Quote Originally Posted by ICENUT View Post
Fishing at Linesville has finally picked up relly well been catching really nice fat black crappies along with perch some decent some not so and a lot of big bluegills.Walleye so far not so good. Lots of boats out and seen lots caught.Seems to me the bigger fatheads are catching most of the large crappies and redworms everything else.

Bill(icenut)
I noticed the same thing this year. The bigger the bait the bigger the fish. I've even went to a whole larger rig than normal. A 1/8 marabou jig with a 2 inch tail just hooked once and the bigger fish have no problem with it. Not catchng hardly any little ones with this setup. I think with the larger bait it still is sinking slower giving the big fish something to hit. I also noticed that the fish were inhaling the bait and swimming back to the boat while retreiving. The bite was so light that even with high vis line a bite was hard to detect. I'm beginning to thinkl that the males are just grabbing the bait and swimming off the nest with it than either dropping it or turning jsut so slightly give the familiar tug that is felt when using a jig that is being retreived.