Your Fastest Derby Limit

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arsenal1477

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22-May 08 Posted 11 May 2010 - 06:57 PM

thanks all. was just reading a post the other day and someone caught an 8.6, then they started talking about a few nines. i have never had anything break me off down there and the biggest i have caught was a little over 5. been fishing down there 25 years and cant manage to get a lunker of 7lb+...besides dynamite i have tried everything.

Maybe, you just answered your own question. I'm positive if everyone would release big bass, you would have caught a 7 lber by now.

I'm not a great fisherman, but have caught several LM, 7 to 9 lbs prior to the fish kill. Since 1999, I have only caught one 8.8 lber (released after pic). My big fish this year is under 5 lbs with over 300 hours of fishing. As stated before, Table Rock is a good fishing lake, not a great lake, like it was prior to the fish kill. I hope, with intelligent conservation, the lake will someday rebound to the jewel it once was.

The Missouri Department of Conservation says

LMBV fact page

The effects of LMBV appear to be short term, with bass populations recovering after even a large kill in two to three years.

The effects you are feeling on Table Rock Lake are more likely from the effect of mortality rates with catch and release. With increased Tournament pressure and more people spending longer hours fishing on Table Rock Lake even with catch and release, the mortality rates are more likely the cause of the effect that you are feeling rather than a fish kill 10 or 11 years ago.

[rubicon31]

If it wasnt for fishing tournaments and the over all popularity they have brought to the sport of bass fishing do you think that anglers would be as conscious about managment. Not only have tournaments enticed people to take up the sport of bass fishing but they have also educated those people about fish managment and conservation. I fish tournament and am an avid angler for all species. Nothing tastes better to me than some fried walleye/crappie, but I just couldn't bring myself to kill big bass. If thats what your in to than thats fine, it is your legal right. With that being said just remember that for each bass you kill you are actually killing thousands that it may produce. Im not saying that fish have never died after I weighed them in a tourney, but I take every precaution in keeping those fish alive. I caught a largemouth this spring at TR that weighed 8.8lbs, my biggest ever, I am thankful to all those that may have released her during her long life. She went striaght back in the water and I hope someone thanks me someday when they catch her again.

remember with each walleye/crappie you kill, you are actually killing thousands they may produce

[arsenal1477]

magicwormman- Yea, that was written 3 days before this whole forum bit happened. I highly doubt that by me keeping 5 bass out of the thousands I have caught and released there in my 30 years of fishing on TR had to do with why I havent ever caught a bass over 7lbs. In fact, the two times I have kept bass from TR are the only bass I have ever kept from any pond/ lake that I have fished.

It will happen when it happens, I just hope I can feel one that large on the other end of my pole sometime in this lifetime.

[roy_eros]

Back on topic, I actually caught probably my fastest tournament limit (and one of my best) last night in the bull shoals boat dock tuesday nighter. Launch was at 7 and we had our first fish in the boat at 7:30. Put number 5 in the box at 8:05 for a 14 pound limit. Culled up once after dark for a 16-10 total good for the win! One of my best nights of fishing!

[eric1978]

It will happen when it happens, I just hope I can feel one that large on the other end of my pole sometime in this lifetime.

Drive down to Fork...you'll feel it there.

[Jason Essary]

Roy, sounds like a great first hour, then slow after that. Love the niters, its so fun to prowl around the lake at night, esp when it means something.

[roy_eros]

Nothing beats feeling that tap-tap on the jig and not knowing what it is til you get it in the boat!

[Mule659]

My quickest was two years ago during a night tournament...about an hour for a five fish limit. Had about 14 lbs

[KCRIVERRAT]

IMO ... Stockton. Those are Kansas flat-lander crappie. PC

Smithville PC...

[Guest csfishinfool]

Me and my brother were at pickwick and made a run to the other end of the lake. We pulled in yellow creek started fishin docks in about ten min. we had about 12 lbs swimming a jig all off two docks on a ledge point. That was the bass world sports championship we ended up 11th with 12lbs a day. In practice had seventeen pounds of bronze in about 8 casts