East Canyon Bassin

[Jig-fisher]

I arrived around 6:40 am to a cool 39 degrees with a stiff breeze blowing from south to north. Decided to do something different and fished for bass. Started on the west side and just slowly worked my way south casting up against the shore.  I started casting a rebel craw and cranking it steadily back. 1st fish was just a few casts into the morning before the sun hit the water. It turned out to be my best of the morning, a nice 15" smallie. I caught a couple more small ones then tied into another similar to the 1st.  But it spit it right next to the boat, along with several small crawdads that he had burped up. By now the sun was on the water and fishing slowed. I switched over to a lighter colored flicker shad and picked up a few dinks. I then switched over to a darker flicker with an orange belly and it was game on. Nothing huge, but several in the 10" range and lots of dink smallies. I don't know how some of those small ones could get all three treble hooks in their tiny mouth on a lure that is almost as big as they are, but they did. At one point I caught fish on 5 consecutive casts. They were dinky for the most part, but it was fun. It warmed up quickly when the sun came out 

I did troll a bit looking for some trout, but didn't mark much and had no hits.

It wasn't too busy by the time I left, but there were a couple of wakeboard boats that caused some serious waves. 

I didn't even think about looking at water temp, but it was 73 degrees at just after noon when I got off the lake.