Quillback

With my neighbor today. We launched at about 0515 out of Lost Bridge North, motored over to the point 1 marker and threw some stuff around. My neighbor got one about 15 lbs. on a Storm wild eye shad and that was our only bite. Not much activity, some scattered top water stuff going on for about an hour then it died. I threw top waters, but no bites for me. We left about 0830. Water is real clear in that area, temp was 65 degrees.

Well if I had to get just one, I would get the 130 size. I have been catching them on "I know it" which is a white underside, gray top with a chartreuse stripe. Some guys like "Loon" which is basically black.

Excellent, and that is one nice spot!

Does look some rain on the way, hopefully not too much. Had to break out the rain gear yesterday, couple of pretty good showers came through.

I should add that I did not have any split ring or hook breakage issues today. Did have a line failure, but fortunately Whopper Ploppers float.

Very nice - I have some Deep Little N's. Good to hear they are biting them. Saw the same thing, late morning, early afternoon, it got tough in spite of the cloud cover.

Fish are still biting, it was better early today, then later, after 10 AM it was a fish here and there deal. Caught a bunch on top waters, Plopper, Havana, and the Rapala Wake Minnow. Caught a few on the Keitechs and a couple of c-rig fish. No monsters, but probably got 12-15 keepers, in the 2 -2.5 lb. range. Largemouth and spots. Several boats came back to the ramp about the same time I did, talked to a couple of them, and they had good days also. Didn't think to look at the water temp, I'm guessing 66 or 67. I hope to hear some good reports from you guys this weekend.

Nice trout. That Ned is a Table Rock trout magnet. I think I have caught 3 on it in the last 2 years. Of course, there are likely to be a few trout in the White river arm with them being stocked up river by Arkansas and Roaring river eventually draining into the White channel also.

Yep, there was a gravel point that was loaded up with shad and bass last Friday. Yesterday the shad were gone, still some bass on that spot, but not like Friday. And the spot they were massed on yesterday, is a good place to pick a few up some days, but have never seen them there like that before and probably won't again. Time on the water is helpful, I know places where bass can be found when the top water bite starts, just have to check them out, chances are one of them will have fish. Best fishfinder for these top water fish are your eyes, take some time, look around, they aren't that hard to spot.

I drove over the bridge by the camp ground yesterday, water looked low and clear from what I saw at a glance going 30 MPH. They placed some boulders in the water upstream of the bridge.

Well I went over to HLS yesterday, but for some reason, they were out of stock of split rings and trebles. Somebody cleaned out their supply.

Today was one heck of a day, I caught more bass today than I have on any one day on Table Rock. Things got off to a relatively slow start, fish were hitting top water, but not like they were last Friday early. Got some off a gravel point, then moved down lake and got a few off a cove mouth in the deep water. Moved again, found some blowing up in 30 FOW near the main channel and caught a few more. Moved up river a ways, found a bunch of them off a rocky cove point feeding on shad. I sat in that spot for close to two hours and got bit on just about every cast. If they missed that top water, they would come back for it, and keep at it until one of them got hooked. Just couldn't get any better. Best bait was a 130 size Whopper Plopper in, well I think they call it Sexy shad, white with a gray back, and a chartreuse stripe on the side. A fish broke off the front treble somehow, broke that hook right at the eye. I thought what the heck, I should still be able to hook them on the back treble, but it wouldn't happen, probably missed half a dozen before I changed that lure out. They would blast it all the way back to the boat, and I could see them come if from the side and grab it, but just couldn't get them on the back hook. Kind of neat just to see them taking shots at it. I didn't have another 130 Plopper, so changed it out for a 90. The double above came on my first cast with the 90. It caught fish too, but it got breezy and it was hard to see it, so I changed out again, this time to the Yellow Magic Havana. They tore that thing up for a while, did some real damage to the paint. The top water bite shut off at about 1130, I poked around for a while with a C-rig and UV Speed craw and picked up several with that. No bigguns, caught a couple of 3 lb. largemouth, and many chunky keeper sized spots. Not getting hardly any small mouth, I caught 2 smallies today, one on the c-rig and one on a Keitech. Keitechs will catch fish, but it's hard to put that top water down. Water temp was 66-67.

LOL, no I really wasn't expecting a reply. You are wise beyond your years.

Champ, If you're going to buy a yak, might as well buy a two seater. You can sit up front and fish, and Donna can sit in back and be your "human trolling motor". Think of all the benefits - no batteries to charge and maintain, no more foot pedal, - you can use "Voice commands" to steer the yak. Granted, it may take Donna a while to move down the lake a few miles to the next spot, especially into a 25 MPH headwind, but you could take advantage of the down time to eat a snack, observe the wildlife, maybe even take a picture or two. Sure sounds like a good deal, doesn't it?

I watched some of the live coverage yesterday. KVD was throwing a 6XD while I was watching and I believe he did a bit of bottom dragging also. Anyway, I did not see him catch a fish, but he was working hard, cast that crank out there, work it back, cast again. Meanwhile it was rough where he was fishing, water coming on the front deck, front end bouncing up and down. It did not look like too much fun to me.

I like that measuring board, makes a nice fish pic with the white background.

Too many stickers on the darn things.

Thanks!

Chris Lane is throwing the Plopper on the Toledo Bend BASS tourney and is doing very well with it.

Some very nice chunks!

My neighbor has been out the last couple of mornings early and has brought home 3, 8-10 lb. stripers. When it is calm, they look for top water activity, and on the windy day they went to the same spot and threw Storm Wild Eye Shad swim baits. They have been fishing the dam area.

No need to apologize, thanks for the entertainment. Definitely a channel cat.

Dagnabit!

Did you get them at HLS?

You're probably not going to get many replies because if anyone has a bank fishing spot that consistently produces walleye they aren't going to mention it on a public forum. There's quite a bit of bank access at the Viney park and at Big M. I believe Viney is now open, saw a boat launch there yesterday, and a few cars driving around. It would help to have waders, or I guess you could wet wade, but the weather looks to be a bit cool the next few days. I'd say the odds of catching a walleye at either location are pretty slim, but there's probably a few around as there are shad in the areas mentioned. Certainly there are bass to be caught. You could poke around on the upper White below the AR state line, there is some bank access here and there. Make sure and check the regs if you fish in the trout areas.