Big M Area Report Table Rock Lake May 10Th.

[Bill Babler]

Just cannot stay away from all the bites and fish that the White River is offering currently. Hit the lake this morning with Bary and Mike, Kearney, Missouri boys.

Here are the options I gave them. They were staying at Point Royale

1 Meet at State Park at the dam and fish Longcreek to point 5 at 5:30, Estimate of 15 to 20 fish in a 6 hr, trip

2 Fish Baxter to Campbell Point and catch surfacing White bass early and then move to the green fish. If they whites show maybe 30 to 50 fish.

3 Fish the beautiful White River out of Viney Creek for topwater bass reguardless. 30 to 50 fish. Meet at 4:30.

They choise option 3 and that suited me fine. Aririved at the creek at 5:15 and it was a foggy pea-soup. left Viney in the fog headed for Carter Creek, and did not take me but a couple of minutes to pull into the Big M boat dock. OOPS!!! wrong turn at Alberquikie.

Had to idle all the way to Carter, with my nose on the gps screen.

Fog stayed on till 9 AM and we caught bass after bass on the Fin and Spook. Not so big today, no rod breakers, but just huge numbers, with double after double. My hands are a wreck and my boat that I just washed is full of some kind of grey stuff that smells like fish.

15 Shell Knob Keepers, mostly K's with two Meanmouths. and a couple of keeper LM. 3 times that many shorts.

RPS, There was a very good walleye bite today on the long runouts from Viney to Cedar. I had 4 to the boat and lost at least that many more on a Norman Flake DD22 in about 18-22 ft. Biggest was a 4 pounder that I boated. All were released so you could teach them a heat treated lesson if you get-em. Very easy to distinguish the Eye Bite over the bass as the bass seemed to just go mad when they hit the hook and the Eye's hit it with great force and then just hung low till towed to the boat.

Magnificent scenery and lots of bites make the White River Right

Good Luck

[motoman]

Another great read bill!......thanks for the report.......felt like I was there with you guys.:-)

[Ultralance12]

Lol. I posted my life story on the may 9th report and then I saw this. Either way that's one question answered. Going up the white in the morning. Now if I could just learn the language well enough to know what a "fin and spook" was...

[powerdive]

Thanks for the eye info, Bill. And the releases--very rare.

[rps]

Oh my. A topwater bite and walleye information in one post and I can't get loose until Sunday.

Thank you, Bill. You are a gentleman and a scholar.

[abkeenan]

Lol. I posted my life story on the may 9th report and then I saw this. Either way that's one question answered. Going up the white in the morning. Now if I could just learn the language well enough to know what a "fin and spook" was...

Spook = Heddon Zara Spook --------> http://www.basspro.com/Heddon-Zara-Spook/product/2909/85722

Fin = Cotton Cordell Redfin ----------> http://www.basspro.com/Cotton-Cordell-Jointed-Red-Fin-CJ9/product/22294/52481

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[Duck]

Bill,we fished the same areas this early morning with not so good results, 9 spots,2 smallies and 1 white. Not much on top but some, a few on a WE spinner bait (mouse). Means we have to getum Sunday. Duck.

[Bill Babler]

Powerdrive, I may not have the year correct, but i believe it was 1998, My son got on a pattern from Big Creek up to Owl Creek for Monster Eye's. This was a July and August pattern and I think he boated close to 40 Eye's. I know one day he caught and released 13, with the smallest at about 3 pounds and the largest at 9 pounds.

Bryant Ward was the game warden at Shell Knob at the time and saw Steve Catch and release 3 walleye that would have weighed over 20 pounds. Bryant came up to us and said in 20 yrs. of the game warden business he had never seen such a catch and release display. As a matter of fact he said he had never seen anyone ever release one that was legal, and on another point hardly never seen anyone release one that was illegal.

I would never keep over 1 and usually don't keep any of them however I know how delicious they are. I will keep a couple on Bull Shoals at times in the Winter. The rest of you guys are great. You don't eat the bass, I don't mess with your walleye.

Really prefer not to catch them, as they are a pain "literally to let loose." And they fight like a girl. I'm very glad they are here and give great joy to people not only trying to catch the wiley raschels, but as table fare.

Good Luck

[Bill Babler]

Duck, those fish that you were on have taken abit of a lickin. They did not come up yesterday either. I caught a load of topwater fish, but they were not chasing. We just finned them up. Saw no more than 10 chases. Put my thinking cap on and moved, as much as I could in the fog. Trick was just a bit of breeze. IF it was flat, you were not going to get bit. Once you found a bit of breeze, you would catch multiple fish. On the right locations of course.

Move that bait slower than slow. They wanted it almost at rest. Deep crankbait bite was also very good. Depth was stated earlier. If you are fishing a derby on Sunday let me know and I may have a spot or two for ya.

Good luck