May 2026 report
Post-spawn and shad
The shad spawn made the first hour of daylight worth getting up for, and the rest of the day stayed steady.
- Water temp
- Upper 60s
- Lake level
- Full pool
- Clarity
- Light stain
- Best window
- First light
- The pattern
- Early made the difference. Shad spawning on the seawalls and dock posts gave us a fast forty five minutes at daylight, and then we settled into the regular work.
- Crappie
- Pulling back out to ten and fifteen feet of brush. Scattered for a couple of weeks after the spawn before they grouped up again toward the end of the month.
- Bass
- Docks, seawalls and whatever shade we could find under them. A steady month rather than a spectacular one, but nobody had a slow day.
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