Table Rock

[Fishrman]

Tried it again today. Not near the results that I had on Wed. Not one keeper today, maybe 12 total, could not get them to bite the wart. Water was 57 degrees. Fished up Kings, and around the Shell Knob area, just not happening today. Hope others were more successful than me today.

[tunchi]

Tried it again today. Not near the results that I had on Wed. Not one keeper today, maybe 12 total, could not get them to bite the wart. Water was 57 degrees. Fished up Kings, and around the Shell Knob area, just not happening today. Hope others were more successful than me today.

Fished the Kings with a buddy. Not much happened. Took out and put in at Viney. Drop shotted points at mouths of coves in about 20 to 30 ft. caught some nice keeper k's and some lms. Had about 8 keepers total and quite a few smaller ones. Also fished a jig down the banks some and caught some smaller ones out about 10 to 15 ft of water.

[Bill Babler]

Fished Friday, Saturday and Sunday out of the Knob with the main business to catch some whites for a fry. Boy did we. Over 100 each day, fishing with son Steve. Whites have moved out somewhat, in the 45 to 65 ft. range on the flats, humps and rolloffs. Lots of quality fish out there with them. Caught 4 cats on Sat. and 5 on Sunday, with the biggest at 6 pounds. Also lots of K's and LM with these deep Whites. Probably averaged 10 keeps each day with the best 5 each day in the 12.5 to 14 pound range.

Saturday was a short day, as you all know, we had to be back on the couch by 2:30 for the annual Border War.

Got on a very small hump up the White River, between the Kings and Big M. and just layed the wood to the K's. top of the hump at 45 feet. Only had 3 keeps off the deep spot, but probably caught 20 to 25 fish in under an hour, on the 1/2 oz real image jigging spoon.

Look for these whites as just a dark or heavy line lying on the bottom. You will not for the most part see much activity, until you drop the spoon. It seems as the spoon drops they will just rise off the bottom to meet it. The entire bottom will rise.

When you get one caught, reguardless of the depth, it seems as many as a dozen or two will fill the water column and follow it up, sometime coming clear to the surface, but most common heading back to the bottom after 10 or 20 feet.

It completely amazes me that you can see these fish in 60 ft. of the water rise off the bottom to meet a spoon that has dropped no more that 10 or 20 ft. You know they cannot see it, they must just feel the vibration as it wiggles in their direction. My water temp gage this weekend was in the 58 to 59.9 degree range at the mouth of the kings.

One of our lodge guests was fishing the dam area this weekend and said he had some very nice LM on Saturday on a wart. Don't know how many, but enough to make him happy.

Also had several nice fish dragging a rig with a watermellon candy cenipede in the 16 to 40 ft. range.

So many fish, so little time. Good Luck out there.

[Whack'emGood]

Thanks for the reports!

[TeamKingTuckey]

DOES ANYONE KNOW OF ANY LM ACTIVITY UP THE KINGS, I KNOW YOU SAID YOU TRIED TO WART BITE, JUST CURIOUS TO ANY OTHER BITES. HAVENT TRIED THE KINGS IN THE FALL/WINTER AND MIGHT TRY IT THIS WEEKEND . FISHED THE KC AREA THIS WEEKEND WITH SHAKEY NED PRODUCING GOOD KY'S AND SMALLMOUTH OFF TIMBER BLUFFS, AND BLUFF ENDS. THE GRUB ALSO PRODUCED GOOD FISH ON THE TRANSITION POINTS WITH WIND. THANKS FOR ANY INFO

[tapout]

I went saturday up the james from point 9 to point 12. Had over 100 whites. It was awesome. Found one spot at 35 feet where it was fish on every drop. Like BB said, just see line on the bottom until you dropped the spoon then it was on. I didn't fish as deep as he did. Deepest water I caught fish was 35 to 45 feet. I was hoping for a cat but no such action. Probably caught 6 or 7 K's mixed in but maybe two would of been keepers. About 2pm I went cranking to see if I could catch any black bass of any variety. No such luck.

How long will these whites keep biting. Its fun when you find em, and my rather large family loves it when I bring home filets. I just keep thinking its got to end yet it just keeps going. This is the first year I've gotten into catching white bass.