Well folks, I'v been reading your messages for months and finally decided to sign up. You provide some great information and more than enough laughs. Thanks for both. I meet some folks from Mississippi last weekend to visit Paradise Lake for the first time in about 18 years. It's farther down the river and through the woods than I had remembered, but was worth the trip. We spent the first afternoon searching the east bank with only 2 keepers. Both were caught on a white slates jig suspended about 5 feet down in 9 feet of water. We moved over to the west side about 6 oclock and hung about 18 yo-yos. We caught 6 keepers on the yo-yos and 1 on a roadrunner. All were on the outside of the trees. The yo-yos also produced more than enough catfish.
On the second morning we went back to the west bank and fished the outside of the trees catching 7 on the slaters jig (tip with a shiner) most of which came from one large fallin willow. The jig bite went away, so we went back to the willow and caught 13 more on shiners. I would not have believed it, if I hadn't seen it, but there was a current that developed in the lake. Guess it was because the river was backing into the lake and they completely stopped biting by noon.
All the fish we caught were keepers, 1 to 2 lbs. There are no shortage of gar in this lake either.
Nothing better than getting to fish with great friends. Only wish my wife could have went, but she had to go to school.
Wow, that got long winded. Hope everyone is still awake.
