Josh

Fist drop and my boy makes me proud! He ended up landing 5 all by himself. in all took home 15.

water temp?

Gods paint brush was working today

whats the bite doing? looking for crappie and whites.

I could not get any big bass today (tons of shorts) question when throwing the A-rig do you throw it up on the banks and bring it out to the boat? or do you throw it 20' off the shore in the deeper water let it sink about 20' then reel? I'm steel learning the A-rig...

Romp hole? We are sitting by rock spring hollow.... we ain't catching jack. Side note I just lost my a-rig dasgumit... am I the only one who can't catch anything on that holy grail? Anyone care to show a close up pic of there A-rig set up for cloudy and sunny days?

thanks... im new to all of this.

Im going to be down the 18th – 22nd does anyone know if there are any fishing tournaments going on that week??? If not anyone know of one I can enter on table rock? last year was my first time to enter a fishing tournament and i walked away with $530.00... it was a ton of fun getting paid to fish, now it's in my blood

Here is what chaps me! My family has had a lake house on table rock lake before table rock lake became a lake... We pay taxes & utilitys for that place... But we still cant buy a lifetime or get a resident fishing license. I think if you pay prop taxes you should be able to take advantage of lifetime or at least let people get the resident discount on fishing license....

Just got back from the old lake house in shell knob and all in all we had a good trip, Saturday morning me and the wife headed down to the old dock on needles eye in hopes that we would run into some fish on our dock (mostly so I would not have to dump a bunch of money fixing the old boat) we spent all day Saturday and Sunday fishing the dock and banks around the dock only landing 2 crappie and 1 bass. Monday morning i decided to spend the day working on the old boat and by Monday night we were in business. Tuesday We first headed to Kings Marina - fished minnows and a triple hook blue and white tube (top) - yellow and white tube (middle) - gray and white Bobby Garlands minnow fish were a good 50' off the shore line sitting in like 2' of water around the docks & trees, we landed 25 crappie in 2hrs all 14 to 15" crappie (big ole females) We trolled the bank and found a large brush spot sitting about 30' from the docks by kings Marina and the crappie were sitting so shallow they looked like a school of perch, 5 cast and i landed 5 fish hitting our limit. We went back to the same spot Wednesday and this morning and hit our limit within one hour. that brush made our trip i wish we could have found the white bass but we looked everywhere. ill have some photos up in the next day or so also anyone on this board ever caught a brown salamander??? i hooked one this last week freaked me! i was like why does this fish have feet!

anyone know where the whites are in shell knob? what numbers are they pulling out? ill be in the needles eye area

so what are the whites doing??? are they still being caught in big numbers (and if they are) will all this rain jack them up or make them bite better??? I'm coming up to shell knob this weekend and I'm hoping the white bass are still doing there thing.

Honestly I wish they would change the length limit on bass… 16 inches is ok for tournaments (because they throw most of those back anyway) but there are way to many people keeping those little 16 inch bass and honestly it’s not giving Table rock a chance to become a true big game lake. Change it to 18-20 inches I typically only keep catfish, white bass and crappie and maybe a walleye from time to time (if I can catch them)

Bill where did you get your swim baits??? i saw the same Bass tournament in So-Cal on ESPN (the bait looked amazing) but man were they pricey. i have a few spots that i would like to try that trout swim bait

I'm thinking about heading up to shell knob this weekend but the weather is still looking spotty... I'm thinking about delaying my trip until next week but if you guys say the fish are still hitting then i might give it a shot... what are the white bass up too??? anyone been out in the shell knob area

what was the water temp before this front and whats the water temp now??? the front will push them deeper for the time being or at least until the water temp gets back to what it was before

thanks guys, I'm still new to the whole white bass fishing... actually this is the first year that i have really been able to do a lot of fishing... honestly i have always let my work get in the way (kinda became a workaholic for awhile) so now I'm trying to dust off the rods and tackle and remember all the things my papa taught me.

thats the problem... i don't have the electronics to find the shad. we are looking to buy one but we are lost when it comes to choosing a finder... Last time I just took my boat from shell knob (lost hill area) and headed up to kings river, once i rounded the first bend I started to see some top water action so I casted out and BAM!! white bass all over the place (they were just boiling) i don't know if thats there spawn but i want to fish that again it was a blast. by the way every fish was full of eggs.

About a week ago the white bass were just boiling in the shell knob area and I was wondering if anyone knows about how long this typically last for the white bass??? I'm planning a trip the week after Easter and I'm hoping I will run into the white bass and the crappie but… if the whites are not expected to keep doing that type of run then I might try to take a trip just to run into that type of fishing again because I had a blast

yeah thats the same area... i had a blast and i was the only one fishing the cove

Headed down the white river / kings river bend in the shell knob area (by lost hill) on Saturday and located some large mouth bass chasing shad into the coves… I along with my cousin ended the day catching six at 2.5-3.5lbs each fish. Caught every bass on a white & blue rattle trap After all the fun on Saturday I decided to try my luck around 6:30am Sunday morning… went to the same cove (as I did the day before) and ran into yet again a group of bass chasing shad into that cove but this time (after one hour of fishing) I caught 11 large mouth bass… when the bass quit jumping I decided to try my luck in finding the white bass… after going up kings river I was able to locate the white bass on the flats just strait across from the big bluffs (in the shell knob area) they were just boiling everywhere only had enough time to land 5 before the wind ran me and the fish off hated to leave shell knob after a great weekend of fishing but I ended my morning with 11 large mouth and 5 white bass. I have some pictures but don’t know how to post them I can email the pictures if someone wants to post them.

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ill be going up the kings as well but im always having a hard time locating the white bass for some reason…

well im making the annual spring fishing trip down to shell knob this Saturday and I will be staying until the 25th I’ll be around the needles eye/lost hill area and will be looking to catch some sand bass and crappie during my trip. I’m looking for hot spots or ideas on where to catch the sandies this spring (I have never been great at catching the sand bass on table rock this time of year) are they even biting right now??? And how’s the crappie in that neck of the woods??? By the way I hear my favorite shell knob BBQ restaurant burnt down this last weekend say it aint so, where’s a guy got to go to get some good BBQ now?

we have probably met then… we have a lake house that is right up the road from the needles eye dock and every time I make the trip I spend about 80% of my time on that dock or out in old blue(my boat) sadly the reason I spend that 80% of my time on that dock is because I'm working on old blue lol By the way the needles eye dock got hit by some thieves last summer and the jerks stole all kinds of stuff from the boats parked at the dock.