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I got out for an early morning outing before the rain today.  I had an appointment for later in the afternoon.  River just dropped below 4 foot at Point of Rocks and the water temps were in the lower 60's.  On the water just before 5:30am.





I was hoping to get on a topwater bite.  There was surface activity at my first spot, but nothing hit the choppo or chug bug.  I repositioned and they were busting on the surface, so I just threw other things I had tied on.  I got hit and reeled in the 12"er.  This continued until 7:00am.  I caught 20 there on several lures and lost a big one that threw the tube at the boat.  I did not take pictures of many of the fish due to size and hot bite.  Most were 12-14 inches.  I also had one break off a little chatterbait I had on 6 pound line.



















The bite died down there and I made a move.  At the first stop I hooked another big one on the tube and fought it for a while.  As I was getting ready to net it, the fish threw the hook.  Then I saw the hook was bent out.  After a couple fish almost swallowed the tubes, I stopped using those.











I got into my second feeding frenzy.  Not as heavy as the first one, but pretty consistent bites.  I was above 30 fish.









I had one other break off.  I ended with 36 fish and got off the water by noon as it started sprinkling.  Caught fish on various small jigs, tubes, Avacado Green Stingray grub, curly tail grub, Various Z-Man plastics on a swinging jig head, little chatterbait and crankbait.  Excellent morning with 36 smallies landed.  Several missed, 2 big fish lost at the boat and 2 break offs.  I was beat from fighting all those smallies, LOL.

Last edited by drxfish (May-27-25 7:44PM)