Kinkaid 7/22-7/23

Put down my bass rods for a little bit to get on some crappie and they are definitely biting, went out Saturday morning and fished from 6:30-10:30 and put a limit in the boat plus threw back at least 15 keepers since I already had my limit. Took my gf out Sunday morning and fished from 6:30 -11 and kept around 35 and a 10 # flathead, we could've easily kept a limit by 11 if we had wanted to but that was more than I needed so I bet we threw back at least 25 more keepers. Catching them anywhere from 8-18 foot deep on drop shot rigs rigged with minnows fishing 18" off the bottom. Caught several fish in the 11-12" range and biggest was just shy of 2 pounds. Attachment 270696Attachment 270697Attachment 270698

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Once again Mitch your killing me! LOL Very nice, great pics!!! How's that new motor running??

Great job! Congrats

New motor is running great swampseed and i definitely like the 4 stroke compared to the 2 stroke I used to have. When you get back from your trip we need to hit up Kinkaid one day and I'll meet you out there after work.

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Not one but 2 dandy messes of fish plus a bonus Flat.Dang, I've had about my worst ever fishing (lack of) year and am glad ya'll done good...Thanks for the report..

Great catch

I'm heading to Kinkaid end of week into the weekend Camping!

Any NEW reports?

Crappie?

Large-mouth Bass?

Thanks in advance,

Nats

Nats- for LM I would start by ripping a rattle trap through any grass, a 10" worm in or on the edge of grass. Have had luck with a 0-2' crank.
Would highly recommend a 6-9" muskie subsurface crank. Big spinnerbait also.
Dang, now I'm wanting to get back down their!

Bite is tough on bass and crappie after the front came through Thursday. I fished a bass tourney Friday evening and not a lot caught, it was the worst weigh in we've had this summer. Lots of boats got skunked and to be honest it's probably the worst I've ever seen it this time of year. I caught some decent fish earlier last week before the front on the edge of grass on points in 6-10 fow on 10" worm and had a few others came off stumps in 12-15 foot range as well. Far as crappie go I'd try minnows on brush piles in 12-15, but with this cool weather they may have moved back up in the grass so if you can't find them in the brush I'd try in the grass about 4-6 deep

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Thanks skunked & Mitch!

I hope the effects of the cold front is over by time I get there tomorrow!

Haven't used rattle traps since my days going to Toledo Bend & Fork lakes in Texas

Ill let you all know how it is!

Thanks for the info,

Nats

WTG what a good mess for two dog days of fishing. then cool weather comes in and shuts things down? need to get down to kincaid and rend for a few days.

My next trip there, I'm gonna use the Paul ice area ramp. That entire cove is no-wake. One of the arms is loaded with trees and stumps.

Nats, went out last night for 2.5 hours and had 16 keeper crappie. No big ones, all were around 9.5". The bite was really tough as well, I scanned roughly 30 piles last night and really only 2 spots the crappie bit. Found fish on several spots but they just wouldn't eat, I'd maybe catch 1 or 2 off each spot and that would be it and those would be 8" . Caught all my keepers off 2 piles, 1 was 11 foot deep and the other was 18 foot deep.

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Well I did fair on largemouth at Kinkaid about 4 to 8 - 12 to 16 inchers every time I went out which was usually morning and evening did not do well on Croppie at all

Nats

Kinkaid keeper
not yet good at pic's
nats