Fishing Report

[focused fishing]

Made it out for a few hours yesterday, fished from Kimberling City to Big Creek. Seems the stickbait bite has become inconsistent at best. Had 12 fish all but one were keepers best 5 around 16 lbs. Most on a 4" single tail grub on a 1/4 oz. head, 6lbs fluorocarbon. Best bite was on bluff ends and the ends of channel banks. Every fish was suspended from 5' - 15' deep over any overall depth. Cast the bait toward the bank / point count it down to 10'( the bait falls about 2' per second) and then make a steady medium retreive. Isolated standing timber needed to be close by but most of the fish were not holding tight to the cover.

Water temps from 40.2 - 42.8.

Jim Bruffey with one about 4.5lbs. on 4" single tail grub

[redbud]

Eric ,I am curious as to how many spots you would fish between K-city and Big creek and how much time you would spend on a spot before you deem it unproductive?Thanks for any advice.

[CaptainJoe]

Nice report Eric. Sure glad you found someone to hold your fish for you while you took the picture.

[focused fishing]

Eric ,I am curious as to how many spots you would fish between K-city and Big creek and how much time you would spend on a spot before you deem it unproductive?Thanks for any advice.

Redbud,

We were head hunting (looking for big fish) and probably could of caught more if we spent more time in a given area. The fish we caught were on the very ends of bluffs, swings and channel banks so we would make a half dozen casts and move on. If we caught a fish we might make a dozen more casts but not more than that. Not exactly a solid technique for derby day or to try and catch numbers, we were hitting big fish areas trying to find some big pre-spawn females so we moved around a lot.