April 24

[techo]

A bit on the wet side today. We were out for about 4 1/2 hours. We caught many fish but only three keepers. Best one was 3.5 pounds. I have a pic on the cell phone, but it was a bit wet to pull out the camera! I tried to post it from the phone, but I am technically inadequate and keep getting error messages. Please believe me when I tell you a tall handsome dude is holding a huge fish!

All of our fish came on red fin and sammy. Best fish came out of the six foot water around the Mill Creek area. A bunch of shorts came from around docks.

Met Champ and Donna for a soggy picnic about noon. Some of the best folk ever. We usually hate to stop fishing for any reason, but this time I kind of hated going back to fishing and leave our friends. Plain good Ozark folk hands down.

A great day with good friends. Not sure what I ever did to get so lucky as to fish such an awesome lake with my Mrs and hang out with good people, but rest assured I will be saying thanks again to the big guy in church tomorrow!

[Spinnaker]

Good report. I was down this past week for 4 days and stayed near the dam. I had only fair luck. It was my first time out this year and boy was I rusty. I did manage to catch an 18 inch walleye with a crank bait near the dam just messing around and a couple SM at another location on top water. I did catch a 20 inch LM on Thursday in about 12 feet on a deep diving crank.

Before I forget, what model and color red fin seems to be best on TR? Hope to get down there again in May.

[techo]

We mostly use the pearl/red jointed red fin and replace the back hook with a feathered treble hook. We also used the Jointed smoky joe color. I know quite a few guys that like the chrome ones though,

I still like the spook and sammy better as I feel like I have a bit more control over the action. The red fin is just a cast out and reel in kind of bait. There are days that the Mrs beats me with the red fin though.

[Spinnaker]

Many thanks. I will have to get some and give them a try. BTW, do you use the 4 or 5 inch?

[Lunker Lane]

Redfin is one of my very favorite topwater baits. I really like the jointed ones I replace that back treble with a feather treble. Best color really like the silver and blue. They will bite any of the colors if the conditions are right.

[Champ188]

Techo is right on all counts. Great day Saturday, one of the primary reasons being some quality time spent picnicking with some darn fine folks. Usually not much myself on stopping to eat but truly enjoyed some "dry time" under the dock with Techo and Shell. Hope we get to do so again soon.

As for the fishing, can't "give away the store" with Central Pro-Am coming up this weekend but suffice to say we had an incredible day. Started in Fisher Creek at KC and ranged as far as Campbell Point by day's end. Best five would've topped 21 pounds and included two LM on the high side of 5 pounds each. Caught em on shaky head worm in watermelon candy, C-rig lizard in same color, grub, floating worm in bubble gum pink, topwater and spinnerbait. Fish are literally in all stages of the spawn, thus the wide variety of ways to catch 'em. I will say that I'm not sure there's a flat gravel point in the entire White River arm, at least up to Shell Knob, that isn't loaded with fish.