A lot of lures hung on that....at least 4 of mine!

Something interesting, I posted about the Rock Crusher years ago.. Bruce's responded with these pictures, and that is how we crossed paths. As of today we have a good time on the lake chasing the green fish. I am "Young Grasshopper", and learning the lake. Those Hummingbird side images are hard to beat.

Great images. Wow!! I thought y’all were just talking about a nickname for something that resembles a rock crusher, not an actual rock crusher!

Wow, those are some bad [censored] images.

Fished the full moon last night, and left at 1pm. Once again I fished the south side from dove to silver lake, including the dam and rock ledge. No sandbass caught in this area of the lake. I saw a white center console near the island picking up some small Sandies, but not seeing much in this area. I fished the dam from 11:30pm to about 3:00am, there is so much bait on the dam right now. If you want to catch some catfish, goto the dam before 5am (when it's dark) and you can load up on shad. you can take the shad to the humps you normally catch Sandies on, and pick up some nice eating size catfish. I will prob fish the north bank from Grapevine point to Rocky point tomorrow, when I get tired I will go check the humps north & south of the crusher. I don't fish the crusher, I like humps because I like ledges and high spots. I know many people who catch fish there, but after fishing it so many times it's not as reliable as pretty much any hump that is close. Caught some decent bass, and catfish last night. I couldn't help myself and caught about a dozen shad. When I got near any brush I strategically dropped a big shad down on the brush. Didn't catch any bass, but catfish pounced on the shad. Worked yesterday and got a two hour nap before heading out, right now I'm pooped. Don't waste your time right now on the south side of the lake from Meadomere to silver lake looking for Sandies.

Lost a bait last Wednesday, got hung up in the same place today and was able to get both my baits with my grappling hook. Found a glide bait on the dam.

I know the owner of that spoon. just sayin

Another decent Smallie this AM on topwater no less pulled light a freight train.

I have been throwing a top water in the mornings, but only have one fish on the surface this year. Good job, and thanks for sharing. Now I know why I stopped finding lures over on that stretch of bank. I like walking banks and that bank is a lure magnet with the wind. Keep doing what your doing.

Awesome thread. Nice fish.

Quick report from Saturday. Started at 830am by the island. Lots of egrets working (not just on the shore but diving like seagulls) and while there was a ton of shad we didn't see any sandies bunched up. Fish shallow end of island (dam side of island) out past the drop off and didn't catch anything. Poked around the rock crusher humps (Prosise has been GREAT with the coordinate sharing) but we didn't see many fish. In fairness to this area I didn't spend much time looking as nephew started to get hot and bored. Took him for a boat ride back down the lake to Murrell Point and there were a couple of boats out in 25-30ft of water catching one here, one there. Bouncing slabs. We ended up catching 4-5 small sandies in this area before it got too hot. Amazing how many wakeboarders and jet skis are on the lake by 830am. I thought those guys slept in on the weekends.

Not allot to report, I have been fishing for bass 100% of the time lately. Summer patterns are already kicking in for the green fish. I have seen so much bait out on the lake, that the fish should be very healthy. I have been doing some searching deep from Meadomere part to the dam on the south side and I don't see anything related to sandbass. I have not been up the lake in a while, but I would expect the humps to produce. Find the humps, and even if you don't see fish turn on some form of thumper. An old broom stick, bluetooth speaker, or the original will concentrate the fish in that area near you. you should be looking in the 25plus ranges, or peaks of the humps up to 20ft. Water is warming quickly, we saw 88 deg this week, and I was out on the water yesterday in that storm. It was wicked, and I did idle into a marina, and sit in an empty stall for about 20 min. If you have any notion of going out in the afternoon on the weekend, I would call in sick from work on the weekdays. The wake boats are a nightmare, don't say I didn't warm you. Catching good bass, and loosing allot of good bass this week hurt allot. But I was blessed, so no lost tears. Take care all, and will hopefully add something helpful soon.

Prosise

Thanks for the update. I have a crew going Saturday morning. I hope to report back on the sandies and where I found them. It has been a few weeks since I got the boat wet, so I have a lot of scouting to do.


Update: Saturday started slow and only one fish from 7am to 8:30. Bounced around till I found fish out south of the Murrel Hump in 32 ft of water, no real structure to speak of just saw them on side scan.
It was on for a while with multiple hookups at a time. Same over on the north east side of the island got in them good. Looks like they are keying on small 1" fry so the baits need to be small.
Off the lake by noon before it got too crazy.

Great week fishing for bass. I was all over the lake, and the water is getting warm. I found two things that were interesting.. First of all I found a massive school of sandbass sitting on the bottom in meadomere, and they are not cooperating. I can see thousands of them just sitting in 22-25 ft of water on top of the drop. I caught a coupe but it is like they just do not want anything to do with my baits. I scaled down to the smaller cordell spoon, and some of them would play. Really strange seeing so many fish in one spot. When I was spot locked above them, with the thumper going and with it off they would just slowly swim away from the boat. Might be the thermocline setting up, and the oxygen content might be affecting them. I am no scientist, so anyone with info on what I am seeing throw out anything you have. Water temps on the surface on the upper end of the lake is 87-89, and lower end 85'ish.

Second thing was a massive school of gar 400 yards x 400 yards thick as mosquitos. I have a screenshot on the boat, if I get a chance I will add it later. This area is shallow (7-9ft) and there are so many gar that it makes side imaging on the graph saturate. I was picking up my daughter from the hiking trail and was amazed. If you know any bow hunters, let them know that this is the spot for some night fun. I do not know the laws on bow hunting gar but I see many boats out on the water with the big lights. I heard they make excellent fertilizer for gardens. If your up in this area of the lake, you should look at this on side imaging.


Sandbass stacked up on the bottom.





Gar convention>> let your bowhunting friends know

Well it happened... I got skunked HARD! Fished Friday from 9pm to 6am got a few bites, lost one, landed 0. I hit every spot I know I tied on everything I had in the boat even a Slim Jim (I was getting desperate). Haven't had a 0 in a long time