Bill Babler

I've had Brittany Spaniels my entire life up to present. These are the best dogs, but everyone I have had would not tolerate children. Never, never had one bite a child, but for sure some pretty big growls. Most often they would do what they could to keep clear just moving away if a child got close, but when ear twisting and hair pulling was to much, they would for sure get pretty loud with the kids. We had a big male when our son was young, and Bud just did not like Steven. I don't think he would have ever bitten him, but Steve knew enough to not go near him, especially if the dog was laying at my feet or asleep on the floor. He would play ball with Steven but he would drop the ball at his feet. He would never put it in his hand. That dog never dropped a ball that my wife or I would throw, he would deliver it to hand and would hold it until we took it. Glad this worked out for you

Quill, I guided out of Shell Knob today. We chased the fog and shadows from 6 AM till 10 AM and really for us the bite started strong and ended strong. About 9:00 we went to the dropshot and the grub and really caught some magnificent K's. Nice solid 2.5 pound fish. Maybe over a dozen in that 1 hr. period. To answer your question, I don't believe that far up the White River we see a lot of activity increase of decrease due to the generation at Branson. Generation or flow to make fishing better would have to have an effect on the bait, drawing it past the fish, or just moving water over locations creating current breaks or perhaps moving more 02 in the water column. At the dam in the Summer, you can really tell it from Point 5 to LongCreek on the deep humps. They really fire up when the dam is running 4 units. Beck has told me he thinks the bluffends and rolloffs up the James do the same on 4 units. Up past the Kings River however your guess would be as good as anyone.

COE raised the launch price per day this year to $5.00

Great Fish. What is remarkable about that is the location. That point has a boat on it from before daylight to after dark most days. 15 yrs. ago you could catch 20 topwater fish a day in the right season there. Now you are just lucky to get a cast on it. Again Congrats on a nice mama. As many shad as there were up there last week it won't take here long to get fattened back up. Good Luck

You can make it to 10 PM?

And Worth Every Penny.

5 LB. Plus. Spawned out. Bill said she was older than dirt, but still looked great. Said she swam off like Michael Phelps.

Jason, Bill did not see hide nor scale of any White Ghost this morning, but he did have a client snare this somewhat small but ok type fish. And yes your eyes are not deceiving you, this is a FREEKIN MONSTER SMALLJAW. Great guide work from my Buddy, Bill Beck

I'm going to tie a "White" Rabbit foot around your neck.

Guys, don't get me wrong here and I should be the last one to be critical of the fishing this year, but 09, 10 and 11 were very good to me in far different ways. Each was a different year, and each had super merits. In the flood year of 11 my clients caught more and bigger Jaw's than I have ever seen. In the years previous we caught huge strings of post spawn LM and weighed in huge bags. Last year in 12 with the A-Rig coming to town, you all know how this turned out. Last year I had incredible numbers and lots and lots of quality walleye. Every year is different. But for sure we are off to one fantastic start. Good Luck

Could you please post a picture of that original? Everything that Buckeye bait does looks good. It rides nice and always swims properly, it just has a hard tome on Table Rock. I'm just completely baffled by it. For me right now it is like a backup QB it is only going to get in the game if the starter is injured. Thanks

2013 June 6th. Kimberling City, Missouri Bass Fishing Well the old saying it's better to be lucky than good has more than applied to me for the last several weeks. Hit the water with Josh and his Dad at 5:40 this morning out of Mill Creek and started catching fish almost immediately. No, not on a fin at first, but the grub. Hoped to catch Jaw's today, but they were just not going for us. I believe we ended up with 1/2 a dozen or so, but not what I was thinking on such a fishy day, with all the cloud cover. It was a bit slick, but what a nice cool morning. Surface temps at the start were 71 and when we ended around noon 72. Visibility is just perfect at about 14 ft. Fished the first main lake gravel pocket with a fin and had only 2 come up on it so I started swimming a grub to find another bait. Cripes I hate to do that before 6 AM, but did. I immediately caught a very nice 3 pound LM. We switched and worked the grub catching about a half dozen before I could take it no more and moved. Next location, singles were up on the fin. Caught about a dozen scattered and had one really nice LM jump off. Best fish my boat has had on in a while. I'm guessing over 5 pounds. Moved up the White River point hopping and caught one here and one there. UNTIL!!!! Just past point 16 up they came in a swarm. Pretty much everything from whites to gosh only knows what. We caught everything. When they would go down, we would either spoon up and down or throw a rig. If we spooned we caught whites, if we dragged a Fish Dr. we caught K's. Again just one of those lucky locations, with more than we knew what to do with. Beck had his best white day of the year also, catching them from Cow Creek to Point 5 Said he cleaned 40. Better him than me My guys let them swim, and that is a good thing. Good Luck

Ya J. your right, it is just impossible. Like I told my guide clients, it was nothing I did or any knowledge on my part. The roulette wheel just spun up in my favor. Not grippin though. Hoping it does it again this morning from Kimberling City to Baxter. Good Luck

This is a White River or a Taneycomo topic, but I have caught trout on Taney, with huge bellies and no meat on there backs, real thin. If you try and clean them they are full of slimey green corn. Fish are not built to digest this. It is my hope one day they make the practice of chumming it to trout illegal. There is really no reason to do it, use a big fat night crawler and they will come a runnin. Good Luck

White Bass are always a challenge. They are here there and everywhere and again they are no where. Beck fished the cove past Point 5 to Kimberling and did not see a white. Pete Wenners fished Sportsman which is within sight of 5 and did not see them. I was totally surrounded in the cove just before pt. 5 in a 50yd. circle. Beck fished it this morning and they did not come up. He did catch lots and lots of Jaws, and K's and a few single Whites, but no schools. He said the boys were slamming them at Point 2 and at the Branson Belle this morning. You just never know. Good Luck

On the Corn and trout deal. When my son was in college he worked with the University of Missouri and the Missouri Conservation Dept on a study concerning Whole Shell corn in the diet. They had 3 pens of Brown Trout in the Study. One pen they fed a complex fish food diet. Another pen they fed only Whole Shell corn. The third study group they fed nothing but what fell into the pond or washed in from the outside. After a 6 month trial period. The Pen with the full feed of Whole shell corn had the lightest total weight and the highest mortality rate. The pen they fed nothing to had very little mortality and a much higher growth rate. The complex trout diet of course won the trial. The reason for the test was of course to see if the corn had an effect on the Brown Trout, and if was total negative.

Good Plan. RPS you have reached the point when catching them is not as important as what you catch them on. Like every fly fisherman I know that has experience, if he or she catches several on a fly, it is now time to change. You know that works, what else might. I applaud you sir. Good Luck on the Morrow.

I believe Capt. Don House is also on their Pro-Staff. He gave me one to use a few years ago, for swimming a fin. I tired the rod and found it more than good. They are abit old school in appearance, but it preformed very well. It was heaver than my Falcon's, and just not quite as fast. I believe there is a knitch for this rod. You probably could find a hole in your current rod company that one of the Razar would work in. I just hate mixing equipment, even if they are for totally different purposes. I just lose feel. Like to keep it pretty much the same if I can and use the rods in the progression that the company makes. I guess I'm old school, or just plain old.

Kind of make your heart feel good doesn't it. You know it is like anything. First thing in the Mornings, I am just lookin for any kind of a bite to get the day going. It seems like you really never catch up if you start slow. On that Buckeye, I know it looks great and fish should love it, but I have thrown and thrown it on Table Rock with really just very poor results. That tail sweep is just to wide I'm thinking could be the problem. Had two different clients tell me they could make it work. Both lasted about an hour on it while seeing their partners catch them on a fin or a spook. Even being the first bait thru a section does not mean success for it. The guy in the back of the boat can throw right where you did and pull on sometimes. My biggest disappointment with it was one day we were throwing to schooling fish with it and two fins. These were not white bass, they were Blacks. I finely had to change it out as it would not catch the chasers and every other bait in the box was hooked up immediately. I have completely taken the ones I have out of the everyday box to make room for baits that want to catch fish. I still however think it will catch them, just not in the same category as the fin-spook-Sammy or Bug. Good Luck

Nice Jaw. Look at that stinkin White. He is all bowed up and flexed up just waitin to try and hurt somebody. Mean ole rascules.

I don't care who you are. That's Funny. He got ya on that on RPS

Absolutely. What a special day. I have had more than one recently. The couple of days with my Son, and then again right back at it today with some wonderful folks from the Bayou State.

What He Said. +1

Branson Missouri June 4th. Table Rock Lake Current Fishing Report Met Anthony Puglia his son Hunter and Father-in-law at Moonshine Beach at 6AM and what a super group of folks for Louisiana. Hunter is only 7, but he has been there and done that and he can catchem. 4 hrs. may have been a bit to long for him, but for the first 3 hrs. he was a Windin-em-in. The boys hopped into the Phoenix caring Loomis Rods with either Curado's or Stella's. Pretty salty equipment. Little to heavy of line on the bait caster so we put Pa-Pa on new Falcon with a Steez. All was well. Zoomed across to the lake to the first flat point with a slight chop on the water. Surface temps at the dam when I launched were 70 degree, and the water after all the rain is abit off color with visibility only about 10'. I was throwing for Hunter and he had the first one, a nice 14" jaw blasted his fin. Dad followed it up with a quality K over close to 18 inches and the hit parade was on. Most points had between 4 and 6 fish all topwater. These boys could catch them and did exactly what I told them. Did not have the fin jerked or fished in the wrong way all day. Just fish after fish. Mostly Brown Bass. UNTIL!!!!! Pulled into a flat point just this side of point 5 and the water just caught on fire. I mean 100's and 100's of whites blew up all around us. There were shad trying to school on the back of my boat and the bass of all species were just slamming into the boat. These boys fish Spec's and Reds in the Salt and they said it was just like that with the exception that the Whites and Jaw's pulled lots harder than the trout. These fish stayed up close to and I'm embarrassed to say, 2 hrs. Just everywhere. My boat is a complete mess They chased shad from my boat thru the pocket and completely out on the bank. There were some very nice Jaw's in the bunch along with LM and K's. Boys kept 5 monster whites to try for din-din, and marveled at the topwater bite that we have going on. Anthony owns a sporting goods store and sells fins. He had never used one and said he now will go ape on them. He also said he had never seen hooks as deadly as the ones on my fins. I told them when they got into the boat that the baits were extremely dangerous and that they will not only hunt you, but hurt you bad. We had 3 on at a time consistently. We just had a perfect morning with the cloud cover and the slight chop. I tried to tell them, I did nothing, this was a gift and I could not have been happier for some fine folks to unwrap it. Good Luck

I don't fault anyone in the SEC for scheduling early season wins. Loses in the early season don't get you ready and don't help you. A loss is a lose no matter who its to. Why would Arkansas with a completely new program schedule losses in the first 4 games, does not make sense. I think their non con is just fine. Would not want it any harder. They will not beat Rutgers up there. I don't think it will even be close. That is a pretty good program, I don't care if we are SEC. You got a total new deal at Arkansas and a Rutgers team that is full of upper classmen and can flat play. Arkansas will have to put 35 on the board to beat them and unless there is a bunch of turnovers, I don't think that will happen. The only SEC win that anyone in the know is posting is Auburn. Have not seen one service that thinks the Hogs will beat Ole Miss. On the Recruiting class at aTm. Freshmen very seldom do much, I don't care who they are. I see losses for them. I think Arkansas will play them pretty close. In keeping with the fish theme, Jaws were spitting crawdads this morning.