Sounds like a fun trip and more to come

Saturday morning.
What a great day to be on the water. 7 am and so foggy you could not see 50 yards but I knew where I wanted to go and used my Helix GPS to get me there safely. Started fishing and suddenly heard a gang fight. whoppin, hollering, and thumpin. Had to be Chris Webb, Lane Palmer, and crew. 2 hours got 27 whites and 6 crappie on tandem rigged Constant Pursuit outfitters jig and Jerry Taylor hand tied Grease Bath. 49 fow 30 ft down. Front hit at 9 and went from calm to 10 miles an hour in 5 minutes. Luckly less than 10 minutes to my dock.

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Thank you for your service, sir. On your iPhone or iPad, view the pic and do a screen capture. That captured screen is saved as "pnp" pic format and will upload to TFF.

I will need to write to JP to make this process easier. Apple saves photos as "jpeg" files. TFF only uploads jpg and pnp files. Will ask JP to accept all three file types.

Thanks for the info. I captured and it uploaded as successful but only got a little box when displayed. See post.

Maybe you really cannot teach an old dog new tricks!

Thanks for the post. I was thinking about going out because of the calm lake, but that front hit.

We were out there, too, and it was super foggy. Watching that front come through was absolutely amazing. All of the sudden it got even darker than it had been all morning and that front swept through and pushed all that fog out. We had been hearing people all around us talking and laughing and seeing them all of the sudden was pretty cool. Then the wind started cranking up and within 2-3 minutes it was 15-20mph and picking up. We waited a minute or two and said "its time to GO!" Headed back to the ramp and by the time we got back up north it was 3ft rollers. Glad we took off when we did. But great fishing until then!

Went out yesterday and caught 41 and today and caught another 51. One was a 30 inch blue cat (pic below). Almost all the fish were caught on Long Ridge around the middle (shallowest) part of it in 20 to 23 fow. Water temp is 46.2 degrees and fish still on hugging-bottom pattern. I tested a white #3 and a yellow #4 Mepps against the white #4, which I have been using. The white #4 is best.

Blue cat caught on #4 white Mepps

I am amazed the fish are still that shallow there.

I agree, Gene. I saw a few as shallow as 17 fow yesterday - same hugging bottom pattern so I'm pretty sure they were white bass - but I couldn't stay on them. I have a question. Theoretically, colder water is heavier. So, as surface water gets colder due to cold fronts, doesn't that cause it to descend and you end up with water column all the same temperature? I also have another theory: white bass like sandy bottoms - hence sand bass. Maybe they like it so much at least some of them would rather nestle down against a sandy bottom in essentially the same water temp as opposed to suspending at 30 fow in water that is 40+ fow deep. They are there (20 -22 fow) because I'm catching them. The question is - why are they there?

Went out yesterday for about an hour and looked at Saint Annes Point West. Found white bass in 16 to 17 fow to my surprise. Caught 10 and a nice crappie before coming back to house. All were caught like we fish in warmer weather - casting away from boat and reeling back keeping Mepps close to bottom. Water temp 48 degrees.

Re remaking Mepps from old parts: I have found that the best color Mepps for white bass now is a white blade (Kilz primer works best), a darkish body and white plastic on hook shank. To make body dark I sprayed regular red/yellow body with black paint that left a touch of the old colors showing through. I had been using an old body that had lost all its paint and was a tarnished, dark bronze color. Sort of a dark brown. It was working well but lost it on a water bottom debris.

They are there (20 -22 fow) because I'm catching them. The question is - why are they there?

Dennis,
Most lakes I fish have a thermocline this time of year. There is more oxygen in that area. The thermocline I find is usually somewhere between 17 to 35 ft. Most times 22-24 ft. Also maybe a few shad died in the recent cold and the sandbass are getting some leftovers off the bottom?

Caught some on Saint Annes Point West Friday in 17 fow. Water temp was 48 degrees. Surprising to me!

White Aglia

https://www.mepps.com/information/aglia-dressed-aglia/121#B4P%20GW