Jeremy Rasnick

Nice work......atleast now you have a good story to tell. I wall fully equiped and prepared and bearly scratched the 5 lb mark, and I don't even have any good excuses. We had a great time at the tournament as well, its always good to see a couple nice browns being weighed in.

You guys are entitled to your opinion and so am I, Think of it this way....All of the trout caught through out the day of a trout tournamet should be considered rescued temporarily from the guys fishing that would release in Grease. This is a Top Notch event. What is the difference as far as fishing ethics with a trout tournament as opposed to a bass tournament, other than the fact that trout are stocked and bass generally are not. And why would one of the tournament anglers risk cheating by taking fish caught by a wader from the trophy area? Who's to say that their competition isn't watching from downstream.

Trav...My heart goes out to you due to your love for fishing lower lake, that is a very odd piece of water. A buddy and i fished down there saturday for a change of pace and that we got......we sure didn't have to worry about sore wrists.....caught a few trout, a white bass, and a "Sport" Bass. We were looking for some wind blown banks holding some quality rainbows, that we did not find, thats what I get for getting out of my comfort zone. I guess it takes fishing for trout more than 3 times a year to figure out that end of the lake, Keep up the controversy...i love reading you "stiring the pot" comments.

Just a heads up to all, Phil is hosting the Master's Trout Tournament again this year and for those who have never experienced it it is a great time. I generaly don't do any good as far as the tournament is concerned but I make up for it when I sit down to some of Phils home cooking afterwards.........He puts on quite a feed. Either his cooking is really good or im just really that hungry after a day on the lake. Here is the link from the homepage for details...hope to see you there! http://ozarkanglers.com/masters2008.html

Hands Down I would like to see a catchable population of Walleye. I agree with several of trav's points the trout fishing would still remain good expecially the quality fish. Especially considering the life expectancy of a trout is about 30 minutes on a sunny Saturday. My Optimum Solution Stock Walleye as well as extend the Tropy Area Slot limit to a Lake Wide regulation. This would allow the trout to get bigger lake wide.

I'd have to agree. I have hear a lot of stories about fishing under the lights. I have only fished pre existing lights on the Gages Docks. The one on the very South End seems to work. Speaking of Crappie. Here is a picture of a crappie that Phil Caught on one of our early trips this spring. He doesn't post enought pictures of himself on here so i'll do him a favor. I'll admit one thing, Phil put it on me that evening,

Well, My ol De Liar said 18lbs....My digital scale is either broke from getting wet or out of batteries. I want to appoligize for posting twice. I had a glitch when trying to attach my picture, and somehow posted twice.

No Matter how much fishing pressure is put on TableRock Lake though out the course of a Summer there is always a few nice catfish to be caught. Dad and I sat a Trot Line this weekend in clevenger Cove. We are by far amature Trot-Liners but we did pretty good this weekend. We Caught 5 Cats on our trotline which we had baited with sunfish. 4 Flatheads and 1 small channel cat. The fish on the trotline were on the shallow hooks around 5-10 feet of water. One of the funnest parts of setting a trot line is catching the bait. A funny thing happened to me while fishing for bait. As I was really in a small sunfish i saw a flash of brown, A really nice smally was chasing my perch. I let him take it but ended up loosing my perch, but for the smallmouth he got a free meal. Here is a picture of our best flathead of the weeked. For anybody on here who thinks that you have have to be on a muddy lake or a river to trotline for cats, i'd have to disagree.......TableRock is pretty good. I hope you all enjoy the pictures as well as I enjoyed frying that puppy up for friends and family.

No Matter how much fishing pressure is put on TableRock Lake though out the course of a Summer there is always a few nice catfish to be caught. Dad and I sat a Trot Line this weekend in clevenger Cove. We are by far amature Trot-Liners but we did pretty good this weekend. We Caught 5 Cats on our trotline which we had baited with sunfish. 4 Flatheads and 1 small channel cat. The fish on the trotline were on the shallow hooks around 5-10 feet of water. One of the funnest parts of setting a trot line is catching the bait. A funny thing happened to me while fishing for bait. As I was really in a small sunfish i saw a flash of brown, A really nice smally was chasing my perch. I let him take it but ended up loosing my perch, but for the smallmouth he got a free meal. Here is a picture of our best flathead of the weeked. For anybody on here who thinks that you have have to be on a muddy lake or a river to trotline for cats, i'd have to disagree.......TableRock is pretty good.

Hey Whats Bitin, Sorry for the delay on my reply. You will head south after you launch at State Park. Look for the Big Campground on the West Side of the Lake. Did you fish it last night. I think I saw a really slick black and red champion. Was that you guys that waved at me, I was in the Duck Green G3. - As far as the fishing report last night in the tourney it was very tough for us as well as several of the others. We had only 1 keeper on a drop shot before dark and I don't know if i had but one bite after dark. It only took 12 LBS to win, I would have been proud of 6lbs.

Hey Mule, I will be fishing the tourney this weekend. Look for me on Board...I will be at the very bottom. We will be in a white extended cab GMC. I'll be wearing a red Had............May see you there....I live in Branson and Don't fishe the river a ton but what a great fishery....Your a lucky man to live on such a fishy river

Gage- We caught our Fish Between Indian Point and 86. The fish had no rhyme or reason to them. We only had one keeper smallie and thats what we were honestly trying to target. We had our best success on Black and Blue Jigs on the Bluffy Type Banks around the mouth or Beardsly. We also Caught a couple on Satly Craws. I wish we could meet up. I will be in Van Buren this weekend Fishing a smallmouth Tourney. I do believe you are completly on track to go south as well. IF we wouldn't have picked up the largmouth that we did on the north portion of the lake as mentioned above we would have done the same thing. My full intention was to try to catch smallmouth and KY's in the Dam area and head south for a kicker.......Good Luck to you, Another tourney to keep in mind is the K Dock Tourney on Bull Shoals...My Girlfriend Natalie and I got 4th out of 16 boats on Tuesday Night she had 2 Keepers and So Did I. Fishing is very tough on that lake in my opionion but it doesn't take a lot of weight to get in the money. Whats Bitin------ Keep in mind that this isn't the ramp at Long Creek. This is the ramp on the west side of the lake just south or the State Park. I live in Branson So i just put in at state park and Boat across. Keep me posted...>Im jealous taht I don't get to play on the Rock this weekend.

Gage.....We ended up fishing it this weekend....Fishing was very slow for us before dark. I had been catching some nice SM, include one that went 4lbs 10 oz. Needless to say we didn't have a keeper saturday until dark. We ended up winning the tourney with 18.XX LBs. Saw one feller weigh in a 5+ lb smallie, what a dandy. Every blind hogs finds a nut sometime I guess, we just got lucky after dark. I won't be able to fish next weekend......im heading to van buren mo. to fish a river tourney. Next weekend should be one of the best of the year the moon should be completly full by then.

If it were me I'd try fishing for crappie around the State Line area. And I wouldn't waste alot of time. Its been my experience that the crappie will bite best the last hour of daylight. To be honest with you, I haven't heard many crappie reports right now. Cricket creek may be your best bet for consistancy. I have caught crappie in Late May as you first go into cricket there is a Red Boat Dock, we did our best starting at that boat dock working our way to the back of the creek. Black and Chartruese tubes as well as white or chartruce swimmin minnows, at various depths. IF all else fails drown some night crawlers up high in Long or Yocum creek and catch some catfish. That should be pretty hot right now and talk about good for a fish fry.

Hey Gage.....Did the folks at the tourney last weekend mention if they are having a tournament this weekend, Considering that its Memorial Day? I hate to make a trip overthere if there isn't a tournament. I really would like to avoid the lake if at all possible but if they are having it, I'm in.

Well sounds like fun. I'll be fishing it this weekend and looking forward to it. Sounds like a good tournament. Unlike the Cape Fair Tournament where it takes nearly 20+ LBS to win. I had some buddies Fish the 86 tourney this weekend, if im not mistaking do they pay for big SmallMouth also. What was the entry fee? Do they have a big smallmouth pot? I'll keep my eye open for you next weekend if you fish it.

Fished in the CenturyTel Bass Tournament on Saturday. Fishing was tough. First Place Had 14 lbs. 2nd Place had 8.2 lbs. Winners I believe fished around the Dam Area. We had our best luck on Carolina Rigged Brush Hogs in Aprox 20-25 ft of water. Lots of Beds around the areas we fished but with very few fish on them. We didn't fish beds. We caught Walley as well as white bass believe it or not on the brush hogs. Also caught a couple of nice crappie on a 1/2 oz spider jig. We caught the majority of our fish around the area directly across from Maze Creek. Maze Creek was being hammered with alot of pressure on friday so we stayed clear of that area. We had a couple of nice fish on in Maze creek while pre fishing on Friday. Those bites came on a brown Jig as well as a Green Pumpking Zoom Shaky Tail worm in the pole timber. Only my second time to bass fish Stockton, seems like a very nice lake.

Fished last night as well the Fist Night Trip of the year for bass. We had Apox 8 Bass. 3 Keepers Just over 9 lbs total. We fished from Gages Marina To Emerald Point. Caught all of our keepers (Largemouth) south of the 86 bridge. 1 keeper 5.9lbs on a black and blue single spin, 1 keeper on a black and blue chatter bait, and one Keeper on a green pumpkin shaky head right at dusk. You should do better on that end of the lake, I have heard some very good reports using these same tactics as well as a Texas rigged Craw....Good luck night fishing and keep us posted on how you do.

We Went to the Pothole last night and fished directly below the dam. Very little success with one small Crappie around the Rock Pile. Water temp 55 degrees. Proceeded downstream and ran into some buddies who were catching whites on small jerk baits across from silver creek just before dark. This didn't work for us by now it was dark and we went to swan where we ended up catching 4 really nice whites and 1 keeper walleye that was released due to the regulations. All fish were caught on a purple swimmin minnow with blue flake on a red 1/8oz head. Saw a few other fishermen up in Swan catch a few. Rumor has it stocker walleye have been released in the upper lake. My buddies that were fishing across from silver creek caught several cigar sized dinks. Water temp was very warm around the river run area and in the creek....Mid 60's.

Went to the Spring River on Sunday March Fist and put in at the Highway 10 Bridge.....As we usually do this time of year we went upstream past the 90 Degree bend. We started off the morning throwing rapalas due to the fact taht this is a fun way to fish and "Usually" very Productive. My Journal showed that this weekend last year we caught them in large numbers on this tactic. We were disapointed and talked to many other anglers in this stretch of water that insured us that business should pick up anytime. The water temp had dropped 7 degrees and the Whites weren't there. @ 9:30 I got a call from Phil telling me that we were fishing too high on the river. We needed to be above Twin Bridges around the power lines. It didn't take us long to realize he was probably right........Long story short....we ended up cleaning our limit of 60 white bass between 3 guys and trowing back a few dink's. We were throwing white Sliders and doing as well or better than those around us. 9 out of 10 boats were trolling....>Water had more color in it than I had expected.....not really a good thing. Thanks to Phil and i hate to admit it.....he was right we were wasting our time upstream I will have pictures to follow.

I forgot to mention. When Cleaning those crappie on saturday the were stacked full of 1" Shad. It was unreal.

First Off I wan't to tell Phil thanks for the Jigs. I should have known better than to show up to the lake with only 3 white Jigs. Fished from 4:30 til dark and Caught lots of rainbows and 3 browns 1 of which went 19", and talk about a jumper. Sorry No pictures. I have caught several browns on taneycomo but this evening I experienced something that I had never experienced. I made a cast towards the bank and ended up hooking some moss, as I was realing in my jig connected to about a foot of moss trailing. I had a brown trout come up from behind and swipe the moss right off of my jig. I let the jig sink as the brown swirled viciously around my white jig. Long story short i did not catch the brown but It would have went aprox 10-12lbs.

After Dropping Off Phil, We heading North to the State line Area. We decided to change it up a little bit and with the wind to our favor blowing out of the south we went down 1 bank and caught 3 Bass on Wiggle Warts one of which went close to 4lbs. It was pretty fast action like wiggle warts can be, the water was also pretty stained yet the warmest we found was around 47. We proceeded to get hungry and wet so we headed to the house. Now the sun is shining and I wish I was still out there.

Thanks for the info Sam, Im sort of in a bubble when it comes to walleye. I really dont fish for them unless it from the barker hole up, besides beaver creek. I need to broaden my horizons on those rascals. I totally agree with you on the bass fishing. We are on the same page. I love to fish for all species. It sounds like you fish a lot of the same waters as I. If you ever see an Duck Green G3 with a 75 merc thats probably me, flag me down and say hey.

Hey Prowler, How often do you go to the spring river in OK. I like to make a trip our there about this time every year. Its one of those trips that will boost your ego. Another place for you to try out in oklahoma is on the other end of the lake below the Dam. The town in called Langley. The body of water is the Grand River I believe, All I know that the fishing there is excellent as well....I make a trip out there around Mid May. We have caught hundreds of whites there and it feels like the pothole. The water is much clearer than it is in the spring river, It looks much like upper taneycomo when the water is running.