riverfish86

Thoughts and prayers to you and your wife. The fish will be there when you get back.

I have a feeling it will be super tight in the middle of the pack with a few leaders that get on a few big fish and pull away. Seeing that already with Takahiro's one 5 lber.

I made the Chris Lane mistake a few times last year. I just couldn't pass him up a few times last year. I agree though, this is about as big a toss up as there is.

Thanks, I'll have a listen!

Can anyone point me in the direction of some good fishing podcasts? Would love it to be centered around bass fishing and professional angling would be a plus. What's out there???

Enjoyed the read.

I marshalled at Table Rock with Brent Chapman last time they were in town and asked him why they pick certain lakes over others such as Table Rock over LOZ and he said it is all about politics and money. I guess LOZ area chamber of commerce's' don't feel the benefits of bringing events like this to the area are worth it. I think that's why BASS seems to stick with a lot of the same lakes over the years.

I'm in. Looking forward to this.

I run a HP180 with a 115 Yamaha. Does fish pretty nice. Would really like a little more storage place. What motor is on yours and what kind of speed do you get out of it?

^^^ THIS!

Addiction? Did you read the subject? ?

Good to hear...Coming down this weekend. Found some Dixie Jet;s up here in St. Louis at a local sporting goods store and looking to wear the chrome off them.

Last weekend I caught a ton of fish on a 5" PBJ zinker on a 1/8 oz screw-loc shaky head. It is a PITA to get it on the screw loc but its there, you can fish it until you break off. I caught 30+ on the same worm and they keep getting better with more fish.

I'm coming down Friday, I don't see why this bite won't hold up through the weekend?

Anyone who makes there own heads, there is a mold now for swinging football heads and you can make them for about $.70 a piece versus the $2.00+ at the store.

They upload all of the elite series shows onto bassmaster.com. Although, it does take them awhile. I just checked and they do not have any of the 2014 tournaments up yet.

Will be down next weekend. They should be primetime with this warm weather for next 7 days. Can't wait!

Fished on Saturday the 1st and caught some nice fish. Had 3 keeps for 8.30 lb. Lost 2 keepers at the boat that would have givin me a nice 12 lb stringer or so. All on spinnerbait except the two I lost were on a chigger craw. Caught a lot of short fish (14.5") on spinnerbait.

Coming down to fish a tournament this Saturday. Those that are lucky enough to be out there, how is the bite coming along?

I'd love to play...I'm already in. So far so good...Vandam, Iaconelli, Russ Lane, Swindle and Boyd Duckett with the bad luck blown motor.

I think we measured him at 21". Once this river comes down and clears up a bit, they are going to put the feedbag on big time again I think. Hopefully ya'll can post some of your success stories too!

I know that this seems unbelievable and even when I think about it, it does. I mean c'mon, the Bourbouse? Now while I don't really want to give up my spots, I can tell you guys how to apply our techniques to other parts of the river. We find the large, deep slow moving holes, preferably with lots of shallow water up and downstream. During this time of year the fish flock to these big holes and are hungry as they are beefing up for winter. We catch them all over, rocks, logs even out in the middle if there is cover out there such as logs or rocks. We stick to rubber baits with senkos, creature baits like beavers being the hot lures. We can go out and catch a decent amount of fish all the way up until the water starts dropping into the 30's and when it freezes over its all over. I'll see if I have any more pictures from last weekend. EDIT: Another thing I wanted to add is that we fish this stream all year but only this time of year do we catch quantity and quality that I am telling you guys about. It is weird that during the rest of the year you think that the smallmouth are increasingly being over taken by kentuckies but when we fish this time of year we probably catch 3 smallmouth to 1 kentucky and lots of largemouth. So guys don't give up, they smallies are in there, just seem to be a tough catch during the rest of the year.

Kept another 12 or so kentuckies. Had another awesome weekend. Big fish was a 3lb 7 oz. smallie. My biggest was a 2lb 8oz smallie. Between 5 of us we caught somewhere in the 100-150 range. Too bad the river is prolbably on the rise now but it will be dynamite again right after it clears up.

We put fish between mill rock and peters ford on some private access. Thanks kayaker, we plan to do a little more spot cleaning this weekend.

Caught about 90 bass between the three of us last saturday and sunday. Numerous 16+ inch smallies and largemouth and kept about 12 spots up to 14". Two crappie over 12" too. Fall and winter is the time to fish this stream and its about as quiet as it gets out there with no fishing pressure whatsoever. We'll hit it again this weekend too and I'll update with more pictures.