Alex Heitman

Pros choice is getting used boats a lot here is one right here

The only real pros they are keeping out are those who are BASS elites or MLF pros. Also anyone who has entered in a $2500 tournament or made over $100,000 career earnings. There are tons of good sticks in the area that will fish it with the championship being in table rock. You have to finish in top 40 at bull snails to qualify or top 40 in another regional event

Fished with a good friend yesterday. Only had 7 keepers. Tough fishing. We had to scrap our plan midday. Winners had 23lbs. Think most fish were caught on jerkbait yesterday. Caught most of ours shallow besides 2 that were 30ft on jig. Ice didn’t leave guides until around 10 AM. Here is results.

Nice fish. Toby looked like he wanted on some of the action.

Whoops. I only caught 2 jerkbait fish that trip, the rest were on a jig. I didn’t take many pics because I was by myself and when they bit you could catch a few more on consecutive cast.

These were all caught on Nu techs a few weeks ago. Bo’s jigs are great

I can’t hardly stand to wear gloves and fish but I have golf cart gloves when I’m driving which work great. If it is cold enough I wear Nike running gloves and they are thin but help a lot

I’m okay if people want to or not get the vaccine. Lots of hospital workers refusing it around here in Rolla area. What makes no sense is even if you have vaccine they still require you to wear mask. Even governed has said we still need to social distance and wear mask after vaccine. If they are so confident in it then why do that? I’ve had it already COVID so I’m not getting vaccine. More trust in my immune system after having it then getting the shot

Yeah that’s the one

It’s about a mile north of the dam on the east side of the lake

My favorite past time is sitting on point 1 at table rock when the lake is low and watch how many boats go way inside the buoy and hit lower unit. 90% are rentals. I can’t count how many times I’ve been fishing that point and they run right between you and the bank in about 2 ft of water

Best ned head other than Dave’s is the one by 5 fish lures

I still have trouble in the wind seeing a small swimbait or jerkbait on the retrieve. I need someone to show me how to really dial these in. It seems when your small swimbait is 50ft from the boat it is hard to see until gets back. Wind was brutal this evening trying to stay on them and see my bait

Glad you like it. Got down here about 330 today and caught a nice LM just under 4 on crankbait and small K on swimbait. Going to try and get the shallow bite working tomorrow if not I will try and head deep with the livescope. Found lots of bait with some fish but hard to use the livescope in the wind this evening.

Wondering if the fishing has picked up at all and particularly in 20 ft or less. Last few times I’ve been down the the past 2 months it has been bad. Was thinking maybe coming down Saturday but may hold off until it gets better. Was hoping to get a jig, crank, and jerkbait bite going but it may still be a little early.

Has anyone had trouble with livescope draining your cranking battery when everything is turned off? We have never turned off our master switch and never had a problem but last two times we have came down to fish cranking battery was basically dead. I don’t know if the black box is drawing power somehow even when it is off. Turned off master to see if it makes a difference. Hoping it gets charged tonight and we don’t have to trade out battery in morning. Battery is brand new when we bought new boat this year

I would go in November if you could. If you can’t then last week in October.

Well Vernon I should say tough when compared to how fishing has been for us for the last month. Yesterday and Friday we only caught a handful of fish a piece. When the Ned bite was crazy we were getting 50+ a day. We were spoiled for sure. Like Dave likes to say the smallmouth have had stupid syndrome for a while haha

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Fishing has been tough for me the last few days. Wednesday and Thursday were better on ned. Seemed to switch and could not get bit in bottom much but did manage a few LM over 5 and some nice 3+ tank SM. Floating worm was fun up by bank and in the junk. Had lots of chasers and hooked up with some. Lots of big ones up there that came out and missed more than I could count. Yesterday and today bottom bite was done. Tried deep and shallow with Ned shakey and also swimbait. Got lucky and found them boiling off a point with whites on top water but that was all the fun for today. Couldn’t get them figured out. Nephews caught some fish which was nice and dad took big fish of the trip.

We caught a lot from 15-20 ft last week

How far was the moss out? It usually ended in 8ft in a lot of spots we fished

Moss is hit or miss. If there was a bunch I moved on to different area. Some places it came out to 8 ft others spots hardly any.

Going to try the swimmer more this weekend. Got kind of tired of throwing the ned but they were eating it. All the smallmouth we caught were just flat mean. I could tell a difference in their attitude form the week before. They would jut dig dig dig and some even jumped crazy. Moss was bad in some spots but others not bad at all.