March 29Th. Current Table Rock Lake Bass Fishing Report

[Phil Lilley]

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[Whack'emGood]

Congrats Bill! Way to go.

[denjac]

Bill: Congrats on the big fish; got to post pic of it when u can; As I was reading, it didn't see WHERE on TR u were fishing. Thanks. Joe

Bill said he was in the white river. The bottom picture gives the clue as to what the bait is.

[jwood]

Bill said he was in the white river. The bottom picture gives the clue as to what the bait is.

Thanks Dennis for pointing out the location and lure. Didn't notice it. Joe

[Jason Marchetti]

OH WOW Bill Congrats on that Lunker!!!Absolutely amazing!

[thefrog22]

The big fish came on the Float n Fly? Looks like i need to get up to speed on that! Awesome day fellas congrats

[Bill Babler]

Did not say the big fish came on that, however we did fish it. Mostly K's as they are moving into the staging grounds. I did catch it on a jig however.

Table Rock is recieving lots of purssure right now as it does on most Spring Fishing seasons. I am not finding fish everywhere, fish for me are really only in a very few select locations on just about a 1/2 dozen baits. I am not catching loads of shorts, and some days I am only catching a fish or two. Had a couple of trips in the last 3 weeks where we had less than a handfull of fish. That for me is EXTREMELY SLOW. I have been lucky to catch a few biggins.

Bill's trips are doing about like mine. Just not putting it together everyday, but the days we do are spectacular.

It has been pretty simple for me. If I catch them one day, I will go 3 or 4 days and catch next to nothing. Then I will have a dream day. Reason as they for me are only on select locations. If I work them over it takes it a few days to repopulate or just to get over it. I can usually catch them in a locations, and repeat it on similar locations around the lake. Not so much this year. We are only catchin them on about a dozen locations, and that is it for now. I know it will change, but it has been like this for 6 weeks.

Lots of folks are catching Biggin's however as you can tell from the hourly weights it took last week in the Big Bass Deal. Most are on Warts, grubs and Jigs, and stickbaits. Which is exactly what we threw yesterday. From the derby's and what was reported from last weekend, the Wart is by far the best big fish bait on the lake right now. Again you can throw it all day and nothing. Then hit a short stretch of bank and put 5 fish in the boat that weigh 20 Plus pounds. It is really Location, Location, Location.

Beck and I fished the wart 3 weeks ago in a derby, and every fish we weighed in came on it. Phil Stone put us on a great location he had caught them on it the day before. Again, this stretch of bank was about 100 yrds. long. We had 16 pounds off it and he took an 8 pounder and another 4 keeps on it, on the wart. That 100 yrd. stretch of do nothing bank produced close to 40 pounds of keepers in two days. Rick Lisek and I went fishing for fun on that bank 2 day later and caught a 5 pound LM a 3 Pound K and a 4 Pound Jaw on it. We have not caught a fish there since, so I guess that was that.

Beck however says it is always a good wart bank this time of the year. Hit or miss, some days they are up on it eating craws, and others it is the dead sea.

Just don't know about this stickbait bite. As strange a year as I can remember. Water clarity is fantastic, not like th flood year, that was just as bad for us on the jerker. I just cannot get it to produce, like it should. Lots of big fish shallow. Almost all the fish you catch are full of craws, and this may be the reason even with the threadfin still dying, they seem to want lobster.

Good Luck out there.

[techo]

Hmmmm! Seems like you keep me away from those places when we fish!

Seriously.....congrats on the day of a lifetime. One of the reasons you come so highly recommended! See you in April?

[ozarksfishin]

Yea that stretch of bank helped cash a few checks so far this year, congrats on the toad Babler! We are still waiting on pics!