Help Break Down This Lake

[Eric Buck]

Just started beating the banks at lake Carlyle and haven't gotten a bite. I found the shad. I have fished rip rap, dirt, transitions, points, flats fast, slow. I have fished docks. I have fished from .5 ft to 12 ft. Nothing. Not even a bite. It was partly cloudy so I threw a devils horse and nothing. If you know anything about this lake, please clue me in. I'm going for revenge tomorrow. Think I'm going deep which is 15-20 ft in this lake.

[WRB]

Put away the top water and tie on a C-rig baby brush hog or 6" soft plastics worm of choice and focus on the 2 points near the dam on the left side looking from the dam up the lake.

Tom

[flyingmonkie]

That whole area (all the way up to the third creek arm) looks good, actually.  The bank just above the points WRB mentions looks pretty steep.  Any bluff walls?

 

At those depths, a good deep diving crank might be a good option too.

[Eric Buck]

Here's day 2 observations. Fished the flat a crossed from the dam and caught white bass on lipless and devils horse. They were busting shad on that flat all day. Fished shallow coves with spinnerbaits, jig, devils horse, and lipless. Nothing! Fished those steep riprap and found the shad. Nothing! I threw the C Rig with a lizard on a flat outside a cove where the shad were busting. Nothing! I fished a drop shot around schools of shad in 5 - 12 ft of water. nothing! I talked to a guy who said he caught 2 LMB. 1 on wood and another on a rip rap point that I fished with a jig. The one on wood was with a jig and the point was on a small crank bait. I think they are suspended and eat on the flats under the white bass.

[einscodek]

Look you are beating the banks so the easiest way to find the bass is to find the most extensive weeds.

There you can fish topwater all day long if you want.

[Eric Buck]

There's not much vegetation that I have found. I not only beat the banks but I fished the flats in the middle of the lake. I went over some secondary points with my Hummingbird but couldn't find anything.

[Pz3]

Good old where have the fish gone. Try crankbaits on ledges. I bet they are there.

[Eric Buck]

I cranked the steep ledges. I saw fish but not sure what they were. You can see the shad schooled up. I talked to a old man who said fishing was tough this time of the year.