mjk86

Ill be down in august...every year I spend a week in the kimberling area. We have always caught lots of bass, but the last few years ive been on a mission to catch walleyes. So this year im gonna hit the upper end and try your techniques. Ill try not to follow to closely behind your boat! hahahaha.

Thats a giant!!

never thought of it like that. thanks.

Never heard that before? Care to explain the thought process behind that?

My friends and I use wacky rigged dingers all the time. We refer it as wacking off. Get some really weird looks from folks. "Im gonna go wack off on the other side of that island"

great fish!

I think walleye do that cuz they have bony mouths, they dont bite hard/tail bite, and they just kinda shake and wiggle. Even though they are not good fighters they probably have the most effective evasion technique once hooked. Other fish turn and run, or pull hard, or use their weight which keeps pressure on the line and hook. Walleye just kinda shake their head and open their mouth without pulling which causes all sorts of slack in the line. Ive lost more walleye mid fight than any other kind of fish by far. Get good hooks and drive em deep!

I may be wrong in my understanding of the benefits of a slot limit. It seems like it would be most beneficial in a lake with a large population of slow growing fish (stunted). Like a smaller lake with an overpopulation of small fish. Maybe someone who knows more about it could chime in? This is actually a good thread, but ones like this can and do devolve very quickly into nonsense.

The difference between a river and stockton is places for fish to be. In a river most of the fish are concentrated in highly predictable areas, they are more opportunistic and the forage base is more varied and overall competition for food is more. A lake like stockton is huge, there will be a large percentage of fish at any given time shallow looking, deep, suspended, following shad, roaming flats. There is just much more water and food per fish. Also rivers produce a smaller percentage of larger fish as they grow much slower. Well...ya the reason people hang out in the cove after a tournament is cuz they know there will be a very high percentage of large fish in a small area. I am not saying that fish cant/arent recaught, I just think we as anglers are naive to think we catch all the big ones. Ask a diver who dives a lake!

I dont think a slot limit would increase the amount of large bass in stockton. Stockton has plenty of giants, most of whom nobody will ever catch. We like to blame our lack of big fish skills on all the meat fisherman taking out all the bass. Doesnt work that way. This thread is a disaster waiting to happen....About 100 posts down youll prolly apologize for asking this.

Betcha he was....this is just natural selection in action.

sarcasm my friend. although i will say its tough to convey such emotions as there is no such thing as "tone of type"

Too late...you cant keep bass.

I highly doubt that fish has been caught very many times if at all....fisherman are arrogant in that they think if they dont catch big fish than their arent any.....fisherman catch all the small fish cuz they are dumb. Bigger, older fish are older for a reason. Often times the oldest fish in a pond/lake/area are EXTREMELY niche, meaning that they will only feed on 1 food source at 1 time and ignore most other offerings. They become highly specialized and less opportunistic...the more opportunistic fish ate our stupid looking worm and died. Congrats on that huge fish....who cares what you did with it. There are lots and lots of giant bass in stockton....its 23k acres lol. It aint getting fished out. There are lakes around st louis that are 60 acres or smaller, and recieve dozens of fisherman every day most of whom take everything out that they catch. Yet there are still giant bass to be had.

Awesome thanks!

Its just stupid how effective dragging flicker shads around is. Middle of coves for crappie and main lake points for walleye. I always catch a bunch of bass and drum too.

"Bumps"? Do you mind describing that more? Not the location but what you mean when ur lookin at ur graph. Small submerged humps/islands?

Ive noticed that a lot of guys catch walleyes on the ned rig incedental to bass fishing...I wonder if there is a pattern to explore a bit further. Maybe times/places/colors ect...that would increase the catch rates of walleyes to bass on the rig. I bet if you found a few you could drop it on their head like a jigging spoon and it would work as well or better.

The redears around me are on the beds right now! My list is pretty short, largemouth, white and black crappie, bluegill, pumkinseed, redear. I did however catch a muskie which was a first for me!! Not worth anything for size (maybe 17inches) but a muskie nonetheless!

Your an idiot and need to find something productive to do. You must be some kind of bored to troll a fishing report website. I would imagine there are way more fun people to piss off than old fisherman.

Ya I wonder if the grub bite has just disappeared cuz you fish it 20 min then pick up the ned? When ya got something that works so well like ned rigs its hard to try other stuff. Do you think the fish arec changing or the fishermen? I love daves jigs but have yet to have luck with ned rigs...dont use it enough. I use different jigs on em and they work great.

I imagine its about time you could start dragging cranks on long flat gravel points and islands/saddles. Pick one up go back over it with a slab jigging spoon or jig n crawler.

The swing impact strikes again! Its my favorite lure hands down!