I have never seen activity on the lake like it was today. The birds worked for 3 solid hours revealing fish, although there was no surface activity.

There were 4 boats in the area catching fish. George (fast guy}, who caught over 30 hybrids, John Varner and his crew, who caught over 60, 'native texan' who caught a bunch, and me who probably caught the least at 18.

All fish were legal hybrids with the exception of only a few sandies.

I went back out in the afternoon and caught fish with almost every cast and jig.

A big thanks to John Varner for the sassy shad that finally produced fish for me.

I will report tomorrow how it was on Saturday morning.

Karry

Ain't it great to be a fisherman

hey kerry where are those hybrids hanging out at would like to get in to them in the mornig

karry it was nice to finally meet you. if you ever need a fishing partner let me know and we'll get together. Glad to hear you found them again this evening.

Robin: the fish were between arber isle and the dam but closer to arber isle, good luck

Which Sassy Shad was successful for you?

So sorry. I didn't see your post about color of sassy shad and location of fish.

Native Texan took care of the spot. The color of the sassy shad was day-glo. I was using another color without much success and Varner gave me one of his catch everytime sassys. And it worked.

Karry

Ain't it great to be a fisherman

thanks native texan.
will change plugs in the boat and be out there in about an hour are two. white 24ft center console with green bimi

Karry "Doc" and George,

Thanks for sharing your fishing holes with me. I have agreat time on Saturday and Sunday.

George,
Thanks for your help with the marker.

AA "Chris"

Always great to help out a fellow Aggie

Karry

Karry,

What kind of bird activity were you observing. You said there was no surface action? So, what species of birds and what was their behavior?

I assume they were not swooping down and aerial diving into the water to get shad on the surface.

-RonC

Ron the fish werent blowing up , they would swirl....and yes the birds where diving, they where gulls....its not like spring surface action...but the birds saw them and we marked them with our graph...every now and then a fish would blowup but not many,,,,then you would see them also swirl...

The only swirls I saw today was from the 3' waves

John described it best. In the spring and summer, the birds are diving all over the place, hitting the surface. These gulls would hover over a spot with only a few attacking the surface.

Usually we stayed far enough away to ease up on the spot and as John said, mark them on the graph.

Also, the loons were working the area like crazy. I suspect the gulls were picking up what the loons left behind. And it was tons of birds just looking for that left over morsel.

Karry

PS. They were easily slabbed under the boat. In fact that is the way I caught most on that fateful Friday.

The only birds we saw working were behind the spillway on the way to Cherokee Landing.. caught some sandies, but not much luck with the Hybrids. The highlight of the day was talking with the famous Dream Team. What skills and personable to boot

Where you saw them, that's where you should have fished for hybrids. Unless, of course, if it was at the dock.