The lake has some good shore drops, overhanging trees and goes down 12' at the dam. But in the last three weeks I noticed more fish in the upper shallower, middle of the lake - 5.5-6' deep. The flat comes way out from shore before dropping and that's where we've been catching crappie and sunfish consistently to the tune of more than 60 fish.
The strikes have been very aggressive on small soft plastics reeled at irregular speeds with rod tip twithes; jig weights no heavier than 1/16 oz. No other area in the lake (so far as I know) has produced consistent numbers such as those. I wonder if this pattern happended in previous years.
Nice that other boat anglers choose to beat-the-banks and never trying our spot anchored in different areas close to one another in the middle. I always take note of how others are doing and where they are catching fish. Better for me none do or maybe they are only after LM. (Strange that no LM are out there, just crappie and sunfish.)
As usual a large variety of soft plastic shapes got bit but only at mid-depth. A few fish were caught on a Risto Rap crankbait and Beetle spin, but mostly on plasitcs and with
no steady retrieve meaning slow barely moving along. Guess that's a big part of finesse lure fishing.
