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Was in the water in the dark and the they were on the chew. Either a tick or flat out try to pull the rod out of your hands. Not much topwater for me except I was throwing a weightless worm and skimming the grass and sticks. Some really fun blow ups. Note you still need to let the rod load up before ...

I woke up at 2:15 my usual time to head to Barrett. Body said nope and went back to sleep and woke up at 6 ready to go. When I arrived I saw Shawn and Theo heading out. The weather was nice no big winds and not to hot. Not being dark missed that fishing fun. Not many rollers then none. No topwater ...

Got to the gate 4:30 and met Dave,Vince and Steve, we went our separate ways. Beautiful warm morning, they were biting on top, plopper and frog and occasional popper. Majority of my fish also came on the swim jig and chatter bait.
I stayed till noon when the wind came up,Dave left early and Vince ...

Three trips to Barrett this year totaled about 250 LMB for me and Max. A little tougher today as we landed about 60 including a four pounder and a three pounder. Most of the fish though were what we affectionately call jumbo dinks. Tried topwater in the morning to no avail. We got most of our fish ...

Didn't get there at the open around 6. Shawnster and Theo launching also. I decided to head to Pine. That was not good for me. Saw Big C and Max. Watched Big C land his 4 lber. I headed out to Becky's and so did Shawn. Becky's not producing as it was lined with yak. So I headed to main lake and ...

Going there next week, been there many times before. Questions:
1. Is the water up in the green bushes and weeds or has it dropped?
2. Is the lake bottom clean or covered with filamentous algae ("elephant snot")?
3. Any shad spotted? Last year, the lake was almost shad free.
4. Any shad spawn ...

Hi all,

Season opener at Barrett today. Fun to see a bunch of friends. We got on the water about 0500. Air was chilly, but water temp was 64F. Pedaled over to Hauser and first fish was on about the third cast on a popper. Played around until about 0800 in Hauser getting them on topwater and the ...

Was in line at 2:30 about 10 cars a head of me. Found out some people spent the night. I started fishing spots that were producing for me last year. Of coarse it had changed big time. Bring lots of tissue, the snot is thick and deep. Topwater was here and there. Hitting deeper areas and holes in the ...

Lots of small fish for me too, got them on different baits, no real pattern. Not great numbers either, not the usual opener
Water level is down a lot.

Headed down hauser first thing and found them stuck to sticks and rocks. Caught a few on the popper, underspin, and the jerkbait. Found the key this weekend was to keep moving and fishing and not setting up in one spot. Boat of 3 ended up with 120.
Drop shot, craws, senkos were the afternoon ...

In line at the gate early and after being rewarded by a spectacular sunrise, we found the bite tougher than usual. No reaction or chase bite for us so picked away with plastics, mostly flylined senkos and t-rigged pumpkin mag fattyz. For a couple of guys whose mom’s are watching from up above, we ...

Worm was the deal for me. Didn’t spend a lot of time throwing anything else cause I was getting bit. Not as many as at the last charity prefish a couple weekends ago but still a very good morning. Only thing missing was quality, most of my fish were 12-14”. Biggest probably 2.5. Wilson and Hauser.

The pattern on 5/10 was moss everywhere. Even 20' down, there's moss. Moss on stickups, moss on rocks, free floating moss, everywhere except far from shore. Lots of algae in the water too, maybe 2-3' visibility. Saw big long stringers of moss on the depth finder, almost like a forest down there in ...

Thank you for the report! Was there any decent sizes to the numbers you guys caught? I was there on opening day and ended with close to 40 but only about three of them were 3 lb or bigger. Everything else was dinks, not even the standard Barrett clones, but small fish. I'm hoping that was the ...

I’ll bring extra tissues, if not for the aquatic snot, to dry my tears if it’s still a slow dinkfest for me on Wednesday… haha

I’ll bring extra tissues, if not for the aquatic snot, to dry my tears if it’s still a slow dinkfest for me on Wednesday… haha


Even the dinks yesterday put up a hell of a fight. They looked and seemed healthier than last year. The slab bluegill were also a blast on a light bfs setup

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Fished 3.5 hours. 2 hours of bass, caught 19. 16 were small, 11-14 inches. 2 about 2lbs, one quality fish 3.5lbs. Was just trying to quickly cover all my usual spots and go through all my usual baits to see what was up. Every spot produced ok, every bait worked well. It's Barrett. I was pretty bored ...

Was in line before Early release and 619bassin, they were surprised. Didn't matter they were on the water way before me. Decided to try becky's cove. But stopped on the first point that we all turn at. Caught 11, then stopped at the island caught some more. Then into the rocks, I expected to see ...

Was in line early with the usual suspects. Great to see everyone. On the water @5, cooler morning, no fog. Dave and I headed to Hauser, slow morning on top water for us. I decided to try different baits, big swim bait (8 inch)and glide bait. Had followers on the swim bait and landed one on my first ...