Hi All,
Been lurking around a little while. I grew up in Joplin, MO and fished Table Rock a dozen or so times. I now live in Omaha, NE but still have family down toward Table Rock. In the last year or so I've really got excited about bass fishing and have been down to Table Rock fishing with my dad a handful of times. We have only fished around the Shell Knob area, spending most of our time in Big Creek and where Mill's Creek meets the main lake. We never seem to catch anything but 1-2 lbers. Looking through this forum its reassuring that there are some nice fish in the lake! I'm hoping I can learn how to catch a 4+ every now and then.
I fish with a club out of Omaha and we had our first tournament of 2018 March 24/25th at Table Rock.
Here's a video of 3 out of the 5 I caught the entire day, we were fishing near Mill's Creek:
Fish #1: Jig; Strike King Andy Montgomery Skipping Jig Blue Craw with Strike King Rage Bug Okeechobee Blu as trailer.
Fish #2 and #3: Alabama Rig; Yum Flashmob Jr. Top two swivels removed and replaced with CPS springs. Z-man MinnowS Pearl as teaser baits. Bottom 3 swivels replaced with split rings and swimbait heads attached with Z-man HeadlockZ 1/8 oz. Two outside Zman MinnowZ Pearl and following bait Strike King 2.75" Rage Swimmer in Sexy Shad.
I fished a Curve 55 as well almost all day and didn't get a bite on it. My total of 5 fish weighed 7 lbs 15 oz.
The boater I was with caught fish on:
(4 spots) Strike King 2.75" Rage Swimmer in smoke (on rock ledge banks)
(2 LMB) Zman TRD PB&J on a ned head (under a dock)
(2 spots) Double Colorado Spinnerbait Chartreuse (on gravel banks with trees)
(1) Spro Rock Crawler Red Craw (on slow sloping a gravel/rock bank) Boater best 6 fish weighed 10 lbs 1 oz.
He repeated the same pattern the following day March 25th and weighed 6 fish (our club weighs 6 fish) at 11 lbs 4 oz. With 10-1 the first day and 11-4 the second day, he got first for our two-day tournament (only 6 anglers).