Kings River Report

[Phil Lilley]

Bill and I hit the water at 7:30 am this morning. Put in at a resort just down from the Golf Course near Shell Knob (Bill can say where). We headed down to a flat Bill had fished years ago. When we pulled up we saw shad on the surface and fish busting them. Cool! They were whites mainly but some blacks and spots. We ran our swimming minnows threw them and caught them for about an hour. They were busting as far as we could see downstream along the flat.

After it slowed, we saw some guys trolling by- they caught a couple of so we started trolling sm's and me a 1/8th oz white jig and caught some more whites.

Headed upstream and fished a couple more flats. Caught a few crappie on stickups in 4-6 feet of water. Headed back down and hit a few more flats and caught a couple more crappie and whites before calling it quits about 1 pm.

Ended up with 19 whites up to 3 lbs... mostly sows and 3 very nice crappie.

I did catch whites on a rattletrap, a blue rebel, a hair jigs, marabou jig and swimming minnows, black/pearl, blue/pearl and white. Best was the black/pearl swimming minnow by far. Bill used a dark smoke with silver glitter 4-inch minnow and did well.

Sorry- no temp. I didn't have a gage on my boat.

[CaptainJoe]

Thanks for the report Phil. Nice info.

Joe

[Phil Lilley]

A quick pic.

[denjac]

You both suck! I have to work until Friday. Maybe I can sneak off Thurs. Nice white.

[Tightline]

That sounds like a fun day,way to go.

Bill I'm sure glad you held that white up next to you instead of at arms length,you can just see how big it is better. Good job.

[brownieman]

That's great...a good day and that's a real nice white...I agree with TL about holding the fish.

My itchin's gettin worse, lol