David Goddard

If you fished a different arm of the lake you definitely could've been. We fished the Kimberling city and dam area.

Haha hopefully I'll buy a boat too. The job definitely has it upsides when it comes to fishing!

Yeah you're probably right about that 🤣

New boat is definitely going to have to be worked into my budget!

A gamakatsu football head. They have a small hook that works really well on the 2.8

Its been a minute since I have posted in here and seems like forever since I have been fishing. Corona-Rona took away almost all of my senior season of bass fishing for Mizzou and made it one hell of a time to enter the job market. I was fortunate enough to get an offer to work for Marcus Sykora at State Farm and I have really enjoyed that so if any of you need any insurance give me a call (573)365-5088. Any how I am getting married Aug. 8th so for my bachelor party a group of us went down to my favorite lake in the US that I have ever fished. Justin and I fished Friday the 24th . Caught 20ish fish with only 7 keepers but we lost a bunch of good fish in the morning. Those big KYs and smallmouth would knock the fire out of a 2.8 keitech scrubbing the bottom in like 15-20 foot in the morning. Once you hooked them those fish would shoot straight from the bottom to the surface and sky rocket out of the water. We never saw any schooling fish all week but every morning we would catch them shallower on the secondary points scrubbing a 2.8. We caught some fish later in the day drop shotting a morning dawn worm on rock piles but the morning bite was by far the best. Our best 5 for the day went around 12 pounds with all 3 species but we had the bites for a significantly better bag. Saturday we caught them much better. Actually capitalized on the bites we got in the morning. We probably caught over 30 bass. We fished from sunrise till about 10:30 and then from like 6:30 till dark. Most of out better bites came in the morning. I caught 3 big smallies in the morning scrubbing a 2.8 on a secondary point. All of them 17.5-18.5 inches and at or around 3 pounds. We proceeded to struggle the rest of the morning till we finally fished deep dock cables. The deeper the cables the better they were. We caught a bunch of fish doing that. All spots but there were some nice ones on there. 16+ inch fish. Made it fun to catch numbers though. The deep cable fish bit all day too so it wasn't just a morning thing. Those fish bit that same 2.8 keitech about 30 foot deep. Our 5 fish limit was 14 pounds. We caught 11 keepers and 30ish fish in our 2 sessions; 8 in the morning and 3 in the evening. Sunday we did the exact same thing and had similar results as Friday accept we only fished from sunrise till about noon. Missed some caught some but had a fun time. Caught more shorts and had another 11-12 pound limit. Caught them drop shotting the cables too on Sunday. Caught 25ish fish on Sunday. All in all a good overall bite for the summer. I feel like you can never expect the rock to be that good in July but I was please with being able to catch a limit every day. I am in the process of buying a house in Holts Summit and I am heading to Glacier national park for the honeymoon. Hoping to get on some grayling and big cutthroat on a fly rod out there. I'll be very much out of my element though lol It was a fun trip with good friends I cant wait to do it again. Tight lines everyone.

We got $500 check for 5th place too.

A Little late posting this but my partner and I almost won the FLW College National Qualifier on Table rock last weekend. Mizzou showed out at this event taking 5th, 7th, 16th, and a 50 something. Any how me and Jonny found our pattern tp be much different than I anticipated. my partner Jonny usually struggles on Table Rock so we ran around to areas that I have had success on in the past. We fished the lower end all week. We could catch a few on a jerk bait if there was cloud cover or in the morning, but it seemed once the sun came out the fish went a lot deeper. All we did was fish timber 20-40 foot deep with a 2.8 Keitech. Justin and his little brother did the same thing. We didn't get a ton of bites like this pattern will be soon, or probably is now, but we caught those first big largemouth that were moving up. I lost a giant in practice because it broke me off in a tree but it was very big. New pb for me for sure. Any was Jonny and I got 5th with 15-15, Justin and his little bro got 7th with 15-12. The 4 of us qualified for the FLW National championship and a MLF College Shootout. Not as detailed of a report or as timely of a report as I usually give but I have a very busy week this week. I've made it to the final stage in a competition at Mizzou to try and win 30k in seed money to start a guide service so I'm working on that a lot. I've got 1 out of 8 chance now. Also, I'm trying to come down to table rock again this weekend and just sleep in the car and fish for 3 days lol. Tight lines everyone.

Well after all of this rain that is probably a good decision. That part of the lake will be Missouri River mud by now

I've caught them before PB #1 headed toward swinging bridges

I completely agree. I wish that Table Rock would lower the limit on KYs to 12" and I'm not really sure why they haven't yet.

@Justin92297 and I left Columbia around 3:30 a.m. and got on the water at like 7:30 on Saturday the 25th. I fished a 2.8 keitech on a 1/4th oz head all day through trees. Justin threw the same small swimbait and an a-rig. We caught over 40 keepers and probably 55ish bass and fished all day. Most fish were 20-40 feet deep. The key was to mark bait and then count the swimbait down to that depth and just reel it back in very slow. Creeks without bait didn't have any fish in them that we could catch and most of the bait seemed to be in the middle of the creeks. Had 16.60 lbs for our best 5. Sunday we did the same thing. Drive till you find bait and catch them. It was that simple. Had 31 keepers and probably 45ish fish. Lots of boats out on Sunday. Didn't see too many people catching though. Fish are so fat right now. When you reel them up they are spewing up shad like crazy. Really hoping to be back down soon. Anyone know what those smallmouth are doing? We didn't catch a single one.

I too have caught some real solid brown bass and spotted dawgs off that point, but a 7-12 holy cow!!!!! Do you have a picture? I'd love to see it!

Dang that looks like some awfully fun fishing.

I can attest to this. I caught a 3.78 lb shoalie last summer and it was one of the hardest fighting fish I've ever caught. Stretches of the streams there in Georgia are incredibly remote and the scenery is amazing. 10/10 would recommend doing that. It had been on my bucket list since I was a little kid.

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I have to agree @Dutch

Sunday was an absolutely beautiful day to be fishing with good overcast conditions all day and temps in the 40s. Ran around in my dads jet and found some amazing fishing. Caught 73 smallmouth, 1 meanmouth (spot-smallie hybrid), 4 spots, 3 largemouth, and somewhere around 15 goggle-eye (8 of which got taken home.) Justin threw an a-rig a bunch and it worked very well. I threw a ned rig, single swimbait, jerkbait, and finesse jig. I hate chucking that silver chandelier around, but I can't argue with results. We had 4 fish over 17" and many fish over 16" we are both still hunting that elusive 20". Our best 5 went 12.5 lbs. Fish were in wintering holes, but still pretty aggressive. Just a great day. Nothing more fun than wrecking some smallmouth with one of your best buds. Tight lines everyone.

I will 100% buy some of those and try them if I can though

Those do look really good. No doubt about it!

Mostly the hook but also the skirt and bait keeper. This particular hook I have found works really well.