Crappie? White Bass?

[Sam]

Wow, no reports at all on here for six days - just about when things oughta be about ready to bust loose.

It's like when the grandkids get REAL quiet - it makes me think they're up to something. You see, that's the thing about Bull Shoals fishermen - when they get quiet or start talking about Stockton, you gotta suspect they're trying to keep every glitter boat on Tablerock from coming over.

I'm going tomorrow to find out for myself what's going on.

[whitebassman]

Wow, no reports at all on here for six days - just about when things oughta be about ready to bust loose.

It's like when the grandkids get REAL quiet - it makes me think they're up to something. You see, that's the thing about Bull Shoals fishermen - when they get quiet or start talking about Stockton, you gotta suspect they're trying to keep every glitter boat on Tablerock from coming over.

I'm going tomorrow to find out for myself what's going on.

Sam, the whites are doin their thing right below the 76 bridge at forsyth. went over saturday evening caught one real nice walleye(25 inch, 4# plus spawned out female, whites still had their eggs. Males were milkin' though. hope ya have good luck. Later

[crappiefisherman]

Be vewy vewy quiet...........................................

[Sumday]

Sam, the whites are doin their thing right below the 76 bridge at forsyth. went over saturday evening caught one real nice walleye(25 inch, 4# plus spawned out female, whites still had their eggs. Males were milkin' though. hope ya have good luck. Later

My parents live in Valley View Village I check it out every other day also Slough Hollow have not seem the action to resemble a run but we are gettin" closer !!

[Sumday]

Sam, the whites are doin their thing right below the 76 bridge at forsyth. went over saturday evening caught one real nice walleye(25 inch, 4# plus spawned out female, whites still had their eggs. Males were milkin' though. hope ya have good luck. Later

My parents live in Valley View Village I check it out every other day also Slough Hollow have not seem the action to resemble a run but we are gettin" closer !!

[Sam]

Be vewy vewy quiet...........................................

I sure didn't find anything I need to be quiet about today.

I didn't get to K Dock until about 9:30, and there were about six boats fishing bushes on the edges of the K Dock flat. I bet they were catching crappie early, because they had markers out and were jigging and casting around them. The bite must have quit because I could scope crappie on brush around there but I couldn't get a bite. Also, all the boats doing that were leaving and going somewhere else about the time I started.

I ended up fishing from K Dock up to the first bend in Beaver Creek and back, and I spent some time at Snapp Holler and Cedar Creek. All I could get going was small male white bass right up against wind-blown banks in about 2 feet of water - and if you could get one of those every 20 minutes, you were doing good. Crappiefisherman - I worked every stump I could find for crappie, both near the bank and out deeper. Nada.

I'm sure somebody will read this who tore 'em up there today, but it wasn't me or anyone I talked to. Surface water temp was 49 in the morning and 53 in the afternoon, and I think that's what's set things back. High pressure and an east wind didn't help any, either. The best thing I found today was a new 8 foot 2" x 8" floating between Snapp and Cedar, with not even a nail hole in it. Hey, that's a $5 board, and I brought it home. If you saw a guy fishing today with a big board laying across the back of his boat, that was me.

Overheard at the ramp as I was taking out - "We didn't catch nothing, and neither did anyone I've talked to. Man, there's 50 rigs parked here, SOMEBODY must have caught something!"

I ended up with a limit of small white bass that I worked 8 hours for, 1 short crappie, 1 short largemouth, and one big bluegill. Not such a bad day, but better days are coming.

[crappiefisherman]

was it a treated board??? That was my marker .Sam you mentioned 9:30.The actions over by then.You have to fish by the overturned lumber truck between snapp and cedar to catch any anyhow..

[Sam]

was it a treated board??? That was my marker .

Well, it's mine now - hehe. You'll have to go by your ratty ballcap, which is still hanging on a bush nearby.

Yeah, I know I got out too late - I got lazy since it was 37 degrees when I should have got there. I guess I'm turning into a fair-weather fisherman, I'll do better about that next time. The way all those boats were acting, I know crappie were being caught early.