Your report is dead-on as always--best fishing report out there! I braved the heat on Big Sandy this past weekend, it was a slog BUT covered water with a 3.25" emerald shiner-looking swimbait, and then when I got a bite on a stretch of bank, slowed down and dragged a Ned rig slooooooooow. I managed a 5-fish bag that went over 15# Friday evening, and then Saturday caught my two biggest smallies ever, one over 5 and a second just a little under that.
I caught over 90” today (five) in 8-10’ of water. Wolf packs hunting from a ditch line in a flat. They surfaced a few times blowing on mature shad. Cauggt them on C - Rig Baby Brush Hog, 4”X 3/8oz swimbait, MagDraft, Swing head jig, and C-rigged origional Fluke.
Epic shad spawn this year and I’m watching small wolf packs of smallies and 1-2 lb largemouth just crushing shad balls on LiveScope which really makes it tough when natural forage is everywhere and readily available on demand.