April followed its typical pattern seeing the last white bass head up the tributaries as the majority of the fish headed back and hit the main lake areas hungry. We began to see the first bit of topwater as a result. The big news toward the end of the month was a massive slug of water coming into the lakes from heavy rains to the NW in the Leon and Adamsville areas. These rains really chewed up the water and brought an end to the very consistent fishing in the MacGregor Park area at Belton and the Cedar Gap area at Stillhouse. The rise of water timed very well with the threadfin shad spawn on both lakes and will insure a good bunch of forage for the year to come.

As the graphs show, we boated 784 fish across 13 trips, thus averaging 60 fish per trip.

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