Forsythian

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I think you'd have to put in at Beaver Creek park and boat up from there... I've been out of town for the better part of the week, but I understand both parks in Forsyth are under water.

Sam, I like your fishing style. Alot. Throw in a little nap time, and you've described my ideal trip. But the key question I have is: did you drink buttermilk whilst in the Buttermilk area? sorry

I fished out of State Park Sunday morning from sunrise to about 11. There was a decent spook bite for the first hour or two, mostly dinks tho. One nice smallie that took 2 casts and about 5 blowups to finally connect! Could not get bit on a wart, did manage a couple more dinks on a citrus shad crank. Spent an hour or so flippin a jig with no luv. Tied up to a stob in the back of Beardsley and took about an hour nap... that mighta been the highlight of my morning I'd try to learn that deepwater bite one of these days, but first I'm gonna have to learn how to care more about catchin' than I do about fishin'! (or napping)

Hey Lonnie, I was going to look around the Kirbyville/ Mildred area (K and MM), probably won't get down to Cedar Creek this week (M and KK). Weird coincidence, I never made the connection 'till just now! Ken On a serious note, I'm going to guess Elbow is out on the Cedar Creek side... water's probably too high. Elbow on the Protem side ought to be okay though.

oooooooooh my tummy hurts :bummer:

Put in at Empire today and messed around for a while on lower Taneycomo... I'm not a big fan of that water, but I needed a quick boating fix. I'll probably take a drive this week and check out K and MM. Another foot or two and the Shadowrock ramp will be gone. What a mess.

naru, were you on Yocum Creek road off of M, or were you down Brass Lantern road off of KK? Sam, the lake shot up 4 feet to 674 in the last day or so... I'm thinking K is viable (?) If not I'm gonna head over to State Park tomorrow I reckon.

I've been to Empire on two separate occasions during the last week, and I've never seen it so slow. Not sure what's going on, I hadn't been in a while, so I couldn't tell you if it's been that way for a while, or if it's just my timing.

I've never taken my fiberglass boat above Fall Creek... just not worth the risk IMO.

Great post Mr. Mooney... thanks for taking the time to post, I enjoyed the read!

Late report from last weekend: it was very tough for us. We fished the Music Creek area. We found sublegal smallmouth suspended well off the bank, and sublegal walleye on main and secondary points. We did not catch a kentucky or a largemouth one. Probably stuck with the crankbaits too long, but it seemed the bite was definitely off. Lots of rigs at Buck Creek on Saturday, I'm guessing a club tourney... anybody here fish it?

Paul, I wonder if he's the young fellow what cleared our table the last time me & the Mrs. ate at Montana Mike's? I took him for a fly fisherman right away because of the anguish in his eyes... the Corps had been running water non-stop for weeks. He looked like he wanted to be somewhere else, but had nowhere else to go. That, and he was wearing wading sandles over lycra socks. Could've been anyone right? Even the humorless rubicon. But no, there was an odd dichotimy about him. It's what made him memorable, and I'm thinking now it might have been your Claude. Here was a fellow who clearly has been in the restaurant business all of his working life. His bussing skills were incredible. He was stacking and sorting as easy as you and I breathe. It was poetry in motion. But, when it came to setting a table, he was completely lost. Condiments were dropped, shakers fumbled, and daily-special teepees flattened. The ability to encoss utensils in a napkin was beyond his skill-set. He tried harder and harder, with a grim and hopeless persistence, until it seemed the table itself might come apart from the thrashing. His co-wokers, apparently accustomed to the routine, were able to break his trance with the clicking sounds of a Martin model 67. Paul, I'd go back and check for ya, but me & the Mrs' next anniversary isn't until March, sorry.

Spoke with a local yesterday who swore it was his best year ever for bankfishing... the few times I've been out on foot I haven't done so well.

Thanks Ham... did you find the fish were still relating to last week's locations, or had they moved up? Planning to take the boy out of Elbow/ Buck Creek this weekend. 2 weeks ago I was fishing a jig in the 15 - 25 foot range, was wondering if I need to add 8 feet to that. Thanks again

I'll agree it's kind of tough to get bit right now, but I think the fishery itself is in great condition! Used to be fishing was slow 'cause there were too few fish... that's not the case nowadays. Anyway, that's what I like to tell myself after a day of hauling water ;-)

Thanks guys... man, new props are higher than I thought they'd be. Hopefully I can stumble across a used/ reconditioned one. The way we treat 'em, it won't look new for long!

A buddy's gigging boat could use a new prop... he's got a 6hp Evinrude I believe a 1972 (SN starts with 6202DJ), I'd like to pick up a replacement for him either online or in the SWMO area... any idears? thanks

I launched out of Kdock on Saturday afternoon for a quick trip... there was only 1 other rig in the lot and there was nobody on the water. I mean NOBODY... it was a little bit erie, but I soon found out why- I couldn't even get a sniff, much less a bite. Did a little better on Sunday, fished around Bee Creek and found a slow-but-quality bite on a football jig, and even picked up a flathead on a jugline. Saw where the Corps improved MM all the way to the water, looks like a decent launch (albeit limited parking).

Lonkm, you didn't miss anything out of Beaver Creek on Sunday... tons of shad, but nothing was bothering them (except for gar, ofcourse). Last weekend near Elbow, the only whites I saw all day came up over 120 ft of water along that bluff on your way to Lead Hill... go figure! I've been reading Babler's posts about the features of smallmouth banks he prefers on Table Rock, and I bet a guy could do well on Bull Shoals mid-lake if he took the time... the problem I have is attention-deficit disorder when I drag a football jig or tube around. I always go back to a "chuck and wind" bait of some sort!

Sounds like my trip yesterday. Put in at Kdock at sunrise, hoping the rain would taper off and the fish would bite... neither happened. My frog togs threw in the towel about noon, and I was done... I was soaked! In the periods where the rain slowed, there was a decent spook bite for sublegals. Never saw any whites surfacing, from K dock to Yocum. There were acres of gar surfacing around barn cove. Sounds like from another thread I shoulda boated towards Beaver instead.

Wasn't me either! Rigs pulled off immediately to the left of the ramp don't bother me a bit... why would it? My guess would be the note writer is a first timer or a very occasional visitor, which probably makes it even more irritating! Kdock is an interesting lot when it gets busy... everyone seems to be in tune with the idea of parking nose-in to the bluff, but when that side is full, you never know. I've been the first to angle in on the left, even before the right side is full, just to make a "template"... surprised I haven't got "the note" at some point.

Ahh, they've got the glue and everything... thanks!

Thanks a bunch for the tip... I'm guessing that's the "yella wood" you're talking about? What I might do is buy some small amount of the materials and try my hand at the carpet tacking portion of it. Where does a feller buy this type of carpet anyways?

Thanks Dutch... I'm not too worried about the lumber work & etc., just the carpet stretching & tacking (& gluing?).