Fishing Report Sunday 27th And Monday 28th

[Brennan]

Got down to the lake Sunday at first light. Put in at Mill Creek and fished from there to Campbell Point area. Started throwing a topwater around the ramp for surfacing fish but only seemed to catch a few small K's. Backed off and threw a FB jig and a Fish Doctor on a CRig in about 20-30 feet and caught a couple more short K's. Headed up the white and fished a couple Bluffend points with cedars with the topwater and the jig with no takers. Saw some fish on the graph in the 30-35ft range off these channel swing bluff points and dropped down to them with a dropshot chomper worm in brown/purple laminate and it was on. Just about every point I stopped at I caught fish at this depth. They were on the bottom at 30-35ft or just up off of it a few feet. I tried to stay on the ridge where the channel was pulling away from the point. I am not a dropshot guy at all so I was just tickled to be having some success at this technique. I wasn't measuring the fish but I bet I only had 3 or 4 squeaker keeper K's out of 20+ fish. Did the dropshot thing for a few hours and decided to head back to the Mill Creek/KCity area and drag a FB jig to see if I could get some better quality. Pulled up to a long point within sight of the bridge and made a few casts with a 3/4oz Chomper FB jig brown/purple with GP Yamamoto twin tail and got lucky with a nice 5 1/2lb Largemouth. This fish hit on the bottom at 45 feet. I am used to fishing 1 -3ft of dirty water so this was just amazing to me. Snapped a quick picture with my phone and slid her back into the water. Point hopped a while in that area and caught a few more small K's on the jig and decided to call it a day at about 5:30.

Originally I planned to head way up the James in search of shallow Largemouth on Monday morning but decided I may be rushing the season just a bit if I am catching 5 1/2 lb fish in 45 feet! So I decided to stay down in the KCity area and see what would happen with the deep jig. Got out at dark thirty....no Topwater takers. Started looking for some mixed chunkrock/ledge type banks with shade and wind and put the boat in 35 feet. My absolute longest cast with the 3/8 FB jig would land 20-30 feet from the bank. Slow dragging the jig I caught about 10 Smallmouth in the 14inch range with one nice 17 incher thrown in. Once, when the sun was starting to peak up over the treetops and the bite was slowing, I noticed some surfacing fish 30 yards behind me. I had just made a long cast with the jig, so I started cranking it in as fast as I could so I could pick up the topwater and throw to the fish. Well, I was worried that was taking too long so I just set down the jig rod and threw the topwater to the fish. Yep, I took too long and by the time I cast they were gone. But, when I picked the jig rod up, I had a fat 15 inch smallmouth on the end of my line. This got me to thinking that he was probably following it when I was reeling it in so fast, and hit it on the fall when I decided to set it down to go for the topwater fish. I started ripping the bait off the bottom and letting it fall....this got me a few more fish when I thought the jig bite was getting pretty slow.

I just cant say enough good things about this lake. I am so jealous of you guys that get to fish it on a regular basis. I am going to try my darndest to get back down when it really is time for "fall fishing." Any recommedations on the best time (mid October, Late October?). Thanks.

[Phil Lilley]

Great report!! Thanks.

[JDH_MOangler]

Thanks for the report. I'm heading down to the Indian Point area Sunday for a week and I'm not real familiar with Table Rock so I'm on here gathering all the info I can.

[BobK]

Thanks for the report......I find that lake difficult to fish.

[Spinnaker]

I had some luck the week before and need to get acquainted with the drop shot technique. BobK: When I first started coming down to TRock I also had difficulty fishing there. I was fortunate to have the advice of the forum and my resort owner who knows the lake quite well. Once I got used to fishing the football jig things really changed for me. Now I need to try the drop shot method.