Great, I hope to get out on Sunday.

Nice report.

Lou r Pitcher, glad to hear the lab is doing ok. Sorry I couldn't get over to your boat fast enough to help get the hook out.

Nice fish.

Here's the only one I managed to catch.

Yea, looks like you too snagged a hungry Gibbons pre-spawn female there.....Never seen so many egg laden females and so few males bite pre-spawn. I'm kind of wondering if all the males were too busy rebuilding their deep beds since the water just came up? I only caught one more after I saw you. Yesterday, I was just going out to try to spot some beds for next full moon and got lucky and happened to find some of the gals all staged up together.

But thanks again about the Lab.

Good info. Haven't been out there in two weeks. Planning to go tomorrow afternoon.

Did you guys catch any word on the Crappie bite there at Gibbons??

Went out yesterday from 1:30 to 5. Pretty slow. Missed 3-4 bites. Got one 3-4 pounder in the boat. Only bites were on a watermelon brush hog.

Water level was at least 2 feet higher than 2 weeks ago. Water was muddy and around 65 degrees.

Surprised it was so slow for this time of year in a warm water lake. The time of day and Saturday cold front may have slowed everything down. But, still no good patterns and not a lot of spawning activity that I can find.

Haven't done any Crappie fishing.

Sunday was definitely slow. I think the cold front and drop in water temp affected the fish. I ended up with 4. First was 5lbs 4oz in 8 ft and the 3d was 3lbs 10oz in about 3 ft of water. Both were caught on CBs.

Nice pics of the LAB showing some love for the bass.

Thanks; He knows he better give them a quick taste as they go back into the lake and on most days its a long wait before he gets to see me catch the next one.

Heading out on Gibbons today. Any updates?

how was it. Did you catch anything?

One bite all day and didn't get it in the boat. Tried crankbait, swimbaits, and spinnerbaits. The only bite came on a little white spinnerbait.

Lots of boat on the lake today. Trailer parking was overflowing into the side lot.

Water was at least a foot higher than it was 2 weeks ago (and it was pretty high then after they pumped water in). Could just barely see the tips of the second set of metal dock pilings over near the intake. 2 weeks ago they were at least a foot out of the water.

It's been slow but the water has come up 2-3 feet. I went Tuesday and only had one bite. Threw frogs, C-rig, and mostly T-rig brushhog. Caught one on the T-rig. I was only there a few hours until dark. The temp was still right around 70 in the creeks near the discharge.

I've only had my boat 6 weeks and have been out there 5 or 6 times so I'm still figuring it out. I really don't know where they should be. I fish pretty slow so I haven't fish much of the lake yet. I've been saving the deeper parts of the main lake until its too hot to fish the creeks. But right now, I'd expect the fish to be in the creeks. I've caught some nice fish, one was 7 lbs, but no numbers at all. It's really slow, especially for Feb-March. There seems like so much useless or really shallow water. But when the lake was a lot lower a few fews ago I saw there's a lot of hidden hardwood. The big fish was right by a stump, now I can't see it but the GPS can.

I'm going in the morning, I'll report back.

Just got back fished from noon till 4. We caught 11, depths ranging from 3 foot to 8 foot. It looks like the fished have spawned or atleast the females we caught have already spawned. Water was really stained and 70 degrees. Good Luck