5/11 Morning

[BentRod]

Tried to night fish last night but got started late after the storms and couldn't get much action even though we were hearing a lot. Said screw it, let's load up on bait and hit the morning bite. Got 40-45 7-12" shad (you really gotta have shad..ales just not doing as as much this year). Hit the bed about 1am. Got up and headed out at 6ish. Rode down and just picked a good looking area to start since I haven't really been down this year. Knew of a good spot last evening but didnt wanna crowd a buddy. Bout 20minutes in, Mward misses three in a row on the bank side. I flip us around and I miss 2 outta 3 but got da one in. After that it was steady on that one point/flat til 830am. We quit at 10:50am for lunch and headed back on up. Put 15 or so in the boat. Biggest was 16lbs. Missed probably 10 more..Mward had his Mary poppins hooksets going on and I did quite a few myself! Dang near ran out of shad with bout a dozen leftover. Take as many shad as you can hold down there cause the potential for 30+ fish days is good right now if you get on em good. We picked up a couple on ales but shad are a must. Waters 63ish and probably mid 60s by afternoon. It was 57 last weekend down there.













Sidescan is da bomb! Hundreds of dem stripers! Saw this all morning.




Ha!

[mwardncsu]

Seems you linked the wrong pic - I fixed it for you - ha!

[BentRod]

Don't make me restrict your editing privileges and put bigun in charge.

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Sweet report guys!!!!!

Looks like Mr. Ward has lost some weight. Probably cause he's taking smaller bites.... ;D Had that same look on my face ( minus the food) when I was sitting on the pot this evening. Think maybe I had one come out backwards. Big end first..... !!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Cameras are the root of all evil on here. ;D

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May 11, 2013 20:05:45 GMT -5 BentRod said:

Don't make me restrict your editing privileges and put bigun in charge.

Short of banishment, that's probably the only thing to make me quit carrying on. ;D

[leeb]

Take a close look at Mike eating. He can't even get in a meal without having his phone out to try and moderate Bigun.

[maintenanceman4lif]

You guys always seem to nail them man.... Great Report Tyler

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May 13, 2013 23:19:16 GMT -5 leeb said:

Take a close look at Mike eating. He can't even get in a meal without having his phone out to try and moderate Bigun.

Yeah, he's got a edit bigun button on his phone ;D but heck lee, you should have seen it....it was a beast......prolly 7 or 8 rest rings on it.

[hillbilly]

Those look like some healthy fish.......or maybe you guys have mastered the art of picture taking. ;D

You're right about side scan, I put a new Humminbird unit on my deck boat a few months back, and although I'm still learning how to use it - we marked them on side scan, I said that looks like it could be fish there of the starboard side, and boom one was on.

[BentRod]

They've been looking pretty healthy all spring. Not East TN healthy, but nonetheless pretty chunky for SML fish. Mwards got that hidden fingers thing down..haha..they were all 10-11lbs+ though..the dinks don't get photographed in the springtime.

Sidescan has changed the game without a doubt. I didn't use it a whole lot for fish finding purposes this spring, but it did let me know when they were "home" in some very shallow water like last weekend. We were fishing in 12-15ft the whole time and kept marking hundreds of them on sidescan..nothing on the sonar. We had action the whole time with caught fish, missed fish, blowups, etc. so I know it was loaded. When it slowed for us, a buddy bottom fished in the area and caught a bunch. I could see hundreds right on the bottom in 25ft but they wouldn't come up.