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Bought a drop shot weight mold, next thing you know I have a few hundred of each 1/4, 3/8 and 1/2 oz. Shoot me a message if interested, buy or trade.

I like to utilize the "Rods for Sale" section on bassboatcentral. A lot of these guys replace rods each season and you can get some really nice, lightly used, high end rods for pennies on the dollar. I have purchased 10+ rods, several reels and some extremely discounted tackle from there with 0 issues. I know several other friends who do the same thing. Just my 2 cents and another avenue to look into.

http://www.kistlerrods.com/store/fishing-rods/klx-fishing-rods/klx-fishing-rods/crank-rip-and-twitch-rods/klx-crank-rip-and-twitch-medium-7-0-fishing-rod.html#.WD8YXX33jBw Started fishing Kistler Rods last year, doesnt get much better

Nice fish, boy he has some long arms......

Looks like we have some cooler weather ahead and had planned on coming down the later part of next week. Any suggestions? I'm guessing the top water and jig bit should start heating up?

I'm in the same boat, caught a bunch of real nice ones up until the end of may. They were mixed in with the LM, SM and spots....Haven's caught any or seen any up top all summer around the Shell Knob / Campbell point area

We come down for about a week in February and throw mainly jigs and jerk baits. Just wanted to make sure that was still a viable option

Heading down on Thursday and staying at Newlands for the weekend. Anyone have any reports or sound advice to catch some fish, will be bringing a boat and mostly spin fishing. Is night fishing worth a shot? Thanks for any advice

Hey now nothing better than a pair of crocs! Versatile footwear right there

Attached are a few pictures, there was an older gentleman sitting on his dock watching me all morning. Said i better put a few in the live well for a snap shot as no one would believe the morning I had. Real nice guy, wasn't the best photographer but hey no big deal. Also had this nice channel on a drop shot.

Fished out of shell knob bridge for the weekend. Had 2 exceptional mornings on top Saturday good quality LM's 15 or so keeps several 3-4 lb fish. Sunday was just as good number wise but the quality tailed off. Fish were sparatic chasing shad but if you hit them on the head with a top water hold on. Action was hot and heavy until 9 or so then caught them with a spoon or drop shot with a fluke type plastic. This is going to ruffle some feathers but think it is very important to bring up...on Saturday night there was a smaller tournament out of the shell knob ramp...looked to be 20 or so boats. I showed up to the ramp before dawn Sunday morning with a slight breeze blowing in. I counted 15 keeper sized fish washing up on the ramp itself and throughout the bank, this was in the dark and I'm sure there were more...people talk about keeping a few fish on here like it is a crime, but this is just as bad...I see it all the time at weigh ins, guys just taking their bag and dumping it back in the lake without even checking on the fish. This time of year especially it's hard to keep these fish alive but you should do everything in your power to get them back alive and release each fish with care after the weigh in. If you have a handfull that don't look like they will survive I'm sure someone would be glad to take them home, it's not a crime. Puts a terrible image on us when I came back on sunday afternoon to a rancid smelling ramp and people asking why there are so many dead fish floating around....

Sorry to hear that 96, the brown ooze is never a good sign

Majority of my spoon fish this past week were spitting up craws and shad all over the boat, chasing shad and snacking on craws i suppose

Been having some good mornings the past few days 5am-9 or so, Jet and ploppers. Had 2 doubles this being the best

Grocery store in Shell Knob has a few left

Took a family member out and tied on a 90 for him yesterday morning. He caught about 20 on it. Long gravel points and bluff ends... He had one 4lb LM biggest bass he has even caught so that was fun! Also broke off both hooks on fish, split rings seperated, you would think on a $12 lure they would have some better hardware

Had some good success the past few mornings on a white or silver Dixie jet. Been putting a stinger on them and had some doubles this morning

We got into several "off" species in the high water our boat caugh 2 eyes over 5lb and a half dozen smaller. 3lb LM also!

Looking for few more kistler Helium 3's anyone have any they would like to part with?

Table rock may still be running 1-2 units, but nothing like it was...they got it down to pool and cut generation considerably... Headed down Wednesday night, looks like we will be fishing 30,000 cfs all weekend

We are approaching 7' above top power pool and flood gates are still dumping. Dropping about a foot a day, anyone else foresee the gates closing this week?

Anyone been out?

I'll guess I'll just peel off the 0 then

Crazy what's so crazy about it? Safer than one of those little river boats

Anyone ever run a bass boat down there when the water is this high?