Bill Babler

Wind and Current reflact light. They also create O2, move bait and zooplankten that bait fish feed on. Wind and Current also distort the image of your presentation, and make it appear to be much more natural. On clear water lakes it also covers up boat noise, and keeps the fish to some degree unaware of your presence. Wind and wave action also add a degree of sediment to the water again changing the visibility and preception of your presentation. You fish TR, it is best to have it. I had two guide trips today, and I am pooped and I know there are a ton of spelling and grammer errors in this post, but I am to tired to fight it. Champ can clean it up for me. Hope this helps.

Great job Donny. That is a bunch of work to put that kind of string of fish together. You kept your boys in the right place, and I know from years of experence on Lake O, that is not an easy deal. Congrats.

I'll have to give you that one Champ, and second the part on the Looks.

Rock always has lots of early season fishing. It is usually the best game in town. Really think this year with the fuel prices and the economy that it will "NOT" be a huge year. Nothing like the derby years in the 80's and 90's. Biologist will tell you tournament fishing prussure during this time of the year is not a factor, on populations both now or in the future. I don't know. I will tell you it is an inconvience for us locals fishing everyday. But then again, we don't own this pond and have no right to tell anyone else what to do. As big as this lake is we can usually scrap out a spot or two to toss a bait. The lake is not chalked full of bass, but since the flood years of a few years back, I believe we have a very nice population of breeding fish. In the Winter derbys, we are seeing very nice size bass coming to the scales, lots of 4,5,6,7 pound gals are being caught. I believe both derby fishermen and just flat anyone that wants to fish the Rock this year, will have a wonderful trip. Plenty of room for everyone, and enough nice bass to get excited about, fishing for pay or for play. Good Luck

Just wanted to mention, you can launch at Hickory Hollow. It is a pay ramp at the resort on the honor system. I believe it is 4 bucks, just like the gov. ramps. That should put you right on the action. I am really suprised those big sow whites are that far up already with the cold temps we have had. Whites however are hard to understand. Usually up there in March it is nothing but Small Bucks. We have been catching the tar out of the Biggins the past few Winters out on the main lake humps, and this year they were not out there. Could be they were living up the river and getting ready for an early push. Good Luck

Don't know if anyone is smarter or a better fisherman than you T. But I am quite a bit better lookin. For that period fishing the dam area of Table Rock Lake, you should be able to do very well with the following patterns,if the weather will cooporate and give you some cloudy, overcast days with a bit of wind. No mater the season, on the Rock clear bright and warm "Blue Bird Days," are better for Silver Dollar City or the Landing. In the dam area, start on transitions banks, where you see the chunk rock turn to gravel. Look at the cove mouths and the secondary points with some pole timber and also at the mouths of some of the bigger spawning coves. Wind is always a factor. If you see a location that looks good, but one that is not quite to your liking but it has some breeze on it, pick the windy point everytime. Usually at that time of the year, position your boat in 20' to 30' of water and throw to the shore. That, if you picked the correct location should be about a full cast from the bank, maybe a cast an a half. Swimmming 4 inch grubs in salt and pepper, smoke, or green pumpkin, on a quarter oz. head is a very good bet. Toss the grub to the bank and slowly follow the couture of the lake bottom, back to the boat. Bites are usually not hard takes, but you will feel them swimming with the grub. I will either just reel faster to set the hook or lift the rod on the set. Lilley thinks I'm wrong and draws it pretty hard, but If I do that I miss to many. To each his own. Both methods work some of the time. Fishing the same locations with Hula Grubs, or 3/8th. oz jigs is also good. Just pull the jig along very slowly, no need to hop or jerk it. Green Pumpkin, Pumpkin, Watermellon Candy, and Peanut Butter Jelly all are good enough. The split-shot will also be in play at this time. Drag either a Fish Dr or Cenipede in the above mentioned colors in the same locations, and you will get snapped. This should cover the single hooked presentations, and keep the triple hooks out of play. Big Hooky baits with many points are not necessary or a good idea, with the young stuff in the boat. Best Rule is keep it simple S-----. I know this is what I follow and it has treated me pretty well. Good Luck

How big was that Big Girl? She was just about as well colored up and pretty fish as you will see. She looked like a Clearwater MaMa for sure. Great job on your catch. You all were just the oppsite from us. You needed a 3.5 or two and we needed that Big Gal. Thanks for the report and great luck on the water.

We captured third place. Really a great day for us, as far as numbers. Only better day we have had was with the spoon, and I think that one was last December, that number was unbelieveabe. 19 keepers and about 35 fish for us on Saturday. Just could not turn up with a big bite, or we might have had a bag. Our's was 16.59. Limit included a 4.5 pound toad K that Billy caught just 10 minutes before weigh-in. That fish was an absolute PIG. I can just imagine what that 7 plus pounder looked like in person. We had a very nice Jaw and LM to go with it, but had to weigh a couple of K's. You can get buy with one 16.5 incher at 2.5 sometimes, but you will not win many derby's with 2. They were very nice fish, but just were not derby winners. We had a limit by 8:30, but nothing large. At 8:45 we pulled onto a big fish location, and before I could cast Bill stared putting Keeps in the boat. I am going to tell you I was sweating lik a pig, trying to weigh-cull-and net. We had so many K's that balanced out just even that it was ridiculas. He had to slow down and catch them slow so I could maintain no more than 5 fish in the boat. "What a Problem." He was working his little fat buddy so hard, he said I looked like a squirrel buring nuts. I was culling so fast that I threw back one of our keepers, and had culled down to 4 fish. "I looked at Beck and said you will not believe what I just did." I said, "I threw one of our 2.5 pound K's back and now we only have 4 fish." I had thrown back a 1 eyed K that we had caught on a previous spot, that we both had been saying just was not very pretty and we needed to get rid of. I guess I took that literaly, and just got rid of it. What a dope. He turned and looked at me, and said, "If we needed that K, it won't make a difference anyway, Who Cares." "Oh! by the way here is another one." Is this a great Partner or what? We are a very good team. Our great friendship outweighs anything in the competition. We are Boy's that just like to have fun. Indeed, it didn't matter, but made me mad that I coud have been that careless. Of course I blamed it on him for going nuts and making me do all the work, swinging all those fish in the boat. Paybacks are a commin Mr. Great day on the water with my Buddy and a pretty good check to boot. By the way we were big winners in the side pot again. That is 2 side pot wins and 1 side pot second. That is keeping the steaks flowing from Harter House. Everyone will have to follow the exploites of Dumb and Dumber. We may be old, but we still have fun. Good Luck out there.

I have fished Table Rock and been involved with the lake, since the early 70's. The lake really does not have a normal power pool. They like to draw it down usually from January thru early Spring to help with the flood control, and of course thru the Winter to supply electricity. It however is not uncommon at anytime to see the lake anywhere from 905 to 919. Anything in this range I consider as normal or seasonal. It gets to 920 or below 905 and that is a bit out of the norm. That still can be seen from time to time.

Congrats and thank you so much for the picture. Hope you have a replica made of her. That is a once in a lifetime fish here on the Rock. I have been fishing it 3/4 of a lifetime and have seen litterly 10's of thousands of K's and never seen her equal. Did you all happen to measure her girth and length? As was already stated, what a Toad! It is an honor to have you on this board, with a release like that. Many, Many Thanks. My largest Smallmouth was weighed by Denver Dixon at Big M also. She tipped the scales at 6 pounds 3 oz. She like your K was released just across from Big M, in Viney Creek, where I caught her. "But, of course everyone knows there are no big K's or Jaws that far up the river." Sincerely Bill

I will tell you this, it is a lot harder on the 8' St. Croix. We were using about 12' t 14' leaders of 6 pound flurocorbon, and I was using a 1/32 oz. Micro Jig. I will post some pictures of these jigs. They were made special for me from the makers of one of our trout jig people and they are just beautiful. It is just a splendid jig. I would think they would drive the crappie insane. This is pretty funny however that no one fishing this is catching any crappie. Spoke to Bill Richy this morning and he is not catching any crappie on it fishing bluff faces, and cedar trees. There are a bunch of us fishing bluffends, trees, transitions, and pole timber and we are not catching any crappie either. I just don't believe they are there, or they would eat it. Richy and Beck fished it a bunch last year. Richy told me this morning he thought it is pretty much over on the thing once the water hits the 50 to 53 degree mark. Kind of like the shad kills on taney. When they stop coming thru, within a little while those trout are not as hot on that white jig. The bass will also loose interest after the shad die off is over and more importantly I believe this is a staging bait for congreated bass and they will move. Fished with Rick Lisek this morning for about 4 hrs. We started off cranking a wart and had 3 just flat dandy fish in the boat in 30 minutes. We were betting each other how long it would take to put the last two in and see what kind of a limit as far as weight we would have.We were high fiving and thinking we were all that. We are still waiting for those last two fish. Never caught them, it just got brutal. I have never been so cold. I was just shivering by 10 AM. We caught 3 more shorts the entire morning and got off the gar hole before it froze over. Good Luck

Beck and I started out this AM on a Float N Fly and finished up on a McStick Blue Bandit. It was hard, to say the least. We took 4th. out of 47 boats and worked overtime for everyone we caught. Tossed in a Wart, Mid-Morning, and it helped,but not a bunch. Only caught 14 fish for the day and 9 keeps. Did lose a Hog, and I mean Hog MOM-MA right off the bat. 6 Pound test line and pole timber don't mix. I believe she was 8 plus, probably closer to double digets. I have had a dozen on this rig over 6 and she would have kicked their butt. Bite is early, ending at 9 AM and then getting fired up again at 1 PM, if the wind blows. Good Luck .

Phil Stone discribed it to me today, to be chocolate milk color. Don may have a better handle on it.

Pretty much guided the same area you all fished yesterday. Craig and I caught 28 bass, mixture of K's and LM. Only had 3 keeps at about 8 pounds. Main Lake White River above Shell Knob is very clear and 45 degree. We fished as far as Big M. Mouth of Kings to Viola is tea colored looks like runoff water and main channel Kings River is 48 degree. Mouth of Kings to Campbell Point, is gin clear. Visability on a white spoon in excess of 20 ft. Surface temps at 46 degree. Started at 6:45 in The AM and fished till 1 PM. Our bite was fairly strong until about Noon, and then it really died as the sun and wind took over. For the last month when ever I could fish, I have been on a very nice big fish pattern. Not alot of fish per day, maybe on a good day a dozen. Some days none. but usually would have a 5 pound plus in the mix if I cound find them. Totally opposite yesterday. We got bit just about everywhere we went, but no quality at all. Had not been catching many K's and now they are up. Lots of Milk-Fat K's in the 14 to slightly under 15 inch class. Super fun to catch. Seem to be transitioning from bluffends and transitions, near the cove mouths and back to the inside about 100 yrds. Pole timber if present helps to warm the water and there is usually a fish or two suspended in it. Good Luck

We have a house at Shell Knob, that is used as a Summer cabin and on a very seldom time, we use it in the Winter. We built it in 1981. It has a basement garage under 1 side and a crawl space under the other. We seal the vents in the Winter and leave the heat in the house at 55. We shut off the water, but don't drain the pipes, and we have never had a problem in the last 30 yrs. Might be luck. I usually check the place out every couple of weeks. Gosh, that is a long time. My how time flys. Brought back memories of building the place. We did several years ago, on the pipes that were under the crawl space to one of the bathrooms, put that grey flexable pipe insulation on it. Only did it because we had it left over from building the New House. Did both hot and cold.

Chub, glad you found them. I'll look for the following and see if I can replicate your pattern 1. 15' deep 2. Suspended over 25' deep 3. Main Lake 4. Under a dock 5. Dock over a series of "Drop Off's" 6. Adjacent to a Gravel Beach 7. Chunk Rock on the Gravel Beach 8. On a point 9. Trees not present Sounds to me like there should be a few more variables. Places like that seem like they would just be to easy to find. Just a Kiddin ya. Sounds like you did everything in your power to answer the question, without giving up your specific dock. I think you did a real good job. Just got a kick out of all the criteria it takes to find a crappie. Far as I know you are probably right. I couldn't find one if my life depended on it. Great Report. Good luck out there.

That braid thing is a new. I can remember Sonny and Jerry McCutchen winning a Redman back in the very early 90's doing the same thing. Kicker was Jerry told me they had at least 50 jig heads and grubs already put together as they were loosing from 30 to 50 a day doing this very same thing. They were swimming it deep on 6 lb. mono. With the braid using 20 pound test that is 6 pound diameter in smoke green, and a light wire hook on the grub, you can bend the hook and get your grub back. Buster did not loose a grub on Saturday. Now, here is the deal, some of these guys are fishing the grub verticle in the tree tops, and some are swimming it. On the up and down presentation, I would just use 8 pound seaugar. For the swimming you are going to get caught. Braid for sure. As you all know, Tim and I used to fish team events and did well. He taught me a lot. Main thing was his work ethic. He is a complete fiend at preparation. He is a master of the tube and the grub, deep or shallow. If he gets a shot, he ain't going to miss it. He will catch em. He and Buster won a derby here by culling their entire limit in under 30 minutes prior to the end of a derby. They caught 22 pounds in under 30 minutes after fishing 7 hrs. and only catching a small limit. Tim is relentless and he will never give up, under any circumstance. It would be interesting to see in the history of Bull Shoals and Table Rock what angler had the most wins or top 10' in both lakes tournament history. My bet would be Tim Sainato. He is always a factor on our clear water lakes. Good Luck PS Capt. Donny, good to hear from you.

With all the research we have done on this, I have yet to see anyone make a slip float work. That jig is just to light at 1/32nd. to 1/16th. to pull the line thru the float to the depths you need. 10 to 16 ft. to the suspended fish. The jig just has to fall to far, pulling the leader. Works ok for crappie in 5 or 6 ft. But 14ft. with heaver line is a huge difference. The only way would be to attach some split shot to the line to help it pull thru, and then I don't know. You have to fish this bait abit away from you and putting all the belly in the line also effects the slip float, as you would have to have zero prussure on the main line to allow the leader with the small jig to pull the line thru the float. These boys down south have been fishing this for years, and a long rod and long leader is what they have come up with. Just equipment specific and somewhat of a challange. No Denny, that is not the location. No one is really winning anything or going ape doing this. This is real finess fishing and is just something different on cold, flat water. Boys that are doing good are swimming that grub deep ie 30' to 50' in the tree tops on 30 pound braid, and fishing a stickbait to isolated cedars for their kickers. Tim called me on Friday and said he had nothing the last two days but a limit each day of Swimmer's. Heard for Saturday same deal until he saw a fish on his electronics and dropped a grub on it. 4 plus pound jaw. Saw another and dropped again and 4 plus pound K. Had 3 Swimmers and the two 4 pounders in the well and just as he was starting the big engine to head for the weighin, Redford said let me throw my stickbait by that cedar one time. It worked a 6 pounder, with no time left. It always helps to be fortunate. Tim is both good and fortunate.

Current Fishing Report 2-27-2011 White River Outfitters Kind of what me and some of my Chronie's are up to and word on the water. Fished out of Shell Knob today, launching at 6 AM. Was pretty much light enough to fish by the times I got to the White River/Kings River Split. Surface temp on the White at the Mouth of the Kings was 45.7 Surface temp just above Viola was 48. Surface temp either way from the Kings on the White, both up and down stream, was cooler at about 43. Water was calm when I started and I mostly used float and fly and a grub. Did very well on both with the fly, probably being the best bet. Here is a tip. IF you don't like fishing a carolina rig and have trouble with it. If you have very little patients. If tangles or knots bother you. If slamming the lure into the top of your head is a problem. If power throwing a cast so hard the bale slams shut irritates you. If you are just a cranky person, and does not like having down time for re-tying. Not your deal. Don't even consider messing with the Float N Fly. It for the most part is a friggin "NIGHT MARE." Yes, they will if in the right spot bite it. (See Video on www.whiteriveroutfitters.com ) Babler and Beck Catching fish on it. If you want to do it, be prepaired for grieFFFFFFFF! I don't mind tangles and Knots are my life, but this is a workout. If you are using it, use nothing shorter than a 10' Rod. I am using 10'6" and getting along pretty good with it. Lots of the Southern guys are using 14 footers. Switched to an 8 footer today ""MAJOR MISTAKE."" cause you cannot go over that in a derby. 8 ft. is maximum. Lord, I needed your help today with the 8 footer and I did NOT, use your name in vane a dozen times this morning. I said "Gosh Durn." Both Beck and I are taking trips on educating folks on the float n fly, and if you are just fishin it using the longer rods, it is OK. The setup is very important. You have to have faith in location, and be able to see staging areas and places where fish transition from deep to shallow. There are at least a dozen videos on the web about how to cast and set the thing up, and for the most part you had just better get out there with the correct equipment and practice it. There is a learning curve. This is not a cheap deal. You got the Rod, and if you buy a Micro-Lite from Bass Pro, God Bless You. I just hate those pieces of CRUD. All the major companies make a specific rod for this. Make sure it is not parabolic, and is a tip/flex rod. You can tell my pulling down the tip. If the rod only bends to the 3/4 mark you are ok. If it buggy whips 1/2 to full, it won't work. Best reel is a 2000 series to 2500. Better be a Shimano or a Daiwa, as you throw with such force it will slam the bale down on most spinning reels with a lesser bale spring. I am using Fireline and Seagur Fluracarbon as the leader. Put this with an expensive fly-float-swivel, and you just spent yourself about $500 bucks for a goofy coldwater setup. And, if you don't have the intestinal fortitude to stay with it, this outfit is good for next to nothing. It is really to activity specific, for most folks. Or you could just try and throw the thing on a 7 foot spinning rod. Had a fair day on it today with several nice keeper K's. Wind Started and I went to the stickbait and they bit good for me till about 11 AM. Reports from Eagle Rock up were good also. Lots of fish, but just small limits on a jerkbait. Mainly transitions and and timbered pockets. Also reports of a wart bite in the Roaring River, Rock Creek and KIngs River Arms. Mostly on any wind you can find. Very slow retrieve and the bite feels like you are just pulling something. Kimberling City area today was slower. Bill Said the bite was off on the totally flat water and when the wind started caught several nice fish on a stickbait, but not a bucketfull. Believe T. Snotnose caught his winning bag yesterday in the dam area. Several of the top competitors fished that area, mostly swimming a grub, with the bigger fish on a stickbait suspended in timber. Have heard reports of Whites in the Kings and also the White from Roaring River up, Sketchy but a few being taken. Lots of crappie action in the James with the bigger crappie comming from dock patterns, but lots of fish on the mud and windy banks. With the weather in the upper 50's and low 60's this week, that jerkbait bite will get where it should be. Good Luck

Both Beck and I were amazed at the low weight it took to win. Even us old dogs might have had a chance. I may be totally off base, but here is what I figure. Beck and I had a great day just fishin on Friday, and so did alot of these guys. Our guide clients caught them real well and so did some of the locals. Here is how I see it. The prussure on the lake Friday was the heavest day of the year, then turn around on Saturday and have an even bigger day and from what I am hearing there were two boats on every point from point 5 to point 14 up the James to point 23 up the white. It is getting better everyday, but there are only so many fish up right now, and they are not everywhere. You wack the snot out of them in practice, and that is what is there. Yes it may replenish abit, but with heavy, heavy prussure on this lake Wed. thru even today, they might have their heads tucked abit. One of the guys I guided has a secret spot I showed him 5 years ago. It is not secret, but it is somewhat of a community hole, but it will simply load up at times. I told him, just stay off of there and then go in the day of the derby. It is close to Kimberling and most guys run past it on the take off. Friday evening he sends me a pic of a 5.5 pounder he caught in there. He said he just had to test it. "INSANE." He went back in there Sat and caught another 4.8. He told me he also on friday had caught two keeper K's in there. I just shook my head in disbelief. WHY? He had 7 keepers on Friday at about 15 pounds in practice. On Saturday he did weigh in 12 pounds and got a check, so I couldn't fuss to hard at him. It is just on Table Rock, you cannot do that, there is usually not that many fish on each spot. YOu catch them the day before the derby, and that is that. This is the way I see it. Just hammered and with fish and water temps just starting to warm up it was just to much. Marcus Sacora with an 8.8 however lets me know there is going to be a big-em hammered this Spring. Hope you catch him. Good LUck

Seems to be Baxter to Longcreek. But that was a pretty good report on Roaring River. Only problem up there is that water fishes skinny with a lot of boats and there will be lots of friends out this weekend. Next week if the weather stays in the 60's will get silly.

Billy and I have been guiding and talking with the BFL guys all week. Today was no exception, except we were not guiding, we were a Fishin. Did not stop the phone from ringing however and from the word, "THEY ARE ON." Same guys that were crying about NO BITES YESTERDAY, Were kicking the shorts out of the way today. Just deleated a 1000 word post by mistake so I am fried. Had it all mapped out and lost it. Bottom line, surface temps this afternoon 48 at Kimberling. Fish Biting--jig, jerkbait-grub. We had 19 pounds today and have heard of one 25 pound bag and lots of limits in the 15 pound and up range. Knew it was a matter or hrs. not days. Sorry I lost all the details, but to tired to do the whole d---, post again. Go Fishin and good Luck.

I am seeing some fish suspended off the bluffends and along the sides in 20 to 30 ft. most of these are suspended in anywhere from 90 to 150 ft. They are relating to the bluffends and the very end sides, but not on the top of the bluffend. I am sitting my boat a full cast from the bluffends, just hitting on the top. I am twitching it off and letting it fall with a weighted bait and using fluracarbon, to sink the bait. All of those K's hit half way back to the boat and "DEEP." I can see some out there, but when I either drop a spoon or a grub on them, they just dive for the bottom, out of the screen. I have had at least 30 fish this last week come up to meet the grub, and then just absolutely dive away from it when they get near it. Almost sounds like a cat has been in my tackle box, but the other boys are saying the same thing about these suspended fish. A month ago, they were rushing up to inhale it. Not now. Bill ordered a 22 footer. I guess he needed the room for those long rods. Beck and I are going to float and fly fish tomorrow, weather permitting. I have two 10 ft. okuma steelheader rods,I was trying for trout. Hope they might be the ticket, they were a little heavy for trout, but should work well for bass. Do you twitch that like a stickbait? I have jerked that durn thing so many times in the last week, my wife said I was fishing it in my sleep. Didn't have to worry about to many hook sets however. With the lake at this level, as soon as that lake hits 48 plus, it is going to be a Mas-a-cree! Would just about bet the farm there will be several double digets caught this year, along with multiple Jaws and K's in the 5 to 6 pound range. With the lake at this level, it will happen. Hope my arm holds out until then.

Here is what I know, or don't know to be more exact. Sunday, I put in on a very icy ramp at viola. Water temps at 39 fridgid degree. Kings was frozen from around the bend to just up past Kings Harbor dock. Tried it anyway for two hours and zip. Drove over to the Knob and launched on a clear ramp and fished 6 hrs. without a bite. Zero deep fish on the humps or in the cuts. Water temps at 38 to 40. Monday; Put in at Old 86 on a Frozen Ramp and fished the Longcreek to Indian Point area for 8 full hrs. Zero Bites on anything I tried. Surface Temp at 42.7 Tuesday; Launched at Mill Creek at 6 AM and fished from there to Baxter. Had 4 fish in 9 hrs. They were very nice however. one 5 lb. LM off a bluffend and three 18 inch "Toad K's." All fish were caught on a Pro-Blue Ito Megabass. It was weighted heavy and I am sure the bait was in the 20 ft. range when I got bit. Surface temps 41. Those 4 fish would have pushed 15 pounds. Nice fish but not very many of them. This is how guys catch a monster bag this time of the year. All 4 of those fish were caught between 9 and 9:30 on two bluffend points just oppsite from each other. I also had another one on that felt very nice and pulled it off. Had the 3 big sow K's on the one bluffend point, and then usend the trolling motor to cross the the other and the first cast had the big LM. two cast later I hooked another good-en but I slipped up and let it get off. I am guessing another LM as it seems they are running together abit. It is crazy really, fishing for hours for several days and nothing, and then a possible 20 pound bag in under 30 minutes on two points. In the immortal words of Mike Ike,"Never Give Up." If you get bit, I'm just sayin, I'd hang around that location. Guided a 10 hr. day on Wednesday. Again put in at Mill Creek and fished the same stretch to Red Barn. 5 Short fish for the day. Surface temp at 43.7 That was a mean day. Guided again today and put in at Eagle Rock. Surface temp at 44, above the 86 bridge. Surface temp at Rock Creek 40, Surface temps at Big M 39.7. Surface temps at Cedar Creek at 40. Surface temps at the mouth of the Kings, at 40 to 40.7. Caught all our fish on a jig or the stickbait above the 86 bridge on 3 points. Had 12 shorts and 2 keepers. They both would not have weighed 3.5 lbs. combined. skinny bucks. Also had two keeper walleye, and being without a net, lost a 6 or 7 pound walleye at the boat. Would have released her anyway, but would have loved to have made a photo star out of her. Before you all jump in the truck and head for Eagle Rock, it was a bite, but not that great. That water as low as it is fishes pretty small, and there are lots of folks out. Did talk to one guy trolling for white bass and he said he had 6 and 1 keeper walleye, that was above Holiday Island. There is a bite out there if you get the right condition. You all are going to hate this, but it is the float and fly. Bill Richie is catching them pretty good on it. He had a limit yesterday, but struggled the day I had a big set of fish. There is alot to know about how to do this type of fishing and it takes special equipment and a very patient skill set. I believe he is using a 1/32 oz jig on this and that is some little stuff. Good Luck

As of today, I don't believe there is a launch ranp open on the Rock. I have heard that Ahoys might be open, but that is one steep cookie. If its open great. Just all are Iced in. Have not seen a boat from Clevenger to Long Creek, in 7 days. Most I can ever remember. Saturday I would guess is a wash, but I believe, Sunday or Monday will be ok. May even be good by late afternoon on Saturday. Need it to be good as I have several trips next week, if I can get the tub in the water. Good Luck