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Stovall Report: May '10 Beachside Resident

Nighttime anglers are catching snook on buck tails and windcheaters during the outgoing tides. Focus on the tide changes and that should help produce a slot-sized fish. The bluefish have been very thick at the Inlet and expect to hook a few while trying to bag a redfish or snook. Good numbers of black drum, sheepshead, and pompano have been around the rocks at the tip of the North and South Jetties.

With all the bait moving in and out of the Inlet, don’t let the mangrove snapper fishing go by without exploring it. They love all the mojarras and other bait fish rushing by them. The mangroves will hang out under rock ledges waiting for an easy ambush around the channels and catwalks. Fish your baits close to the drop offs with a 3/4-oz. lead weight on a light 15-20 lb. fluorocarbon leader with a #1 (or even a #2) light gauge hook to minimize the sight of your gear. Fluorocarbon is expensive, but in the grand scheme of things it can make the difference between catching and just fishing for the mangroves.

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June Hawgs – We’re Not Talkin’ Salmon! The Bass Bite Is On!

With the Columbia staying up unusually high and chilly for this time of year, Vancouver Lake is still a good place to hunt for big Largemouth. Cast the pockets in flooded brush, look for leaner logs and bounce your spinnerbaits or jig-and-pigs off of them underwater, or yo-yo a Texas-rigged plastic worm up and down on underwater branches. Try rigging them ‘wacky’ too. If you’re sure the bottom is not too weedy, a Carolina-rigged worm, creature or lizard 18 to 24 inches behind the lead and bead might be the just the thing to fool a late Spring or early Summer Bass to chomp and romp. One recent Gallery picture has me holding up a hefty LakeRiver Bass that could not resist a twin-blade, Colorado and Willow Leaf spinnerbait dragged through and over a jumble of logs, then allowed to flutter down helplessly. Wham! What a bite and what a fight! Lacamas Lake has been producing good fish too. My most recent June Gallery shot features a deep-bodied Largemouth that nailed the same bait just as it dropped in near an underwater branch. The picture is pretty dark {Hint!}. Silver Lake has been producing good fish soft plastics and on jig-and-grub combinatons. Some folks have been having success with finesse drop-shot rigs, fooling Silver’s heavily pressured, tournament-wise fish. The old weedless Johnson Spoons are also producing, slipping and flashing through weeds and pads, but nobody much mentions them. Wonder why??!! This brings us to the promised discussion of varying your Topwater assaults on the Bass’s world. In lakes, ponds or even river backwaters, topwaters will trigger vicious hits from aggressive Bass. I recommend getting in on early morning and late evening bites. Previous articles have discussed the floating minnow-bait such as Rapala or Bomber Long A, along with their jointed-body...

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Anglers catching large numbers of bass at Roosevelt - Eastern Arizona Courier

Eastern Arizona Courier, AZ - Jun 24, 2009

Anglers catching large numbers of bass at RooseveltMinnows under slip bobbers and 1/32-ounce jigs cast into the brush will be the trick. Fishing for smallmouth bass can be good, especially on windy days. Try areas where waves are stirring up the rocky shoreline. Use in-line spinners and crayfish

Fishing Report - News-Leader.com

News-Leader.com, MO - Jun 19, 2009

Examiner.comFishing ReportThe top-water bite is also good early and late in the day. A jig-and-pig, hula jig or a grub on a º-oz. jighead will work well on smallmouth. Night fishing has really picked up, with crankbaits, spinnerbaits and jigs the most effective. Fishing Report - June 18, 2009 Fishing Report

Fishing for largemouth bass now can be tricky - State-Journal.com

State-Journal.com, KY - Jun 22, 2009

Oklahoma Game and Fish MagazineFishing for largemouth bass now can be trickyA Shakey head is a specialty jig designed to make a soft plastic bait stand up from the bottom. By gently twitching the tip of your fishing rod, you can impart a tantalizing action to the bait. A 3/16 -ounce jig-and-pig combination swum just over the Extended Fishing Report for June 22

Searching for smallies - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - Jun 21, 2009

Searching for smalliesBill would toss a tube jig, I a surface lure, and when we angled out of the current, and just to the shoreside seam of the river's swiftest water, we fired away in opposite directions. Bill and I have known each other a long time, and the rhythm of

Iowa DNR weekly fishing report - Gazette Online

Gazette Online, IA - Jun 19, 2009

Iowa DNR weekly fishing reportSome channel catfish are starting to be picked up floating leeches and night crawlers under a bobber along the riprap shoreline at Fort Madison. White Bass — Slow: A few white bass are being picked up by the dam casting jig and twister tails.