Rock Report

[Bill Babler]

Had been watching the weather for several weeks now waiting for the right day to power fish the dam area for Jaw's.

As Phil reported a couple of weeks ago, before the high prussure front we were starting to get a very good blade bite in the dam area for some very quality jaws.

It for me vanished about two weeks ago, but I had high hopes for today, with the clouds and wind. Did not really happen. About a dozen fish to the boat with only two keeps, one a very nice K on a jig. The others respectable but not by any means toads.

Could not get the blade bite. All our fish, dragging a jig deep. PBJ 3/8th. Chomper jig with a watermellon candy Yama trailer. Tried others, but they wanted this best.

There are some very nice fish available with the dropshot, in the 31 to 43 ft. range. I knew this, as the day before with Beck on a Party trip with 6 guides we had caught and released over 100 K's in the morning trips. Sounds like a big number, but that's 12 fishermen and it adds up to about 8 each. Guides did not fish. I did have one client that caught 12 with 8 keeps, and that is by far the best I have done since I been home. Kimberling City area.

Watermellon Candy dropshot worm or a PBJ chompers 4 in. worm, off the main lake flats and you will catch fish.

We were after Jaws today and it was us that Bent, not the fish.

This dam area SM bite will break pretty fast, and those seafood lovers will start leaning heavy on the FB Jig. Just did not happen for us today.

[roy_eros]

Thanks for the update Bill...we are planning a trip back up on Nov 5th-7th. Hope to get in on some of those hungry gals!

[Champ188]

Thanks for the update indeed, Bill. Gave some thought to trying those SM last Saturday during a team derby but decided against because of no wind and no clouds. Struggled upriver, too. In my opinion, the shallow bite just isn't going to happen until we break out of this high pressure cycle of cloudless skies and flat water. Wouldn't hurt for the surface temp to dip into the mid-60s as well.

[Chris King]

Thanks Bill, looks like we're going to have some very cool nights, maybe that will get them going. I'll be out this weekend in the Dam area and will be trying the grub and the jig. Good luck everybody!

[Spinnaker]

It might be the type of rod that I am using but it seems that I have had better luck with a 1/2 oz football jig than 7/16 oz jig fishing in 12 to 24 feet of water. Am I too heavy on the jig? I use a 7 foot medium heavy Abu inexpensive rod with wire as opposed to ceramic guides. It is stiffer than my 7 foot rods that I use for crank and topwater baits and I like using that rod. Any advice on lure weight.

[Fish R Smart]

Thanks Bill. Another post mentioned the fish were spittin crawdads. Anybody noticed if the craws being expelled were molting, soft shell?

[rps]

Last weekend the bass I caught while trying to find walleyes were full, plump, and had large crawdad feelers sticking out. I did not pull any dads out and did not clean the fish, but the color makes me think they were hard shell.