Have to make this one fast! Got in late today and have to find a prop for tomorrow.
Here’s Tryston and Collin Altensey from Port Byron, Illinois, with a couple stripers they got Sunday. Most stripers now are pretty well between the dam and Point 8 and being caught in water above 40 feet deep with lines running 18 to 30 feet deep. Shad are still the best bait, but brood shiners and perch can catch them, too.
We got our biggest fish on a 2 oz. white bucktail, early, when a few fish came to the top for us.
Have not been out here at Holiday Island this week but crappie and bass can be caught from 6–12 feet deep. Perch are near the shoreline in brush. Walleye are on the flats between here and Houseman, and the trout are always hungry. You can find them going upriver till it gets cold.
Well, got to go. Take a kid fishing and stay cool.
Robert Johnson, fishofexcellence.com, (479) 253-2258