Ran up to Starvation Friday morning and stayed until Sunday after noon. Water temp ranged from 68 to 70, and I didnt really need waders while in the tube. Caught a few eyes, nothing big just eaters. Infact some were fairly small. It appeared to me that due to the bright day light everything seem to be holding near or in the weed beds in about 12' of water. I also tubed Saturday night from 10 - 11:30pm but the bite was slow. The winning lure for me was either a white headed Roadrunner sporting a black twister tail with a bit of crawler to sweeten the deal, or, simply a white jig and black twister tail and crawler. These also worked very well on the Smallies and regardless whether eyes or smallies were the target, they had to be worked slow..
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Thanks for the report Don, did you catch any browns? What area were you fishing? WH2
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Sorry WH2, no report to give on the Browns. Wished I'd popped a couple goodin's but they seem to be more close mouthed than anything else in there. I did give em a whirl tho'. I was tubin' in the Knight Hollow area. Its not quite as popular as other areas as far as PWC and water skiers go. At one one however the PWC and skier piled in the area. The water in the main channel was getting bounced around pretty good. They all sorta reminded me of a bunch of water skeeters skippin' around the water. I was ducked back in a cove so I wasnt bathered to much and had my back to it all most of the time. I then heard a set of twin outboards coming in and turned just in time to see the State Park Rangers showing up. As they arrived it was like the parting of the Sea. Those skeeters gave the Rangers a very wide birth but as soon as the Rangers had left the skiers and PWC's jumped right back in place like water skeeters do.[laugh]
BTW all, I seen very little caught from shore other than very small smallies so if you happen to make the drive I'd suggest working the mud lines too..
Good Luck
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