KCFinesse

It was slow for us as well. We launched out of CC Saturday morning and found a few shorts on main lake points but really struggled to catch anything off of brush piles. The fish we did catch were on neds and shakeyheads. Saturday evening we went south from mutton- caught a few shorts just inside Son's creek, and ended up chasing schooling bass and white bass around Birch branch. The biggest bass of Saturday evening was around 17". Sunday morning we went north from mutton and really struggled. We ended up with a few short fish between Googer and Hawker on ned rigs, but nothing large and nothing consistent. All in all, we threw the kitchen sink at them, and shuffled mostly between rocks, bluffs, and brush. Hopefully someone figured them out. -Jared

I'll be out in a blue Lowe deep V Saturday and Sunday fishing bass between CC and mutton. Good luck out there. -Jared

My problem is that suspending stick seems like such a good option if the water's clear and under 60F... And if I'm not getting hits my reaction is always that I'm clearly not fishing it slow enough.... (queue infinite loop...)

Saturday: Found fish both deep and related to chunk rock banks. I spent most of the day rotating between the chunk rock transition areas between docks and the cove guts where fish were suspended deep around baits in front of docks. I also found a few on runout points. In the evening, I fished a wind blown steep-bank cove spur pretty close to the main lake and found fish stacked in/adjacent to cedars in about 15-20fow. Hot baits for the day: a little bit of everything, a couple rk crawler fish, a couple mcstick fish, some spoon fish and a pretty good amount of ned and shakeyhead fish. In total around 25 with four being in the 15-16" range. I did get my first TR grand slam courtesy of a 10" meanmouth. Sunday: It was a pleasure meeting 96 Champ Sunday morning. It sure seemed like it was going to be a good morning on the water. I picked up in the same area I found fish Saturday evening, but without the wind the fish had scattered. I marked a few fish suspended in the 12fow range and swapped out the RC STX I was throwing for a deep diving KVD jerkbait and picked up a couple fish between cedars that were 16-17". I spent too much time doing this for how spread out these fish were and late morning switched back to the transition rock bite, consistently finding groups of 2-4 fish. By early afternoon I had stopped at a few bluff points between searching for transition areas and found a pretty good ned ledge bite that I ran until calling it a day a little before 4. The Sunday total was closer to 30 fish with 6 being over 15" hot baits were neds/shakeyheads with a few jerkbait fish and one healthy smallmouth on a rk crawler. The main things I noticed: I couldn't get a consistent crawler/wart bite going- I ran 10lb fluorocarbon and mono and was suspend dotting but only caught a handful. I fished a lot of phantom green but switched to mudbug after a spot spit up something close to that boatside. I did catch a lot of fish dragging bottom in the 15-20fow range. Maybe these were wart fish a bit deeper... I was very surprised at how close some of the deeper suspended fish were to the bottom oriented "wart" fish. I found a lot of transition bank directly adjacent to channel swings and fish were on both... Perhaps these fish think a lot like I do, and are looking forward to dinner prior to eating lunch... I wasted waaay too much time on dead water. Fish were concentrated in target areas and spread out over a lot of other good looking water.I think if someone were strictly fishing transitions and points without running up every adjacent chunk rock bank this weekend they could've made hay. It's hard to put down a ned when it catches so many fish; it's hard to put down a jerkbait when its catching better fish.... I didn't get my 17" spot... My biggest of the trip was maybe an 1/8th inch short, and I guess I'll just have to keep trying. Table Rock was great to me this weekend and its pretty cool to see such diversity in effective patterns. -Jared

I've been watching the weather all week and will be pulling the trigger on heading down this weekend from Kansas City. I was looking to start out around SK and do some exploring anywhere from Baxter to Viney. My initial thought is that with the water cooling so quickly, the jerkbait bite might pick up. If you see a blue Lowe deep v tooling around the White with Neds and mcsticks stop by and say hello. My new year's resolution from '16 was to catch a 17" spot (I'm feeling optimistic). -Jared

I did order a few packs of the TRD tubez. I'm interested to see how well they sit on bottom compared to the zinkerz, but I am a little skeptical of the limited color selection at this point.

Removed double post...

My dad had a very similar reaction to fishing the Ned for the first time. Your kit puts the emergency pb&j care package I sent him home with to shame. I've always been a little scared off by the combination of Plano boxes and Ned rigs. I've gooped a lot of neds on my boat whether letting them get too hot or accidently mixing with regular plastics. This has got me thinking though. -Jared

Kansas City- but after fishing Table Rock for the first time this spring, I think I might end up down there quite a bit...

Joined about a week ago after being a long time lurker and was looking for an excuse to post. This forum is great and I'm looking forward to hopefully contributing something!