Jackie D

got out yesterday for the first time in like 4 or 5 weeks. Fished the big end and had a real nice trip for this time of year. 44 degree water,I had ten bites with 3 keeper blacks and two kentucky keepers. Had two more on that were pulling hard but they escaped before they made it to the boat, and my Dad had 3 bites with one short fish and missed two. Didn't seem to matter if the wind was blowing or not but we did catch the biggest fish after the wind picked up. I attached pictures of the best three blacks.

I would have to agree yesterday and today was two of the best days of topwater fishing I have had on Table rock. The big smallmouth fell victim to topwater today. The youngster caught this nice spot on drop shot and it nearly pulled the rod out of his hand. He will be hooked for life after the fight this fish gave him. He caught so many he went and set down in the seat and his mom ask him what was wrong and he said he had to let his hand rest, it was hurting from fighting so many fish....now that is a good thing to hear on a guide trip.

I'm with ya. See ya on the water.

Ok, You say you have been catching them good on the fluke around docks. Are you doing this on guide trips? I don't know if I have ever had anybody that could skip a fluke under a dock cable or in a stall under a lift...they might throw it on top of the roof. Oh I have had a few that could. I mean no disrespect to them because that is why they hired me and it is appreciated but that technique is one that would not work in my boat 99 percent of the time. Great people but their casting accurancy isn't what it needs to be in order to fish this way. Where are you finding people that can cast like that? Send some my way because that is a fun way to fish.

Put in at Aunts Creek this morning. Water was clear with lots of pollen on the water. I didn't go into every pocket but the ones I did go into had two or three beds with keeper fish locked on with a couple beds having two fish on them. Didn't really see many cruisers but where you thought there would be a bed there was. Ran out of Aunts and went up the James and ran into the rust colored turnover water. Couldn't catch anything in that water but we kept going and found better clarity toward Piney and the bite picked up again. Only had four keepers but lots of shorts. Wasted way to much time in bad water.

Don't know of any dealers but I have 4-6 gallons still in their original containers never opened I would sell for $20.00 a gallon...I used to run an E-Tec but run a yamaha now and don't need it. Let me know if interested..Thanks

The tires everyone refers to is the ones they used at the mouth of state park cove for years as a wind break. When they put in the new wind break a few years ago they sunk the old tires. They are located as you idle out of state park past the last covered dock on the right. There will be three or four big buoys on your right like they tie sailboats up to. When you find those buoys the tires will be under you.

Water Temp was 43-44 yesterday in the rain at Cape Fair.

Was on it today. Put in at PB2 and broke ice for 1/2 mile and it was frozen as far as we could see toward the main lake, some of it is 1/2 inch thick. We finally turned around and loaded up. . Decided to try Shawee Bend and as we drove around toward toll bridge and passed over the 54 bridge it was froze as far as you could see both ways. As we got closer to toll bridge we could see the lake from atop the hill going toward the bridge and it was froze as far as we could see both ways by the toll bridge. Turned around and decided to go to Stockton but on the way we went back over the niagua and it was open so we tried the Larry Gale access and it was open. We went toward the little Niagua and it was frozen over completely at the mouth as far as you could see going into the little Niagua. Several big patches of ice at the mouth of little biagua so I'm not sure if you could go further toward main lake or not. Water temp was 36 in the morning to 38 in the afternoon. One bite, a drum. Should have went to Table Rock.

I second that Bill. My brother and I have been using Pro-Guides since 1992 and they are as good as they get. I use a charger that puts 20 amps per battery in them that I bought from Lane at Shumaker battery called Deltran.

Ok, You got my attention....Why are they not drawing more boats?

We did have a great day of fishing. Until the motor went down at 11:00am and all we could do was idle. We never put another fish in the boat after that. I have never had a more frustrating day on the water dealing with mechanical failures. We had 4 blacks between 4.0 and 4.75 pounds a piece and one that weighed somewhere around 3.75 and we knew we had to cull that one fish to win and I had her on twice and they both escaped capture. Maybe next time

Lake Ozarks Skeeter Tour Results-3/29/09 March 30, 2009 Central Pro-Am’s first Skeeter Tour Tournament goes on despite the forecast. Anglers Jimmy Davis Jr. and Jackie Davis of Willard, Missouri took first place in this weekends Missouri Skeeter Tour Tournament at Lake of the Ozarks. The brothers once again proved that whenever present they should be considered a threat to win. Their incredible five fish limit weighed a whopping 24.44 pounds. Great job guys!!! BOATER NON BOATER # FISH WEIGHT $ AMOUNT 1 JIMMY DAVIS, JR JACKIE DAVIS 5 24.44 $10,000.00 2 JAMES EDGE JERRY ROARK 5 23.05 $1,760.00 3 JAMES WATSON ROBBIE DODSON 5 20.52 $1,050.00 4 STAN SNELSON BUTCH BELT 5 19.48 $950.00 5 BOBBY SULLIVAN JIM BIBLE 5 19.28 $780.00 6 MARK WIESE, JR KELLY POWER 5 18.59 $630.00 7 LUPE GARCIA JOEY PENZO 5 18.30 $530.00 8 DAVE THOMASON TODD EDDINGTON 5 18.04 $430.00 9 ANDRE DICKNEITE JOE WIEBERG 5 17.52 $330.00 10 BOB RICHARDSON LYNN LUTHER 5 17.44 $285.00 11 HORACE HAYNES STEVE BOILLOT 5 17.26 $255.00 12 BRETT GOUREAU BEAU GOUREAU 5 17.06 $200.00 13 DAVID MCCORMICK STEVE VANZANT 5 16.99 $200.00 14 EARL GARRISON PAUL GARRETT 5 16.95 $200.00 15 MIKE EUTSLER COREY EUTSLER 5 16.52 $200.00 16 WAYNE FOWLER JOHN SHUMWAY 5 16.47 $200.00 17 JAY HULSEY KYLE HULSEY 5 16.37 $200.00 18 TIM TAYLOR J.R. JENKINS 5 16.35 $200.00

Hey guys, I had a trip today with two guys that were good casters and we caught 50+ up the James. Without a counter it is hard to judge just how many we did catch because sometimes I caught fish on back to back to back cast and I would hand my rod to client and then the bite would seem to end, but in reality they were having a hard time feeling some of the light bites. When you don't fish for those bottom fish alot, sometimes it is hard to tell the difference from a rock and a bite until it is to late. I know because I fish for them all the time and I jerked air probably 12-15 times today on bites....I'm sure they were small spots at least that is what I told myself. Water was flat and bad foggy in the morning. There was lots of boat traffic but they were biting all day. We quit with them biting and we had several doubles. One spot had several fish surfacing which I figured was whites and it was after we caught about 6 or 8 of them, they were all small. Only caught one good white but didn't fish for them anymore the rest of the day. Clients had lots of fun and so did I. Saturday in the Heartland Buddy we only had 8 bites all day long. Today we only had two keepers with many many 12" spots and the blacks were mostly 12" to 13 inchers except for the keepers. Water had some nasty scum on surface when it was slick calm. The fish seemed to like the windy areas when it started blowing around noon. We were supposed to stop at 3:00 PM but we stayed till 4:30 because it was so nice and they were biting. I certainly couldn't win any tourneys up there but the catching is fun right now. See ya on the water

I have been throwing shad colors