Any body been doing any good ??

Saw some sporadic schooling while guiding for crappie yesterday. They didn't stay up long

I haven't been out there since before July 4th. I have a trip planned for Saturday afternoon till dark. I know it was tough before when they were feeding on small fry. Maybe I can find some action.

I fished Yesterday and finally pulled out the spinning rod. Found allot of real nice sandbass outside of Scotts Marina in 16-22ft. Thermocline is around 20-24 around the open water areas, slightly deeper in a few areas. The fish were on the bottom, and the big ones were in packs of 50-80 fish cruising around. Didn't hardly see any bait, but there is an enormous amount of very small bait all over the lake. The very small bait is about half an inch long and all in the Marina areas seeking shelter of the docks. The fish were not super easy, but if you find them note the depth and look around. Double up on baits if possible, a dual rig will help you a bit. The fish were not on the humps at all, but closer in near the bank. You could hit a golf ball from the parking lot on the bank and hit my boat the whole time. Dead heat of the day. Got stupid hot, and I went metal detecting in the water to stay cool. Been looking here and there while bass fishing and I have not been seeing anything of interest, but yesterday was fun. I am seeing a ton of fish on the bottom everywhere, but most are not interested in cooperating.

@prosise, I was on the opposite side of the lake from you that same day and caught at least 25 (kept the 10 largest) sand bass. The last few mornings out I haven't seen the schools coming through. I might have to venture out from my little spot in search of the schools. I was shoreline fishing, no boat here. The schools came through my spot several days in a row and now they have just stopped. Yesterday and today we had our S S/E winds back and I was hoping that would push them to me but nope. It didn't.

Update report from Saturday morning run. Slow start from 7 am till 9:30 am. went all over the usual community spots. We finally found feeding fish out west, northwest of "rockcrusher" on a hump closer to the north bank 18 ft to 20 ft deep. Started with shorts but had a good mix of legal fish till 11 am and we left them biting. 50+ all on slabs 3/4 oz. and that was about the size of the shad they were feeding on.

Fished the mid-lake area today and ventured above Twin coves in the boat for the first time in months. I went up and metal detected on the beach, and picked up several more anchors and some cool stuff. On the way to the beach I stopped at the humps north of the crusher and caught sandbass for about 30 minutes before they vanished. I went up and did some cleaning at the beach until 4:30. On my way down I stopped at the long hump south west of the crusher, I spot locked and caught fish in the same spot for 2 hours +. I turned on the music as loud as it would play so I didn't have to listen to the metronome app ( I had a great time). I left at 7 because it was Beer-Thirty and I was ready to go home for a shower and some R&R. Sad thing is that I left them biting... I was using a shad type slab, and one of my home-made front runners. The front runner is made from either a rooster tail blade, or a willow blade from lures I find at the lake. I just drill an extra hole, and add a hook. I cut one of the hooks off the front runner bait, as it is easier to get the second fish off if you don't have to deal with a treble hook. The slab is one I picked up from Cabelas for fast sinking action, and it has a wobble when it falls. The spot I was spot locked on was just west of the long hump, and I was casting down the top of the hump. Broke off on one big cat, and caught another. GPS coordinates were taken at the end of the video, and I am adding them here. It is the middle of the long hump I added some time in the past. The GPS coordinates I added to the forum were just the ends, but I pulled up to the center by chance. Hope all are doing good, and if you can get some youngsters out for an afternoon before school starts, try this area late in the day. If you spot lock or anchor on this spot, just vertical jig or cast towards the hotel on the north bank.. I am currently rendering the entire video and will add it when It is uploaded, without any editing. I sped up the video but it shows every fish caught, and I would not have the slightest idea how many I caught (maybe 200 but 60% were small) . Take care all & if you can get out on the lake during the week, you will be glad you did. The Wake boats are terrible on the weekends.

The first 10 minutes is real time, then I sped it up. The end shows me documenting the waypoint. Proof is in the pudding, so I just put the whole video up. In this spot you can cast towards the Hotel and you will be on top of the long hump, I did allot better casting down the hump. If you want to work deeper just cast to the left and right of the hotel to work the deeper sides. The hump tops out at 18-20ft right now, and the lake if falling pretty fast. I didn't have the any electronics on but occasionally vertical jigged, but I caught better fish out away from the boat. This hump only has small brush on the very ends so you don't get hung up on the 200+ yards between the ends. Between the hump north of the crusher, and this hump I get a good idea what they are doing. This area of the lake has a lightly stained tint with tons of bait. I saw many big shad jumping out of the water who were being chased. And if the catfish are near, your on a good area. I broke off on a big catfish, probably had some nicks in my line. I use 15lb or 20lb mono between the two baits because it stretches, and it is easier to hold vs small diameter line.

Good report! I think I call that the "banana hump". That was close to where I was Saturday and we also had great luck there in the morning after about 9:30.

Got a report from one of the usual suspects just now (Mr. R Jr), he got a limit of sandbass today. He was fishing at the hump I referenced a couple days ago. He said they were 11-12" fish, and then he found the 12-13 inch fish heading back to his ramp. Here are some screenshots he sent me.

Thanks for the update report. I should be out tomorrow morning and will be in that area to see if I can repeat.

Went out Sunday for a bit snagged a few cats (8) all good eater size, bite kinda died around 9am went to look for some Sandys. They were all over the place in 20-30ft had a hard time getting down to the bigger fish even with big heavy baits at one point I was like "HA try to get this little fish!" the tied on a 1.5oz slab and the first cast caught a sandy about the size of the slab.... Cats were stacked up along this drop off going into the flat.

Neat thread!

I didn't have such good luck on Saturday. The little schoolers were hot and heavy out in front of Meadowmere @7 am, but I left those and went searching for bigger fish. Went all over and finally found some takers at The Murrell flat area. Maybe 10 total. Everywhere I went I found fish, just none liked anything I was offering. I didn't go all the way to the bank up there north of twin coves. I did hit all my usual humps at Rock Crushed to no avale. Good report.