Bluegills, Bass and Dragonflies! This past week’s full moon gave our yearly bluegill spawn a great kick start for a whole bunch of fun.

The Shad spawn is happening, and the bass are aggressively hungry for the very early part of the day. If you are in an area where the feeding frenzy is going on it’s truly amazing fun to be had.

The fishing was great but windy for this past weeks outings. Monday on the Stick Marsh finally produced a topwater bite in an area where the Shad are congregating for the spawn.

The east winds we’ve been having makes for a good drift setup on Stick Marsh lately. Finding the 4-5 foot water areas and drift the remaining outer wood area has given up some good numbers of bass.

The winds have been my favorite this week for catching fish. My favorite little pond this week gave up some nice bluegill throwing Beetle Spins and a small Yo Zuri L-Minnow through Lilly Pad areas, even though trying to use the fly rod the wind made it difficult to throw drifting over and around the pads

Last week’s fishing was so much better than weeks before. Our lake water temperatures are creeping into the high 70’s to almost the 80 degree range.

Finally, an artificial bite is happening on Headwaters this past week! I only fished this past Tuesday before the wind fans kicked in to Gail force stuff.

I hope everyone had a great Spring Break last week. It gave me an opportunity to get on the water with my grandson and wet a line together which was way overdue for us.

Finally made it out on the water from what seems like forever for me. This trip was out on 3 Forks. The day started out a little rough due to the main canal was blocked with a big clog of vegetation that blew in from all the strong winds lately.

Only one day of fishing for me last week. I chose to head to the Stick Marsh thinking that the crowd would be less than that at Headwaters but boy was I wrong.