Shell Knob Area

[T-RockJaws]

Sorry for the late report! Fished a small tourney that went out from the Shell Knob Bridge last Friday night. Partner and I had been on fish in that area for 3 weeks and were really looking forward to the tournament. Started out by running up Kings river to a spot just above Viola. Had a couple of shorts and partner had one keeper in the boat before dark using jigs and a 4 inch salt craw. At this point, it had been a little slow but we thought it was going to be a good night.

Started working our way back towards the main lake. Partner pulled another keeper off a point just below Viola (both keepers came in about 20 foot of water with boat sitting in about 30 to 35 foot of water) and another short fish or two. This was right at dusk and we got excited thinking it was going to be a good night. We are much better at night fishing than we are with big orange glow high in the sky.

Boy, were we wrong! That was our last keeper and almost our last fish. After dark we had very few bites and only 1 or 2 more short fish. All of our deep banks we had been catching good fish on just did not produce for us. We mainly stuck with big worms, salt craws and jigs. The jig probably had the most action.

Winning bag for our tournament was in the 16 pound range.