Them girls from the South can catch ‘em and cook ‘em up Louisiana style.
Kay Rabalais from Hessmer, Louisiana, traded their week of timeshare for a week here in the island at Table Rock Landing. I did not get to taste how she cooked her fish but her husband Steve sent me home with some crawfish something and rice that started hair growing on my bald spot. So I’m sure she gave this fish that Cajun bite also.
We caught our stripers this week right in front of the dam. Water temp was running about 76° up here on our end of Beaver Lake and we spotted good bait balls up this way, finally.
Stripers have found them, too, with most the fish and bait running between 20 and 30 ft. deep in the cooler water up our way and are enjoying the bigger gizzard shad now. Shiners and green sunfish can also catch them now, but the shad did best for us.
The main lake seems to be doing best from the dam to Rocky Branch Park this side of Rogers so we’re getting to them just putting in here at the dam. That “might bite” is starting to put fish in more boats as we heat up.
Here at Holiday Island a lot of nice Kentucky Bass are being caught along with crappie in the 8 – 12 foot of water from the back of the creeks and off the flats on the main lake. The afternoons are also doing good from 3 p.m. ‘til sunset up past the town of Beaver when generators are pushing that cold water our way, pods of small shad start schooling on top and the white bass are feeding on top with them, along with the spots and trout with walleye right under them too but closer to the bottom.
Just head up river ‘til the water cools and the bait will tell you where to fish.
Well, I better go for now and get the boat ready for another early morning bait run. Stay safe and be courteous to others. Enjoy these Ozarks, you might even see an eagle.