Weather
Nice weather at last after a long, hot, dry stretch when few people wanted to fight the hot wind.
Lake-wide
Grand Lake gets busy on weekends, but you can fish it all week, even in summer. From his deck Jeff can see from the mouth of Honey Creek almost down to Patricia Island, and he sees boats hitting known brush piles on the far bank for Crappie and anglers drifting along the edge of the river channel.
Catfish
He watched a man baited with cut bait using his trolling motor to drag across the bottom a few hundred yards off Jeff's dock, probably in 35–40 feet of water. He caught some nice ones that looked like Blue Cats.
Bass
Not much Bass info gets posted, but tournament boats run past the house around the Shangri-La corner heading west down the lake. If you're Bass fishing with live scope and want a bait down in front of a fish, not a lot of guys are using Scroungers yet — that's something you can try.
Hunting
Archery season opens October 1. People are putting out corn, minerals, attractants and trail cameras, looking for a big buck or a doe for burger and summer sausage. The cool weather has everyone ready. Fixpandable broadheads are back on Amazon (four heads, a practice head and extra O-rings in each package); some may still be available in Jay, and David at Honey Creek might still have some.
Crappie
Even anglers using forward-facing sonar can use a brush-pile Scrounger to get a bait down in front of fish. Jeff's favorite brush-pile Crappie combo is an 1/8-ounce Scrounger with a 2.5-inch Lucky Bug in desert (desert hero) color.
White Bass
Troll a Dinner Spinner or a Scrounger in the evening around Governor's Island, Patricia Island, Sweetwater and the islands around Sailboat Bridge. This is the time of year when you can catch a lot of White Bass in the evenings. Take a kid.