MBC Seniors - April 13th - Roosevelt Lake

Roosevelt Lake had been decent but hit or miss lately due to the rising muddy water, but my partner went out and prefished and found an area he was set on. It is currently in prespawn, spawn and post pawn timing with the shad spawn in full swing. We were boat 3 out and it seemed like it was a race up to the salt. Another guy and us were actually heading to the exact same stretch eventhough we didn't know it at the time. It was a little tense first thing but we talked it out and shared the water without any issues. The bite was on early for us as the shad were everywhere spawing. We threw squarebill crankbaits, varied the color if the bite ever slowed down. We has a quick limit and the fish just kept biting. We has almost 13lbs but 9am and had caught over 30 fish. It was one the best morning/days I can rememeber especially on that lake. By that time there were 6 of us sharing that stretch of water. Everyone seemed to take turns on each small cut and area of the stretch and each produced fish. After 10am the bite seemed to slow down, so we decided to make a move to try and find some less pressured water. We hit some other areas in the salt and also in the mainlake and caught some fish but nothing that would cull out what we had. At the end of the day we made one last run and effort to find a bigger fish on a drop in a cove. We could see the bigger shad but no fish chasing. We threw some deeper diving crankbaits and it produced one decent sized fish that threw the hooks after couple of jumps, and thats how our day ended. We ended up 6th, we may not have wonbut it sure was a blast out there. That's a day of fishing I won't soon forget. That finish locked us into 7th for the end of year points race, we arelooking forward to the championship at Apache in May.