Great catches! They are chewing good. When the water gets closer to 55°, it seems even more magic happens. Keep up the good work, friend!

Greetings! If anything this cold snap has triggered a really good bite. With the destratification complete, I've been catching fish from the top to the bottom in anywhere between 10 to 60 ft of water. Spotted bass were eating really good yesterday and again today down deep, really responding to a crayfish imitation as well as a deracoup. The line sides - I've tricked a couple with the artificials but predominantly keying in on threadfin shad. Best of luck and tight lines!

Great job! Found a good school of spots just north of Victoria Harbor this afternoon on the leewards shore that ate a deracoup for a good 6 fish before they got wise to me. Then found the linesides from Preachers point and South to Illinois Creek. Tight lines!

Bassman, thanks for getting a discussion started. We are still working on ways to get these a little more visible to our smaller community, and hoping to get some more input and activity into the upcoming years. I have been fishing from Bartow Carver area all the way up into Little River with success on the line sides. Starting a few weeks ago, a lot of the fish started coming back out of the river and some of the larger stripers were being caught up on the upper north end. They are very pelagic, and have already started dispersing through the lake. The early morning bite has been the best, but as of even the last few days some of the better catching really didn't begin until around 8:30 - 9:00 a.m. While we have been feeding these fish a lot of frisky threadfin and herring, I personally make a lot of casts with smaller swim baits, magic swimmers, A-rigs and even the Deracoup this time of year. There are definitely fish to be had - though we have not seen a lot of big schools staying under the boat or necessarily even relating to point drops, they are moving up and down that channel and using it as their lifeline artery. The forage base changed to include a lot of hearing these past couple years is changing the way the fish relate in some circumstances. Hopefully you will get out there on Monday and knock them dead - and even if you don't, tough to beat a good morning out on the water. Tight lines!