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I would imagine there is a pre-4:30am group milling around. Since they stopped locking the gate behind the first caravan, I don’t arrive quite that early.

Thanks for the details Dave. The fish are getting aggressive, twice last trip I hooked a fish simply picking up a rod with the lure hanging just out of the water. Thats beyond topwater!

619bassin wrote: Fri Jun 13, 2025 9:59 am The whopper plopper is the best because you can pause it, they will track it, especially the darker profile.

…as 25 guys head to the baitshop to buy a dark WP…

Got on the water at 4:45 and headed out on an absolutely perfect temp morning and lake surface. The bass were taking care of us fathers with a healthy bite until we left. Our usual rocky spots in Hauser were biting the pumpkin/pumpkin jigs hard, with us lipping 50 healthy models by 8am. Things ...

VinnyBass wrote: Sun Jun 15, 2025 2:17 pm Nice job out there Robert. Always fun to see a report from you. I’m not fishing as often as I normally do so I gotta snap out of that.
Anyway, best wishes and tight lines always!

Snap out of it VB!

Happy Father’s Day Sunday hooked up on 2 of those big kitty’s first I weighed so I now have better idea 12lb other 18 at least didn’t want try pick it up in yak lol got 5 bass first 6 casts when I got to the spot bass were busting on shad here and there but that didn’t detour me from throwing my ...

Those are some beasts!! Great job

Great seeing you out there and sharing 411. I just cant figure out why our jitterbugs dont get bit. They look to have all the elements of the Barrett topwater favorites.

That you did!! Great story too.

Nice work!!

Great job out there and catching more! And there is something to fish biting as Dave talks

Thanks, great info as always!

Looks like a good day. I have been asking about the shad, 4 trips no shad.


There are some there and if you find any, bass will be feeding. Especially on the surface. But there does seem to be less and maybe skinnier fish. Unless they are just spawned out and have yet to gain back weight. Some ...

Looks like you got some, nice work. I tubed out there once. Never again without a motor or a taxi arrangement. Got caught downwind a ways and almost killed myself kicking back lol.

Great job VB! We are always learning, right?

Great job VB! We are always learning, right?

Vinny stopped learning in the 90s...already knew everything! The only thing he doesn't know..online banking! He still makes 4 or 5 trips a week to do his banking....maybe a certain special teller????
Or...it's next to a Chick-fil-a.....


He does ...

Hey Dave, I was going along the bank and talked with a guy who was using his FF sonar, he saw several bait balls and we did play around with some surface fish there, but they were the 10-12 inch variety. I went further back in Pine and did turn on my Panoptix and saw bait balls in 28 feet of water ...

Great info as always!! Barrett Sun but looking for a Cap trip the following week. Need to keep that ramp underwater

You had me sympathetic up til the 14 part…

Another extra special Barrett day, especially on the jig! Pics of the main weapons below but it was almost impossible to get off the jig. Lots of doubles and steady action. All in Hauser today got 49 on the jig, 10 on the minnow mostly crisscrossing the arm but also dragging along banks, then two T ...