troutgnat

Gentlemem, I had heard thru the grapevine, last week shunned up a great crankn bite on DD22's and Fat Free's. I just heard of one incident but it was enough to spark my interest. I am in Tulsa right now training on a new job but will be in for the weekend and I have a deep crankn box ready for a workout. Can anyone provide some more truth to this rumor. I would like to know if anyone is on this bite, please inform best that you can. Any advice is appreciative. I have'nt been on the H2O in 2 weeks and I am all about a crankn bite on the Rock and would like to devote Sat. to it!

Guys, Well here I go but please don't catch all my fish......LOL! Without giving up my exact location I will give you all the details and I am sure you will find them. I have been on "good" gills 8"+ big ole' bulls for two weeks now and have loaded the freezer so I will share. I have been putting in at Gages Marina and you don't have to go far. Here is what I have been looking for and where I find my fish: First thing I look for is major main lake structural change, i.e. meaning a main lake point or major channel bends, bluff, etc. The second thing I look for, and in my mind the most important, is a major piece of structure next to the forementioned. This would be, and in order of my favorite, a dock(s), bridge pilings, island, bluff end, etc. Third, I look to see if the above findings have a cut near them that holds shallow water 2' to 10' with deep water near by. If there's pea gravel on your shallow finding you got money! Well there you have it, that is my system on where I go to find the gills. Put in at Gages and use the above formula and you'll catch gills. Let me know how you do.

Fished this eve. from 3pm to dusk. Had 5 keeper smallies which would have gone between 14 and 15lbs......Best bite was carolina rigging a lizard off secondary points, mainly by my parnter......i tried dragging a fish doctor but they clearly wanted his 5" lizard.......they weren't slaying it by any means but when you got bit it was usually a good one.........boat was usually in about 30+ foot and most fish came a good ways out.....20' or better. We had two short walleye, one on a spinnerbait and one on a lizard. I threw mainly topwater, a sammy most of the evening and had a number of blow-ups but alot of misses by the fish though managed to land several........tried running spinnerbaits and cranks over the sumberged brush with not much luck though saw a number of keepers swim out of brush in water 10' or less.

Hunter, you don't have to go far. I would start checking out the deeper docks just up the creek arm from Indian Point Marina!

Cricket Creek Marina has crickets but twice now I have bought them there and they have died very rapidly and I do not know why. I just put them in a open pail type cricket cage and it hasn't been to hot so I have no explanation as to why.

big plump juicy cricket!

Fellas, Sorry I was a little greedy there. I just finished cleaning them and actually measured them, well 10" was a bit of an overstatement but most were 9 inchers. If they weren't a big ole' bull with a knot on their head we didn't keep em.

Gentlemen, I'm not done bass fishing by any means but I've plenty of fun with them to last for a while. So, now I'm having fun and filling the freezer. You want gills then go get em' because "Their here" and BIG! I'm in the middle of cleaning 35 as we speak all 10 in or better. All big bulls with knots on their heads if that says anything to ya! We put in at Cricket and went north, the water is quite stained with about 1' visibility. Find your spawing pockets and a cricket about 4' deep just off the bottom will get you bit! Have fun, it's just getting real good and will only get better the next couple of weeks.

The Bass Pro Shops Pro Series 3/16 oz jig head with a 4" Kinami grub usually in some sort of baitfish color.

Phil, Very nice report. Thank you. If noone can catch trout using that information well then maybe they should be bluegill fishing.....LOL Well I have been busy fishing Table Rock for bass since the fishing has been so good. See my most recent report from last week out of Indian Point. I had a GREAT day yesterday with a great friend of mine. He wanted to pre-fish for a tournament today so we went up the James arm. On his behalf I cannot divulge much more information than that due to his commitment to the tourney. Let me say we rolled(purposely shook off the hook) four 5lb fish and many other keepers. I would say we probably had a limit of an honest 24lbs easy and we left the best water unfished after finding such quality fish. So let me leave it at that. Let me just say Table Rock is at it's finest so fish it. But I'm bassed out and need to catch some trout.....LOL

Moto, I did throw the spook jr. in bone color on points and the same water but no luck. They clearly wanted that wake of the redfin. BTW, it was a 5" smokey joe jointed with no dressed treble. I did throw the fluke threw some pole timber after graphing some suspended kentuckies and boated one keeper and a couple of shorts.

Very nice information RPS, thanks. I know many should benefit from this.

Cody I'm no Bill Babler or some of these other great guides on here but read my post on the Indian Point area and you'll see what worked for me today. I had some great fun early a.m. on the Red-Fin.

Gentlemen, Hit the water and was the throwing the Red-Fin at daybreak. Had a blast! To be honest I had never done the Red-Fin thing before, always been a spook or sammy guy. Now I know what I have been missing! I just bought some the night before, didn't even have time to change the hooks out so I just took out the file and put one hell of an edge on them and they worked just fine( but I will be changing out those nasty saltwater hooks later). Anyway, tried two main lake points right off the bat to know avail. I moved off to one side of the point next to a cut with pole timber off of it and had 3 keeps(1 ea. species), waking it back close to the pole timber. Caught a number of other fish here and there before the wind picked up and sun broke. To the grub I went. I know everyone lately has been saying fish the longest flatest main lake points you can find so I did. I tried shallow, I tried deep but couldn't get bit on the point, even with the wind beating into it. The pattern that worked for me was to find a mainlake point with good wind and if I moved off to one side or the either of the point; preferably the windward side and if it had any structure to it, either dock close by, pole timber and/or a cut I'd work the grub down the bank and get bit. Finally at the end of the day I did get on one windy point and again barely off to the side of it I got into a bunch of quality fish but broke two off and missed numerous others while trying to maintain boat control. The wind got the better of me and with two near dead batt's I couldn't do much. Well once again not a bad day on the Rock. Best smallie of the day would've gone between 3 and 4 lbs.

Gentlemen, What fun those goggle-eye are. I had 4 today and 3 of them were over 12", all on a 4" grub smallie fishing. The big 3 were all full of eggs and my heart got the better of me so I put them back. I caught them on pole timber in cuts just off of main lake points( main lake points directly across the lake from Cow Creek Point #6) oops, shouldn't have done that. And a few others here and there. And yes, letting that grub get down there a ways. If a smallie wasn't there the goggle-eye would smash it.

Your right Bill and yes, I am proud of that 5 lbr. I caught her wackying a pink senko, i saw her chase it down, saw the wake and the take and her pissed off attitude when I stuck that hook in her. I also saw the wake and take of a just shy 4lb Kentucky take down a Zoom Super Fluke; probably the coolest strike I ever saw as she sucked in that fluke from a good 8" away and meant business doing it! It was all I could to not strike to soon. My only shame is like you all I had no one in the boat to share the moment with, poor me!

Can't say for sure, but I'm for sure the cold front will affect the topwater bite a might. I'm headed back to the Rock on Wedn. I'll probably put in at Indian or the state park. I'll be sure to let you know. If your in the area look me up I'm in a 06' white Tundra with a beat up 20 yr old silver/burgandy Rnager 374 in tow!.........lol

I did just fine on the Zoom Super Fluke last week and Arkansas Shiner was by far my best color!

Wow what a nice fish! That puts my best one of 5lbs this spring to shame!

vacation, I took this last week off for gardening but the two weeks prior I was on plenty of bedding bass within site of the start park ramp. I took a number of fish in the 2 to 4lb range. The fluke got plenty of action but my mainstay was wacky rigging a sherbet color 5" YUM Dinger over the beds. Now that was fun!

Gentlemen, I was just formerly introduced to night fishing under lights this last year down here in Arkansas. I loved it, it was really alot of fun. Anyway, I would like to do this several nights this next week when I am at LOZ on vacation. I will be staying on the Niangua arm. Anybody out there have some experience with night fishing on LOZ??? I would love to get some pointers from you all, particularly what places to look for to anchor on to be most productive this time of year. Thanks in advance to those of you who can supply any information!...........Darren

Gentlemen, Check out my pics under the handgun page!!!

Gentlemen, I stalked up and shot this big wild boar sow from a distance of 10 ft. First shot anchored well into the head behind the ear. 2nd shot was a double lung as she ran by me followed by two additional shots to the head to put her in her place. Not easy to take down a 450 lb hog. She bottomed out a 350lb scale at the ranch. The guy at the butcher shop said she would have been well over 400 at time of kill, maybe pushing 450. I am getting the head mounted, the head and hide alone weighed over 125lb. My biggest pig ever, I shot a 200lb sow last year. The pig was killed at Cuz and Cuz wild hog hunting ranch in Searcy, AR.

Daddy O Those are actually 1/16 oz jigs, the most common size I tie for crappie. I however do tie all the way down to 1/80 for fishing on a flyrod for white bass. Yes I do powder paint, then bake all my own jig heads. I have some awesome color of powder paints on the internet.

Thank you Jack. It's always been a safe bet for me in the past but I always keep my options open.......LOL.......Have rod will travel!.....and fish of course.