Yea TJ, Monticello is gettin close to being real good. I give it another couple of weeks of warm weather. I'm sure you have figured out that on LM the rule is "the hotter the better". And we definitely have to wear a different hat when fishing that lake.....it's not like anything else we fish and takes a totally different tactic.....If it wasn't so close we would have never tried to learn to fish it. We had our best day out there about five years ago one afternoon when the temp was well over a hundred...like one of the hottest days of the summer. My son David and I had fourteen fish that went over 2 lbs each and several were well over 3#'s. The shortest one was 17 inches and they ran all the way up to 19 1/4. We still talk about that fantastic day on LM. I remember we were taking our shirts off and dipping them in the icewater in the clean ice chest and laying them across our backs trying to stay cool. We didn't leave until we were out of shiners (LM is the only lake you will catch me on with minners, and then only in the summer)!!! We still catch some incredible fish out there but have never come close to that day since.


Quote Originally Posted by gasper_goul View Post
congrats to your son steve...the water temps must be in the 80s...if so...good news,,,hope i get to go out there soon