I've been staying close to home, don't have to walk as far after I hit a deer. So it's been OSFL for me, it's been producing some good slabs these last couple years and I've been itching to get a saugeye pattern there. Earlier this week was excellent for me, if you don't mind removing all the slimers from your line. I caught quite a few larger than avg slabs, pitched em all back, to big to eat. They came off the piles anywhere from 3'-7' with the bigger ones being deeper. Then I went to the ridge, strung up a YUM Croaker and had it hanging down tightlining and eyeing the graph. Found the top and just started sliding back off and the graph showed something on the bottom I didn't remember, thats because it was my first saugy. It was just short of 18". Hey that looks similar and POP, you bet this one will keep anywhere in the state, 26" saugy. That's two off the ridge in less than 5 min at 10:30am. Wonder if I can 'drop em', started going back and forth along the break til 2pm or so and caught 1 limit of saugys and kept about 25 crappie 10"-12" for the plate. I scored 3 big eye's and 2 that would keep. I also caught plenty of LMB and a ton of slimers, one of which was probably 10#. There was one other boat there and that big channel drew his attention. Bigboy now had a moon, he orbited around me for a couple hours keeping his distance, but watching hard. Well after a while he fired up his motor and got up on plane and flew by me inside the ridge, after that I never caught another fish.
Today I hit it sunrise and started off good on the piles, then came the weekenders, might as well of been jetskies cause the same thing happened. Right on pace with the other day till the cruisers run em deep. I don't know why really they're there, I can see 'em, just no takers. Quit at 10:30, no eyes, had some slabs early but wasn't cleaning fish today, some nice LMB and quite a few slimers again. Bathwater temp, when you catch a fish they jump back in the boat cause it's cooler in the AM. C'mon fall.