No Idea

[Bill Babler]

Started pretty early on the Rock this morning, out of the Knob, and it was not long till Dave W. and I were into topwater fish. First things first however, they were also eating a cenipede to dead and gone.

Tried to count back and see how many we really had, but the number just got away from me in the May-lay.

Yellow Magic popper and a Spro BZ-1 seemed to be the ticket. 5 very nice Largemouth mixed in with K's and Jaws. Fish were on a main lake gravel point and side cut all very shallow, under 15 ft. for the most part, herding shad, and I mean big ones. These were threadfins, but they were a good 4 inches.

Even the little guys had big shad in their craws.

Morning started out clear blue with a white hot sun beating on a pristine flat lake surface. What you probably would describe as a terrible topwater morning. Fish didn't think so and ate the baits with gusto, on the bright, clear, flat water.

I don't know squat

Bite lasted till 8 AM with the highlight being a very nice jaw taking hook line and Yellow Magic from Dave as he was winding in a respectable K. You could see the Jaw a commin in a torpedo like fashion, as it zeroed in on the K and the bait it had hanging from its jaw. It short strung Dave hitting both the K and the bait about 2 ft. from the boat in an explosion that broke Line, Water and His Heart. L Long gone were both fish and my $15.00 top water splasher.

"Just what are you gona do" We high fiveed. the scene as it was a real hoot.

Just been goin slack for me after the topwater nip for about 2 hrs. The fish then seem to position deep, but you just can't beat them up. Have to keep off the same fish and let them rest at least 3 or 4 days, or it is just pretty weak.

Had 16 fish on the dropshot after the topwater fishing. That was between 8 and 11:30. Had 5 nice keepers on the dropshot on the same point I had the 20 earlier this week. Wind kind of blew me around and would not let me set my feet.

All and all a very nice morning with a very good fisherman on the Rock today.

Thanks Dave, you were a guides dream. I even got to catch a few.

'

[ozarkgunner]

Started pretty early on the Rock this morning, out of the Knob, and it was not long till Dave W. and I were into topwater fish. First things first however, they were also eating a cenipede to dead and gone.

Tried to count back and see how many we really had, but the number just got away from me in the May-lay.

Yellow Magic popper and a Spro BZ-1 seemed to be the ticket. 5 very nice Largemouth mixed in with K's and Jaws. Fish were on a main lake gravel point and side cut all very shallow, under 15 ft. for the most part, herding shad, and I mean big ones. These were threadfins, but they were a good 4 inches.

Even the little guys had big shad in their craws.

Morning started out clear blue with a white hot sun beating on a pristine flat lake surface. What you probably would describe as a terrible topwater morning. Fish didn't think so and ate the baits with gusto, on the bright, clear, flat water.

I don't know squat

Bite lasted till 8 AM with the highlight being a very nice jaw taking hook line and Yellow Magic from Dave as he was winding in a respectable K. You could see the Jaw a commin in a torpedo like fashion, as it zeroed in on the K and the bait it had hanging from its jaw. It short strung Dave hitting both the K and the bait about 2 ft. from the boat in an explosion that broke Line, Water and His Heart. L Long gone were both fish and my $15.00 top water splasher.

"Just what are you gona do" We high fiveed. the scene as it was a real hoot.

Just been goin slack for me after the topwater nip for about 2 hrs. The fish then seem to position deep, but you just can't beat them up. Have to keep off the same fish and let them rest at least 3 or 4 days, or it is just pretty weak.

Had 16 fish on the dropshot after the topwater fishing. That was between 8 and 11:30. Had 5 nice keepers on the dropshot on the same point I had the 20 earlier this week. Wind kind of blew me around and would not let me set my feet.

All and all a very nice morning with a very good fisherman on the Rock today.

Thanks Dave, you were a guides dream. I even got to catch a few.

'

I love the hat Bill!!! What exactly is a Jayhawk....? It's a terrorist! It kinda would be like MU naming our team the Missouri Al Qaeda..............!

[denjac]

L Long gone were both fish and my $15.00 top water splasher.

Last week caught a nice fish on my Sammy. He was heading straight up by the boat so while I had his speed going thought I would use that to my advantage and swing him into the boat. Opps he was a little bigger than I thought and when I brought him out of the water I broke off and he and my Sammy swam off. That will teach me. Might have helped if I had retied the Sammy too.