Bad reports at Ross Barnett

[DonDon]

Whats up with the rez. Tuesday, my best friend and I caught 3 total in 2 1/2 hours. Wednesday, wife and I got 1 fish and got a report from someone that fished from 5:30 at several places and only caught a couple. MAN, I have no idea what to do this afternoon to try and catch some.

[Mississippi Slab]

I talked to a guy that fished yesterday. He and his partner kept 53! He said it was slow for the most part but they hit a spot in the grass where they caught 20 fast. I'm hitting it in the morning!

[DonDon]

I was kinda about to talk myself out of going after work this evening after all the bad reports I've been getting. I figured sawdust would be slamming about right now but with the wind and waves, guess it's got them spooked. How far back in were they fishing? I hit the pad stems and trolled around for over an hour wednesday for that 1 fish. lso went just into the grass as far as I could but with that 18 1/2 foot Nitro, I didn't make it to far. LOL Guess I geed a flat bottom boat to get way back in there

[Mississippi Slab]

Don - I'm no grass expert! In my experience the grass is hit or miss. They will be there one day and gone the next. The sawdust pile should be good if the wind will let you fish. I'm actually planning on fishing the old Natchez Trace road bed. I just feel like with the south winds we have been having the Rankin county side of the lake has been pounded. I'm ready for all this spawning mess to be done with and the summer pattern to begin. Not to mention ready for all the extra boats to pack it up for the year.

[DonDon]

Tired of all these Spawn only guys. Alot are not very considerate to us year round folks. We were at the cause way the other day and one came under the bridge and ran the length of the causeway by about 15 or so boats doing 15 MPH. Bad thing is they weren't but about 20 yards away from us all. Talk about a butthead. Wife and I tried to get in the grass the other day and with me having a fish/ski boat, I bottomed out before I cold get back in three where I wanted to. On smelling them out, do they smell like bream when the spawn? I thought I smelled Honeysuckle the other day in some wind.

[Mississippi Slab]

I have always heard to look for a watermelon smell but I bet the sweat smell you describe was them. Yeah I bet it is hard to get the fish/ski in the 18 inches of water you need to get in. It want be long before the fish move to the summer pattern which is my favorite!

[pstone]

I agree 100% on wanting this spawning to be over....

[feelay]

Big fat ditto!

[DonDon]

to be on them so this ought to be interesting. LOL I started around October really fishing year round and HOPE I can learn the summer patterns like I did the winter patterns. Know I've heard alot about the thermalclines or something like that. Where the oxygen is at is where they stay

[duckhunter]

don, in the summer, do you troll barnett, or do you jig/minnow fish single pole in the old lake beds, three prong, rice, mcmillan, etc.