Horseshoe ? Any reports?

[blairarnold]

My youngest son is home for spring break, and we are looking at trying to get into some fish. Anyone have a report on Horseshoe, and, if so and it's good, how deep, on what, and in what kind of cover are you catching them? Thanks.

[hawgdog]

Goin tomorrow.....will post tomorrow night...memphis slab is the only other that has been reporting...he caught 42 last saturday around the piers...don't know anything else

[JoeFish]

Ive been trying to get down there but the wind has been brutal. A friend went sunday and caught a mess shallow, with alot of color on them, almost all blacks (specks)

[hawgdog]

Went yesterday....threw everything I had at em...(didn't use live bait). Only made it home with 5. Caught a bunch of dinks. Fished the trees and Piers. Tried shallow and deep. Fished 3 Fow to 13 Fow. The only fish I caught (1 female was 15 1/4 )worth keeping was in 8 to 10 FOW. Full of eggs and hardly any blood and/or vein showing. AND THE WIND WAS HORRIBLE!

[blairarnold]

Looks like it's really going to be bad today and tomorrow as well. Thanks for the report.

I got a report that they had been biting well around Holly Grove, but that they shut down yesterday morning.

[Gut Shot]

Blair, I saw that the forecast has changed to about a 40% chance of rain now. I am reconsidering. How cold is it supposed to get there tonight (Holly Grove)?

[HolyCrappieola]

Never fished Horseshoe so this may be a dumb question but is it not affected by the Mississippi being so high? I guess I assumed it was since Midway is.

[blairarnold]

No, it has the levee between it and the river.

[JoeFish]

Full of eggs and hardly any blood and/or vein showing. AND THE WIND WAS HORRIBLE!

Does no vein and no blood mean they are ready to lay em down or they are "new"?

I will sure be glad when we get some warm days and nights and the wind lays down a bit!

Thank you for your repots hawgdog, great info.

[hawgdog]

I am definetly no expert, but I have been told when they are close, the egg sack will enlarge as well as the individual eggs and you'll see a lot more red blood lines/veins running thru the sack. When they're real close, the individual eggs start to separate in the sack and don't cling together.