Shell Knob Area--Fishing Report Needed

[dwiebenga]

This is my first time on this forum, but it looks to be stacked with useful information.

I am making my first trip to Table Rock in 8 years on April 7-9th. I plan to target Bass (KY,LM,SM) and Crappie. I plan on hitting all my old haunts, but I wanted some information on current water conditions, temperature and spawning cycle.

Is the rouge bite still on?

Are the bass moving into the swallows yet?

Based on my past knowledge, I plan to hit pea gravel and chunk rock banks, is this accurate?

Also, I plan to throw tubes, jigs, Warts, rogues, carolina rig, and drop-shot rigs for the majority of the weekend. Is this a good plan of attack.

Finally, I have never been overly successful with the crappie fishing on the lake, and help would be nice with that.

Thanks, and I will provide a detailed report on April 10th.

Dave

[SKMO]

Dave - what part of the lake will you be on? i.e. where are your haunts?

Sounds like you have a good plan of attack. I'm sure you could catch drop shot fish but thats probably not necessary unless you really like fishing that way.

There are fish deep and shallow, bear in mind. at least in my opinion, anything 25' or less is "shallow" on this lake, so depends on your definition of shallow.

Phil has a crappie thread pinned that has a lot of info. If you want to catch crappie on the Kings, launch at Viola, follow the rest of the boats that look like crappie fisherpeople, when you get to an area with a lot of boats throwing little jigs pull over and start casting.

I think if you will read the last couple weeks posts for TR you will get a lot of questions answered and I'm sure there will be more info put up before you leave.