Clinton john

Well now there is less then 6 inches in the bushes and lay downs on San Miguel.

Yes. Really. No water for the fish to be on the banks and getting to be to much of a hassle to get the tug on the trailer. All the beds I have seen since late February. Are now dry ground If I can't fish the brush, Im looking for other waters to fish now. I just do not enjoy bass fishing out in deeper water anymore. I can do it, I have the right gear, but I just don't enjoy it at all.

Does anyone know if Rayburn is at normal water levels? I'm done with SRA and having no water for the spawn, boats on the trailer and I'm looking for water to fish. The big pond isnt worth the effort anymore.

Sorry to hear that, hope your doing better now. I'm out on the lake, just put back one bout 4lbs, trying to refind that good bite from a few days ago. Water is dropping out fast, still muddy.

Man the crickets be loud in here neg.

Just how I like it. Chocolate milk to coffee stained.

I seen 52 to 57 degrees in San Miguel today. 56/57 in the far back of some coves but most water was in the 54/56 at peak sunlight today.

All I can add to what has already been said is this. Keep your head on a swivel. Not only for the two legged critters that might be out and about. But this isn't the north. Their "Will" be snakes and stinging insects and gators and more then likely swarms of skeeters. Personally I would talk the females into going to mardi gra somewhere other then NEw Orleans. That way you could get to camp and fish at a better lake/swamp. I honestly would never feel comfortable leaving woman alone in NO during the drunk/drug/crime fest that they call Mardi gras in NO. Hope this helps.

I haven't been on the water yet this year. Made a few cast off the bank in front the house but that's about it.

Life has its lil ways of getting in the way of what's most important.

Anybody seen a fat guy wearing a camo hat in a blue pro crappie out there yet 😂😂😂😂 I had to rejoin the group, couldn't log in under my old account forgot all my passwords and such.

It may sound strange. But I had to train myself to turn off the graph, once I found the fish. I keep catching myself just endlessly messing with boat postion and staring at the graph, instead of putting my head down and constrating on working the technique and finding the bite. This is with my mega down imaging graph, in my boat. That's when I knew. This is as far as I go with the tech.

My neighbor has the livescope. It is a cool peice of tech, he used it when we were at blue lake, it's not far me. While I do have the mega down imaging graph in my boat. It's my personal ethics that is as far as electronic fish finding tech will go for me.

Oh I know this all too well. Something just seems off. I can't put my finger on it.

Catt. Sometimes not right on the Big Pond. I know where all the prespawn areas and post spawn areas are in the blue lake area. And they were not on in of it. It took us close to 4 hours to find the few fish we did find suspended on that stretch. We went from 3 foot all the way out to 25 foot range and could not find any bass anywhere, almost nothing in the prespawn ditchs/drains/humps/flats and the same for post spawn areas. There was just nothing. Hardly any white perch as well. I have never seen it like this.

I gave up fishing San Miguel around my house a few days ago. It's a waist land now. Me and the neighbor went to blue lake today, found some fish suspend at 5 foot on a 9 foot bottom just above the grass but it was super tuff to get them to bite. Caught 5 total for the day, 3 of them keepers. Then we had to hual a$$ because the boat started to take on water from somewhere. It was touch and go for a few mints. But we got it on the trailer and back to the house now. They calling for rain but I ain't seeing it. Something has to change, this low water mess and the fishing pressure we put on them this time of year is just to much to be sustainable.

Dogwoods have been a blooming here for 3 weeks now. Here is blasters big pond weather report for 03-08-24. I'm fighting like the third monkey trying to get on the arc.... And brother the rain is coming coming down. Couldn't get the lil boat out, rain hit like a hammer, lighting popping like crazy, so I hooked up the bilge pump. Grabbed a rod with a roadrunner on it, made two cast too some grass infant my dock and hooked up with a soild 15 inch bass. Been a good day so far 😆 🤣 😂

Pulling the lil boat today. No rain at all. Water dropping. I'm sorry but this is just not sustainable. SRA is blantly harming the ecology of this lake for profits.

So what can I say..... The bass bug got ahold of me bad today. Decided to drop the lil boat in with the fourwheeler in the back yard. Motored around to the back cove where there is a perrty nice lil pre/post spawn hump right off the creek channel. With the lowered water level there is a shelf on the deeper side of the hump, that they will stage up on to feed on the wind blown shad balls. So I hooked around down wind, got in a comfortable casting distance and set the spot lock. Tied on a cotton Cordell super spot 1/4 once in chrome/black back. Set myself up to cast up wind and retrieve it back up hill from the ditch to the shelf and then to the apex of the hump. And just like I had figured, they were stagged up in 2 to 3 foot of water right where the transion would be. Slow rolling the bait and it would just load up. Ended the day with my 8 keepers and 5 other keeper sized bass come unhooked and landed close to 20 small fish with another say 10 to 15 of the small fish coming unhooked. Weather app shows severe thunderstorms possible tonight and into tomorrow. Hopefully the bass gods will smile on us and bump the water level back up into the 171 foot range, so I can get back to hammering them in the wood. I'm all about my hand to hand combat fishing and I want my 🐸 bite to fire off.

Boats been on the trailer in the front yard since Saturday. Not enough water for me to be out the messing with them. If the water gets back above 171 before the spawn is over I will put it back in. We didn't get enough rain the last 48 hours to amount to a hill of beans.

Does anyone know where I can source the swimabit bodys that come on the roadrunner/randy howel swimabits? I'm looking for just the bodys. Don't need the hook heads. I swear I bought just the bodys as a package last year at a local bait shop, but for the life of me I can't seem to locate them again, been googling it all morning looking online and still can't find a package of just the bait bodys without the hook/jighead. I found some swimbaits locally in the same color and size and they work just as good but they are not near as durable as the roadrunner style. Hopefully yall can help me find a source for these bait bodys.

I'm in Louisiana so take this for what it's worth. For pre-dawn fish say in 1 to 4 foot of water, with water temps of 60 degrees are higher, it's very very hard to beat a 4 to 3 inch swimabit rigged on a owner flasher swimmer hook. If fishing around grass and wood, can be fished with braided line to keep from breaking off fish. Water color dictates what color blade, dirty water calls for a gold Colorado style blade and clear water a chrome willow leaf blade can work well. Babybass, watermelon red, any kind of shad color with or without some spark flakes, pearl with some chartreuse die on the tail, many many different colors to try. Match it up to water clarity and availability sunlight and if possible match it to natural bait fish in your area. Small sqaurbill cranks like the kvd 1.0 in waterever color closely matches the bait fish in your area, works great on stagged up prespawn,spawn and post spawn fish. Last but not least the good ole baby ribbet frog, can be amazing in the prespawn time frame if your water temps are in the 65 to 70 degree range. Hope this helps.

Well what can I say...... This lake never seems to stop amazing me, frustrating me, straight p$$$$ me off, humble me, make me look like a genius, make me look like a fool, inspire me. Hit the water yesterday with all the k owledge I have gained from this place, plus all the knowledge I have learned out fishing it over the years. Spent the first 3 hours without a bite. So I pulled the trolling motor and hit the gas and headed for a bank full of cypress trees that I know bass are on. Break out the swimbaits in babybass and watermelon red plus all the different hooks I have. Gold Colorado and willow leaf and chrome in the same style blades. I start casting trying different combos and hopefully figure out what they want. Well needless to say after probably 45 mints, u still had no bites. So I out that down and pick up a rod rigged with a swimjig. I noticed the swimjig had a 3.5 inch pearl colored swimbait as a trailer and I was like well let's try that on a swimbait hook. So I get it rigged up and first cast, babamm 3lber, so I spend some time on those fish getting it dialed in. They wanted it the best with a gold Colorado blade and the paddle tail died in chartreuse. So I take off and head back to some of the bank I had tried earlier in the day and to my surprise not only did I start picking up keeper bass but I was slaying the big ole slabs. Ended yesterday with 7 keeper bass and I'm not even sure on how many slabs. Take off again today and the same pattern is working, difference is the bass had moved from cypress tress back to brush,laydowns and branch piles and the numbers of small bass biting dropped off but the keepers sized bass I like were straight hammering it. Not as many slabs today as yesterday but still found a few while chasing the bass. Just when I think I have them figured out, they prove me wrong and make me work for it. Just like a woman 😆 🤣 😂

The San Miguel annual boat race got kicked off Saturday.

Well where to start........... The last few days have been good to great fishing. The bits have stayed up but the size dropped off severally. Let's say 95 too 98% short non legal buck bass. Fishing off our dock every night, we haven't had a single white perch bite in atleast 5 days. Until yesterday and last night. Took out around noon yesterday, hit my favorite cypress trees in front my house and the very first cast I hook up and land a 4.72lb bass. Two cast later and the second tree and I hook up and land a 4.68lb bass, followed up with one legal keeper and around 20 non legal keepers for the rest of the day. Last evening on the dock I had 6 white perch bite, two came unhooked and landed 4 of them. The smallest one is 1.01lbs the largest is 1.55lbs, big ole fat girls. Baits for bass included- babybass colored 4 inch swimbait on a owner flashey swimmer 3/0 hook, gold Colorado or gold willow leave blade. All bass came out of 2 foot or less of water Baits for white perch- shiner under a cork set at 1.5 foot depth, fishing in about 2 foot of water. Them big girls are on the move fellas, yall better be getting them before I do lol.