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Largemouth Bass:  The best bite over the past several weeks is definitely daybreak to around 10am due to increase in heat/surface temps after 10am. Numbers of bass from 2-6 pounds each are concentrating near almost any major creek junction with Little River and close proximity nearby.  Now with the four foot drawdown in effect, bass have pulled to the river and creek dumps and points intersecting with Little River.

 

Largemouths are in normal summer patterns over the past many weeks remain best early and late, and the reaction bite pattern, around vegetation such as coontail, hydrilla, pondweed, and lily pads is good on Buzzbaits, Cordell Crazy Shads, Spit'n Images, Yum BuzzFrogs, Twitch Assassins, Bass Assassin Shads in salt and pepper silver phantom, and gold pepper shiner colors along the Little River.  Other surface lures like Pop-R's, Ken Pops, Jitterbugs and Baby Torpedos are beginning to draw reactions for those fish as well.  With the 4' draw down in effect, we are catching good numbers of bass on crankbaits like the Fat Free Shad and Rat-L-Traps.  Carolina rigged lizards, Southern Pro 4" magnum tubes, and 10" Power worms in blue fleck or peanut butter / jelly colors are working for moving deeper bass, or suspending bass.  A good number of these fish continue moving further out and to points and intersections of creek channel dumps into Little River, where quick access to the 8-14 foot and deeper thermocline zone areas will be during the draw down.  Jigging Cordell hammered spoons were working late last week for Largemouths and schooling Whites, suspended in standing timber in the 10-12 foot depths on trees.

 

Slow rolling Rat-L-Traps in Millwood Magic, Firetiger, and Cajun Craw colors continue working well in tandem with the crankbait bite, on points of Little River, ditches, and creek intersections and dumps into Little River, and around new pondweed grass, creek channel mouths, standing timber, and stumps as long as you remain in the creek channel, or deeper drop sections of the oxbows and river.  Jigs in Texas craw or black / blue colors, are catching bass on cypress trees and stumps in deeper sections of the creek channels and on points in the river.  Add rattles to your jigs for sound attraction in the off-colored or stained water clarity.  Siefert's Buzz Baits are working to get reactions in Midnight Magik, Grasshopper, and Bleeding Bluegill colors.

 

The best water clarity is being found upriver.  Slow moving, or dead sticking Bass Assassins Shads, Cordell Red Fins, Twitch Assassins, and skipping/hopping the Yum BuzzFrogs or Rattling Zara Mouses around pads, are randomly taking fish again early and late.  With the drawdown comes a change in strategies, and if you fish flats, make sure you are close to deeper drops, the river, or creek channels.  The Carolina rig bite and Shakey-Head jig bite, is improving weekly along Little River.  Lily pads, hydrilla, and pondweed, where the vegetation is growing in close proximity to stumps in those areas will produce good catches. Texas or Carolina rigged 6" lizards in pumpkinseed/chartreuse tail, redbug, or grasshopper colors and magnum 8" lizards in junebug, kiwi, or redbug are taking some bass in creek channels around live cypress trees and stumps and in Little River.  Swim baits are beginning to work for suspended bass around drop offs next to stumps.

 

White Bass:  Large schools continue breaking topwater in Horseshoe and McGuire oxbows over the past several weeks, early morning chasing schools of threadfin shad.

 

Crappie:  are fair over planted brush in 14-17 feet and stacking nicely on your electronics, early, on live shiners, jigs, smoke grubs, and vertical jigging tiny (1/32) Beetle Spins in white/red dot or Catalpa colors.  Bite dies off substantially after 10am.

 

Longnose Gar:  continue to surface blow in McGuire and Horseshoe Oxbows, in good numbers for bow fishermen.  We continue seeing large groups surface rolling, in groups of large numbers, making perfect opportunities for bowfishermen.  Try back of creeks and oxbows up Little River for some really big gar over the next couple weeks.  McGuire had several schools of gar in the 40-60 pound range surfacing over 18-22 feet depths close and adjacent to flats over past several weeks.

 

Cats:  Channel Cats continually bite well over the past week with the current in Little River.  Blues and Channel cats are biting best on chicken livers, Charlie, red night crawlers, by either anchoring and tight-lining, or trot-lines, along Little River and up river in back of Mud Lake on yo-yo's hung from cypress trees in the oxbows over 9-15 feet depths.