Long Arm Report 3/28-3/31

[SD bass hunter]

Well it has been a while since I have been able to post on this forum because I moved to Kentucky three years ago. However this weekend I was able to make it out to Table Rock for a great weekend of fishing. I hope that this report helpd because I gain so much helpful advise off of this site.

3/28-We arrive at Table Rock. We drive to the ramp, step out side and then decide to get back in the car and go sit in our warm hotel room. I never expected or packed clothes for snow and 30+ mph winds!!

3/29- We get out on the lake at day light in a chilling 34 degree air temp. Water temp is down to 49-50 degrees. I start off fishing a point in 20ft off water in Long Arm. I pull a 2lb spot off with a 1/2 ounce peanutbutter/Jelly football Jig in 22 ft of water. Gets my blood flowing. I then loose a fish on the jerkbait. We were only able to fish for two hours in the morning.

We get back out in the afternoon. We run into bush creek and we started to get into the spots pretty good over trees in 20ft of water using jerkbaits. We found a large concetration of fish on secondary points. The fish were not totally commiting to my Lucky Craft 100 (table rock shad) but my partner was using a team diawa jerkbait (white w/ a yellow back) and they seemed to be committing to that better. We had a lot of missed swips that didn't hook up. We threw jigs, grubs, spinnerbaits, and wiggle warts but could only catch them on the jerk.

3/30- Start out on the same point that I fished earlier but didn't catch anything. We fish a cove back by the Ark. border and caught a lot of small largemouth on the jerkbait but couldn't get into anything with any size. Pulled up to a back with trees in twenty ft and caught a 14in walleye! Not what I was looking fir but still a nice surprize. Once again we could only fish a couple hrs in the morning. But came back out for the evening.

I decided to run up towards the dam and I was glad that I did. All of the fish were much larger. I pulled up to a chunk rock bank and on my first cast with my green crawdad wiggle wart I felt a solid thump. The fish came out of about ten ft of water and ended up being a 6.5lb (unoffical) largemouth. I threw it back but am curious on what you guys think the size of this fish was. According to my Golden Rule it was 5.5 but it was one of the fattest fish that I have ever seen. I then started to fish a spinner bait and caught a nice 2-2.5 lb spot. Then we went to a windy bank and started to hammer the spotted/smallmouth bass. We must of caught close to 15 fish with many above 3lbs! It was some of the most fun that I have had in the while. We were catching these fish on a windy rock chunck bank. We had the boat in 20 ft of water and they were following us all the way up to the boat. This just taught us that we needed to slow down. That was the ticket. They smashed the jerkbait.

[FRENZEL]

How long was she?

[SD bass hunter]

I think that it was right around 21-22 inches but I will post a picture ofit. I have been unable to upload it correctly.

[roy_eros]

I caught a real nice and fat 22 incher last week, she weighed just over 6 on my scales, but who knows how reliable they are! Im going to try to attach a picture of her not sure if it will work.

[dtrs5kprs]

Great fish. Especially like the sight of the metal hanging out of her mouth.

[FRENZEL]

Mine was almost 22" not quite. But mine said 6:9. She was exceptionally fat though.. Very broad as well.

[Don House]

Mine was almost 22" not quite. But mine said 6:9. She was exceptionally fat though.. Very broad as well.

SD Nice Fish you have to love this time of year!!

Tracy, Love the fish.. But I did not know you were 6'9" and your not really that fat?? So what did this fish come on? We need to get togehter sometime and trade notes on Long Creek!!

Good Fishing Everyone

Don

[FRENZEL]

Thank god I am not 6'9".. Fly fishing trips could get interesting.. I would look like a christmas tree. She came on an X-Rap. The silver/black back. 15 feet off the bank on a transition. I am trying to stick around Long Creek a little more now that I work out of Long Creek resort next to gages. Not a bad trip to Baxter so I may start trailering over there when the bite is tough on this side.