I think there are fish everywhere right now. Most seem to be in the 4-10' range, but I have caught some really nice ones right up on the bank. I haven't fished really deep because I don't really want to this time of the year, it's just too fun beating up on the shallower fish.

I seem to lose quite a few fish on the smaller crank baits as well. I have noticed that when jig fishing or using other plasitcs t-rigged that I can seriously horse em in. I've been using much heavier tackle this season so confidence is high while horsing but if I don't play the fish very carefully with the cranks I have a tendency to lose them as well. I'm sure, matter of fact I know, it's due to the Power pro line or fire line that I have on all my set ups combined with med-heavy rods with little flex at tip. Those small trebles and a good head shake or jump and I can see why they come un-buttoned using that unforgiving tackle. Just another excuse for me to buy another pole this coming spring.

Now that I think of it The whole year I have been fishing in 2-6 feet of water and always caught fish!

yesterday we didnt catch a fish deeper than 2 feet and we fished deep for prolly 2 hours it was slow but nice fish in the pads

I was out today and took 3 LM over 5 pounds on shallow wood using a jig-n-pig on the windy side of the lake. The inside weed edge produced alot of nice fish as well.

I would agree with bassn1, I have also had most of my success in pretty windy areas.

I fished this past sunday and all of our fish were caught in the 8-12 ft range. We spent 4-5 hours fishing the shallows with only 2 fish to show for it. We moved to deeper weeds in 8-12 fow and were throwing rattle traps and cranks and just started catching both pike and bass (we were targeting bass) almost every few casts or so. My buddy caught a few on a lizard, but we were still in the deeper water.

Carl

Hey Bassn, just curious, were you up on a lake by underwood when you got those off the timber?

Thats crazy talk!

Kt

yes it was by Underwood. The lake's been puttin' out pigs for 3 weeks now.

5 or 6 weeks bassni. But let's not let the name slip.

My lips are sealed...see ya out there!

I was in Annandale today seems like I caught most of my fish in 6ft of water. That being said there were no weeds deeper than 8 ft.

I made a rare October appearence on a lake (without a shotgun and decoys) this past Saturday. All of our fish came on cranks on rocks well off the bank. All except one. My brother snatched a 20"+ off some 3 foot hard bottom. We even caught smaller bass trolling cranks in 15+ feet of water.

I'll go back to my duck boat now.

Were those smallies ray???