Well went to Newton and Cutler last Thursday night. It was windy as hell for the first couple of hours, but caught a couple of crappie and a LMB in about two hours from shore. We were using 3" senkos (weightless) and then switched to very small curly tailed grubs. The lake is way full and will probably be much better when the farmers start pulling water. Went to Cutler to cap the night and caught a ton of bullheads and one smaller channel cat fishing under the bridge. Some of the bullheads caught were just lip locked on the worm and weren't even hooked (they must have been very hungry). There was a ton of plant matter on top of the water and made it very difficult to fish. Got sick of catching small fish and went home. I think both of these places will be much better in a couple of weeks, especially newton for bass.
Philbert
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[font "Verdana"][#ff0000]We had the boat on Newton yesterday for an hour or two with no bites-nothing. Didn't stay long due to work and didn't fish super serious you know, go fishing or take the kids fishing; however, the kids dangling a worm over the side have often out fished the big boys at Newton in the past. Tried casting lures, drop shotting with tubes and curly tails and of course the kids bouncing worms. Water was calm at 73 degrees, weather warm and sunny, only two ski boats. The water was the fullest I have ever seen it, surprising for the 1st of July. Lots of decent marks on the finder suspended half way down and a few on the bottom. There was one boat with a major pole bend in the shallow llittle open cove on the west side but it looked like a snag from where we were until the major splashing started about five minutes later. We guessed the fish took it to the bottom and wrapped the line all up in the submerged brush and stuff like the big ones do there and he managed to get it up. I agree with you it should get better as the water drops some.[/#ff0000][/font]
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I also fished Newton the same day thay you did. We fished for about 4 hours. I had one muskie on for a minute casting. We then trolled for about 3 hours with not a single bite. We did almost get ran over by one of the water skier boats, that was pretty scary. They had noidea that they were about to collide with us. They got within thirty yards and my heart started pounding, the driver was not looking ahead but watching the wake-boarder. I whistled as loud as I could and they avoided hiting us by about ten yards. It's gonna take someone getting killed out there before any regulations are enforced. I decided to get off the water after that. I guess it was pretty humerous for the jerks, they laughed and drove off.[mad]
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