Smallmouth Report

[Bill Babler]

Very nice week with Steven, Ed Shawbaker, Tom Coopprider. Tom of Field and Stream Total Outdoorsman Challange Fame.

Smallmouth pretty much bit for me all week, with some extremely nice fish and really, lots of numbers for most of the week. Best bite of course was early, but could get bit all day, at a very decent pace.

Split-shot rig really is if you wanted to catch numbers of Jaw's the best bet. Either a 4 inch lizzy or a cenipede in watermellon/candy is just fantastic right now. I believe the jig however is catching the bigger fish.

Second bet, and just as good is the 3/8th, Chomper or Eakins Jigs. Really like the hook in the Chomper, it is a Wide gap and really bites them. This is a very nice jig. They have a new finess jig that has a round rubber skirt in a multitude of colors. It is very similar in appearance to the Jewell Spider Jig skirt, with the cropped off top instead of the double extreme full skirt.

Always enjoy fishing with Steve, and it was really a treat to fish with Tom. Showed him several good places and methods and he easily won the Bass Fishing challange. I guess there was also some FLW guy that is in the challange that has fished Table Rock before and Tom just blew him away.

Good friend and Client Ed Shawbaker was down for a full day of bass fishing and we really didn't have our usual onslaught. Ended the day with some nice fish, but not lots of numbers, and it really suprised be as we had a perfect day with some clouds and breeze.

Whites were just everywhere, and if we had wanted it would have been white after white. We were after Green and Brown Fish [attach

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[Phil Lilley]

Man- he's going picture crazy!!!

Has alot of catching up to do.

[Flippin]

Post a picture for a man and he will post a few. Teach a man to post his own pictures and he post enough for a lifetime.

There is Proverb in there somewhere that has a simialar twist.

[James Robertson]

Very nice week with Steven, Ed Shawbaker, Tom Coopprider. Tom of Field and Stream Total Outdoorsman Challange Fame.

Smallmouth pretty much bit for me all week, with some extremely nice fish and really, lots of numbers for most of the week. Best bite of course was early, but could get bit all day, at a very decent pace.

Split-shot rig really is if you wanted to catch numbers of Jaw's the best bet. Either a 4 inch lizzy or a cenipede in watermellon/candy is just fantastic right now. I believe the jig however is catching the bigger fish.

Second bet, and just as good is the 3/8th, Chomper or Eakins Jigs.

Very much enjoyed the post and the Pic.s Don't let em scare youff the camera Bill keep postin. James

[Phil Lilley]

I bought the camera for him!!! How many years ago... 2? And he's just now learned to post them.

He has some catchin' up to do.

[Bill Babler]

I cannot get my little digital that you bought me to work, it is froze up. Those pic's are with Becky's Big Nikon, she is letting me use if I take care of it with kid gloves.

5 of those Jaws were over 4 pounds and 2 were pushing 5 at, 4.12. Those are just huge fish. We broke off at least that many biggin's as they are as mean as the devil. We are so blessed to have a fishery like this with that kind of fish available.

The last week, on the topwater junk, those huge SMJ's have been rolling all over our stuff, jumping clear over it, bumping it and swirling on it. We also on occasion, hook one. Had 2 follow a hooked one to the boat on Friday. The caught fish was a 14 incher and two swimming under him were as big or bigger than any of the pictured fish. Just a great fishery.

Let me tell you, I don't have to catch very many of those kind in a day to feel pretty good about myself.