We Whacked'em Sunday!

[Whack'emGood]

As Mr. Babler wrote in post a month or so ago.... "Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug."

Apparently there were alot of guys today who were bugs, but believe it or not me and my dad were the windshield today. Fished the Kimberling City area on main lake points. It was just like everybody was saying a few days ago-- depending on which point we pulled up on, we either caught 0 or a bunch. We caught them all swimming a grub-- counting them down. We would start out about 2 casts from the brush and fish around the point-- counting to 10 and then if we didn't catch em counting to 15, then deeper, then bottom-- until we found them. If we didn't find them like that 2 casts out, we would move in to a cast and a half and repeat fishing the various depths again. If we didn't catch them then, we would move in and cast just outside the edge of the brush and counted down again. We caught fish at various distances from the brush, depending on which point we were on. Most fish came swimming at a 10-15 count down and then slow rolling the grub all the way back to the boat. Like I said though, depending on which point we were on, we either caught 0 or a bunch. We caught 24 fish with approx 75% keepers-- all released unharmed of course. The five biggest would have been 15-16 lbs. Mostly SM with K mixed in and one 3.5lb LM up close to the brush on the fall. Man, I forgot just how hard a 2.5 to 3.5lb smallmouth pulls. We caught alot of those. That was fun. Even though there was little wind... the points that we caught them on had what little wind there was blowing right in on them. Oh, and a bonus-- I caught 1 nice fat 13" crappie, 1 good sized white bass, and 3 goggle eye-- one bigger than my outstretched hand. It was a great day... nice to see the smile on my dad's (my favorite fishing patner) face. I can't wait to go again!

Thanks alot to all of the guides and guys on here that have shared with us your knowlege and experiences... especially Mr. Babler. Like I said before, it gives us a running start... and we ran with it.

Good luck on the water!

Whack'em

[motoman]

You sure did live up to your i.d Whack 'em!

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Good report. Those windblown points can be a bear to hold on, but looks like you guys made it happen, and I'd imagine far more tolerable with just a breeze.

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Just out of curiosity, how long were you guys out? and how many different points do you think you hit before you started finding 'em?

[Whack'emGood]

Thanks. It was fun. Not quite the numbers or size that some of the guides were reporting last week... but pretty decent for us. No telling how good we would have done if we had some more wind. Right... no problem holding the boat in the light breeze that we got though. We fished the middle of the day for about 6 hours. We caught them on the second point we jumped on. We really worked it over for a long time until they quit biting. Then fished two more with nothing. On the next one we hammered them again and stayed a long time again. Then the next one we caught, I think 4-5. Then fished two more with nothing, and after that we went back to the first one we caught them on and caught more. Then went to the second one we caught them on and caught them real well there again. We figured there were more there on those two than we were catching, so we let them settle down and came back and caught more. We fished a couple more later with nothing. So really we caught most of our fish on three points and fished 6 or 7 others and didn't catch a fish on them. So we really had to stay and milk them if we found them and leave quickly if we didn't get bit. They were either there in a big way and very catchable or they weren't there at all. Hope this info helps.

Whack'em

[Jason Essary]

great info, thanks. maybe color of grub???

[Whack'emGood]

Color = Smoke

Size = 4"

[motoman]

Ah yes, good stuff Whack 'em. I love the methodical nature you approach those points. I try to take the same approach to those sort of circumstances. (which can drive co-anglers crazy.)

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I'm a firm believer in letting a spot cool off after they quit biting, where you've been catching 'em. Looks like you proved there's something to that too.

[Don House]

Whacked'em Good job! Love days like that! Even better when you really figure out the puzzle for that day of fishing. Put that information in storage for another day.

Good Fishing

Capt. Don