Bass are sluggish and slow to bite with the lake still low. Down lake bass are deep and tight on cover. The fish all over the lake will be feeding and are feeding on a three-day cycle. It’s best to pay close attention to the feeding periods and fish slow baits. Worms and jigs are going to be the better lures for these fish. Small all white crank baits and DT6 shad Rapala crank baits will work. Stanley jigs in the 1/2 ounce size with a dark Zoom salt trailer will be good choices for the bass. Add the Zoom u tail as well as the lizard on a Texas rig in dark smoke or gourd green colors to the tackle box and work the baits very slowly. The up river fish are slow, so stay down lake. In the afternoons, the water warms a little, so use fire tiger crank baits. Be sure to bump the wood and bump this bait off rocky points as well. Later in the week, run bright fair tiger and red crawfish crank baits and bright spinner baits right off the little cuts and mud points.

Spotted bass are deep, and they have been caught fish on humps and tree lines in the creek mouths. The moon is waning and this means early and late top water. Up lake on the point’s right on the river, spots are chasing tiny bait fish recently spawned. Small all white crank Baits and all white Rooster Tails are working on light line. These fish will pop up over open water, so be aware of anything you see breaking on the surface. Some of the fish are up to 4 pounds with many small spots in the mix feeding on these tine baits. Matching the hatch is the keep and a Pop R and a Rico are good choices. Hand-poured custom worms are especially good right now as the fish are looking at new colors and softer plastics. Marina docks are good areas for the spots and doodling worms is fair. The green finesse worms on a brass and glass weight and glass bead makes lots of noise under water. Dropping a jig and eel can get a strike from the better fish. Add some extra scent on the lures and work the baits dead slow. Live night crawlers are catching a few fish and use a 1/8 ounce lead head jig. Spoons are good alternatives to soft plastics and this can be especially deadly with the fish so sluggish. Look in the backs of creeks around the deep docks as well as marina slips for any active fish later each day. Later in the week, go to all white spinner baits with some green and blue and work the main lake points.

Stripers are roaming the main lake deep water river channels where the water is still cool. Stick with the deep fish tactics but add then humps and long points on the main lake bellows Browns Bridge all week. The fish will come up to baits all day and especially early at dawn and then later when the current comes on at the dam. The key is to keep baits small and use fresh cut bait on the points. Stripers are roaming the main lake deep water river channels where the water is still cool. Stick with the deep fish tactics but add the humps and long points on the main lake below Browns Bridge. The fish will come up to baits day and especially early at dawn and then later when the current comes on at the dam. The major feeding periods are daylight and duck. The moon sets around 3:15pm the rest of the weekend. The key is to keep baits small and use fresh cut bait on the points. In the bigger bays in the lower lake creeks, down line blue backs on large 2 ounce egg sinkers as soon as the fish show up on the Lowrance. Just keep moving until the fish show up and then drop the baits right over the fish. Check out the saddle dyke area around from The Dam Store also. Troll until you see them, mark the spot and go back to them with fresh herring to 40 feet over any trees.

Crappie are in the deeper waters and bridges and deep docks are holding areas. The fish are as deep as 18-feet suspended tightly under docks. It’s always a good idea to look at each one with the Lowrance depth finder for schools of crappie and bait fish. Use greens and pearl Creme mini tube lures, Hal Flies and small minnows. The crappie really like the deep wood and they will almost touch this structure especially after foul weather.

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