Sand bass are schooling mornings starting strong at about 7:30 and going on up in the day if you keep looking for them. Lots of the schooling fish are small but if you slab under the boat in the schooling areas you will catch good keepers. Any kind of small topwater works on the topwater fish and we catch all our slabbin fish on Cotton Cordell Jiggin spoons 3/4 oz. chrome with a Flies-By-Night fly tied 14 inches above the spoon for doubles. You can run across schooling fish anywhere on the lake right now but best areas in the last week have been from the dam to the marina on the flats, just north of Cates Point and South west of Wolf Island. Slabbin bite has been slowing down late morning but then topwater has been picking up. The folks below had there limits at 9:20 this morning. Then they caught a bunch more til
noon when we went in.

Have fun fishing,

Tim


Danny, Marsella, Carol and Bob with 100 sandbass and 1 catfish

Thanks for the info!

Went friday evening saw nothing on top. Marked fish on finder but have never caught sandies on slabs (only stripers). Do you ancor when you slab. Just bounce off bottom? I'll keep trying, new boat to me 97 Nitro.

Hburger,

Have not been fishing evenings lately so I can't tell you what they are doing then. I do not own an anchor. I find fish on the electronics and vertically slab for them using the trolling motor to stay on them. Most of the time a vertical presentation will get you more fish than casting.

Tim