Bill Babler
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I dress the hooks with a non-lead fly weighting wrap I get from Orvis to create weighted flies. It is round and on a roll similar in size to a thimble of thread. It comes in various diameters. After I weight the hook, I then wrap it with black waxed thread and finish it to look dark like the hook shank. The material itself is very shiny silver in color, so covering it with the tread makes it more of a natural look. Probably does not mean one flip in the world, but I like the way it looks better. Way more professional. -
When I fish alone, I don't need my lure retriever as much. Do not have to bring the chain saw to cut brush and can leave the hand held GPS at home as I don't have to scout as much thru the forest looking for wayward lures. On the other hand I miss seeing the smiles.
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I keep over 100 Diiachi Deathtraps weighted in various ammounts and change them as I think will be the best. If you notice the weighted hook is on the megabass 110. Sometimes I will weight the 110 plus but really feel the need this time of the year to get that bait down in the 15 to 20 ft. range. It just will not do it by its self. I like it to drop a bit tail down or drop at an even keel, and thus the weight in the middle. They are all different however and you just have to experiment. Never had a single bite on the cast and just a jerk or so that bait had to be at least 1/2 way back. I had to fish it and twitch it a very long time to get the tick. Seemed just a twitch or two prior to a recast was when I got the Howdy. Good Luck
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Nice Trip.
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Quill, I did not make it below the bridge until close to 10. I can usually catch them early like this up there, but did not get a sniff today, and I really hung in there and worked it as well as I could. Got below the bridge and it was a different deal on the cooler water. Bye the way you may notice I did the Slam X 4 with the Meanie.
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OOPS Hit the same fish at the end twice. Was trying to pic a varmint fish.
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White River Outfitters Guide Service Current Fishing Report February 10th. 2015 Have a couple of trips this weekend out of the upper end so I thought I had better get my butt up there and see what the score is today. Launched at Eagle Rock at 6:45 just at daylight with a 3/4 moon beaming down and a surface temp of 46.7 degree. I fished hard up to the Arky Line and spent quite abit of time doing what I thought needed done on both locations that I know and locations that J.D. Fletcher had shown me. Fished one area pretty hard that J.D. had always put his Walleye Trout Line out at and I usually can trick one here but Nada. I'm stubborn and fished the Upper deal till about 9:45. Don't think it hurt me so much but the first deal below the 86 bridge and it was on. Surface temp below the bridge clear to Big M was 43. Fished to Viney, mostly concentration on? Well, I really don't know. Just everything. Best success on the very long either main lake or interior runnouts, putting the boat in 35 and giving the sticker a hube toss on 8 pound test line. Bites were in 15' to 25' range and some were mear ticks and other were Hammer the Nail. Best deal for me was the Megabass deal. Did have a couple on the Varmint, but by far they were suspended. At times a single cast lasted me well over 5 minutes and a lot of the time I would see fish rise on my graph and hit the bait that I was twitching behind the boat, just turning its head. I did have a big fish today, Not pictured as regretfully I'm afraid it may not have made it. The 7 pound fish completely inhaled the bait and try though as I might, it was very, very deep. She swam down, but I hold little hope. Put a huge damper on what would have been one of those days you do not soon forget. It made it into one of those days I would rather forget, very sad to say. I had 36 fish today off of 6 locations. I fished 17 spots, so I had 9 full zero's in the mix. I fished slow and I fished to win. I made each cast seem like my last and when you fish like that good things will happen. Good Luck
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White River Outfitters Guide Service Current Fishing Report February 10th. 2015 View attachment: Table Rock Bass Feb 10 2015 015.JPG Have a couple of trips this weekend out of the upper end so I thought I had better get my butt up there and see what the score is today. Launched at Eagle Rock at 6:45 just at daylight with a 3/4 moon beaming down and a surface temp of 46.7 degree. View attachment: Table Rock Bass Feb 10 2015 001.JPG I fished hard up to the Arky Line and spent quite abit of time doing what I thought needed done on both locations that I know and locations that J.D. Fletcher had shown me. Fished one area pretty hard that J.D. had always put his Walleye Trout Line out at and I usually can trick one here but Nada. View attachment: Table Rock Bass Feb 10 2015 004.JPG I'm stubborn and fished the Upper deal till about 9:45. Don't think it hurt me so much but the first deal below the 86 bridge and it was on. Surface temp below the bridge clear to Big M was 43. View attachment: Table Rock Bass Feb 10 2015 002.JPG Fished to Viney, mostly concentration on? Well, I really don't know. Just everything. Best success on the very long either main lake or interior runnouts, putting the boat in 35 and giving the sticker a hube toss on 8 pound test line. View attachment: Table Rock Bass Feb 10 2015 006.JPG Bites were in 15' to 25' range and some were mear ticks and other were Hammer the Nail. Best deal for me was the Megabass deal. Did have a couple on the Varmint, but by far they were suspended. View attachment: Table Rock Bass Feb 10 2015 011.JPG At times a single cast lasted me well over 5 minutes and a lot of the time I would see fish rise on my graph and hit the bait that I was twitching behind the boat, just turning its head. View attachment: Table Rock Bass Feb 10 2015 014.JPG I did have a big fish today, Not pictured as regretfully I'm afraid it may not have made it. The 7 pound fish completely inhaled the bait and try though as I might, it was very, very deep. She swam down, but I hold little hope. Put a huge damper on what would have been one of those days you do not soon forget. It made it into one of those days I would rather forget, very sad to say. I had 36 fish today off of 6 locations. I fished 17 spots, so I had 9 full zero's in the mix. I fished slow and I fished to win. I made each cast seem like my last and when you fish like that good things will happen. View attachment: Table Rock Bass Feb 10 2015 014.JPG Good Luck View attachment: Table Rock Bass Feb 10 2015 012.JPG -
I know this is not a Bull Shoals thread, but kind of a piggy back. Also heard the white bass were really on the prod at River Run yesterday, and walleye from the Pot Hole to just above Beaver Creek. Kings River cannot be far behind. I think the influx of moving warmer water at 47.5 degree flowing over powersite dam makes a huge difference. Water is probably at least that temp down there as it has been that at Lilleys'. Don't know what the temp of the water is coming out of the White, but its got to be right in there also. Suspose to be pushing upper 50's to lower 60's here till a cool down on Thursday to the low 40's. May get interesting early
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Buster told me today that he is catching spawned out walleye already. He knows what one looks like so I'm not doubting him. Sad the water on Bull yesterday at the end of the day was 47-48 degrees.
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Great day. I could not turn a pop cap
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I really don't know. I do know this however I am always looking this time of the year for a temperature upswing during the day. Usually does not have to be much and most times sunlite this time of the year won't hurt you to bad. Yesterday it was a very high sky, not a lot of really harsh sun, but it was funny, My face really got a good burn with the wind and sun. Usually not a big sun burner, especially in February. Had to have something to do with all that wind. Other blog about yesterday was a success story sounds like, but for me I just could not put it together. Talked to Pete Wenners day before and he is catching but not as good as before his deep fish moved said the bite is really early. Said his deep fish deserted him last week, and scattered. He was saying after about 10 in the morning the bite is just about completely gone. He also said he is only finding maybe 2 or 3 on a location and has to move a bunch. Kind of got that when he was talking about fishing Viney Creek and then the Lower James river on the same guide trip. That would be scary. Good Luck
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Very nice post. I got out for a bit, out of old 86 yesterday and struggled big time. As a matter of fact I only had one bite. Nice keeper K out of a pile in 24 ft. Went over it and threw back behind the boat and caught the crazy thing. Nothing else. Was on the water from 9 to 2. Probably just about as much competition as it gets on a nice day. Got cut off twice and just started up and moved to a different location. Both times I was fishing down a wall to a point within 3 casts and had guys pull right in front of me and start fishing the point. So being the rocket scientist that I am I just started going to points to avoid being cut off. Water temp in the dam area raised just about as fast as I have ever seen it. Was 43.9 at the start and 5 hrs. later with the warm breeze it was pushing 49, at 48.6. Would have thought with the warm up I would have done better and I'm sure there are some that did in that area, but I could not put my finger on them.
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If your local. Go to Rags to Riches in Hollister. They have worked for me countless times. I pay full rate
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She pretty much shines everyday to me.
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She had one 6 pounder 2 5 pounders and another 5 or 6 at 3 pounds each. I forget the number, but I believe she caught 18 keeper Brown fish that day. Easy 22-23 pound 5 fish bag. I will tell you now, it will never be replicated in my boat. The single greatest day I have ever had a client have in over 7,500 guide trips. Good gosh, I believe that was in 2011. I had another trip a few years before that and I believe it was on another high water year in 2008 when I had two brothers each had a 5 pound jaw. Funny thing is they had them on the same time for a double on 5 pounders. We caught them swimming a Yamamoto smoke grub off the middle runnout in powerline. Those guys ended up the day together with probably 22 pounds of Brown. The two 5's and 3 other solid 4 pounders. Those two 5 pounders were the only grub fish of the day. All the rest came the old fashion way on the tube. Your out as much as I am it is kind of like the old Sow getting lucky and finding an acorn. Charlie Campbell weighed in 4 smallmouth that weighed 19 pounds in that derby. He came in second. I think it may have been a Central but don't really remember. Said that was the only 4 bites he had all day. I think it was a buddy tournament and he was fishing by himself. What ever it was, Beck and I fished it and I believe Champ and Donna did also. Champ if you remember I believe that was the day I helped Donna carry that bag up the boat ramp. I believe you all had a small limit as did Beck and I. Everybody was kidding Charlie that he couldn't even catch a limit. They were stickbait fish. It was classic. I'm pretty sure that was the same derby. But I have been to so many weighins that I may have forgotten.
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Guys, this has just been getting completely out of hand here for the last 6 months or so. You have people coming on here that are giving nothing but knowledge and asking nothing in return trying to help folks coming to the Rock in anyway they can. Trouble is, you have to cover your A$$$ on anything you do or someone is just waiting to pick it apart. There are at least 50 full time posters on here that are just flat getting so dismayed that they are really considering stopping with their information and photo's. If this is what you want keep up the nit-pickin and see where it gets us. Funny part about this is the people that are doing most of the finger pointing never contribute a durn thing in the way of fishing information. Outside of political, religious or product sales information, they contribute just about nothing. The first two topics will get you banned, but there are little ways around them that get exploited. Here is the deal, Why in the world are we calling out people that are trying to help us. For gosh sakes send a personal message if you have something negative to say. Don't call out people on an open forum. Set back take a deep breath and lets get ready for a great season of fishing and the wonderful knowledge that this FREE forum provides for all of us here in the Ozarks.
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Article: The Family And Fishing Lives Of Dion And Guido Hibdon
Bill Babler replied to Phil Lilley's topic in Table Rock Lake
Read that a couple of weeks ago. Very nice read. Nothing is forever and it really shows you that you had better take advantage of those opportunities that are presented to you and thank the Lord for them. -
Whats Going On At Table Rock As Of Lately?!?!
Bill Babler replied to CrappieMaster24's topic in Table Rock Lake
That sounds tougher than a Redwing Boot to me. Good Luck -
Building A Table Rock Tackle Bag From Scratch
Bill Babler replied to vernon's topic in Table Rock Lake
Really the only thing much to add and I apologize if I missed it is Flambeau Zbart boxes. There are none better made. And I'm not on their pro-staff. Kind of Gun Shy about recommending anything ever again -
Jim. Hickory is so far up the Kings River you are just trapped. Got a 10 mile boat ride out of there to get to Shell Knob fishing
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The Whip is a nightmare to get to out 39-1. I would not even consider a two bedroom. Not any privacy for the Lady. Get two rooms. They can be a suite joining but separate Also unless your friends are different than mine they will each need their own Rack. With the Lady involved even with close friends discredsion and a bit of privacy at times are very important
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Ya Snake another good reason for moving there is you will lose weight. Don't think I have ever made that trip without purging my system going and coming???
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Congrats. Of course you know that area is Winter's Bone? You will have to grow a Wackey Weed Garden and come out of the Brush at least once a year for Dry Goods?
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There are lots of them Hardman's Hollow Resort Older but well kept hard ramp but owner launches you. Nice dock Play Port Resort Nice dock and Ramp owners are always around Big Creek Resort I believe it was just redone in the last few years. Easy access to the mouth of Big Creek. Whipoorwil Resort Out of town and in the back of Big Creek. Indian Hills Resort. Very nice with a big dock best ramp and nicest cabins. Probably the most expensive by far. For some reason the one way up the Kings River is alluding me. All I can think of is Akin Back but I know it is now something else. It is good during the white bass run, but just about to far out of the way for most everything else except a crappie here and there. Lunker Landing is fine, but it is older. They have a very nice dock but I would probably bring my own linens and towels. Quail Cove is there neighbor and they also have a nice ramp and dock. Don't know about the quality of anything there as they I believe now have new owners. Good Luck
