Made a morning and an afternoon run today fishing shallow (10 to 15 fow) structures and caught 144: 127 whites to 16 inches, 14 keeper yellow bass, 2 cats and a hybrid.

In the morning I fished at Key Ranch and Merimac Point. In the afternoon brother-in-law Rick went out with me, and we caught them at Saint Annes Point East and Key Ranch.

All fish caught with #4 Mepps. Fish wanted it cranked medium fast today.

Here's some pics of brother-in-law with white bass:



Yours truly with a white caught today:




7/19/2013 Report:

We got a very heavy rain on the south end of CC from 11:55 AM until about 1 PM. After things calmed down brother-in-law Rick and I got out about 4:15 PM and fished til 7:35 PM catching 118: 76 whites to 16 inches, 27 keeper sized yellow bass, 12 cats, 2 hybrids and a drum.

We went straight to Greenhouse Ridge and caught most of the fish (including the 2 hybrids) there in 20 fow. After that slowed we went over to East Dam Hump and caught the rest in 13 to 18 fow. All fish caught on #4 Mepps.

I introduced Rick to the Mepps method in 1977, and he flat caught the fish yesterday and today.

There was a large plume of smoke toward Malakoff that went on for 3 or 4 hours. You can see it in the 2nd pic of Rick. Does anyone know what it was?

Pic of Rick and 22 inch hybrid he caught today:


Rick with a good sized yellow bass:


Rick with large white:


Yours truly with nice white:


Yours truly with a blue cat:

Great job Dennis not to disappoint the ole' bro-in-law!! Nice pics to boot Glad y'all hammered them.....

Great report Dennis!!!

Nice Catch!.

I dont need Google either! lol. Nice report!

Nice fish.

Hey Dennis have you seen any decent schooling going on my boy loves topwater action. Im not sure where to go Sunday!

Fish were all around us yesterday from 7 to 8 PM but only an occasional surface hit. We were letting our Mepps #4 go to the bottom in 10 fow and then reeling in. I haven't seen any significant surface action lately, but I don't go looking for it. Early and late at the dam where the cattails are is where I would look.

Looks like fun!

Thanks for all your tips, Dennis. We were out Thursday too and found fish on almost all the main lake points between 14-18 FOW with our new #4 Mepps. Came home with about 30 keepers. We just can't seem to find the numbers you can. We must be doing something wrong.

Our old, out-dated electronics show TONS of fish at 30-35 feet. What kind do you think those are?

Fish that I can't catch! LOL Seriously, I seldom look for fish below 27 ft. And from now to early Oct I'll be focused on 10 to 16 ft. However, today we caught fish in 20 ft water.

Added 7/19/2013 results.

Thanks for all the tps, instruction and effort.
The Big ones are coming.