I was out on the water Friday morning. It was tough going early on pulling crankbaits and longlining jigs, I caught several fish in the 7-8 inch range but the bites were very spread out and the fish were not holding where they were on Monday. I switched over to spider rigging minnows about 9am and started connecting with fish 12-14 feet down over a variety of depths as soon as the sun came out. I hooked two nice smallmouths that threw the hooks when they jumped out of the water-man are they a tough fish! Water temp 81 degrees when I left at 12:30. The campground was already full and Lone Valley was getting slammed with toons launching when I left. There were several boats fishing the mouth of Butler Creek when I got down to where I was fishing and there were already 7 boats fishing the big flats. I saw one boat doing well by Buffalo Gap and one boat catching several off of a brushpile I helped place on the big flats. Most I talked too weren't doing too well in the early morning-looked like most were longlining jigs. I'm glad you connected with some keepers, it seems like you did better than most of the guys I spoke to on the water over the weekend.


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