Fishing Report From The Big Kahuna   7-16-08

Sorry for the late report just more time in the boat than near my computer.

BassFishing has been good. Try river ledges. Try to find a bend in 20ft plus water and set your boat where you drag down the ledge slow. Jigs and Big Huie worms in candy red and blue will work for them. There is also an early morning top water bite going on in the bays. Try Zaru Spooks and Lucky 13’s until the sun gets up.

Catfish are good out in the river, The spawn is all but over and they have moved to deeper water. This is the 2nd week I have seen several blue cats being cleaned. I have caught several my self on some our last trips on spinners while stripe fishing.

Crappie fishing is slow. My guide Chris has been out just to see if any deep crappie would bite and on days had some real nice black crappie. One trip before a white bass trip he caught 26 slabs using minnows in deep brush pile on a ledge and slow drop off. Try minnows in cover in 20-25 ft. All of these were in at least 20 ft or more and about 90% were black ones.

Blue gill fishing is still good. Try worms or bugs in the mouths of the bays. Try to find 7-8 ft of water with deeper water nearby.

White bass fishing has been real good We all have had several limit days in the last 2 weeks. When the current flow is good, they are not as hard to find. We just move from spot to spot casting in line using Spinners ¼ oz (white and lime green). Some of the white bass are in the pound range and a few bigger with small ones mixed in. These fish are great table fair and lots of fun to catch! We are also getting a few sauger while fishing the river edge. One other thing we are catching is lots of rockfish in the 12”-15” range, had one good up to the boat Monday and lost it. It was probably 6 pounds or better. I think the lake is getting full of these fish!

Yellow Bass are moving around on the flats, Took a trip last week and the guy just wanted yellows…he loves to cook them. We were always casting for whites and catching yellows in with them. What I did was go to the place we got them last year to see if they were they and they were still there. It is a gravel bar no more than 6’ on top. We used spinners and kept a good limit after we culled them for any small ones and had some huge Bluegill as well. I think they will be there for a few weeks to come.

Another thing I have seen in the last two weeks is more of the Seagulls out looking for bait. Hope everyone is having a great summer and catching some fish!


Good Fishing

The Big Kahuna

Don Schnuck