small mouth

[Guest 3labs]

I am curious how most of the expeienced chase the smallies in the summer? I am sure by the end of june they will be real deep but wehat are your prefered pattern and lures of choice?...I am going to be down at tablerock the last week of june. small mouth and trout what a great vacation

I will be staying south of big ceder as well

thanks in advance

kevin

[Kicknbass]

I've had success w/ Smallmouth and Spots dragging a double Carolina rig ( grubb & cenipede) on the gravel flats. Find out what depth the fish are in, and try to keep your bait on the bottom with in that target range. Let the wind drift you across a point or use your trolling motor to move you the direction your need to go to keep your bait in the stike zone.

I've found most fish will be on the upstream side of the point. I was at Table Rock last week, and caught most of my fish using this method. Half spots, and half smallies. The fish were on the bottom in 30 - 40 feet.

[Bill Babler]

Kevin, there are some halfway decient ways to target smalljaw thru the summer on the rock. Probably the number 1 way is with the old standby pbj 5/16 oz jewell spider jig, with the same color twin tail trailer. Spoke to SKMO out of Shell Knob today and he reported he had a field day around the knob on monday dragging that jig.

Fish were in 10 to 16 ft. early and then moved to 26 to 32 later in the day. As the fish went deep, he switched to a 1/2 oz football jig in the same color. Reported 14 smallies with 10 keepers. He also caught several really nice spots in the deeper depths, and had 2 nice largemouth in the shallow water.

Top water on shallow windy long points and flat gravel banks works from about 5am to 6;30, after that go to the jig. Nothing is beating a clear 110 sammy right now. They are still on that crome fin early, but the sammy is better.

Look for long flat gravel points and if shad are present that will only help.

Always try the islands in and around Beardsley, Clevenger and Big Cedar Hollow. The long flat swim beach point at Gage's Marina is also a target zone, look for the guide boats, and then try and beat them to the spot the next day. Might Work. Early is always better than late. Fish till around 11am and then go take a nap till near sunset.

If you like to catch big mean white bass, try the James river around Buttermilk, the White around Baxter and Shell Knob, and Campbell Pt. and the Long Creek arm around Clevenger and Big House cove across from Big Cedar. You can't miss the cove, lots of 1 million dollar plus houses. Good Luck

[Guest 3labs]

Thanks for the info...headed down on saturday night and going to see what happens...i will report around the 4th with a report

thanks again

kevin