I watched loons and gulls from 2 until 4:30 follow a school of stripers in circles in the cove where I live Sunday. I was too relaxed in my hammock to go after them, even as they were within casting range of my pier, and just enjoyed the show. Guess I’m not even a “fair weather” fisherman ! FYI…I live at the mouth of Bear Creek. 
Thanks for the info…
Fished around Bear Creek / Wessinger Island on Saturday and it appears that fish are scattered all across the lake.
Watched about 10 boats follow a school for a long time from Bomb to Shull.
Fished Wednesday from about 1:30 until the thunderstorm (7:15)…
Lots of schooling going on in the “open” water between Shull and Spence.
Mostly caught short fish but some keepers (not big) were mixed in.
Thanks for the report Sully. It seems that they are few and far between over the past couple of months. A benefit of our new format was supposed to be more sharing of fishing information. I guess we’re sharing just among our team mates.
To not be too hypocritical, I haven’t been in a couple of weeks. However, I fished down-lake and caught 5-8 pounders pulling over 5-50 feet of water. They were that scattered! I’ll be hitting them hard on spring break to prepare for the big event. Even put 2 anchors in the boat… Have I lost my mind? Good fishing everyone!
Fogman, no problem. Dont feel like I am really sharing any “secret info” because if you are out riding around between Spence and Shull, you are going to see the birds.
Wednesday we stayed on the Chapin/Ballentine side of Bomb Island and struggled to keep rods out. Birds and schooling was going on everywhere. Most of our fish were on freelines and planers and we tried keeping some downrods right off the bottom to try to catch some bigger fish “cleaning up” under the small ones but really didnt have that many takers on the downrods.
Thanks for the info, I plan on taking my kids out tomorrow and shorts are fine as long as the action is steady.
Tom,
With kids, action, not size is important!!
I fished today in Bear Creek, and we caught 7 keepers and 12 shorts. We did catch a 10+ lb’er on a 7-8" Shellcracker behind a planer board. Our big fish was ~12 lb. on cut bait in 25’ of water.
We had very small herring, which did not help us. Our biggest bait was the first one hit, behind a planer board, and we never turned it!
Rick
We went saturday afternoon and the boat traffic in john’s and Bear Creeks was terrible. Didn’t mark many fish at all. I ended up right by your cottages on that grassy points catching bream. Nothing big, but they had fun. They liked the spawning colors on the shellcrackers. My daughter was calling them rainbow fish.
In the past week, we’ve caught some shellcrackers over 12" long!