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!

Holding a guys head under water for 3 minutes kinda harsh isn't it?

Hey Prey, watcha been doing? I hate the shot drop too. Lots more fun to catch them shallow. But at least it's easier for the people to drop down, sometimes.I'm like you wish they'd wait a while longer to run out deep. I brought out the crawlers Thu. afternoon and yesterday, seems like they bite the purple monster better or the W.M.C. zoom finesse just as good or better. Caught a 4lb brown one in 45' of water sunday. I told him to go back shallow.

Maybe we could hire some pirates from Somalia to come hijack a few. --- I like that idea. You know of any?

I bet your right flipper, their drunks. Or at least act like their drunks. But at least it's not like Lake of the O. where ther's hundreds of them.

Them big boats are starting to get rumbling aren't they?

Hey Phil, haven't seen you in a couple weeks. Are you on the left or right?

June 7, 2009 Lake Level:916.0 Normal Pool:915.0 Water Temp:72-75 degrees Main Lake areas the Dam, Kimberling City to Campbell Point fish are moving steady out to deep water structure. Top water's are still working well but has been tailing off slower than the bite has been in the past few weeks. The bites been early, early in the mornings and lasting longer on a cloudy day. Brown bass are coming off gravel points shallow. A mix of Largemouths and K.Y.'s are on the rockier banks and bluff ends. Feeding surfacing fish are abundant, but scattered all over and roaming making them difficult to predict where the blow-ups will be day to day. Lots of white bass are among the surfacers in large schools. The bottom bite has been working the best. Dragging carolina rigs or split shots centipede and fish doctors out on the main lake gravel points 10'-15' earlier in the day light, then backing out to 20'-30' when the sunlight shines on the water. Try Watermelon/candy watermelon/red centipede on the rigs, also fish are starting to get on a 1/2 to 5/8 ounce football jig as well. Peanut butter/jelly or brown/purple with a twin tailed grub as the trailer. Drop shot fish have been getting out there on these points and some of the humps. On some of the hotter sunny days we've had last week look for fish on the bottom 30'-35' on bottom or suspended over 40'-50 of water in the same depth. The deeper fish have been scattered and not totally schooled up yet. This bite will get better as water heats up and the Dam's continue to slow the water flow creating a thermocline. The James River has started heating up. Lots of schooling bass, with the whites are coming up from Aunts Creek to Cape. Early morning is always the best but there's been feeders coming up later in the day and evenings. The top water bite has been great too without seeing surfacing fish. Spooks, red-fins-sammy's and flukes are catching fish on the gravel pockets and mouths of a creek or cove. A lot of these are smaller fish but bigger fish are moving up quickly then moving back out. If the top water's not working drag carlolina rigged centipede, double ringers or baby brush hogs. The water clarity is almost a normal green tint in most of the James making a good dragging bite during the daytime fishing 10'-18' deep.

Good report Mr. Prey!

I'm no expert on the subject of trot linning, but I'd use live bait. Such as blue-gillls or sun-fish. That way you have a shot at flatheads who like lively prey, or channels, which I think might bite on either alive or dead. Some local bait shops in Kimberling sell gold fish that seem to work well on the lines according to some guys---

Martin- hey thanks for the report . I set out 3 short lines yeasteday evening and ran them this afternoon after my guide trip. Had these guys attached on the lines. Set them from Point 5 to Panorama Point on the steeper banks. Little sunfish as bait. Lots of fun-Thanks for the advise!