Still Tough Out There

[jeb]

Had a few hours of free time sneak up on me yesterday, so went fishing from about 10-1. The pro's were blowing up the lake. I expected to see a few of them pre-fishing, but they were all over. PC parking lot looked full when I went through the marina. Lots of them were back in the Avoca Cove area. Probably 5-6 wrapped boats in there at one point. I didn't see any of them close to me catch anything. Still pretty tough out there. Using mostly jerk baits, some cranks, some jigs. I can find active looking fish on the graph and lots of shad balls, but can't get the fish to bite right now. Water temp was 41-43 most places. Can't understand why it's still so slow on Beaver but Table Rock is doing well.

[Quillback]

Watched the weather forecast last night and the guy was predicting a "wintry mix" with temps in the 30's for next Saturday. But it seems no matter how tough the fishing is, some of those guys (FLW) will come in with good bags. They'll have great conditions to practice in this week.

[Stump bumper]

Had a few hours of free time sneak up on me yesterday, so went fishing from about 10-1. The pro's were blowing up the lake. I expected to see a few of them pre-fishing, but they were all over. PC parking lot looked full when I went through the marina. Lots of them were back in the Avoca Cove area. Probably 5-6 wrapped boats in there at one point. I didn't see any of them close to me catch anything. Still pretty tough out there. Using mostly jerk baits, some cranks, some jigs. I can find active looking fish on the graph and lots of shad balls, but can't get the fish to bite right now. Water temp was 41-43 most places. Can't understand why it's still so slow on Beaver but Table Rock is doing well.

One Table Rock has more, better fish. Two Table Rock is 200ft less elevation than Beaver, therfore is warmer, three Table Rock has more moving water so a lot of reports from the Rock I have seen water temps in the 50s which get the shad moving again instead of those cicling dieing balls and littered up bottoms like we have at Beaver right now.

I really think the key is too look for fish away from any shad up under laydowns and on drop offs were there aren't any shad for a mile since the fish close to the shad are feed up so well. I have tried draging live shad around the shad balls without even a bite, so I am very doubtful they will chase anything unless you find some hungry fish and with 150 boats I am sure someone will find those hungry ones, I sure don't know where they are.