Fishing Report 5/02/08

[zander]

I was worried about the weather this morning, but it looked like the storm line had passed so my father and I hit the Rock about 8:00 AM. Having studied Mr. Babler's posts like a textbook, I had my maps prepared with the focus of hitting points facing south where the wind would be hitting. It was one thing to do it all on paper, quite another to do it on the water. The wind was blowing pretty good with white caps. We were fishing the Kimberling Area. The wind shifted from the south to the west and the trolling motor couldn't overpower the wind. We adapted our strategy (Bill's strategy) to have the wind drift us over these flats off the wnd of the points. Just as Bill said there were the fish, suspended in 8-25 ft of water. After trying the grubs, I started to feel desperate and put a nightcrawler on the end of a 1/4 oz fb jig head. First cast with that drifting over a point I caught my first Table Rock bass in 25 years a nice fiesty smallie. My father had a salt-n-pepper worm on a jig head and then he got a fish on but evidently the fish didn't have a hold of the business end of the bait. After that my father switched to crawlers on jig head and the next drift he caught a 2 - 2 1/2 lb Kentucky. At this time, we felt like we had it all figured out, and it felt pretty good. Evidently the fish were starting to figure us out too though. We missed several more K's before we tried to find a simliar point elsewhere. Unfortunately we never did locate another producing point. By this time we were both drenched and pounded from the waves so we called it a day around 1:30 PM. So my hats off to you Mr. Babler, your advice really paid off breaking a loooooong dry spell on TRL for us.

Water temp 60 around Kimberling 61 by Point 7 stained visiblity 2 - 2 1/2 feet.

[motoman]

No I would say they are really getting started, remember these are pre-spawners we are catching getting ready to go in.. I sure there are some that have already done there thing, but there is a big group just waiting for a temp change, full moom something will trigger them. Everyone read Bill's post again that is information at it's best, you just can't get that type of information anywhere but here!

Tell you how we do today

Good Fishing

Capt. Don

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That's great Zander! Good report. I only get to fish the Rock a few times a year. But the info posted by the guru's is excellent. It gives plenty of guidance on how to attack the water.

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I feel for yah on the water today, that wind was really whipping up here, I can only imagine how bad it was on the rock. (and I sure know about the trolling motor not up to the task to hold you on a point) Way to adapt and drift over the points!

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Good report.

[WebFreeman]

Now that's cool. good report, Zander.