Fishing Report

Thanks to Clint McLean for the report and the pictures............

Monday July 4th
"I've been having a lot of luck fishing deep structure with a finesse or trick worm rigged on 1/8oz shaky head football jig. I caught about 10 in 2 hours today on a drop shop rig fishing deep structures and drop offs."

10lber Clint caught on 5/2/11. Caught with a Lucky Craft crankbait. Sexy Shad color


‎6-7lber. Caught on a drop shot rig about 15+ ft deep

Caught by pitching a finesse worm under a pier.

Fishing Update

The bass were pretty picky during May and parts of June. Shad are now being seen on the surface late in the day. Jimmy Pickle and Mike Barnes put in a full day last Thursday. Hitting the Lake before daylight, they had only 5 fish by noon. After a lunch break they went back out and boated 2 until taking another break about 4pm. Heading back out about 6pm they finally got hot, landing 17 more before lighting made them get off the water. They were mainly caught on Carolina rigged worms and Wing Dings.

Late afternoon and deeper seems to be the best bet now.

Russell Young sent in these pictures of some of the bass they caught back at the 1st of May. Sorry it took me so long to get them up.








I did get a report from Albert of a good fishing day a week or so ago for he and Ms. Debbie. Hoping they will send me some pictures.

I need a crappie report if any one has one.

I haven't been able to get down personally to fish. Sorry for the shortage of reports.

Be sure and check out the new official Lake Cavalier website here.......

Fish Fry Tonight

All Lake Cavalier members are invited to the annual Fish Fry tonight. The fish being served was taken out of the Lake when it was shocked recently.

Please try to come out if you can.

Here are some pictures of the shocking and fish cleaning.

Lake Shocking

Southeastern Pond shocked the Lake last Friday morning and had quite a haul. They were able to take out 642 pounds of bass that were under 17 inches.

A crew then headed over to Albert Siak's and cleaned a good many of them. A few people took some and cleaned on their own. Thanks to everyone for helping out. I thought we had a real good turnout to watch and help.

The fish will be used for the Lake wide fish fry in April.

I'll put up the report from SPM when we get it.

Fishing Report and A Reminder

Jimmy Pickle went out the last two afternoon's and had good days each day. The fish were back up shallow both days.

Also the Lake will be shocked this Friday morning. Come out if you can and see what they shock up. Also, if you can, please stick around and help clean the fish that are kept.

These fish are used for the fish fry put on by the Fishing Association. All Lake residents will be invited.

Fishing Report

Jimmy Pickle and his friend John Burkes went out earlier this week and had a good day.

Compared to the day Jimmy and Glen had a few days before it might have seemed slow, but the pattern changed somewhat. The fish had moved deeper, so they changed over to the deep diving crankbaits and caught 26 bass. The average was very good.

Here is John with a couple of "average" 3-4 pound fish..........



Here is Jimmy with the big fish of the day......................



Jimmy went back the next day and had a harder go of it, catching only 10 on a fairly calm, bright, blue sky day. Those are usually very difficult conditions out at the Lake.

But overall the fishing has been great lately.

Now, if only I could get down there to try it myself.

Big Day Fishing At The Lake

Jimmy & Glen headed back yesterday to try the bass again.

They started a little after lunch and by 6 pm had landed 72 bass!

72 bass in around 6 hours. That truly is a big day.

1st Fishing Report of 2011

Jimmy and Glen made it down to the lake Wednesday and had a good day. They caught 27 bass that afternoon.

They had the most luck up very shallow in a pre- spawn pattern. They caught one showing signs of sweeping a bed for spawning.

Water temps are up and with the weather this week should rise even more.

Jimmy said out of the 27 caught only 2 were under 17 inches.

Most were in the 4-5 pound range like the two 5 pounders shown here...............

It's Been Awhile

Since I have posted and since I've even been down to the Lake.

The dam work was completed and the water level is up some. I stopped by one day last week and the water is up about a foot in our boathouse.

Hope to be down soon and get back to fishing.

I will also get back to blogging on here. With the water being down it has been impossible for me to get my boat out and fish. As soom as I can, the reports will be back up.

The 4th of July Weekend At The Lake

Hope everybody had a good one.

We got down to the Lake Saturday afternoon and came back Monday afternoon, but I wasn't able to do any fishing. The whole family was down so it was knee boarding and tubing with the kids all day long. We went thru 36 gallons of gas in the boat in those two days.

Jimmy and Craig were able to go down Friday afternoon and caught 26 bass. They were on the summer deeper water pattern, using mainly Little George lures. They also caught a few with the blue and black jigs.

I hate to do this but I've got to preach a little bit.

I strongly urge all lake members who are enjoying tubing to read and be aware of the Lake rules about boat operation in the ski lanes. By following these rules it will be safer and more fun for all.

I saw a few dangerous actions out there. Please know the rules and use good common sense.

End of sermon.

Anyway it was a great weekend. The Fireworks around the Lake were wonderful Sunday night. I saw a lot of boats out enjoying the show.

This weekend really made me think of how lucky we are to live in the country we live in and how lucky we are to be able to enjoy a special place like the Lake.

Fishing Reports Updated With New Links

Last week we were after the crappie. As you can see by the post below, they were biting. Altogether, my dad, Albert Saik, and I, fishing either together or solo , caught around 66 crappie in a 3 day period during the full moon phase over Memorial Day weekend. Over a hundred pounds of fish. My dad cleaned every one of them. While we cooked some , we have a lot now put up.

We caught them two ways, either slow rolling the ultra lites ( as described in this post),
or by using jig poles around structure.

It is a fun challenge figuring these picky biters out.

On the bass front Jimmy and Glen went out yesterday after lunch and caught 41 bass. Like me a while back they fished the schools using mainly a wing ding lure, also Known as a Tail Kicker. thrown into the schools.

What is a wing ding or Tail Kicker? Well they are made by a Mississippi outfit called Redneck Lures. They are basically a Little George, except the line passes thru the body of the lure, then you tie on the treble hook.

They Look Like This

Here is an article on them



Now finding these are sometimes difficult but Jimmy and Glen say you can get them at Vann's in Brandon or at Tommy's Trading Post at the Hwy 43 landing at the reservoir.

Jimmy said they would throw it into the school and reel it when the bass were busting the top of the water. When the fish were inactive at the top they would let it sink and yo-yo it.

Here's a picture of Glenn with a 6 pounder caught yesterday..........

Proof That The Crappie Are Biting

My dad and Albert Saik caught 21 today in a couple of hours on the Lake, including these. All were slabs. Full report at the first of the week.
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Great Day On The Lake

My dad, Sonny, got a new boat Tuesday that he had been wanting for a while. We took it down an put it in the Lake yesterday. We had fun breaking it in going after the crappie.

Using ulta lites and a black 1/16 horse head jig with a bottom spinner, along with chartreuse curly tails, we caught 25 crappie. The total weight of the fish was 42.14 lbs. I'll take that avg. any day.

We caught most of them in around 12 feet of water at different levels of that depth by varying the retrieval speed. Slower and deeper seemed to work better.

The only draw back was the action was the hottest at the hottest part of the day. We got on the water around 1:15. Between 2 and 5 pm was when we caught most of them, but it was worth it.

With the moon phase where it is right now, it is a peak time to be out fishing.

I hope to be able to be back down this week end.

A Couple Of Reports

I was able to go out some last week on the Lake and had a blast trying to figure out the crappie. I caught 16, of which 12 were very nice slabs. The other 4 were nice fish, but not the big boys like the rest.

I was using a curly tail on a 1/16 oz black jig head. I caught them on black and chartreuse colored Berkley 2 inch power grub curly tails , using a Zebco 11 ultra lite rod and reel combo with 4 pound line. I was casting and reeling back using different speeds until they told me what speed they liked. If I had a clue about crappie fishing I might have done a lot better.

It was a challenge and a lot of fun. Those were some fighting little buggers.

On the bass front, it wasn't so challenging because the bass are really schooling now and are fairly easy to find. I went out and caught about 12 in 30 mins or less.

I, along with Jimmy and Craig, have noticed we are catching some smaller bass more often. They are either a pound to a pound and a half or they are big fish. We are not seeing as many 2-4 pound fish as we were.

Craig went out Saturday with his 11 yr old son Jarrett and said he saw the biggest school of bass he's ever seen. Craig loaded the boat up on the bass while Jarrett fished deep with crickets and caught as many chinks as he could handle.

Although it's getting hotter out there, the fishing is just as hot.

Some Nice Crappie

I'm at the Lake the past couple of days. I'll give a better report when I get back home.

Here is what I've been having fun catching...............

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Fishing Report

Although they had to dodge the rain, Jimmy and my brother in law Craig went out Saturday and caught 22 bass.

They changed up a little bit and used some swimming jigs and buzz baits.

Fishing Reports

Although I can't seem to be able to get down to the Lake to do any fishing, others are having a great spring fishing. You have seen the reports from Jimmy lately and here are a couple more from Brad Blanks and my brother in law Craig Allen.

Brad did some bass fishing Thursday for a while that morning. He was using the blue black jig that has been deadly this spring. He caught 19 bass, but even better out of the 19 only 4 were less than 17 inches. That's a heck of an average.

Craig wen't out Sunday morning and caught 22 bass. Craig mainly went the crankbait route, although he did catch a few early on a buzzbait.

Craig and my father-in-law Paul also hit the bream Saturday and Sunday afternoon. He said they found a great Chinquapin bed. They caught all they could handle.

Brad also took his kids out bream fishing. He said they were on beds and it was easy to catch 10 as quick as you could get the bait in the water.

A few days ago we showed his little girl Abby with her first catch. Here is his son Thomas, 3, with his first rod and reel catch.....................................

Catching A Boatload

Jimmy Pickle and his nephew Jason Moore went out yesterday afternoon and landed 44 bass. Unlike the day before, they did get some shallow. They mainly used crankbaits and the trusty jigs.

Jason Moore with a nice fish..............................

The Boys Caught More Than Fish Yesterday

Jimmy and Glenn were back out on the Lake yesterday and had a decent day. Jimmy said the bass had moved deeper. They caught 20 something on the deep diving crankbaits.

The fish were all of about the "schooling size", none of the big boys they have been catching.

Jimmy did catch this nice crappie on a crankbait deep.


He also caught this...........................



He snagged this Quantum reel and rod with a crankbait in about 10 feet of water. He said it looks like it was recently dropped. Contact me if it is yours or you hear of somebody who lost one.

A Couple of Fishing Reports

Jimmy and Glen headed back out on the Lake yesterday and had another great day. They caught 37 bass, mainly all on jigs on drop offs near the spawning beds. They worked the shell beds pretty hard.

Jimmy said the day was "all right."

That shows you how spoiled he has become over the fishing at the Lake. I ribbed him a little about being greedy.

Here is Glen with the best fish of the day another 7 pounder.............



Also Brad Blanks took his little girl Abby out for some bream fishing.

Here is his report.................

I signed my 7 year old daughter, Abby, out of school early today to take her bream fishing. We fished beds all over the lake using crickets and caught 32. We kept 20 of them and she wants to fry them up this weekend.

She and I had an absolute blast and Abby already wants to know when we are going fishing again.

This is not her first fishing trip but by far her most successful. She wanted me to wait and clean the fish tomorrow so she could take them to school and show her class all the fish she caught. We settled on printing out some pictures.

Thanks to Brad for sending that in. Here is Abby with some of her catch.............