Chris Tetrick

Thats a big freakin Spoonbill!!!

Them 4lb smallmouth do have sweet cheeks!

Hey Everyone! Let's all start keeping them 5# black fillets. I heard their pretty good! Not as tasty as the smallmouth, but beats the K.Y'.s Nothing like them big trophy fish fillets, where their so thick you can burn them on the outsides and their raw on the inside. UMM!!! Way to go!

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Hey Matt, did you ever get your x-17 fine tuned? Call me if you got any questions about it. Fishing with Babler is fun. I've got to go with him a handfull of times and it's always been a blast!----

That's still the funniest thing I've seen in ever. Thanks S&M-Sens me something else like that to share with some buddies! I think we've all seen a girl or two go by and do that to us-Chris

Hey S&M, that picture is hilarious of the woman running by. Where did you get that from?

There's the Pizza Hut in Shell Knob. I think they sell beer if I remember right. And Flat Creek has a good restaurant if you get up that way you can get to tie up to their dock. I know they have lots of beer.

Eric, remember last year at Emerald Point? You're bad luck on the docks with the lightning!

Didn't anyone hear? It quit raining today so let's all be friends... and less fussing O.K.?

Hey look the suns finally shining this morning!

Thanks for the tips gentlemen! I'll have to try them out. What's a Weggie and why is Bill going to give me one?

type o error. You and Tracy don't have to yell at me!

July 1, 2009 Lake Level: 916.7 Normal Pool:915.0| Water Temp:75-82 degrees Kimberling City-Dam Area- Been a great top water bite going on early, very early. Fish are here and there surfacing on top chasing shad. If you're on the lucky spot in the mornings you get to on them. Seems like I always get to be about a few yards too away. Look for the surfacing fish on bluff ends or the back ends of pockets. The bottom bite has been great though early in the mornings. 3/8 to 1/2 ounce football jigs in P.B.&Jelly tipped with a green pumpkin twin tail. A carolina rigged centepeide, doctor or baby brush hog drug along the main lakes gravel can pick up quit a few K.Y.'s and Smallmouth in the mornings before the sun shines out. Look for fish moving out later in the day out to depths s of 30-40'. Surface Temps has been heating up lately pushing fish deeper later in the day. Try shop-dropping them little 4'' worms in plum, brown/puple, or watermelon/red above them to get a bite. Fish are also suspending the same depths out of deep trees on bluff ends and some deep boat docks. White River- Look for a top water bite going early like on the main lake on the same places of the mid White or James. Deep fish in the day are going strong in the White from Baxter to Eagle Rock in the daylight hours. Fish are 25-40' deep on some of the long gravel points on bottom or suspending out over deeper water on some points and bluff ends with deep trees along channel swings. Use drop shots in worms 4" 5" in plum colors, green pumpkin and watermelon/candy. James River- Fish are still coming up on top water early. Zara spooks, Sammy's and Red-Fins are working well. Deep diving crainkbaits wound down and paused. Later back out and look for fish on some long gravel roll offs and bluff ends where the channel swings to rock to a bit of gravel. Jigs of Brown/puprle, or some darker colors work them over. Also a carolina rig is hard to beat right now. Use a 3/8-1/2 ounce weight above the rig tipped off with a Zoom ringer or french fry. Water Clarity been very clear in the Mid-Upper river in the green tint making the fish bite.

Nice Report. Got a few trips this week like you, give me a holler!