Great report as always!

Really looking forward to seeing how the fishing shifts in the next few weeks.

Also props to the lady on the SUP... looks like she has a life jacket and even a 360 light! I always keep all the safety stuff on the yak but see lots of folks on SUPs without a jacket or even a leash on their paddle. Want everyone to be safe out there so happy to see that!

I took her pic, she really was following the golden rules. I gave her big kudos for the light.

Lots of sandbass on meadomere point. Also fished Murrell point and lucked into some chunky ones. With the
Cloudy conditions I was dead sticking it with a slight bumping action on the bottom.

Fished yesterday from 7am-6pm. Went to several spots around the lake practicing my casting. Getting good at that casting thing lately. My Fishing mentor surprised me about noon, as he came out to enjoy the absolutely beautiful Wx. Long story short, about mid afternoon we went looking for some sandbass. There was two boats already out on Murrell Point beating up on the sandbass. We stayed out on the end and with the Bluetooth thumper rolling pretty loud we stayed in pretty much the same spot until sunset. We whacked them, and it was really fun. The fish cruising around working bait, were the big ones. I used a DT8 crankbait when i could see them on the livescope in the 10ft range. Mr. B caught two real nice catfish, using a normal size spoon on the bottom. You wouldn't believe how many fish are out there, it is amazing. Technique is very subtle, letting the jig hit the bottom just barely raise the spoon up off the bottom. A hard jigging motion works, but the good bite is more of a dead stick technique. Spot lock pretty much useless with the calm winds. Interesting thing noticed by Mr. B, the fish were stacking up below my boat and the thumper. He said it almost looked like they were looking up at the boat. We stayed close, and enjoyed the fun. It was funny listening to him fight the flathead, with 12lb test it was a really good fight. I had to land them with my net, and just left the net in his boat as he was catching all the big ones.. For a short day, it was very memorable.. if you don't know Bruce, stop and say hello. He will always lead you in the direction of fish. Been bass fishing all my life, and I thought I knew how to fish. He has a wealth of info on this lake, and I am pretty sure he has waypoint'd every big rock on the lake. Take care all, hopefully we will do a repeat today. Don't know if we are going, but if we do I will report. If your chasing the green fish, we need some sunshine. When the sun comes out I will catch a fish. Pretty strange, but if your on the sweet spot and the sun comes out your very lively to catch one. Take care all...

I landed the blue in my net, and held it for a picture.

Went out yesterday around 11:30am, until dark. Looked at Murrell, Sandbass point, Rock ledge, and a couple other areas with nothing seen. Fish are stuck to the bottom, and you will see smaller bait balls in 25ft.. This is the magic depth, and down to 33'ish. I forgot the bluetooth thumper in the truck, so it was work getting them to bite. All the areas I listed above had very to no bait on them, but you can see fish on the bottom if you look. The fish schools we did find were roaming looking for food. Meadomere cove is saturated with bait, and smaller sandbass. from 2pm, to dark your best bet is to look for the seagulls working the bait. If they are sitting in the water, there is something there but it might be tough. We followed a small school of fish working bait out in the middle of the lake, but it is tough to follow. I was using a DT8 shad pattern crankbait reeling it slow. The fish roaming are in about 10-12ft, and will pounce on bait if they see it. It was really cloudy, and hazy so not much light penetration in the water. I am pretty sure it's pitch dark in 20 ft, so they pretty much have to bump into your lure to find it. Will be out sunday, take care all. If the sunshine comes out, it will turn on. Only saw two other boats on the lake yesterday, and they were chasing the green fish also.. If your not seeing lots of bait, or birds move on. And if you don't have a thumper, or a redneck bluetooth thumper it is tougher. I was tapping my foot on the boat and you could actually see fish respond. It only sprinkled on us about 5 minutes.

Surprising day. Was planning on planting brush, not expecting a good bite. Caught 10 bass in the first 2 hours. Planted 5 cedar trees, and then went back to chasing the green fish. Checked out Twin coves and it was a blank. Coming out of twin coves I went to the humps north of the crusher. Caught a bunch, but even when the bottom was saturated it was a little hard getting them on the hook. Changed to a blade bait, and was casting out and working it back on the bottom. This worked well, and caught many. Went south to a ledge that is nearly due south from these humps. I found a hump that is deep on both sides, and is about 300-400 yards long. It was stacked with sandbass, and I caught allot. Both of these areas were good, but there was little to no bait. I had the bluetooth thumper on and the fish followed the boat. I saw a big fish and quickly put down the 10lb line rod, and picked up the rod with a large jigging spoon on 17lb test and hooked up on the fish I saw. Think it was about a 30lb flat head.. Finished the day chasing bass in meadomere and put a couple nice bass in the boat.. I put some gps coordinates below, they will get you on the ledge/hump. You can go either way to find the ends.. This has been a good little area for sandbass in the last year.

Visual of the long ledge/hump







My cute little spot.. I love these



Some footage of the ledge. Lots of fish on this hump, and the fish were following the boat with the thumper running. Amazing to see how many fish are in this area.

Had a good rain this morning, saw the sun poke out and decided to go out and look around. Got out on the lake about noon, meadowmere is chocolate milk all the way out to the no-wake zone. One of the creeks that feeds meadowmere was running over the road. I've chased the green fish for a couple hours, and then I went looking for sand bass. I went to the ledge/hump that I described on a previous post. It's saturated with sand bass, the birds were working above it and I was throwing a crankbait and a jigging spoon and catching fish. I will add the unedited raw video from the depth finder below. Along with a waypoint which is the very Southern end of the ledge/hump. I cannot stress enough, the Bluetooth thumper is essential. You can see that the fish are staying underneath the boat and I've traveled over 200 yards throughout this entire video. The fish are following the boat, anything is better than nothing when it comes to thumpers. If you have to take a broom handle and bang on the boat do it. There's tons of fish, when the sun comes out it's going to be really easy catching them. I had a dead stick the bait to catch them, but I caught a lot. Take care all, work in the next 4 days.

Another great report!

I think it's time to wrap this one up, and put a bow on it. I wanted to thank everyone who stopped to read the info, chew the fat with me, waved, or sent me an instant message. I really enjoyed chasing the green fish this year, and kind of neglected the sandbass for a spell, but it's getting better and better. It was really a good year, and I think we are very blessed with our little lake. I want to encourage you to throw anything out that will help others on the updates, any little tip helps.

I will start chasing the green fish really hard and not let up until the late spawn timeframe. Keep a mental reminder in the back of your mind for the full moon in March. This is when the smaller sandbass will start running up the creek.


God Bless you all, Merry Christmas to all, and Many Blessings from the Prosise household..


Sincerely

Brent Prosise

Thank you for all the info! I hope you have a fantastic holiday sir.

Thank you, Prosise! I have been working like a dog and haven't gone out since September. It was a good year for me too. I think much of my success was from the many contributions on the TFF. You, Holding the Line, and DCC were really instrumental in my finding and catching fish this year. I look forward to March and the run up the creeks. I trust it'll be a good one. Merry Christmas!

Wow, can an angler not dead stick Grapevine with any success ??

Piece of cake.. I have fun with them, and to be honest I would rather pick on the big ones when I can. But yes you can whack them, and I think with the thumper it's much better.. Might have missed something by your comment, sorry if I misunderstood.. When I find the fish, I look around to see how much are in the area for information more than fishing. I love whacking em'...

BTW, here is the catfish video from Sunday.. Love picking up the big ones on a spoon