Got out today to see if I could bother some big mouths. I ended up having a pretty good day. Caught between 15-20 fish with none smaller than 13 1/4" long. Lost 2 fish that would have really made my day. One I never got up out of cover and the other I was able to get boat side. Don't know exact weight but it would have continue my streak of years with a 5+ lb fish easily.
Started the day shallow but quickly realized that where I was needed to change. People around me were catching little buck bass so I headed to deep water. My boat sat in 17-26ft all day and I was pretty much all alone all day on the banks I fished. That was fine with me.
My pattern was a little different, I knew shad spawn was going on so I flipped a big double willow spinnerbait in shad color around cover.
That was the trick.
Here are a few of the fish. The bottom one was 14 3/4"
