We got to Tallman's Reach at first light, marked lots of fish but never found any topwater, except carp and gar, so decided to go to Wolf Cove. Found a boat show way out in front of it and slabbed some. We only saw a few get caught so went on over to the cove. There was a pretty tight circle of boats in there just breaking up and we saw a few nice ones caught there. Went on back out to Holiday Humps and trolled a little. We got a few nice sandies but too crowded so we headed on over to finger point. Again, marked lots of fish anywhere from 30' to 13'. They didn't want the slab, (or I suck) so we broke out the hell-pet. As long as we kept it close to the bottom in 15-19 feet of water we caught lots of fish. Some HUGE sand bass in the mix.

We knocked it off about 11 and saw Luck of the Irish with a nice mess for his customers today. Hey Omar, that was Mike and Brian that said hi over there. Guess you didn't recognize Brian in his bandanna/sunglasses/camo outfit. lol

Anyway, we caught a lot of yellow bass too. I have never done it but I decided to keep a mess for the heck of it. Yes, they are a lot of trouble for a little meat but it is as white a crappie and very firm. I'm looking forward to frying them up. Has anyone else ever filleted a mess of yellow bass?

yes sir. great eats. we call them "barfish" here on fork.
they are white meat and we fix them just like we do crappie.
Am sure you will not be diapointed.

2weeks ago my cousin came in town.. we caught like 80 of yellow bass, close to tallman bout 15ft, before the storm.Catching 2 at same time on ghost minnow..fast furious and didnt even have time to drink...but it was fun for 2hr..Good eatin white meat, but alot of work ...didnt see any schooling that evening...

have been eating yellows for 40 years best thing in the lake next to crappie usually only keep about 20 for a meal great stir fried sp? with veg.

Catfish,

I knew that was you guys but those kids I took out had me answering questions left and right. I didn't mean to ignore you but they were keeping me busy!