Time to catch up on the fishing reports as a lot of fishing has been going on over the past week. Moving in chronological order, I will start with a report from my brother, Brent, detailing a trip to a Knox County public strip pit. He was fishing from his kayak and submitted his pictures and results via a series of text messages.

5:18pm – Top Bass Runner-up at 2-1 on a Senko wacky rig

Stats
Date: July 18
Location: Knox County public strip pit
Time: 4:40pm-7:45pm
Totals: 21 bass
Lures: Senko wacky rig – 18 bass, Spro Flappin Frog 65 – 1 bass, Jerkbait – 1 bass, Z-Man Chatterbait – 1 bass
Top Bass: 3-8 Senko
Top 5 Weight: 9-5 (3-8,2-1,1-10,1-3,0-15)

 

7:11pm- Top Bass at 3-1 on a Senko wacky rig

Winning lures

Editor’s Comments

Top Bass – The 3-8 provided a boost to Brent’s 2025 Top 5 bumping it to 16-1 as it culled a 2-4 form his limit. His current Top 5 bass of 2025 consist of 4-10,3-8,3-1,2-8,2-6.

Lake All-Time Top 5 – This body of water features an impressive all-time Top 5 weighing 19-2 combined for me and Brent. The weights on our Top 5 consist of 4-4,3-15,3-12,3-11,3-8. As such Brent’s 3-8 on this trip while a quality fish did not provide a boost to our Top 5. One of these days, we will get the bite or bites to give us that fourteen-ounce bump for a Top 5 hitting the coveted twenty-pound mark.

A good day on the water for Brent as anytime you can flirt with a ten-pound daily limit in three hours of fishing is a winner. Stay tuned as there are two more strip mine reports in the works as I recently spent back-to-back days on other waters. Talk to you later. Troy