Just Got Back From Shell Knob (~~~Fishing Report~~~)

[Josh]

Just got back from the old lake house in shell knob and all in all we had a good trip,

Saturday morning me and the wife headed down to the old dock on needles eye in hopes that we would run into some fish on our dock (mostly so I would not have to dump a bunch of money fixing the old boat) we spent all day Saturday and Sunday fishing the dock and banks around the dock only landing 2 crappie and 1 bass.

Monday morning i decided to spend the day working on the old boat and by Monday night we were in business.

Tuesday

We first headed to Kings Marina -

fished minnows and a triple hook blue and white tube (top) - yellow and white tube (middle) - gray and white Bobby Garlands minnow

fish were a good 50' off the shore line sitting in like 2' of water around the docks & trees, we landed 25 crappie in 2hrs all 14 to 15" crappie (big ole females)

We trolled the bank and found a large brush spot sitting about 30' from the docks by kings Marina and the crappie were sitting so shallow they looked like a school of perch, 5 cast and i landed 5 fish hitting our limit.

We went back to the same spot Wednesday and this morning and hit our limit within one hour. that brush made our trip

i wish we could have found the white bass but we looked everywhere. ill have some photos up in the next day or so

also anyone on this board ever caught a brown salamander??? i hooked one this last week freaked me! i was like why does this fish have feet!

[dwiebenga]

I caught one years ago off my Grandmother's dock. They are very odd looking.

[Martin]

That sounds like the Ozark's Hellbender......Yes, kind of odd looking, but their numbers are way down. Need real good water quality for them to thrive. I've seen a couple caught over the years, but not many...He must have be hungry ! lol

[Fishin Hodge]

Caught one at Tucker Hollow once. They're aren't all that many of them. Difficult for conservation efforts too as they look so strange, people do not realize what they are, and end up killing them from showing them off. Just one of those things I guess. Weird little critters.