Where to listen
You can hear the report on KGVE 99.3, the YouTube channel, the GrandFishingReport.com website and the Grand Fishing Report Facebook group.
Williams Guide Service
Fishing has been really good. Haydn is running two trips a day, sometimes Crappie in the morning and Paddlefish in the afternoon or vice versa.
Paddlefish
A lot of Paddlefish have moved into the upper end of the lake and are waiting on the first strong rise, which usually comes in March or April. The lake is a little high from this week's and the weekend's rain, with intermittent generation below the dam and no floodgates open last Jeff checked. It isn't enough to push the fish up to Miami, where the bank crowd can get after them.
Crappie
Haydn is catching a lot in deep brush and around boat docks on 2-inch Lucky Bugs (he prefers them to the 2½-inch) with a 1/16 oz jig head. His colors are the blues and clears (USA, Thunderstorm) plus purple-and-pink, which he really likes. He's also LiveScoping roaming fish in the coves. It's a slow way to fill several limits, but effective, and his clients enjoy picking them off.
Big Blue Cats from the bank
Matt Dodge keeps posting huge Catfish from the bank on the Grand Fishing Report Facebook group. He keeps his spots private, and rightfully so. He has proved you can catch big Blue Cats from the bank on Grand Lake by targeting them on leftover winter-kill Shad.
Shallow action
Crappie are moving shallow looking for spawning beds, and Shad are staging shallow too, ahead of the April–May spawn. Cast into 3 to 10 feet (even 2 to 6 feet) off shallow points, docks and flats. There's also a lot of bank fishing below the dam. Bank anglers, keep at it.
Bassmaster Classic
Congratulations to everyone who fished the Bassmaster event on Grand Lake. Luck E Strike wasn't there yet because it's still building inventory and its American-made hard baits. Jeff looks forward to showing everything at ICAST in Orlando in July, the country's largest tackle show, and is setting up wholesale customers nationwide. To support the report, ask dealers for the products he mentions: the Lucky Bug, STX jerkbait, Swimming Minnow and Crappie Magic crankbait. Dealers know how to order them through wholesale distribution. Visit LuckEStrike.com.