Tourney this weekend anyone been down since the weather has warmed up over the last couple weeks?

Fished it 3/7-8, water temps were still mid 30s at 7mm and couldn't find a bite. It was also more than 6' under pool, the lowest drawdown I've seen there in a long time.

That being said there are some jerkbait veterans down there that I'm sure know more than I do!

water is around 45f

jerkbaits and jigs on 45 degree angle windy banks should pick you up a few. 

What area of the lake?

The pattern on LOZ doesnt change for the most part from what I've found.  Nice Bass is right.  This time of year it will be a jerkbait, jig bite.  Then it will change to a wiggle wart bite.  From there it will go to a flippin/pitchin docks, then to a dd22 on main lake pts back to docks then back to the jerkbait. Thats the short version but pretty darn accurate base starting point.

 

Yeah it was a slow bite. Managed some bites on Jerkbaits with very long pauses between jerks 15 to 20 seconds. Picked up 3 on a watermelon shakey head in 8-10 ft fished slow. Also picked a few up on a white fluke fished like a dying shad. Last but not least caught one on a sammy. Fished all around Gravois Arm found a 100y sretch that had 51 degree water which was almost 5 degrees warmer than any other water we found. Ended up in 3rd in our club tourney.

Congrats on the finish.  Sammy huh?  that's a rarity.

Yeah it was weird. I watched a dink run up and hit something on the surface and there were a bunch of shad shivering on the surface then they would dart down and slowly come back up. They did it over and over so I figured what the heck I had thrown everything else at them.

Yeah it was weird. I watched a dink run up and hit something on the surface and there were a bunch of shad shivering on the surface then they would dart down and slowly come back up. They did it over and over so I figured what the heck I had thrown everything else at them.

What did you weigh in?

11.4, it was a really slow day. We have tha BBB  coming up down there this weekend and another tourney the weekend after that so I will report back with what info I have.