March 1St. 2112 Fishing Report

[Bill Babler]

Got on the water at 6:15 AM with a launch out of Baxter and headed up the White. Air Temp was a balmy 31 degree and the water surface temp was at 48 degree.

Really a fantastic and beautiful morning. Did not get a bite untill 8:30 guess they were as cold as I was.

Started fishing deep roll-offs where major cove point dumped into the guts or the main channel, just good old staging locations. Nothing. I could see fish and bait, but just could not get them to hit the Rig, or a sticker. Wish I would have had the floater as I did see lots of gull and shad on the surface.

Decided to go into Big Creek, and immediatly caught 2 LM on a channel swing bank in there. Nothing to brag about but I was on the board.

Moved out and immediatly caught 2 fish shallow on the rig, throwing a channel 45 degree chunk rock bank. Both were keeps and fat as toad K's

That is my umteenth double on the silly thing

Moved up the white about 9 AM above Campbell Point, and started catching them pretty regular. One of my favorite long runout points just happend to have this dandy 7.6 pound sow suspended at 20 over 90 ft., just thinking about moving back in the pocket.

Water continued to warm and I continued to catch one here and there. Mostly fishing long points and bluffends. On the points had my boat about 40 throwing in and on the bluffends I was sitting over the abis.

Trolling motor decided it wanted to play tough as I had lost a bolt in the lift, so cut the day short while I was still catching em.

Out again tomorrow with Brent Frazee of the KC Star. Hope it works out as well as today.

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[JRD]

Great report as always. Hope everyone in the area is recovery and getting back on their feet.

[Tfsh4bass]

Glad you caught them Bill because I struggled myself today only catching 7 from 9am to 4pm around the Indian Point area...did have a 4+ brownie though and a couple other good blacks but not many bites. 4 on wart and 3 on jerkbait mix rock just inside points with wind...lost 2 others on a wart.

[James32962]

what color wart? I have some friends that need to catch some fish LOL

[cullinby9]

i had 3 keepers yesterday around the mouth of the kings about 25 shorts 15 or so needed to be bumped. Saw an older gentleman and his wife catch a 4 pounder on the a-rig and put it straight in the livewell guess they were starving.

[Tfsh4bass]

what color wart? I have some friends that need to catch some fish LOL

Original natural green craw with the orange bill (yes I have 6 of those bad boys) and they just knocked slack in it which made me think it was more about just getting around some. Most of the fish I caught looked like they had just moved up. Looking back on the day I would have been better off just fishing inside/outside points with the wart and covering more water which I did from 2-4...stuck with the jerkbait fish too long. I caught 3 jerkbait fish the first 2 banks I fished then didn't get a bite on it the rest of the day.

[buckcreekmike]

^{Wow, Nice Hog Bill! I am headed down March 28th and can't wait to get some solid fishing time in on Table Rock. I pretty much only fish LOZ, but I make it TR a couple times a year ond love it. I seem to do better at TR than LOZ, it may not be as pressured as the Gravois and lower lake where our lake house is. Plus I love smallies, can't wait.}

[techo]

Nice fish!

[Bill Babler]

Had a very good day today with Brent Frazee of the Kansas City Star. He is their outdoor writer and has supported our area for over 30 yrs. Just a wonderful guy.

He wanted to do a feature spread on the Alabama Rig "Of Course." So on a day that saw us starting at6:30 AM with a air temp of 67 degree and ending up at 2 PM with an air temp of 44 degrees, it was a challange at best.

Did manage to trick 19 with 9 solid keeps, all on the rig. Biggin today at just under 4 pounds. Had one of the prettiest fish I have ever caught and Brent took some photo's of her. Just a fantastic Meanmouth.

We got lucky today and got the Table Rock Slam, of Black Bass. Largemouth, Smalljaw, Meanmouth,and Kentucky.

Really got lucky as the weather dictated we would pretty much struggle, but we just kept hanging on and would get one here and one there. Way better to be lucky than good.

Most fish was a 5 fish location on a chunk rock channel swing in front of two spawning pockets. Caught 3 there yesterday while I was prospecting. Fished 22 locations in the 8 hrs. Just complete hot spots and still skunked on 12 of them, so I hit about 50%.

The spread in the Sunday Outdoor section of the Star will Run March 11th. featuring the Alabama Rig.

If we had not been doing a deal on the rig, I would have fished the jig, as it seemed the fish were tight to structure and also we had over a dozen follow it in and leave it at the last second. Lots and lots of short hits, and scales on the hooks.

[Champ188]

As usual, a goldmine of info and now artistic photography to go with it? Probably shouldn't even utter the words but this ought to be a pay site! All kidding aside, there isn't another site on the whole darn Internet or another guide in his right mind who shares as much info and detail as Bill. It's a wonder he doesn't have an entourage chasing him around the lake the way they do KVD wherever he goes.