Table Rock Big Cedar To Dam Area Report

[tbooks]

Where is fin and feathers?

[dtrs5kprs]

I was going to mention that Fin and Feather had that tube. Good point. They also have a Perch tube that is the complete bomb. Looks like crud until you put it in the water and then it looks great and the fish like it also. One thing about the tubes Fin and Feather have is they are all 5 inch tubes. May not be a deal at all, but the Chompers are 4 inch and I just beleive they work better. A little slimmer and an inch shorter. Buster at one time also used a Bitsy Tube that was about a 3 inch tube that worked great.

F&F had the tubes in two sizes. Might have been big and bigger, don't remember exactly. Bought the 4" ish size, about like a small flip tube. Had a nice selection of plastics under their label at a good price, especially beaver types. They call the puke tube "summer squash" or something to that effect. Will have to check out the perch tube when we come thru in June.

TBooks...Fin and Feather is straight south of BPS in Springfield. Look for the big Japanese steak house sign...Fuji.

[Jason Essary]

Ok boys, have been wondering about this. I dont ever remember seeing craws with orange on them. Im not disputing, just wondering why? Is it because they are molting? Will give some orange-y baits a try thursday night while prefishing to check it out.

Also, how long do they stay orange-y? I know summer craws normally are the green, brown, blue highlighted.

[dtrs5kprs]

Ok boys, have been wondering about this. I dont ever remember seeing craws with orange on them. Im not disputing, just wondering why? Is it because they are molting? Will give some orange-y baits a try thursday night while prefishing to check it out.

Also, how long do they stay orange-y? I know summer craws normally are the green, brown, blue highlighted.

Water color maybe? Ones I saw were really a very pale orange vs. a bright orange. Almost a buckskin kind of color. Kind of the same idea as a washed out fish due to dirty water possibly.

Normally I run from orange in a jig at TR.

[WeekendWarrior]

Last year the smallies were tearing up the crawfish, and they were definitely brown/green/orange for sure last year. Every time you swung a smallie in with head a shaking crawfish went flying in the boat.

[Jason Essary]

So pale orange might be their way to camoflage in the stained water due to the algae bloom. Interesting.

[riverfish]

joson if you go to the missouri dept. conservation websit you can see all the colors of crawfish that live in the state their colors which part of the state which rivers,lakes,streams,east,north west the whole nine they do not however go into much detail about the molting processor when it occurs, but there is a specific crawdad that is primarily found in table rock lake especially the river and creek arms that has orange pincers with black tips but does not say if that is their color for most of the year or not but there is a picture of itmaybe it will help

[tbooks]

Caught quite a few dads in a trap and don't recall seeing any orange ones. The ones found in the live well they regurgitated are usually light orange. Also, when you boil them, they turn orange. Most dads caught in the trap are dark green with shades of red or blue around the pinchers.

[abkeenan]

Caught quite a few dads in a trap and don't recall seeing any orange ones. The ones found in the live well they regurgitated are usually light orange. Also, when you boil them, they turn orange. Most dads caught in the trap are dark green with shades of red or blue around the pinchers.

I also trap crawdads from time to time from under our dock in the Beardsley Branch on TR. Don't know the variance of species or colors in different areas of the lake. Have also caught them by hand turning over rocks in hip wading depth or shallower. They are always that olive green/brownish color with black accents, lighter green almost tealish legs on some and some red/orange flecks here and there. Never really any orange so to speak on them as like tbook says the orange color comes from the digested part of the craws. Like he said if you boil them they turn orange and if you have ever seen a shell/skeleton on the bank of a crawdad it is orange. I have caught 2 different species of crawdads, the long pincered ones that are the color I mentioned above and a smaller, fatter pincered one that is way more brown/reddish and orangy and not really green at all. For whatever reason though they seem to like orange accent for sure. How often have you seen any kind of fish or forage in TR or 99% of freshwater lakes have a fluorescent neon yellow color on it though ummmmmm....chartreuse....nowhere, yet it is such a popular and successful color. Just a thought. I will say that I know that my wiggle warts usually ALWAYS have orange somewhere on them.

[vacation]

I fished last night using a dd22 shad color and my wife using a custom painted orange wiggle wart...she had 4 keepers and 4 shorts in 2 hrs from 530-730pm and i caught 1 short. I also tried my tan/pink wiggle wart that usually is a fail safe and nothing...orange was the ticket for sure FYI in the dam area