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[Bill Babler]

Got out just a little each day with son Steven, and just had a blast. If he would come and see his Mom more, he would without a doubt be my best fishing buddy.

Caught some very nice quality SMJ's in the dam area, fishing the shelfrock, keeping the boat in 20 ft. Really liked those banks that with the boat in 20' your heave would leave you about 10' off terafirma.

Best deal for us the weekend was a 3/8th oz. Chompers FB jig. dressend in the new brown/round rolled spider skirt, with any of these three combo's on the tail Yamamoto, GP/BLK flek, 4 inch twin tail, Same in PBJ, or a Chompers Watermellon candy 4 inch twin.

We were kind of letting it fall down from ledge to ledge and draging it some and they would just eat it "Big Time" Had two or three in the 4 pound and up range on all the days we went. Funny thing is one trip was a afternoon and the other two were late in the morning, as we helped Becky serve breakfast before we went. Most days the bite is usually over by 10AM.

Went out this morning, with Tom Cooprider, who is fishing and in the contest for Field and Stream outdoorsman challange this weekend. Very High Sky, no wind, but we did ok. 4 decent keeps and lots of short fish. We really never fished one location very much at all as we wanted to leave as many as we could for him to catch during the derby.hour and a half at the front of the boat, he should be able to get some measured. By the way, last year Tom won the Table Rock Bass fishing challange. In a 3 hr. stint, he had a 6 pound black 2-4 pound jaws and two other keeper jaws, for a total of 5 fish at 94 inches.

That is a big bag ot TR bass, under any condition for a 24 hr. day, let alone 3 hrs. Of the 3 hrs, his co-boater got to have the front for 1/2 that time, so it was indeed a fantastic day.

Gave him 3 or 4 good locations, that in his short stint at the trolling motor, he might be able to get at.

Good Luck all

[gitnby]

I was chasin some whites this morning in the light rain, and as I was pulling up the trolling motor to leave I noticed some "shelf rock" at the mouth of the cove. I remembered your post and tied on an Eakin's jig with a twin tail chompers.

Just as I pulled the jig off of the first ledge it got slammed! Great fight with a big smallie.

My measuring board only goes to 18", and she hung over the end a good 4-5".

She was fat and thick!

I'm guessing close to 5 lbs?

Here's a terrible picture from my cell phone. Doesn't do this beauty justice!

Thanks for the great tip!

[motoman]

Dang gitnby, that's awesome! Great looking fish, either way. Plump looking belly there!

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I had a few smallies in the spring that were'nt real fat, and those that hung over my 18" board by an inch or 2 were right at 4 lbs. So I'd agree with the 5 lb thought!

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Love that avatar too!