ryan

Thank The Lord a good report!!

Fished yesterday and destroyed them on a blade and a squarebill. Oh how I love fall!!!!! I imagine they would have eaten on top.

I was down at the cabin last weekend and had a blast. Got into whites with jigging spoons in 30-45 ft of water. Look for bait and find the arches underneath them. Bass were biting good on spoons, shaky head, and drop shot. While looking for some whites I graphed a huge school of fish in some flooded timber, thought they were white and dropped the spoon down only to find they were crappie. Caught some really nice ones and worked the school over pretty good. Never got a single eye to the boat! You really need to spend a lot of time looking with your electronics. Schoolers will give away the general position of fish so if you see some action start looking a little deeper with your graph and you will find the mother load! Good luck and god bless.

I have not had a good deep crankbait bite yet this year. I'll catch one here or there but very inconsistent. Usually between Stockton and TR I can find one but not this year. I heard that they are pulling water from TR again so that should help the bite!

The biggest thing I notice about current is how the fish set up. When they are pulling current the fish tend to set up in predictable places. They will usually bunch up and you can really work on them once you get the school fired up. When the water is off the fish get really spread out and I find that I usually just catch one or two per spot. Tablerock can be tricky in the sense that the fish move around so much and a lack of current really makes them roam.. If you would like to tell me where they go or why they suspend out in open water the way that they do I could stop scratching my head. It's weird because you can idle around the middle of the lake in 180 ft of open water see a fish on your graph and put drop shot in front of it and catch a Kentucky suspended 30 ft deep in the middle of no where. Table rock is humbling for me, you can catch a 20lb sack one day and then turn around and blank the next. (trust me I've done it). Bottom line is current really helps the fishing!

Pulling water=biting fish period!

It was a good night :-)!!

If u fish deeper I would use nothing less than 7ft of rod. When you are setting the hook on a fish in 30 ft of water using a 3/4oz FB jig you need to be able to drive that hook home. I use a 7'6 rod and 15-17 lb 100% fluoro. for all my deep water football jigs.

Saw the pic on Facebook! Looks like you will have a fishing/hunting buddy for life! Glad u guys caught em. We need to get out and fish soon! Ryan.

Fishing has been hot right now! All species are on the feed! Walleye on the points and flats in 15-30ft of water depending on the weather. Whites and hybrids are surfacing throughout the day. Bass are being caught on flukes, and A-rigs. As for what is typical of this time of year, find the shad and you find the fish. Night fishing for all species is the ticket if you want large numbers of fish. Crappie lights with minnows and spoons will produce. Good luck!

Hey guys just wanted to remind everyone to be as careful as possible with your fish this time of year. Fish care is very important so if you want some pics take your camera with you and as soon as you catch a nice one snap your photo and throw her back. Even a short ride around in the live well can kill some of these fish! If you must throw one in the box for a while make sure you fizz it before letting it go because 95% of the bass you catch this time of year have to be fizzed! Even if you catch the fish in 10 foot of water chances are it just came out of 30 foot of water and they stay up for a short time before heading back down to the thermocline so they still need to be fizzed. Just have heard of and seen some floaters that were still alive on top that people hadn't fizzed properly. Point is they need a little extra attention this time of year! Youtube as some good videos of how to properly fizz a bass! Good luck and tight lines.

Don't know what the middle pic is but the last two images look like a creek channel with rock piles in the middle, there also look to be fish on those rock piles. Drag a football jig over em and I bet you find some bass!! Good images those graphs are so amazing!

My father in law and I fished yesterday and had probably a dozen but our five best would have been around 16lbs. We had two nice ones, all our fish came off points and docks in 15-25ft of water on jigs and worms. Im not that familiar with LOZ ive only been up there a couple of times in the spring to fish the OMTT tournaments so I didn't really know where any good brushpiles ect in that water range were. I just looked at the map and tried to figure out where the channel swung in close to the bank, if you find brush or docks in those areas there are probably bass there. As a side note everyone make sure you are releasing your fish immediately after you catch them take your camera with you on the boat and snap your photo immediately! If they ride around in your live well even when you let em go a good majority of them die afterwards!! Good Luck!

Mopanfisher thanks for doing that! I should have done that myself but just was unsure as to what the cause was. I know the fish get stressed this time of year but I have never seen as many as I did floating on top. I appreciate you taking action!

Saw a lot of dead fish foating around on the surface yesterday. My wife and I went to Pomme de Terre for the first time and really liked the lake just wondering what the deal with all the fish floating around were. Put in at bolivar landing and while fishing started noticing a few shad floating, no big deal but then saw bass, crappie and bluegill. Not a ton but a few of each species didn't look like they had been dead for very long just wondering if anyone else has seen this. Caught several bass on football jigs and crainkbaits in 8-15 foot of water.

If it wasnt for fishing tournaments and the over all popularity they have brought to the sport of bass fishing do you think that anglers would be as conscious about managment. Not only have tournaments enticed people to take up the sport of bass fishing but they have also educated those people about fish managment and conservation. I fish tournament and am an avid angler for all species. Nothing tastes better to me than some fried walleye/crappie, but I just couldn't bring myself to kill big bass. If thats what your in to than thats fine, it is your legal right. With that being said just remember that for each bass you kill you are actually killing thousands that it may produce. Im not saying that fish have never died after I weighed them in a tourney, but I take every precaution in keeping those fish alive. I caught a largemouth this spring at TR that weighed 8.8lbs, my biggest ever, I am thankful to all those that may have released her during her long life. She went striaght back in the water and I hope someone thanks me someday when they catch her again.

I tried some triple fish flurocarbon line and it was worthless, I had a spool of 8 and 10lb line and they were both very brittle and broke way to easy. I do like the yozuri hybrid line that stuff is amazingly strong and soft. I only throw fluro on my baitcasters I think it has too much memory to throw on a spinning reel, for my spinning reels I use suffix mono.

Guys large predatory game fish love baby snakes (hope you have seen the TV adds) just kidding. Caught her swimming a grub over some cedars.

We estimated her at about eight and a half give or take. My buddy had caught an 8.5 at guntersville and he thought she was every bit as big. I didn't want to stress her out she was so full of eggs that I just let her go as soon as we snapped a couple of photos. My girlfriend netted her for me and she said she had never seen her 25 year old boyfriend get so excited. I may or may not have jumped up and down on the back of the boat.

Caught a good one last saturday, hope everyone else is knocking em dead. Wish I could have saved her for the OMTT tournament. God Bless.

I was up at bullshoals last weekend and fished in the dam area withing 5 miles of the boat dock, we struggled to put two keepers in the boat. We caught our fish on gitzets but they were few and far between. Threw jerkbaits till I was blue in the face on bluff end points and couldn't get bit, I never really saw any good schools of fish or shad on the graph all day and I was looking pretty hard. When you say they were catching them on crankbaits are you talking about wiggle warts? I have a tournament coming up on the 20th and am curious to figure out this lake. Havent fished bullshoal much and am gonna go back up and try it saturday. My question is would you stay around the lower lake or make a run? Also if you have any advice/tips let me know I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks so much and have a great day.

hey I am fishing a tourney of feb the 20th out of the bull shoals boat dock anyone have any tips for that time of year. I havent fished bull shoals much this early but the few times I have I caught them pretty good on a jerk bait and grub. Any advice on where to start and what you have had success on would be a great help. Thanks so much, shoot me a PM if you don't mind.

Hey Cody gonna be on the lake from wed through Sunday, my dad will be there all of next week hope we whack em this time of year is usually on fire and it sounds like you have been doing great. Hope to get a couple buddies into the hybrids as they have never caught any. Well maybe I'll see you on the water I will probably spend most of my time around the sugarloaf area. Have a good one

Great swim baits I used them today and really liked em, great action and they are really tough.

Im sure everyone knows this but you have to cut the red meat out of the whites and hybrids, that is where the oil glands are located and what makes the fish taste strong. Also try soaking the fish in sprite or mountain dew it takes all the fishy taste out.