Friday Kimberling City Report

5 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

Dustin Gossett with a nice Table Rock Smallmouth caught on a Megabass 110 plus 2

 

Couple of really good friends down to fish the AIA that got cancelled practiced in the KC area on Friday, reported really good success fishing to staging fish that seem to have been moving up in the water column on the transitions near the major spawning coves.

Don reported surface temps at 42 degree with clear water.  They started on bluff ends and transitions with the A-rig and just could not  get bit.  Said they saw cruising fish in the water column in the 15' to 30' range on the locations but just could not get bit on the A-rig.

Switched to a 1/4 oz. underspin with a 2.8" Keitech in various colors and the bite started with an extremely slow retrieve, on the locations that they were not getting bit on the rig.  Don said the bite was just mush or the bait would stop coming back or you would feel the blade stop thumping or  the tail  on the Keitech stop vibrating and that was the bite.  They were counting down the underspin and also letting it walk the bottom at times.  Just really, really slow.  Also had fish on a 110 plus 2 in Table Rock color on the same locations, letting the bait set for 30 seconds between jerks.  The fish just hit the bait while it was sitting there, not being moved.

Don said it was just super hard to fish slow enough but if you would force yourself to do so you would get bit.

They also spoke to another team that was practicing that told them they were fishing the long gravel point same lake location and reeling a hard head and catching some excellent SM and LM.  They had come over and asked if he was practicing for the AIA and told him it had been cancelled and they were going home.  Don had not heard, so he was glad they motored over to inform him.

Don said the guys he spoke with had on it looked like 5/8 or 3/4 hard heads and Smallie Beavers as trailers.  They also said they had to move the bottom bait in 18' to 30' extremely slow just letting it sit or crawling it along the bottom.  Not going to open a can of crayfish here, but I'm guessing they were dragging it.

Don was pretty excited about the bite and really happy with his quality and it sounded like the other dudes were doing good as well.

Good Luck

 

Talked to the winners of a couple of tournaments at that northeast Oklahoma lake with all the smallmouths. They reported catching there fish, which were all largemouths , on a-rigs fished in water 8 ft. or less with the two biggest coming from 3 to 4 foot water. They won saturday by just over 6 lbs. and sunday by over 7 lbs. Said water temp was 43 degree. This is something you folks up there might want to check into. They were touching bottom with the a-rig.