ANYONE DO ANY GOOD?

[SLIPPERY SI]

HELLO TO ALL...I AM NEW TO THE FORUM, YET A 11 YEAR VETERAN OF TABLE ROCK!

I WENT OUT THIS WEEKEND(5/5 & 5/6) YET DIDNT DO VERY WELL AT ALL....ONE LITTLE BUCK BASS.....AND I THREW EVERYTHING IN THE BOAT AT THEM!!! WE COVERED ALOT OF WATER TOO..FISHED ALOT OF POINT AND COVES FROM KC TO CAPE FAIR AREA AND THE SAME SATURDAY FROM KC TO INDIAN POINT!!! WE SEEN ALOT OF FEEDING GOING ON NEAR THE SHORE AND EVEN HAD VISUAL OF THEM HANGING OUT ON THE SHORE YET WOULDNT HIT ANYTHING ARTIFICIAL!! I WAS JUST WONDERING IF ANYONE DID ANY GOOD OUT THERE AND IT WAS JUST NOT MY WEEKEND OR IF OTHERS ARE EXPERIENCING THE SAME FRUSTRATIONS??

THANKS,

SI

[SDHaze]

Slippery

I was out till noon on Saturday. started about 6:00am or so. Didn't start off so good for me either, tried alot of things.

Moved to the dam area and in a stretch of about a hundred yards, caught eight smallies, four of which were nice 17-18 inch keepers. Threw them back.

If it wasn't for that hundred yards, I would not have done much good either. Caught them on PB&J Eakins 5/16 ounce with same color craw trailer.

[SLIPPERY SI]

SDHAZE,

I TOO WENT OUT FROM CRACK OF DAWN TO NOON OR SO....GREAT TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR CATCH.....WHAT EXACTLY IS THE "PB&J Eakins" I HAVE SEEN IT ALOT YET I KEEP THINKING "PIG AND JIG" IS THAT CORRECT?

[SDHaze]

Slippery

Yes, it is a jig. PB&J is the color.

Also to add, I also seen some top water feeding action, but by the time I could get to them they were gone.

I finally ended up catching one of what I saw. It was a big white bass. Caught it on smoke colored grub.

[Don House]

I was also out on Saturday on a trip.. Started out very slow till about 11:00am, started dragging french fry worms over points near deep water Had 6 nice fish and one over 5, customer and I lost three good ones over 3 pounds right at the boat, All happened in about a 1 hour span, and less than 100 yard chunk of bank, fishing in 15 feet with a drop off around 75 feet. Threw topwater all morning with no fish. Seems like after the rain the fish push down for a few days then come back up and feed.. So you did not have a bad day just slow, it is that time of year... Keep fishing

Good Fishing everyone

[SDHaze]

Don

Thanks for making me realize that maybe I'm not wasting my time out there fishing. Hey, if you guides have slow days, it makes me feel better about my once or sometimes twice a week fishing trips.

It sounds like there was that magical 100 yard piece of realstate you needed to find to catch fish. I'm glad I found a small piece of it. It felt good to reel in those fightin smallies.

[timsfly]

Been catching a lot of small bass up in roaring river just about a mile below the 86 bridge, a few whites are showing up also, I caught these last week fishing for bluegill.

[Fishin' Freak]

I have not been having much luck as of late. Thursday I fished a number of points around the K-City bridge area and had very limited success and Sunday I made a run up into Aunts Creek and fished that area with limited success as well. We fished points, flats, and about everything in between with no real success. Someone who is catching the bass let us in on your many secrets!!!!!!

[Bill Babler]

Fished a big corporate trip on Sat. out of the Kimberling area. 5 of the areas top guides and all had it pretty slow on the start at around 7am. Mostly I believe because of lots of heavy tournament traffic. Almost all guide boat were throwing the fin or sammy to begin and then most switched to a split in late morning.

The samllies were the fish to catch even on the fin. Bill Beck kept on it most of the day and had some fantastic fish. Timbered bluff ends and big open cove mouths. I was visiting with Bill at one point and his clients were throwing topwater in about 75 ft. This is after all table rock and those staging and post spawn ky's will hang in the cove mouths suspended, waiting for tender shad morsels to venture by. The stray smallie or largemouth will also hang in these areas to give them some company. You never know.

Tim Paige was on the fin for a while but switched to a dr. on the split and came up with some really nice smallies in 16 to 25 ft. of water on the spawning banks. REMEMBER, the water has risen about 11 ft. the fish that were in 4 to 12ft., where does that put them? They did not move with the water, they stayed on their beds and in their staging locations.

I saw tons of guys fishing the bank on Sat, I mean throwing in 6 inches to 5 ft. of water. Maby it worked for you, who knows.

I started really slow on the fin and just had to believe with the conditions that they should bite the rascal. Saw some chasers and flipped a sammey to them and handed the client the rod. It went slack and the bass had walked off with my sammy. Figured he would jump and try and toss it but no such luck. Poor knot, need a better guide.

Clients started to catch a few on top but it just didn't ring my bell so I went to a watermellon candy zoom cenipede and started to catch smallies in the same range as Tim. 8 solid keepers by noon and by then we were so wet the boys said enough, we got the pic's to prove it, one said and we were off to the house.

I can't stress enough, the smallies are on FLAT GRAVEL, largemouth and ky's are where you find them this time of the year. Be patient, you are not going to catch 50 smallies a day. How about 6 to 10 really nice fish. How many of you are staying with the gravel and dragging the split or swimming the grub for 4 to 6 hrs. Thats what it takes. We are not catching tons more fish than you, we are just confident in what we are doing and where they live.

After 20 minutes most people want to change baits or locations. Go ahead and do that, you have tried it before. How did it work for ya?

The guides are fishing top in the morning and fishing drag baits and swimming grubs the rest of the day. We are catching fish, you should be also.

Keep a lookout for the chasing whites if you are a mind too. Had a great day on Sunday with these post spawn chaseres.

Spoke to Tim Paige a minute ago and the bite this morning was pretty slow but his afternoon as well as Buster's were very good with 20 plus fish apiece dragging a dr. in that same 16 to 25 ft. range on chunk and flat,flat gravel.

Here are a couple of rainy day photo's from Sat.

[Bill Babler]

Look at how flat the banks are on the pic's I posted above. Are you fishing this type of flat gravel? Fish are on it all over the lake. If this is not where you are spending the majority of your time, thanks, I need to catch more, and they don't seem very disturbed.

Swim that 3 to 5 inch Ctail grub in grey pepper, watermellon, white, or green punkpin and drag the dr. in green punpkin or the cenipide in wattermellon candy, green punkpin, or watermellon seed.

Put the boat in about 20 to 25 feet. Go get em!!! or I will.