Williams Electric trip in the books

[Bill Babler]

Friday afternoon starting at 3PM 6 guides with two clients per boat headed out of Indian Hills Resort in the Big Indian arm of the Rock, near Baxter.

Reports are as follows:

Bill Beck, fished in the wind from Baxter to about pt.16 7 bass on a dropshot in 35 to 40 ft. with 1 keeper. Very tough.

Bill Babler, I stayed within eyeball shot of the resort all afternoon, I just was not going to fight that wind. 9 bass and 2 catfish in the 35 ft. range on main creek channel points with crawlers. No 15inchers.

Tim Paige, 4 bass with one really nice keeper on crawlers in the same area.

Pete Wenners, His guy wanted to drink Beer and boat ride around in the Indians so Pete took a tour bus.

Chris Tetrick, 4 bass deep on dropshot. no keepers

Buster Loving, 4 bass deep on dropshot.no keepers

We fished from 3 to 7 with a total of 28 bass, only 2 over 15 and 2 flatheads. Pretty tough.

Saturday Morning Start time was at 7:30 with stormy, windy conditions.

Tim Paige did the right thing by working windy flat coves with a blade. Lots of fish came of either pole timber, the bank or cedars He had 15 fish with 8 keepers, Good work and a nice day for his client.

Buster is very sneaky, he took off for the dam area in all the waves and wind and fished some of his guide holes in that area. 23 bass with 8 keepers on a drop shot in 35 to 40 ft. and a tube.

Bill Babler, I sucked it up today, I was 30minutes late on every decision I made. Fished from Baxter to past Shell Knob, and ended up with 9 fish but 4 were solid keepers, on a football jig, dropshot, and crawlers.

Thanks to SKMO, for giving me a shout and sharing a couple of his hard earned fish with me, I needed them.

Bill Beck, fished his usual stuff in the Kimberling area and did about the same as I did. Just could not get it to go. 9 fish with a couple of keepers.

43ft. on the bottom.

Chris Tetrick, found some deep fish at the Red Barn, and the Humps between Baxter and Campbell Pt. 10 fish with 4 solid keepers, all on a dropshot.

Seemed the deep fish moved out a bit on Saturday in the 40ft, Plus range still on the bottom.

SKMO reported the Shell Knob fish would come and go on the flat he was fishing. They seemed to move up, for a while and chase shad and move back into the deeper water. He had great patients and I believe he had near 20 fish when I saw him, don't know how he ended up. Great day anyhoo.

Saturdays, take was 66 fish, with 26 keepers for the Williams Electric group, probably not a bad weekend over all, I just wish I had went to the cedars with the blade.

And the great part, there all still swimming for them to catch again next year.

[Cpt_DJ]

Looking back at my trip Saturday and comparing it to the success Bill and the others had, I think I was fishing too shallow. I think I had the right area's, at least I think I did LOL, i just didnt move out to where the active fish were. I have a small (15 boats) club tourney this Sunday out of the Knob and certainly hope this pattern will be the ticket. I certainly hope Bill can posts some new info later in the week that I can put to good use Sunday. Thanks in advance for any/all info I can use!

Dale

[SD bass hunter]

In a previous forum someone was talking about structure maps vs hot spot maps for finding humps.

What are the difference between these maps and where can I purchase them?

[Cpt_DJ]

That was me that mentioned the "structure graphics maps" and I hope I am correct in the name on that...however, I do know that Fin and Feather in Springfield MO has them. The biggest difference in the 2 is the detail which is very evident when compared. They are a bit pricey in comparison though. They are like $8 each and Table Rock is so large it is done in sections and I think there are 3 or 4 sections. Hope this helps.

Dale

[SD bass hunter]

hey thanks for the info on the maps. That helps me out a lot.

Bill how deep was the guide fishing his spinnerbait. Do you guys weight your spinnerbaits? Do you change the size of the blades blades? And what retrieve style do you use?