Reservation Number : 40900
Property Name : Cassidy Farms
Reservation Date : 09/10/2024 AM -
Total Fish/Sizes : 1 fish 18" = 6 fish 17" = 3 fish 16"
Lures Used : All fish were caught on soft plastics, Crawls 4&5" and Yum Dingers 4m Dingers

On the lake fishing at 6:45 AM and everything looked great. Still to dark to tell acutal water clarity, but; wind was calm and a fantastic 60 + degrees. Wow.  Lake level down about 12” which is still next to perfect.  Some type of fish was schooling everywhere, but I had no sucess with catching any of those.  After fishing both sides to the right of the ramp I didn’t even have a strike, which is very uncommon for this lake and especially since I know alot of the holding spots.

After about one hour of throwing everything in the box I had only caught 2 bass which were both 16”. I fished from 8:00 to 10:00 before catching my next bass. From 10:00 to 12:00 I caught another 8 bass, but; really had to work hard for those.  In my mind I would have expected at least 20 plus nice bass by this time. 

At this point I had determined the water clairity to be 6” at best and had decided that early in the morning before the sun really came up the fish simply couldn’t see the bait. By 10:00 the sun was overhead enough to where the fish below could adctully see the shawdow of the bait working through the water and that’s when I started catching fish. By the way my go to color was Blue Flec on Crawls and Yum Dingers, but more productive with the Crawl as its a swinm bait and has greater vibration for the fish to follow.

All of the bass were very light in coloriing versus typical dark green for bass.  Just wondering if the bass are not getting engouh oxyegon due to all the debree in the water which was disrupting clarity?????

So, my recommendation would be to go in the afternoon so the bass can see the overhead bait, while working with the sun overhead. The last harvest report in August was very successful and was in the afternoon for what it’s worth.