Colorado hillbilly

Down here for crappie (drove from Colorado!) and walleye. Took my mom and uncle out Mon afternoon and Tues morming. Cane poles with crappie minnows (just small ones). Haven't done that for over 40 years. Caught almost limits of big crappie using minnows (lip hooked) over the standing timber south of K-dock along the shore. I used slip bobber most of the time while the old folks (their in there 80's) used the cane poles. They out fished me. Fish fry tonight! Sure wish I could have found some walleye - but didn't. Lip hook 'em. 18" leader below weight. Fish at about 8 to 10 foot depth. Fish right at the standing or submerged trees along the bank. Mostly females (every one with eggs so still on spawn). Good luck.

I know its way late for reply to this topic but here goes anyway: I had planned on making drive in October to go after the 'eyes but it is 850 miles for me and it's not going to happen. I suggest that you try two tactics (assuming you are day fishing): look for underwater humps with bait fish deep and near inlet water with a little current. Assuming you find these, bet that they're gorging on BIG shad and try spoon jigging real deep with large spoons. Or, troll (vary speed - even stop briefly at times)with BIG shad imitators (shad raps aren't bad; big husky jerks, reef runners, etc) and use either lead core with about 12' leader or 1 1/2 to 2 oz weights to get down. Look for sunken forest and brush areas and fish suspending deep (20 to 40ft)and try jigging at depth (I've been successful using soft plastics with a lot of weight to get them down). Eyes will tend to hit on the drop (spooning) or on the stop (trolling). Hope this helps in some way - and GOOD LUCK!

Fished upper end of Bull Shoals with my son on July 5. Middle of the day, bright sun, only fished for about 4 hours so expected little success. But, we caught a total of 9 walleye - only 3 keepers between us. Slow trolled (just fast enough to hit bottom every now and then) HotnTots (1.0 to 1.5mph, flat-lined) rigged with crawlers. Caught the fish between Barker's Hole and Johnson's hole. Started at 10:30am - pulled out of Beaver Creek boat ramp at about 2:00pm. Go figure. Nicest legal fish was 23 1/2 inches. The non-legals were 17 to 17 1/2. It would be helpful - especially for us out-of-towners - if people would be a little more specific about where, when, what and how they had success or not on Bull Shoals.