2-22-20 White River Table Rock Lake Current Report

Thanks for the report...A bunch of really nice healthy fish.

The Kimberling area was just stacked with tournament boats. It will be interesting to see the results.

Nice to see a good bite up in the Eagle Rock area!   

Heard there were 128 boats in the AA derby today out of KC  Winning string I believe was 23 lbs.  I think second was 19 but not for sure.  Get ready for the big one this coming weekend when BFL gets here, first part of the week.  They will have probably close to 150 boats, I think in the past they have exceeded 175 boats.

In a multi-day derby those Eagle Rock and above fish can come into play but that is a boat ride, especially if you don't find them.  I presume they are going out of KC, if its State Park, you just about cannot get there from here.

Good Luck

I got a pic from a buddy of a giant that was caught, no details on what tourney it was yet

Bill are you using live scope to locate these fish or using normal traditional methods of knowing where they are this time of year?

 

great report Bill.... thanks for sharing.

Well the Giant i was speaking of was 7.30.  The pic it looked much bigger than that.. Still one heck of a Table Rock fish

Bill, healthy looking fish. Thanks for the information. 
 

Mike

Wish I had Panoptics, one of these days, its just a matter of time.  Nope, I found these the old fashion way, I caught them there before.😄  

From what i heard yesterday one of the guys that had a big bag said he would have never been able to catch them without Panoptics.  I believe he was winding an A-rig deep right over the trees and could see the fish come out of the trees at the A-rig.  I think he said with out the Livescope he would have been hung in the trees all day.

Spoke to another guy fishing the same pattern and he caught a limit around 14 pounds the same way but using an underspin just over the trees.  He did have Livescope but still lost about a dozen.Jewel under spins, and 2 A-rigs.

Quite a few years ago here Brian Snowden won an event prior to the A-rig and underspin and won it the same way however he was cranking a DD22 thru the tree tops.  He lost about a dozen of them, but he was totally sponsored by Bill Norman so it didn't cost him anything.

Really and Dockit and Bo will back me on this, way prior to the Rig we have seen huge bags swimming mostly C-tail grubs thru deep trees this time of the year.  It's been a pattern here since I can remember.  It has just been refined with new baits and new electronic technology.

I got lucky yesterday and did not lose any.  If your just fun fishing and have to pay full price for your baits, some of these patterns just don't come into play for a normal recreational angler as with the price of baits today it is just flat to expensive.  You have to wait a bit for the fish to get a bit more available and out of their Hiddy Holes and it won't be long.

Is the A-rig allowed in BFL's?