Chris311

Fished Lacygne for 10 hours Sunday, one fish maybe 2 pounds at the very end of the day, threw everything in the tackle box, shaky head, cranks, jigs black and blue, I fished almost the entire lake even ran all the way back into the river, went home not very happy!!!

Hows your thumb feeling?? Nice report!!!

I agree with Blue your tackle might not handle one at 7 pounds, if you switch to braided line it will also allow you to cast heavy weights farther from the bank, keep in mind when casting out let the line sink to the bottom, once it hits the water its about a second a foot so count it down or wait until the line stops coming off of the spool. Try casting a 1/2 oz of 3/8 oz football jig head with a floating worm or creature bait and see what happens. Remember to use that 6 pound line as backing when spooling braid. Good Luck!!

Went and fished La Cygne for 4 hours before the heat was just to much with my little guy Jake! One bass almost 6 and the largest crappie I have ever caught! WT 82 bass caught on shakey head and crappie on a chrome and blue crankbait.

Retro good stuff TY!!! I am making the move to Lacygne for the next few weeks, Hillsdale has the run abouts and Jet Skis all over by 1130am now!

My son and I have been catching crappie out of Hillsdale along with some of the biggest white bass I have ever seen! Guy I know got a 40.2 pound catfish from Lake Olathe last week on a crankbait!! You got some good advice from the post above!! Here are a few pics to get your Dad fired up!

Fished Hillsdale Saturday 7am until 1130am, WT 66 at the dam, wind picked up at a steady 18 mph, one bass short at 16 inches, called it a day and went to the house! I got checked at the ramp by DNR, the officer gave me a warning for my letters said they where not visible at 25 feet. I thought it was kinda strange becasue I have been inspected three time prior once at Hillsdale last year and twice at Lacygne and no word was mentioned about my lettering. Oh well stopped at Bass Pro on the way home and for $6 fixed the problem! Here are the before and after letters, they are now 3-D white over blue! The old are the blue.

Retro, The bass hound was my buddys he keeps at his honey hole. As for your question on crankbaits, I just try and match the hatch of the bait fish (color of crankbait), if the water is colder I just slow up my retrieve with the crankbait. If I am in 10 feet of water I am fishing any where from 5 feet to the bottom. Even better if I can bounce the crankbait off of cover or rocks. As for a quality crankbait I will spend any where from $3 to $12 on one. When you see them on sale get as many as you can afford. Cabelas had Yo-Zuri crankbaits reduced from $12 to $2.99 a while back and Bass Pro had those KVD's for $2.99 from $5.99. I just wish those Spro Little Johns would go on sale!!!!!

Saturday was a complete wash out, Hillsdale looked like the east coast of florida, only thing missing was surfers! Went Sunday with a buddy to his honey hole, fished out of a 8 foot bass hound, here a few pics of the nicer ones, all fish caught on a KVD square bill crankbait 2.5 tenn shad color.

If you look at a weather map and its an L for Low pressure system go Large Mouth fishing if its an H for high pressure go small mouth fishing. I like WT between 58 and 70 IMO!

Thats funny!! This one guy just kept going back and fourth as fast as he could go, then a guy pulling a tube showed up and then the 30 foot Baja and a jet boat, and was like time to pack it on this spot!

Jake and i went back to our honey hole Saturday, great weather, a few more boats than last time but they where on the crappie bite. Fished the same set up as last time, 10 nice whites and a 19 inch Walley for our efforts. WT 61.9 all caught on the same crank bait, will post a pic, maybe time to replace this one!! NOT!! Jet Skis and circle drivers showed up about 2pm!

Thanks guys!! It was one of those days where the big man up stairs smiled on us!!! We where the only boat fishing the dam. My son has been fishing with me since he was 2, so now at 6 he is an old pro!! Getfished if your only gonna get a few bites thats the way they should look!!!!

Went to Hillsdale Saturday with my son looking for Bass and Walleye but we ran into large White Bass thick! WT 57 all caught on rattle trap 1/2 oz blue gil color. Cooler pic is of some of the larger Whites, the crappie in the pic measured 11 inches. Was a great day my son ended up with 3 bandaids!!

Thats what went there for using live minnows but never could find the bite, fished Hillsdale point and ran all the way into the back on the other side of the bridge of Gardner Road, what a beeatch getting out of that heck hole with the wind blowing and no channel markers to go by! I did not see anyone catch any walley most where crappie fishing in the trees or by the Antioch boat ramp. On the way in I picked up a patch of whites on the FF and the troll was on! Of course there was a guy at the boat ramp that told us about his 27 and 30 incher he caught last weekend!!