Glad to hear more about this map, I found one tucked away in our cabin after we purchased it and framed our "section" and the cover page but didn't color it which is great idea. I need to learn how to read it better as merc1997 did. Very cool piece of lake history. It shows a cemetery right at the mouth of our small cove but I've never been able to locate any structure from it.
This worked perfect! I was out Sunday and it was almost like a mid-summer weekend. Another big boat came by so I pulled up the troller and fired up the big motor and drove right into the wake.
That might have been the same one headed back because it was headed up toward pt 12 when it got me. Looked brand new too as I had never seen it on our end before.
Bring on the quiet days of fall! I was able to get out for about an hour this morning from 9-10 (in between tube runs) and thought it wouldn't be too busy which was true except for the 505' cruiser that came by at half speed pushing a 15' wave (it seemed) as i was drop shotting about 50 yards off shore and he was about 75yards further out from me. I turned in to the wake and was able to surf (literally as I didn't have my seat in) out the first breaker but as i hit the second a wave of water came over my bow and knocked me down to the deck, luckily I stayed in the boat! So my question is this - How do you guys handle the big waves that are becoming more common on TRL? Should I have hit the deck before the first one come up? Have been paying more attn and tried to fire up the big motor? Or just not be out on Labor Day 😂 ?!
I did catch one kentucky that measured....14 1/2 but put up a nice fight.
I think I had the same boat come by us Sunday morning in the same area and I too did the hands up "WTH are you doing move". I had never seen this boat on our end before as was the case with 90% of the other boats this past weekend. He was so close that I thought he was going to take my buoy with him. Glad that "summer" is over.
Yep, noticed that yesterday too. Lots of floaters and one wake boat going right through pulling a boarder, crazy The debris ends up like dtrs5kps said and on the bottom from getting water logged. Seems like this is a yearly norm now.
That would not be good. I was down today preparing our dock for the potential flood, sure wish I could have been fishing instead. Thanks for the update and good luck to you and everyone else that have lake assets.
Hey crew, here is a link to the FLW website with on the water reports. Kind of interesting to see what all they are throwing. Scroll down about half way and you will see it under the "On The Water" heading. https://www.flwfishing.com/tournaments/2016-11-03-championship-table-rock-lake
Great post, I'm in the same boat -ha. Leaning toward Helix once the new line comes out in December. Heard they will have networking capability on the 9 or 10, or which ever doesn't have that functionality now. Also heard they might have some bluetooth functions. Good luck.
Clarity of 4ft around Pt 13. Clearest I've seen it since winter of 2015. Good point about mud up in Spfld though. Hopefully it will settle before hits the lake.
We were up there Friday morning and the snaggers were thick from 15 to Bridgeport. Water was muddy most places but found some clearer spots up in Flat Creek. Would think it has cleared since then.
Glad I'm not the only skunk out there. I fished between pts 11-13 for 3hrs and had one bite and lost a Ned and a swimbait. Agree that It was a nice day and just good to be out there. I can't believe all the debris up on the shore from the flood, it's worse than I recall it being in a long time. Good luck tomorrow.