(Un)official Hoosiers Thread

[Amoore9900]

No other end near my house where the river flows in they hold up there and feed on the shad as they enter the lake ...The island can also produce down big fish now but the other spot produces numbers...I will text you and we can try again in a week or so once it really heats up

[BassOnKlinger]

I drive past a creek with seemingly deep water every day. It appears to have easy access if I park on the side of the road and walk down to it. If I could only take one rod setup and a few lures, what do you all recommend? 

I'm assuming there are some decent smallies roaming around in it. 

[IndianaFinesse]

11 minutes ago, BassOnKlinger said:

I drive past a creek with seemingly deep water every day. It appears to have easy access if I park on the side of the road and walk down to it. If I could only take one rod setup and a few lures, what do you all recommend? 

I'm assuming there are some decent smallies roaming around in it. 

I would probably take a medium-lite spinning rod with a ned rig, inline spinner, small pop-r, and either a bitsy crank or a small curly tail grub.

[BassOnKlinger]

1 minute ago, IndianaFinesse said:

I would probably take a medium-lite spinning rod with a ned rig, inline spinner, small pop-r, and either a bitsy crank or a small curly tail grub.

Thanks.

I looked it up on a map. I think it's Sugar Creek, which if I'm not mistaken, is a pretty nice creek for fishing. Kind of wish I would've considered this sooner...

[IndianaFinesse]

1 minute ago, BassOnKlinger said:

Thanks.

I looked it up on a map. I think it's Sugar Creek, which if I'm not mistaken, is a pretty nice creek for fishing. Kind of wish I would've considered this sooner...

I've never actually fished in sugar creek, but it looks pretty good on google earth and the state record rockbass came out of it.  I used to fish white lick creek quite a bit, had a lot of fun wading it in the summer and catch acrobatic smallmouth.

[OddChase]

5 hours ago, IndianaFinesse said:

I've never actually fished in sugar creek, but it looks pretty good on google earth and the state record rockbass came out of it.  I used to fish white lick creek quite a bit, had a lot of fun wading it in the summer and catch acrobatic smallmouth.

Sugar creek is a fantastic fishery. A month ago my family and I rented some kayaks and floated through some of the state parks that the river flows through and caught more smallies than we could count with the largest being about 16 inches. 

[IndianaFinesse]

2 hours ago, OddChase said:

Sugar creek is a fantastic fishery. A month ago my family and I rented some kayaks and floated through some of the state parks that the river flows through and caught more smallies than we could count with the largest being about 16 inches. 

Sounds like it might be my next spot to try.

Got out fishing this afternoon for about three hours.  I caught a total of 24 bass, all of them on the ned rig with the new trd tubez fished with a lift and drop retrieve.  I tried to catch them on a frog and jerkbait, but the only thing they wanted was the ned rig.  The best areas were rip rap shorelines and points in two to ten feet of water, with a few under main lake docks.  Most were just little 12-14 inch dinks, but five measured over fifteen inches to weigh 8.8 pounds with "big" bass weighing only 2.75 pounds.  Not great size but it was fun to catch a bunch of bass.

[Jbower]

Fished chapman tonight and did pretty well. Had 5 in the boat including a 4.35. Won the last little local money tourney and big fish

[Amoore9900]

A friend fished at my house today they did well biggest was 3 they saw a 6-6.5 at the boat when it tries to take a crank from a smaller bass...we are going to fish Barbee some tomorrow Bass and fish with Teeth...

[Amoore9900]

At Barbee we got a few nothing big did have a big one hit a crank at the boat.  When out at home this morning we got 11 and 10 of the fish were 2 to 4 pounds....All came on KVD 2.5 cranks, and we saw a few monsters in the 8-10 pound class my brother had one hooked for a few seconds.  

[OddChase]

Going to be spending a few days on Summit in the coming weeks and I'll be bringing a boat with me. I've never fished for bass in the fall on such a clear lake like Summit - does anyone have any suggestions on where I can find them or what I should be using? Fall is usually the time I fill the freezer with crappie. Thanks. 

I've read that there are no shad in Summit Lake, so should I focus on jig fishing, top water, or even a perch-colored swimbait/crankbait? 

[IndianaFinesse]

8 hours ago, OddChase said:

Going to be spending a few days on Summit in the coming weeks and I'll be bringing a boat with me. I've never fished for bass in the fall on such a clear lake like Summit - does anyone have any suggestions on where I can find them or what I should be using? Fall is usually the time I fill the freezer with crappie. Thanks. 

I've read that there are no shad in Summit Lake, so should I focus on jig fishing, top water, or even a perch-colored swimbait/crankbait? 

I would recommend using a clearish colored jerkbait, fish it over top of weeds and on wind blown banks.

[BigBassLoveSenkos]

On 9/19/2016 at 0:34 PM, OddChase said:

Going to be spending a few days on Summit in the coming weeks and I'll be bringing a boat with me. I've never fished for bass in the fall on such a clear lake like Summit - does anyone have any suggestions on where I can find them or what I should be using? Fall is usually the time I fill the freezer with crappie. Thanks. 

I've read that there are no shad in Summit Lake, so should I focus on jig fishing, top water, or even a perch-colored swimbait/crankbait? 

Lucky Craft Pointer 78 in ghost minnow 

Super Spook Jr. in bone

Lucky Craft Gunfish 95 in chartreuse shad or ghost minnow

bluegill or crappie colored swim jig over grass might be a good bet too

[Jbower]

Went out tonight on tippy with the wife. We have a tournament Saturday morning. Its definitely getting a little tough. Catching numbers just not size. Not sure if the big boys are full on shad or what. Going to go out tomorrow night and try to pin point a few good areas. 

[Wally Corder]

Finally able to get out again on clear lake. Decent size hitting black top water frogs over the lillies. 

[OddChase]

On 9/22/2016 at 0:55 AM, Wally Corder said:

Finally able to get out again on clear lake. Decent size hitting black top water frogs over the lillies. 

Great catch and great photo quality! Do you find that the color of frog matters? I have an all white frog that I cannot get bit on for the life of me. Haven't tried any other colors as I have little confidence in frogs where I fish. 

[Wally Corder]

1 hour ago, OddChase said:

Great catch and great photo quality! Do you find that the color of frog matters? I have an all white frog that I cannot get bit on for the life of me. Haven't tried any other colors as I have little confidence in frogs where I fish. 

Yeah the camera on the s7 edge is pretty badass lol. And yeah i used to try and stick with natural colors and didn't do much good up here. One day i was with a buddy who was using a black frog with frill legs from shore, and he was absolutely smoking me. I asked him what the deal was and he told me that when a bass looks up he mostly sees whatever color the sky is "mostly white or blue" so he tries to pick the frog that would most contrast that so it's easier for the bass to see. Consequently black is the most contrasting in most circumstances for me so that's what i go with and have been much more successful. I also had to learn to fight against that quick hook set and let them have it for at least 1 mississippi before settin' her home. Hope that helps and good luck! 

[HoosierVeteran]

I just caught 8 bass using senko worms in an apartment pond near keystone mall.  I caught 10 more the next day in an apartment pond in Greenfield.  Trying to get them to strike on other stuff. Guess I don't have much confidence yet.

[BassOnKlinger]

On 9/24/2016 at 7:11 PM, HoosierVeteran said:

I just caught 8 bass using senko worms in an apartment pond near keystone mall.  I caught 10 more the next day in an apartment pond in Greenfield.  Trying to get them to strike on other stuff. Guess I don't have much confidence yet.

I used to live in the River Crossing apartments. That pond behind them (near Champs) is loaded with little half-pounders that will eat up a soft plastic. I used to catch  a ton on soft plastic jerk baits/ flukes. I never caught anything big though.

[IndianaFinesse]

Fished in the scattered storms this morning for a couple hours.  I surprisingly did really well given the water temperature dropping four degrees over night to 72, I figured that would mess them up for a day or two. I was throwing a loon colored whopper plopper while it was raining, and when the rain cleared off I switched to half of a zinkerz.  The whopper plopper was fished on points and shorelines in 2-8 feet of water, and the ned rig for some reason worked best in the narrow window of nine to eleven foot range on drop offs, I found these fish on my depth finder and dropped it down just to see what they were.  Turns out they were bass, and a whole lot of them packed into a tiny little area.  Ended up with a total of 34 bass in about three hours, nine bass over fifteen inches and big bass weighing 3.8 pounds

[BigBassLoveSenkos]

17 hours ago, IndianaFinesse said:

Fished in the scattered storms this morning for a couple hours.  I surprisingly did really well given the water temperature dropping four degrees over night to 72, I figured that would mess them up for a day or two. I was throwing a loon colored whopper plopper while it was raining, and when the rain cleared off I switched to half of a zinkerz.  The whopper plopper was fished on points and shorelines in 2-8 feet of water, and the ned rig for some reason worked best in the narrow window of nine to eleven foot range on drop offs, I found these fish on my depth finder and dropped it down just to see what they were.  Turns out they were bass, and a whole lot of them packed into a tiny little area.  Ended up with a total of 34 bass in about three hours, nine bass over fifteen inches and big bass weighing 3.8 pounds

That is awesome!  Way to use your electronics too!!

I'm gonna head out this evening and possible tomorrow morning as well.  The loon whopper plopper has been dynamite lately in low light.  The bone one is crushed them too.  I switch out the rear treble with a bucktail dressed treble on those baits.  It gives the bass something to target, and slows the lure a bit keeping it in the strike zone longer.  Varying the retrieve speed then killing it has been money.   

My goto lure time of year is a swim jig with a 3.8" keitech fat impact trail.  Shad and bait have grown to about that size, and bass are starting to feed more aggressively as temps drop.  Lately I've been fishing with 5 rods on the deck: T-rig trick worm, swim jig, popper, whopper plopper, and a super spook jr.   About time to start using squarebills again too.

[Amoore9900]

A friend went out on my lake last weekend and found some fish biggest was 4.5 and he got some footage on the gopro.

 

 

[IndianaFinesse]

Managed to slip out for an hours fishing tonight.  The bass aren't stacked up where they were yesterday, they seemed to have scattered again.  Found some scattered fish on a large flat with scattered weeds in 1-5 feet of water off of a point.  Managed to catch ten bass with two over fifteen inches, the highlight being a 19 inch smallmouth (there aren't squat for smallie's in this lake, I have only caught three this year).  I don't catch very many smallie's, but they sure are a lot more fun to fight than a largemouth with all of the jumping and just all around energy.  I wish we had more smallmouth.  Eight out of ten bass including the smallmouth hit a pop-r, the rest were caught on half of a zinkerz.

[Amoore9900]

we went out for 3 hours today and started where the bass are in the fall and didn't get a bite so moved to the other end of the lake and got a few smaller ones 14 inches ...fished back to where we thought they would be and still nothing so we went over to the smaller lake and fished a beaver dam and my brother changed to a red eye shad and got a 7.9....other then that it was slow but it ended up good.....

[Alan Reed]

Anybody know anything about Starve Hollow Lake down by Villonia? Are there good size fish there?