White River

[SKMO]

Had the best day, hands down, without a doubt, I have ever had on TR, after fishing it since 1989. Not the biggest pound bag of fish but the most fish boated and the most legal fish ever boated in one day.... for me.. I fished with a great TR fisherman who has forgotten more about this lake than most of us will ever know, though he now lives 150 miles away and gets here infrequently. We fished from K-City to Big Creek.

To cut to the chase we caught a Lot Of Fish.... 2/3 Spots and 1/3 SM and not a LM all day. At least 80% of the fish we caught were legal. We fished points (probably 20 of them) and caught fish on only 4 of them. Lots of dead water but when you found them they were there and cooperative. Boat in 20' -25' of water and fish in 12-20', though one spot we found a pod in 8'. We did two rotations through these 4 spots.

The fish were still bunched up to the max and neither one of us could figure out why. But they were and it was obvious, the screen tell the tale when we got in the right spots. There seemed to be some loose scattered balls of shad on these spots as well.

All fish caught on a grub, Milky S&P Berkley Power Grub 4". Do not ask if the Power Grub scent was a factor cause I do not know. I have never believed scent was a huge factor but after today I will rethink this. I can tell you my bud threw some other similar common stuff in almost identical colors and I was putting it to him really bad before he started stealing grubs out of my bag. They would hit the thing continually until they hooked themselves. Lots of good fish boated started with off with little taps and they would stay with it forever. Most good fish were caught on or near the bottom, scrubbing the scum off the rocks.

Pretty much every fish that jumped on us threw the hook. We hooked, saw, and lost more fish than I see on an excellent day of fishing. We caught nothing huge but would have had 17-18 for five.

We got Really Wet, drenched, but it was worth it.

I am not putting up our fish numbers because y'all would say "Bull Sugar". I know that is what I would think anyway.

Hope I have given someone enough factoids to find similar results. I doubt if this will hold up long because the fish we were on all looked pre-spawn and they got to get some lovin' going on soon.

It was a fine day.

[Gone Fishing]

Awesome day. To think, alot of people would have stayed home do the rain but way to get after them. Were you in the Knob area. Come on now "HOW MANY". I'll beleive you.

[SKMO]

Awesome day. To think, alot of people would have stayed home do the rain but way to get after them. Were you in the Knob area. Come on now "HOW MANY". I'll beleive you.

Depends on what you call the SK area. We never got to Big Creek which is a couple miles downstream from Campbell Point, which itself is maybe 6 miles down from the SK bridge. Generally we were closer to K-City than SK. Thats about all I remember. Nah, thats all I will divulge. Smiley Face.

From talking with Babler it was a great bite lakewide today.

I will not reveal our numerical estimate in an attempt to preserve my already sullied reputation as one who exaggerates and embellishes the truth.

SKMO

[Gone Fishing]

Hard to call out "LAST CAST" when there biting like that.

[SKMO]

Hard to call out "LAST CAST" when there biting like that.

Not so hard when you are soaked to the bone (and I do mean the bone, working up from the cuffs) and you have already caught a bunch of fish.

At some point I started to feel greedy, just wanted to put my junk in some dry shorts and get back to them tomorrow. Which I am planning on.

[SKMO]

Went out today and made the same milk run of spots we caught them on yesterday. Caught them on all the same spots but greatly reduced numbers on every spot. Went from double digits to 2-6 fish per location. Grub bite was tougher but there. Extremely delicate bites which felt like you had picked up a leaf. Did catch 4 topwater fish (I think this is ready to take off)

Had a real nice bag actually by about 1 PM when the wind kicked up and we could not keep a grub in the business area. We were about to exit stage left and hooked a nice fish in the middle of nowhere particular on a major gravel point. Switched to a C-rig with a fry and hooked up right and left for the next hour, in a small location.

Ended up with another really good day. If I can offer a word of advice it would be keep moving until you find some decent fish, they seem to be bunched up really tight for some reason. I think things are going to change daily as these KYs and SM make there spawning move and the LM come back out of the trees, we'll catch them coming and going.