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well done!

The deep pool just down from the bridge on the side opposite Houseman put in has timber laydowns. Two browns over 5 from there on countdown Rapalas. The deep hole just above the bridge has some refrigerator size rocks in it that hold fish in the shade and eddies.

I have not been on Beaver. On Table Rock the thermocline has begun to firm up. We are finding our walleye on point edges and channel edges of inside bend flats suspended between 30 and 36 feet deep over water that is deeper. Flicker shads and stick baits trolled behind lead core to reach that depth.Good luck.

Thank you sir! Semi confirms some thoughts I posted earlier this week. From me it is a hunch. From you it is more a fact.

That's some flow there, Ollie.

Since Saturday the fish have begun to stack up and suspend between 30 and 36 feet down. I need to buy a temperature probe so I can test, but it looks like a hard thermocline to me. Saturday morning I caught fish at 29 to 30 feet near bottom bumps. They were not there this morning. I hunted around and found fish suspended over 45 to 50 feet of water. Picked up a large crappie, a 27 inch walleye a little over 7 pounds, and a 23 inch rainbow. All the ingredients you need for fishburger in one trip.

Good on you. You are making memories and a man.

I have been reading the reports and did not even bother to take my top water rod from the box. In fact I only took out my walleye rods this morning. I fished slow death crawlers for about 2 hours in 28 to 34 feet of water. I caught spotted bass but no walleye. I switched to trolling a crankbait. I wound up with two, a skinny 19 and a normal 23. Both hit a Firetiger Magnum Wigglewart with 225 feet of 10/2 line out from the rod tip. In both cases the bait had just bounced off a 29-30 foot hump into a slightly deeper dish in the flat. I was running the bait between 2 and 2.5 mph. Water surface temp 86.

Bassman: Champ knows. Listen well.

Two would have measured and a third, a smallmouth, nearly so.

I bought a Falcon at the Tulsa Boat show the year they first went on the market. Since then I have owned 8 or 10. Their value for money ratio is very high. Good customer service is just icing for the cake.

Well done Junkman!

Excellent information and thank you.

Oh, I can get baits that deep. RR 800's, Norman Deep Little N, Magnum Warts all reach 35. 2 ounces bottom bouncers pulling a slow death crawler at .9 mph does the trick too. No the problem is that with the lake at 911 and falling, the only thing left at this end with that much water is the middle of the channel. The flats at Eagle Rock, Roaring River, both fall from 26 - 27 foot tops directly into the channel. Rock Creek is nearly that bad. Fishing those edges is dicey and tedious. I may have to ask Bill for permission to fish farther down the lake.

http://www.tackletour.com/ This site tests rods, reels, and lines. Read away and learn more than the "popular" knowledge. Based on what I learned, I switched to YoZuri H2O. The line is an inexpensive FC and nylon co-polymer that performs as well or better than the pure FC and ties a much stronger knot. Just my $.02

Posted - but I have stickers displayed on the boat and truck already. Wish more people did.

Rim Shoals Resort is ideally located for bank/wade fishing. 25+ years ago a group of us stayed there because we wanted to fish that area. The place was a dump, but the fishing was fantastic. Since then, the place has changed dramatically and I have heard only good things about it. About the guide - when you call to book your stay, ask Gary Flippin. Explain that you have a limited budget and can't afford that much but ask him for a reccomendation for an up and comer that does not charge as much.

All of us are glad you are back on the fish. We want your clients happy so you can stay busy scouting for us. 36 feet, huh? Man, that will mean some creative walleye fishing.

I went out this morning and decided I didn't want to fish deep water. I went where there isn't any. I started about a mile below Houseman and fished down maybe two miles. Surface temp was 82. I tried the Matzuo Death Roll hooks behind a smile blade with a whole nightcrawler. The Matzuo hooks are superior to the Mustad Slow Death hooks. I caught 10 or 12 bass that went back in the river and 4 walleye. One of the walleye was 20 inches. Another almost measured. I was back at the dock by 11.

We all feel your pain. I spent three half days early this week trying to put long time friends on walleye. We caught five legal fish in three days.

Sorry. I didn'y really answer your question, did I. Bring worm harness gear and crank trolling gear. Figure on breakline changes on points and island ends and flats.

Matt: I speak for all the walleye guys on this forum. This year has been different and difficult. Here and on other forums, guys who fish TR and BS are bragging if they have a two fish day. Beaver has been slightly better, but not by much. The one hope is that in the next week we finally see a hard thermocline set in. That will concentrate the fish. Keep monitering this forum. We have a TR get together set for the 28th. Maybe 4 or 6 boats of hardcore types will fish. The best information will be posted. I hope your trip turns out great.

Daryk - welcome to reel fishing. :-D The knob on the right is the reel tension knob. You use it to make minor adjustments on how freely the spool spins when the anti-reverse is disengaged by pushing the button. The knob on the left side is the brake system for controlling the free spin during the cast. The right one you set as described above by Jerry. The left one allows you to adjust for wind in your face or behind you, for baits that fly poorly like buzz baits, or baits that fly well like grubs on jig heads. In addition, your setting will depend on how much you feather the spinning spool with your thumb. In the old days no brake existed and you had to learn to feather with your thumb. For accuracy and consistency, teach yourself to throw with your elbow by your side and the reel handles pointing at the sky. After you master that you will know enough and be good enough to try other ways. My favorite cast when running the bank and fishing cover is a underhand roll cast in which the rod tip never goes higher than my shoulder and the handle stays below my belt. Have fun. Once addicted, you will be like me: not a spinning rod in the boat unless it's for company.

Sounds as if you maximized what the lake has been giving lately.

Upstream from Holiday Island, stay in the channel if you are on plane. X2 on the mouth of Rock Creek. There is a 12 inch diameter tree less than a foot under water nearly 100 yards farther out on the reef than the danger buoy. Just downstream from Holiday Island very near Red Raider's Dock (first dock on the right headed downstream from the mouth of the HI cove) there is a hump barely 6 feet under and getting more shallow daily. The danger is that it abuts the channel edge.