3-25-07 So...there's crack in the water.

What do you call a carp on crack?
A quillback. It's a pi$$ed off member of the minnow family that (as you can see) gets pretty big, fights like hell, and chases down a Rattletrap to crush it.

The keys this week are Rattletraps and shad swim baits on jigs burned in as fast as you can reel them. Plus Husky Jerks being retrieved with the Kauchak RIPRIPRIP/pause/RIPRIPRIP. As you can see in the last picture, small, fat cranks are also starting to work. Reel them in a little slower than blazing speed and try to hit rip rap rocks near the shoreline...particularly wind blown shorelines. Rich and I were connecting with fish on almost every cast in one wind blown corner. With temps hitting the upper 70's outside with a south wind, the fish are REALLY on right now!
Rich caught 13 bass and one crappie...all on Shad swim baits/jig reeled in lightning fast. He also got a nice white sucker. I got 10 or so bass for the day plus that carp, the big channel cat, and my biggest quillback yet. Great day! Get out and fish!!