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I'm in for 7.73lbs, can't be any worse than my BB bracket. Stupid Louisville.

Before you went up to the Cape today, had you fished any of the ugly flatter places? Main lake or main river flats and points? If the cuts/coves up Kings are a zero, there can be some fish on those inside turns.

That is one beautiful freak of nature Don. Post spawn...grub? rig? TW? Please don't tell me it was a redfin.

I'm with you 100% on doing what is fun, whether it's whites on a spoon or gogs on a grub, that's why I quit chasing tmt schedules all over MO and settled on learning one lake.

Sorry for the localism...PB&J is a color- peanut butter and jelly. It is kind of a pumpkin/black stripe silicone with purple crystal flake, some junebug silicone, and various other colors based on who did the cooking. "Little green worms" is meant to include the various shades and flakes of green pumpkin and watermelon. If you are in Kimberling just run up to either of the shops on 13. They can set you up with what is going based on season, current bite. That will let you piece-meal some of it together, and spread the $ out. Those of us who have to trailer in from the heathen reaches of KS have to carry it all with us at once. If anything else didn't make sense let us know.

Blade bite on Table Rock is pretty much dependent on the wind blowing hard. Very miserable to do all day when conditions are right. Overall, this is a finesse lake...little baits, clear and deep water, cobweb line.

The back end of the Kings in March is like the first half of the old "...or a honda" line. You may not want to tell people about it, but it sure does make you feel good .

I'll bite first... 1) 4",5" single tail smoke grubs and 1/8oz to 5/16oz ball or dart heads with good hooks. 2) Brown & purple or PB&J 5/16oz round head and 1/2oz Football jigs, chunks or twin tails to go with them. 3) 1/2oz white jig spoons, war eagle or hazie dazie. 4) Swimming minnows in smoke, pearls. 5) Little green worms...fish doctors, french fry, finesse worms. Finesse weights, stops, and hooks to go with them. 1/16oz to 1/4oz shakey heads for them as well. 6) Wiggle warts, craw colors. 7) Rogues/sticks, flashy and purple/chart. 8) 1/2oz spinnerbait, white/shad, with small willow blades for fishing wind. 9) Small super spook. 10) White or gray roadrunner. You could stop at #5 and fish all year round, and catch all 3 bass, whites, gogs, and crappie.

Did anyone else notice there seemed to be more of them the first few years after the LMBV kill? The Fann fish falls towards the end of that time frame. Seems to me like they are a little less prevalent over the last couple of years, as I fish the same areas and techniques that turned them up before. Perhaps the blacks push them out of places?

+ a bunch. Biggest for me was right at 17" flipping deep docks around baxter. Most of mine have come on a finesse rig or grub around smallmouth spawn places. Interesting fish.

Just to make it easier for folks, there are also not any fish around 13HWY, especially in Schooner, Fisher, or Whites. Definitely none in Little Cow, ever. The few skinny stragglers in those places have all been sore mouthed anyway. +++ on Aunts. Lots of brown jig fish there. ***And as far as pressure, as I'm sure some of the others here can attest to, this lake is positively private compared to LOZ.

Kids may be able to have a ball on crappie and small bass right around the dock, if the boat idea does not pan out. The berkley gulp minnows in the little sizes have been very versatile for my wife and the 6yo, while his sister and I are out in the early am. Can use on split shot rig, nose or back hooked on a down sized and simple drop shot (just tie any knot and leave a long tag to run back thru / add a split shot down below...not as pretty as the real deal, but works great around docks). Will catch gills, crappie, gogs, good numbers of K's at times. Have yet to meet Tim, but have said hello to our very own Bill, and can vouch for him being a fine and handsome specimen. Comes from posing for all those fish pics I think.

Yup, could be some folks getting surprised this year when they try to cut points by blowing between me and the bank in what used to be 10' of water whilst I am offshore casually soaking a rig .

Good tip on Hickory Hollow. Did not realize that was an option.

Mmmm...Harter House steaks Good work and good reports all. Definitely beats the couple inches of snow we had overnight and into this morning. Ick-O.

No threat from me. Like catfish, I can only catch them when I don't want to, like flipping bushes, cranking brushpiles. Just curious, seems like those fish are on a serious uptick, hope that is a good thing for the lake overall.

One of my biggest fish was several years ago at Viola on a stick in March, but the river was running clear and it was a very isolated fish. The deal with the cows is the combination of things all in one spot...river channel, big deep creeks, wood, flat stuff right across the lake. Think you have a better shot at more good ones pulling up when one gets caught down in the bigger water. Also some very big fish in the back end of Schooner at times. Of course we all know Schooner only has released fish in it...

Well...at the rate of reply, we could all just be fishing at different ramps. More than half the time I put in at Schooner's resort ramp, so about the only people I see are guests and the occasional guide party. Kind of thought I would bump into folks at Harter House, Ma's, gas stations...

Fences are easier at Wrigley. But, I would bet on 13HWY to the dam, maybe in one of the Cows. Around Baxter would be a close 2nd.

Well that is sort of good. I'll need more after I replace mine this spring. Looking a little well-loved.

One on the truck, one on the Mercury cowling. Only two I have seen are my own...

Sweetwater, about 2 river miles down, and on the west side of the river. Kings River Park I think, but someone else will have to provide road directions. For no more water miles than it saves, and since it is not as nice as Viola I would pass, unless you are coming in from the west. As previously mentioned, there are no fish there. All of them are in Aunts. Oh, sorry...almost forgot the Rock Chalk .

Any walleye mixed in?

Well, I was certain you could not possibly be the potbellied gentleman referenced.