I finally get to fish during the week and want to hit one of these 2 lakes. Haven't been to Monti this year and hit Fairfield once. Which one would you fish?

Fairfield. It's hot right now. Throw a green pumpkin chatterbait by grass

Fairfield Is a much better choice. I'll be on Monticello Wednesday.

the fish have seen 42,000,000 green chatter baits since Saturday.

Fairfield was a dud Saturday. Caught a couple good fish early then it fell flat as soon as the clouds lifted.

Didn't see many fish caught either. Not like what was advertised....Sure the front jacked them up. I guess if it was my home lake I could have done better...Shoulda been there a few days ago type of deal I'm sure...

When reeds don't work all you got is 2 or 3 spots to try deep that I could see. Lake is a mudhole.

I'll take Squaw, Monti or Welsh over that salad bowl.

Btw, please shoot whatever birds that is that carp all over your truck.

When the sun comes out....it's "game on" with a punch rig. The fish only moved a few feet. They didn't stop eating.

Ps....don't shoot the big white birds or the big brown ones with white heads and tail feathers....both are kinda protected. The rest....fire at will.

I went to Fairfield Sunday for the first time this year and had 11 bites caught 7 with 1 good fish weighing 6lbs. I was hoping someone would talk me into Monti
Are the fish at FF just starting to spawn?
We did see 3 otters and a beautiful bald eagle!
I don't get many days off and need to make this one count.

Thanks

Good info @ 20:45 mark in the video http://www.basszone.com/bass-talk-live/replays/m.blog/1745/january-24th-2017-steve-wunderlich

I would go to Monti, especially since we've had a couple of days of warming trend. Try pad stems, discharge, and if all else fails, the bridges...you can throw dog terds at the bridge and still catch 'em. Hit all of the water column at the bridge. Light line t-rig finesse worms, drop-shot, Shallow and deep running CB's should cover it. Good luck and enjoy fishing on a weekday. That's what I try to do every outing.

soooo.... Joe Pool?

Don't hesitate on monti, even under some brutal tough conditions the other day we caught some nice fish and with a couple warmer days going into wed you should be able to get em there. The railroad bridge has fish and the back of that creek is full of grass with a lot of healthy hydrilla that's holding some good quality fish right now. Good luck!

Fairfield. Fished it for the first time Friday before last. Caught 16 fish, 6 of them between 4 and 6 lbs, from 9 a.m. to dark. Bright sunny day, bite never stopped, all in the reeds. Most on slow rolled spinnerbaits, the bigger ones on Mpack swim jig. Plus I may want to fish Monti this coming Friday.

Dang it Iconn4 you had a great day! I'm going to head to Monticello just because it's a weekday and I haven't been there since last April. Thanks for the info Billy!

Your making the right choice choosing monti. We've doing very well last few weeks fishing slow. Average for us has been around 25lb stringers. Biggest so far there was around 6. Averaging anywhere between 20-40 fish a day. Let us know how you did. Need any pointers on where or how shoot me a p.m

might get to break out this Saturday and was debating on Monti or Welsh.

anyone with input on which one would get the lean over the other? taking a buddy for fun fishing just want to put him on some fish. Not worried about chasing giants he just wants to catch.

Monti is doing well....went week and half ago had there was 3 of us we had 2 over 7 and every fish was decent. Fished half a day at welsh numbers are good but small like always.

cool thanks for the info! i been to monti once just thought about trying something different, just need to go the whole weekend and fish both lakes! ha

Monti was tough today but we ended the day with a few good ones. My friend who I take a few times a year had big fish at 6.4 on a brush hog.

RIP Monti

Anytime you can go to a lake and catch a 6+ fish.....I'd say it was a successful trip. I want one of those.....I haven't caught one like that in years. But, I haven't been sick in years, either.

Seriously, great catch! That cat has a huge smile.

I couldn't believe it when we pulled up at 10am and saw 30 trailers. It was a great day out of the office and seeing a good friend catch a great fish was a bonus.

Good day

Been hearing that since 1980. Ya, way before the internet! :-)

geeze 30 boats on a week day! anyone work any more haha

Nice fish!

not many

I told you Fairfield was the better choice. Just kidding......

I was on Monticello yesterday with a friend. The bite was very tough for sure. We were able to catch some fish, but most came very late in the day. Most fish were caught fishing SLOW....

I like to fish faster, but the reaction bite was off for us.

The pressure on Monti has been brutal the last few weeks. Almost reminds me of the 1980's when they used to give out patches at the country corner for a fish over 7.

Does Monti or Fairfield have 4 o'clock close time like Squaw?

Nope