Fourteen year-old Isaiah Seams from Cypress, Texas, had a good fight with this 30-inch striper he caught this week from Beaver Lake on a 6-inch gizzard shad near Point 5. Most stripers are now being caught from the dam to Point 6, with water temps running close to 75°.
Sunrise, sunset and at night are the best time for a topwater bite, then after the sun gets up they can be caught down close to 30 ft. in water from 40 – 60 ft. deep off the points and flats on the main lake.
Stripers are also being caught up big and little Clifty Creek, Rambo and Indian Creek up here near the dam. Afternoon trips have not been producing as good as the morning trips, so we are now doing our 5 hr. trips fishing from 5:30 – 10:30 a.m. and also night trips from 9 p.m. – 2 a.m., so leave a message if you call during the day because I have to sleep sometime.
Holiday Island trips for bass, crappie, walleye, trout or sunfish, 5 hr. trips 6 – 11 a.m. and again for the evening bite upriver in cooler water, we’re just doing 4 hr. trips from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. with a $20 discount.
Lake Leatherwood 5 hr. trips for crappie, bass and sunfish are now 6 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Most bass are now being caught in water 12 – 15 ft. deep out from the trees, crappie are moving out to about the same depth in sunk brush and above the grass at Lake Leatherwood.
Can now get the boat below Beaver bridge for some white bass and trout, trolling as the smaller shad move up for cooler water.
Looks like summer is here, the water is going down and clear, so take a kid fishing or the one you call Fear. ‘Til next week stay cool.
Johnson Guide Service www.fishofexcellence.com (479) 253-2258