good trip. Thanks for the post and keep 'em coming.

 

[polo-dog]

Good bunch of fish HangnMoss. Good lookin' pic too. Let's hope that you can stay on them all summer long.

 

[HangnMoss]

I'm starting my season a couple months later than last year because I had trouble finding a shop that could fix my boat. Yesterday was my first day on the lake this year, so I'm pretty much still guessing for now. I'm really looking forward to summer. I usually do well on post-spawn & summer patterns when a lot of my fishing buddies are scratching their heads.

 

[jason]

HangnMoss, were the bass bustin the shad at the surface?

 

[HangnMoss]

The shad were running 8-10 foot deep in pretty big schools in 12-18 foot of water off rocky points adjacent to shallower water. After the sun fell, the shad scattered and started flitting around the surface in smaller schools. There was a little surface action at that point, but nothing major.

 

[jason]

We got into some surface action in the evening on Saturday. After reading your post, I'm beginning to wonder if we might have missed out on a deeper feed.