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Here is a link with some places listed. Table Rock Lake Bait & Tackle - Missouri Great Outdoors

Could be an amateur rocket launch. High Frontier – Tulsa Rocketry

Watching the Elites on Fork today, it's all scoping at least for the leaders. However, they are relatively shallow, 15 feet to 5 feet and they are throwing jerk baits. FFS isn't going away for bass fishing unless the tourney fishermen refuse to fish FFS tourneys and the tourneys themselves ban it.

There is a bait shop at the corner of HWY 76 and 173 in Cape Fair. It is called Catch Them All. Dunno about hours or whether or not they have minnows, but I bet they do. Do a search on Catch em all bait and tackle for their Facebook page which has their phone number.

Weird tourney, not one of us over 1000 points so far. In the overall standings against the world. I moved up.

By guide Austin Kennedy from the Upper White below Housemen. Reported in the Outdoors column in the Weekly Vista.

April 5th the show comes to Table Rock. Also happens to be a MLF college event going on that same weekend. Drivers, man your scopes!

It will be interesting to see how it plays out on Fork starting today. Supposedly there are some bedding fish.

This is not the end of the march of bass fishing technology. You know there will be upgrades. Maybe a wider band transducer, better image resolution. Watching the pros last week where it was showing their screens, they find isolated fish that they were unsure if it was a bass or not. There is room for improvement. And the market is there, doesn't seem to phase anyone to drop a lot of coin on electronics.

And they don't have to pay for their boat, and an entrance fee, and transportation, and food and lodging.

When is your next visit down here? Been a bit dry, a little rain would be nice.

Went with a buddy when they held it 12 years or so ago. We went to the Expo on the first day. It was interesting, got some free stuff and there were some deals on fishing tackle. Once was enough for me, no plans so far to go this year. First day at the expo isn't as big of a circus as it gets during the weekend.

Maybe mix of both? There was definitely people burning stuff by the lake.

2 of my fishing buddies have FFS. They both have the hand controlled stick mount. They both are sitting down in the front of their bass boats with the stick mount on the side and it is pretty easy to manipulate when you are sitting. They both have Spot Lock and don't mount it on the TM shaft for the reasons you mentioned. I don't have it, maybe someday I will, but for now, no desire to get it. I also stand on the front deck when I am fishing, so I don't know that the stick mount would work for me. Plus you've got be head down watching the screen from a standing position. That may be fine for the youngsters, but dunno how that would work for me at age 66. I'd probably look into one of those foot control deals for pointing the transducer. That's all I've got on the subject. 😃

Dutch and I fished down stream from Big M today, and it must have been Table Rock burn day or something, people burning wood all over the place. Back at the launch when we finished my truck windshield had fine ash on it and driving out the air was thick with smoke. Weird atmospherics kept the smoke from disbursing, it stayed low and would not go away. The fishing was good, we boated 26 bass, all but three were spots, and 8 were keepers. All the keepers were spots, and Dutch weighed one for 2 and a quarter for out biggest fish. The spots are fat and mad, lots of fun on spinning tackle. Most of our fish were on the Ned rig, Dirt being my color of the day. Best bank had us sitting in 30 FOW but close enough to the bank to almost hit it. Rocks and trees were a plus. We were letting the Little Guy fall to the bottom and then work it back slowly. Saw several eagles, and a loon. Saw several large groups of gulls flying by, but no idea where they were going as we never saw them stop for feed on shad. WT 46 when we launched.

Problem is it started at 37 degrees and we had a long boat ride. Shorts are out. However by 11 AM temps were up and I was getting hot. Schizoid weather.

Good stuff!

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Thought Gates was an up and comer until this year. I like what I have seen of him, but this is from someone that watches maybe 2 MO games a year. The Hawgs have been a disappointment this year too.

That's a slab crappie. Dutch and I are heading out tomorrow, I'm looking forward to it, great time of year to fish, at least when the weather cooperates. I thought I saw something about 80's tomorrow for a high.

I believe that is still true.

Yep, I have given up hope, it would be a miracle for them to win out at this point, which is what they need to do to make the dance.

Way to go!

The little guy strikes again!

I need to stop by that place next time I am in the neighborhood. I like a good Cordon Blue