Hunter75

I see alot of the spider rigs on truman, you might try posting on the truman forum and see what those boys have to say.

Water was so stained i couldnt see any, didnt try going out deeper and trying to catch them, so i really dont know. Never could find any water above 65.1 so i dont think they are ready yet. These cool days and colder nights might be setting them back a little but its getting close to the spawn. Last wednesday we had 28 but only 3 were females and their eggs were still firm and not bloody yet.

Started about 8:30 this morning with minnows in about 6-8 fow and couldnt buy a bite, wind caught my bobber and carried to the bank and immediatly it went under. Only ended up with 10 fish, 9 were keepers but the lack in numbers was made up with size. The 9 keepers were nice fish and all were males. All fish came in about 2 fow on minnows about 12-14inches under the bobber. Fished the big coves around the power lines at Ruark. Water was stained and temps were between 63-65 degrees. Fished until about 1:30 but couldnt get a bite after 11:30. Its always windy at stockton but today was just down right ridiculous.

I use a 1/4 oz rooster tail on a 6'6" med light spinning rod with 6 lb test. Usually just keep the boat near the schools and cast all around and through the school. Color usually doesn't matter on the rooster tails but I usually use the solid silver with silver blade. Those bigger whites are a blast on the light tackle and line.

I've always had the best luck with whites by looking for bigger coves with the wind blowing into them. That schools the shad up and keeps them in the cove. I usually throw cranks or rooster tails through the schools of shad and then hang on. If you see them surfacing pop-r's, chug bugs and spook jr's work we'll too.

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Pm sent, thanks Phil

I don't fish table rock much but we have a house boat at cape fair now and I would love to find some walleye on TR, I just don't know where to look for them. I plan on doing more fishing there now, I have heard there are some good ones in the rock. I have just recently found out cape fair holds some nice crappie so I will be searching for more of them as well.

Started out at daybreak for crappie and they were not cooperating at all. Started running a crawler harness in 15-25 ft of water around noon and by 2 pm had 10 total walleye. 6 were over 15 but none over 16 inches. When the sun came out they quit and I headed home. There were 4 or 5 others boats doing the same thing in the same spot and we all went home with our limits.

Started @ 8 am trolling for walleye around mutton and googer and caught a few shorts. The sun was shining and not much catching going on, around 2 pm when the clouds started rolling in the whites went totally insane. We fished the same small cove directly across from googer until the storm ran us off the water. the three of us caught probably 50 total and went home with 26 all over 12 inches. Had ten over 15 inches and one at 19.5 inches. what a blast. we never saw them boil on top but they were all over the graph around 10-15 feet deep. the wind was blowing into the cove and the balls of shad on the graph were huge and everywhere.

if you cant find a cherry picker, a good medium to large tractor with a front end loader would work, I have used one to pick up full size cattle. you just need a heavy chain. sorry to hear about your luck, hopefully you can get her fixed and get back on the water.

I also fished wednesday, fished from 6 am to 3 pm in the mutton and googer areas, could not find a bass bite so i started running a crawler harness in 20-25 fow, found the walleye, just not the big ones. Had 1 keeper @ 17" and 6 shorts all from 1 pm to 3 pm. also had a few crappie and bass that hit the crawler. Did have something big take me for a ride on the crawler harness, never saw it, but it broke the octopus hook just above the bend and came off, thinking it was a big cat, but no one will ever know.

My Dad and I finally got a day out on the water and went trolling for walleye, we are not very good with those crawler rigs. We started @ 8:00 am and fished until 2:00 pm. Had about 12 walleye on a crank running 15-20 ft over main lake points. Every time we trolled over a hump or brushpile we picked up a walleye, but we could not for the life of us put a keeper in the boat, all were between 12-14 inches. Did pick up three nice whites. I had read a few posts about people picking up nice crappie while trolling but we didn't hook a single one. Saw probably a 5 lb walleye floating belly up, looked to have been dead for a few days. Going to try and book a date with you next year Bob, so we can learn how to fish those crawler harnesses and jigs correctly.

Fished a tourney last night out of Cedar Ridge, had no trouble catching fish but did have trouble catching keepers. My dad and I lost count of the total fish we caught after around 40. We fished between 6pm and 1am but only had 4 keeps totaling 8 lbs for second place. First place had 9 lbs with the big bass being a 6 pounder. We caught all our fish on blue salty craws in on chunk rock banks in 1-10 feet of water before dark and on purple spinnerbaits in the same type of water after dark. Everyone was catching fish on spinnerbaits. All the boats reported the same thing, many 14 inchers and very few 15+ inchers. That 6 pounder was a beauty and all fish swam off to be hooked another day.

well we tried saturday, man was it hot. We ended up with one walleye on the crawlers, those stinky slimey drum were in a feeding frenzy and that is all we could catch. We tried trolling but all we caught trolling was crappie. Had one crappie that went almost 14 inches. Found a 22 inch walleye that weighed right at 4 lbs struggling to survive, it was floating in about 10 feet of water around Birch. It didn't have any obvious trauma or a hook hanging out of its throat so we weren't really sure what killed it.

Thanks for the info Bob, much appreciated, I'll post the results if we have any

what area of the lake are you finding the most walleye? Looking to take my Dad out this weekend for Father's day, he'd get a kick out of a mess of walleye.

I saw that episode as well, it showed the states where they confirmed the snakehead had taken up residence, Iowa has them as well as Arkansas, thses things are bad news.

mostly chunk rock, the water was way up in the brush and you had to literally drop the minnow right in some brush to get a strike, once the wind drifted it out into open water the only thing that would bite was the gills.

we ususally go for bluegill, they are easy to catch off our dock, but the kids really want to try something else. They want to go out in the boat and catch crappie. They heard we had been catching good crappie at Stockton, but Memorial Day weekend is our family get together at our dock on Table Rock. Using crawlers for bluegill is my backup plan if we can't find any crappie.

fished Son's Creek Friday from 10 am untill 4 pm, caught about 25 crappie, all in less than 6 feet of water right up on the bank, only threw back 10, the other 15 were all 11 inches plus. Caught them all on minnows rigged about three feet below the bobber. Got into a school of big gills, kept a few of them too.

I fish The Rock quite often, but it is always for bass, have a few youngsters coming out with me next weekend and they want to catch some crappie. Just wondering where to go to drown some minnows. Will be in the State Park and Indian Point area. Any info would be great.

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anybody fishing at night???

going up to do some night fishing, anyone catching any bass at night. Going to start around 5 or 6 and fish until we can't stay awake anymore.