Spring Fishing is ON
Don Schnable
March 23, 2013
Bull Shoals - Freshwater Fishing Report
Subject: SCHNABLE... Bull Shoals report from 125 Marina
BASS -
- Alabama rigs- this bait works well in cold water rigged with some type of plastic minnow pattern bait.
- Crawfish colored crankbaits are catching fish on windy banks. Cloudy days also seem to help the shallow patterns
- Spinner baits on cloudy windy banks. Mostly natural colors in clear water and bright colors in dingy water
- the old jig-n-frog combinations seem to be catching bass in 5 to 25 feet of water. The trailer can be a variety of things such as any type of plastics.
- The hula grub, gitzit, tube jig, salt craw, all types of plastic baits can catch fish. These can be worked in 5 to 50 feet of water depending on where the fish are that day.
- Stick baits such as the rebel, rogue, x-rap, are starting to catch some fish. I dot think we are going to have a shad kill this year so this pattern might not be as effective as normal.
- White Twin spins on the bluffs - this also simulates and dying shad and may not be as effective as colder years.
- Swimming a black jig-n-eel. I am not sure why this works or what it simulates but the old timers use to throw this a lot back in the day in the winter.
- Spooning in 10 to 50 feet of water under the shad balls. This works better on a bright sunny no wind day.
WHITE BASS -
- casting anything that looks like a shad or minnow. Working it 5 to 30 feet deep back in the creeks. Very slow retrieval. Spoons, jigs, road runners, shad raps, white plastic baits, ect.
- jigging a spoon will also catch white bass in 20 to 30 foot deep water.
Walleye -
- Stick baits such as the X-rap, rogue, rebel in shallow water at night or close to dark. Minnows colors seem to be the best.
Crappie -
- Small minnows around brush piles
- small 1/16 ,1/32, 1/64 oz jigs around the brush piles.
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