Anyone do any good this weekend

Gonna try and get out today for a little while. Anyone been this week?

That's the way it's getting to be seems like since everyone is an "offshore" fishermen with electronics what they are today.

Clem, can you remember back when you'd be the only boat out in the middle of the river?

I can. Simpler times

Actually caught a few fish yesterday. All in grass that was close to deeper 5-10' water. Creature baits.

Tidbit about Logan, which I'll connect to Neely... Fished Logan twice the past week, it basically made me want to jump off a bridge, but... Places on the ledge where the fish have been all year, a month ago there would be what looked like 100 fish on them, now there are just a handful. I am confident that the fish have mostly left the ledges on the main river. However, a curious finding is that what fish I do see, are ALL EXACTLY 14' deep. Literally, not 13 or 15, only 14, and that' from Riverside to Pell City. (Where have those ledge fish gone? Heck if I know, they aren't shallow on docks or anything for me, I halfway wonder if they're not suspending somewhere with a thermocline)

Anyway, some of my friends fished the high school tournament yesterday on Neely, and guess where they found fish stacked up?...14' deep. But NOT on the main river. Any structure 14' deep in the creeks is where they caught them. People may not have been honest, but according to them most of the people commented there was no grass bite yesterday.

As a sprout I remember fishing with Dad and watching him watching the flasher, and I couldn't figure out how the heck he could tell the depth or if it was hard or soft bottom, or a point, or anything. All I could tell was it was 24 30 27 32 24 29 32 24-something feet deep - maybe. LOL

Then the paper graph arrived. Holy smokes, that was like getting handed a map instead of a rock with chiseled coordinates!

The first time I saw the downscan imaging I was on Smith Lake with a friend and we trolled out of Speegle's messin' with the unit. A concrete block popped up on the screen and a fish was suspended beside it. Could see it clear as day. Blew my mind. Now it's like playing video games. "Oh, there's a fish" and plunk a dropshot beside it.


Years ago in GS/OB we went out with an old charter captain who kept referring to the "fathometer." He was I think in his late 70s or early 80s then. He said when he was a kid they used a rope with a weight on it slathered in Vasoline or grease to see if the bottom was sandy or muddy.

I like the technology, though. Although I love fishing shallow it's still cool to see what's on the bottom anywhere.

I continue to learn how to use my garmin 73sv/dv more and more. Saying this, I find more things on the edge of creeks, river channels, and such I never new was there. I fish them and can see fish but am not schooled enough to know how to target them. The fish I found Friday on ledges were 10-14' and would not hit a damn thing I threw. So, I went to the grass and caught my fish. BTW, My garmin countour lines vs a navionics on my lowrance is so much better and accurate for Neely.

Anyone been lately? I may try and get out for a couple hours this weekend.

I went Saturday and Monday. We slayed em. Had a couple 4lb spots each day. Still not great but it's not that far away either.

you should try a hummingbird it is fad superior to both above mentioned.

Yea yea yea. I will have to say my Dad and I went out Monday to run his crappie boat. He has a 898? at rear and helix 7 on front. Some of the things he was picking up on spots I showed him was impressive. I just need someone that is a whiz on Garmins to set mine up.

Finally got out today, been about 2 months since I've been on Neely. Caught a few early then the bite just died nothing really after about 9. Was a little disappointing . Anyone else go.

I did not go Sunday like I wanted to. Not many trucks at rainbow landing at all.

Last 2 trips out we caught several fish. Just couldn't get a kicker to go with them.

that was always my issue there: a kicker fish

Anyone been? Gonna go tomorrow afternoon. Was told water temp has dropped to 72. WOW. What week can make.

Went Saturday morning for a little while. Bite was whole lot better. So was quality of fish.

Caught 5 fish, and one was a stripe about 3#. Rest of bass were small. They are already chasing shad on flats. At least that is what I caught. May try and go back next weekend. Water temp 74 deg already. Most came off lipless crank.

Went to Logan yesterday from about 2:00 till 6:00, the bite was greatly improved. Caught 12 total fish (which is about 11 or 12 more than the last two trips, LOL) and about half of them were 2 pounds or bigger. Water was 80 degrees though, last time I went it was right at 70 degrees.

Fished from the dam to Beaver Creek this morning from about daylight till 12:00 noon. Did okay, better than I have been doing. Still can't get a sniff on a buzzbait, and I didn't catch anything period from the grass. Caught 5 (I think?) from docks, and then maybe a dozen more spots on a couple of offshore places (about 8-10 feet deep). All the shad and fish were at the mouths of creeks for me, had no action farther back in the creeks. Saw 84 degree water before I left, that's crazy considering two Saturdays ago it was 69 at daylight (at Guntersville though, not Neely).