Good Finish But Slow Start This Afternoon

Creek Channel Banks and flats near brush at in coves at the 10mm of the Osage. The tube was worked slowly along the bottom and the best bite on stick bait was working it fast with only a few seconds pause.

Today I got on the water about 2:00 and fished until just after 5. The day was not ideal from a conditions perspective, it was sunny and the water was totally flat, everywhere. I started out fishing a bait that Wayne suggested that I try, a white tube on Waynes Keeper Head in white, see pic. The tube when dragged or slightly hopping, slowly stroking looks like a dying shad. So I targeted schools of bait fish near the bottom that appeared to have fish on it, see graph pic. On one school of shad I caught 3 short fish, the tube does work when worked in this way. I then moved to some other coves/steep banks and worked the stick bait, jig and tube without a bite for over an hour. Then I moved a bit further back in one of the creeks/coves and fished a flat with a lot of brush and in 30 minutes I caught 4 keepers, working the jerk bait rather fast and fan casting the flat. One keeper weighed exactly 4 pounds, another just under 5 and two that were just over 15″. These fish seemed to be holding in brush about 6′-8′ deep.