Dutch

I have seen some videos from the Facebook Table Rock Lake group. All the upper areas look nasty.

I saw some pics of Cape Fair Marina and James at Pt 15. It is nasty.

877.41 at 1:30 still rising. I talked with the State Park and COE. Both have pulled the courtesy docks. If any of you are close by, how about some pics.

1:43 pm 924.31 and still rising. I'd like to see some pictures if anyone gets down there.

It looks 10 high this morning. They will be pulling out the courtesy docks real soon if they haven’t already done it.

I just checked it’s come up another foot. That’s 4 feet in 12 hours.

Wow. The last time we go anywhere near that our farm was cut off for 3 days because of flooding and we lost 6,000 feet of fence.

Sounds like you need to take an inner tube float. You could cover ground in a hurry.

We’ve been getting about an inch a day but in the last 10 hours we have received 3.5” of rain. So I guessing that James will be flooding. I checked USGS for Stockton. It has come up 2 feet since midnight.

Those old Norwegians probably weren’t on as much blood thinner as I am.

I like the fishing but the cold is getting harder and harder to tolerate.

Good day for sure. They were also biting in the James. My neighbor figured it up on the way home. We caught a fish very 7 minutes and 23 seconds but never had a double . My birds showed 64 and 65 every where we went.

My neighbor and I fished below Cape Fair today we couldn’t get bit except on plastic. We caught fish everywhere we stopped. We used shaky and Ned. We caught fish on every color that we threw except Meat Dog. We caught 49 greenies and spots with 7 nice keepers. We fished from 8:30-2:30. Only 1 other rig was in the lot when we arrived and only 2 others when we left.

Thanks guys the water color was great as was the fishing.

Have you tried it Texskin rigged using something like Jades EWG Jigs? I am only losing about 1/10 of what I used to + not gut hooking them.

What does it look like around the Marina, up in the river, below Buzzard? Anyone know? I’ll be down there in the morning with my neighbor. I’m wondering if I should plan for the river or bigger water. The last time I was there I clogged up my speedometer pickup and still don’t have all the wood out.

Sold

I need room in my Ned/Shaky box. I took out some of the jig heads that I haven’t used lately. There is an assortment of sizes and types, Ned, banana, ball, football, wobble head, etc. I will sell the lot for $15 shipping included.

I fished the dam area today. I tried spinnerbait, jig, ned and shaky. It was slow. I had 10 bites and caught 9 bass. 4 of them were nice keepers. All on shaky. The water clarity was good. I could see the bottom in 10’. The surface temperature was from 55° to 59°. There was no pattern. Some were near points and some were in coves. They were 4 to 15’ deep.

University of Missouri Extension Center in your county of residence is where I have always gone.

I could only find a few places that didn’t already have 1-3 boats on them. I was up to third in line where I wanted to fish after I got away from the snaggers.

What are you using? What are you having to pay for them? I have a bunch of supplies and will never go through all of them.

Bobby I have tried braid, braid/fluorocarbon and monofilament leaders and straight fluorocarbon. I use Seaguar red label and love it in 12 and 15# test. It’s not bad in 8 and 10# test but I gave up on it in 6#. It would be fine for a while then all of a sudden it would be useless and break like sewing thread. That chapped me as I have 5 setups spooled for Ned. Upon the advice of a good fisherman I bought Yozuri hybrid in 6# and have not looked back. I use it on Shimano spinning reels in sizes 1000 and 2000 and Shimano X70 bait casting without issue. It has been on since late last summer and doesn’t need to be changed yet.

But it must be July the 4th. I went to Cape Fair this morning. Flat Creek access was over crowded. All three Cape Fair lots were full. Both Bridge Port lots were full. Boats were everywhere. Weird overloaded boats (must still be snagging season). I ran all the way to Carrs looking for a spot without a boat. I hit a flat with a spinnerbait and caught a couple. Before I knew it 5 of those weird overloaded boats were all around me. I had to go all the way to Bearden to find a bank where I could use a shaky. I had 3 on the first 4 casts on a California craw. There were only 8 other boats in Bearden. I hung around there until I got 17 then looked for a bank without boats or rollers. I couldn’t find one so wound up at the ramp with only 4 hours of fishing.

What I had in mind requires less wind than there is going to be so I’m going to Cape Fair and throw a spinnerbait.