Firemntom

Hey Guys, Coming down for the annual family trip the first week of June. This will be my fourth year coming to Norfork and I have to say it is an amazing area. Every year around this time I start to get the Norfork Itch and I start my research and Bass Pro spending spree. My buddy and I joke every year on the water that we have spent thousands and thousands of dollars on lures and tackle in order to learn the lake and what it has to offer. We learned the walleye and the spots and lures to catch them. Catch and release by the way. I cant complain with walleye, however the stripers are what I would like to target and catch. We stay at Teal Point and had many excursions out to the dam. Tried everything live shiners, spoons, trolling, top with spooks. Had no luck at all, went with a guide Tom Reynolds two years ago and had a blast. Can you guys help me out, I can offer some good advice on walleye location and what I use. The colors I use would not be your first choice or even at all. But they worked really, really well. So if you want to swap info please email me. Firemntom@aol.com Location? Lures? Where I can buy Shad? Anything would help Thanks in advance! Tom from Chicago, Illinois

No planers, no weights just off each side of the boat. I don't know the size but I was hitting the bottom in 20' of water. It seemed as it would piss them off when it was tapping the bottom on those big rocks by cow. I was using 6 pound fluro with roughly 150' of line. Also using Hot n Tots. Silver with black top when it was a full moon and smashed them on it. I tried the planers out but it did not work for me. I stayed right over them watching the fish finder and keeping me in the right depth.

Just got back yesterday. Fishing was great at night never stayed past 10:30 but did not need to. I was fishing for walleye caught my limit between 7:30-10:30. Everything was in less then 20 foot of water on reef runners with lots of color in it mostly bright like yellows pinks, purples, blues. Trolled between 2.6-3.0 mph and hooked on everypass. My biggest was a 24.5 chunky wally. Bass up the butt and believe it or not a 14" crappie all caught by reef's. Now that I am back I don't care about tellin my spot of succes so I fished at Cow Point and trolled to the docks. Hummingbird resort cove produced lots of fish (mostly crappie). Took a ride to the dam for day caught a couple of nice walleye 19's 20's off of koso point across from the dam in 30 fwo. No stripers tried everything. Hope this helps. Tom

Just checkin to see how its going down there. Its been quite lately with the post but maybe you guy's are busy fishin which would be good. Comin down first week in June to see if I can find some wally's. I hope that the water level is ok when I come down. Last year first week in June it was 25' higher then normal. Had a hard time finding any fish. I would love to hear some more info on whats happening on the lake. Thanks, Tom Never caught a walleye in the last three years I've been down there. Spend hours on the water and nothing but maybe this year will be the one.