Had the opportunity to fish pines today for first time this year and boy was it a grind for me went shallow for while didnt have one bite went deep not one bite i figured this time of year they would have been shallow didnt even catch a spotted bass maby ill do better next time out anybody else had any luck on pines

Were you around a lot of boats?

At times i was and sometimes alone but makes me sure scratch my head

White Spinnerbaits thrown on the bank and drug off it into the edge of the water…. They are in the dirt right now on Pines….

The last time I was there; which was last summer, I caught them on the smallest KVD XD in Sexy Shad, a 1/4 ounce Red Eye Shad in Sexy Shad, and a chartreuse Zoom Centipede Carolina rigged. I got bit pretty much everywhere we went and we fished from the dam all the way to the back of the lake under heavy pressure. That day kind of left me with a euphoria about that lake that I could do no wrong, but every body of water I fish regularly eventually kicks my butt. Sometimes that is just the way it goes. The white spinnerbait deal may be just the ticket right now. I know on Tawakoni they'll do the dirt thing this time of year. I've seen them come out of water there so shallow you should have been able to see their dorsal fin.

What about in between? You w ent shallow, and went deep. 5-8’ near spawning areas is where I would have concentrated

Yes sir i did everything i could think of it was my first trip this year i normaly do alot better then that but im off next Tuesday hope i can do better

Crank creek channels

Bullard Bandit, what did you throw and what did you catch?

I second this! Was there last Saturday it was slow but they were in 1 ft of water caught a few good ones. They looked prespawn. Caught one on a chartreuse and white spinnerbait with a gold colorado blade and the other one hit a chartreuse and black back 1.5 crank. Was only there for like 4 hours but didn’t get a bite on anything else. I was up by the 155 bridge fishing close to the river channel. Tons of bait everywhere and I’m almost positive thats what they were eating.