Robert Johnson – That’s what I call big bait. Big brood shad we call thumpers, I like to put just one out on the longest line to get hit or draw attention to the rest of the bait. Sometimes they get hit by big fish, sometimes big herrings, now that’s fun.
The spawn is on from Point 12 and up the White and War Eagle arms of Beaver Lake for stripers, crappie and white bass. Best way to get in on it is to tow and put in between Rogers and Springdale with launch ramps at Monte Ne, Hickory Creek Park, or War Eagle Park.
Stripers on our end got fewer and moved upstream, but will be back this way in bigger numbers in just a few weeks as the river warms up to too hot for them. Still a few scattered on our end and some being caught around Prairie Creek. We caught our fish with no weights way back behind the boat.
Here at Holiday Island the whites and walleye are being caught from the Island to up past Houseman on the tailwaters. The whites are moving upstream to spawn as the walleye are heading back closer to the Island. Walleye like it slow near the bottom, and whites will hit about anything moving fast or slow that looks like a shad.
Well, I better go, got an early run up Beaver. This is our spring warm rain – brings current, brings spawn.
Robert Johnson. fishofexcellence.com (479) 253-2258