Fished today with some friends and some great advice from camo-Jorts. Launched at Eisenhower, caught some bait and headed toward Wachita point. There were fish blowing up over the creek bed right outside the park so we spent an hour chasing the school. If we got into them it was instant hookup and we caught several that were too small to bother with. I really enjoy the topwater nite so messed around longer than I should have but eventually we headed to the point.

Saw a bunch of marks on the screen and tried the thumper and splasher. We could see the fish on the Panoptix, sometimes having a meeting around our shad but only managed a big drum, a small over and some catfish. Catfish were killing our baits so we headed to where the boat show was by Mack Creek. Saw a few scattered fish and decided to give the thumper and splasher a try. We saw some fish deep and a couple high. We caught 2 catfish and didn’t see much on the graph. We were reeling in to look someplace when Cliff picked up another over. Suddenly it was game on. The fish showed up in force and we kept fish under the boat for the next thirty minutes and picked up the rest of our overs .

We launched out of platter flats, ran across to the point at daybreak but didn't see any blowups.
Headed towards the RR Bridge and saw the boat show forming, at one time there was 23 boats trolling alabama rigs at 15 ft. and everyone was catching the dinks.
This continued until 10 or so when we had finally had enough and headed home.
Kinda a love hate with the pre dawn topwater challenge, and will have to put in more work to pattern them for a more consistent bite and locations.
Thanks to Camo-Jorts for the share...

Denny

Those are some nice striper there scabaarchery.
Hope I can get a couple like that next time I am up there.

Those are the biggest caught on any boat I have been on! They were huge! I used my thumper on a fast setting and it took a while but it really drew them in!

Those are some nice fish. Headed there next weekend taking father in law and staying at Sheppard Annex. Do y’all have any spots worth trying close to the Willis Bridge or just take the long boat ride to the previous spots mentioned. I have always just stayed close to the cabins cause I don’t know the lake too well.

Here are some spots in that area. I haven’t fished that part in a few months though...

Thanks for the info I’ll give it a try

Short video from last trip...

https://youtu.be/t41sb_ooI-I