October 1St. Table Rock Lake Fishing Report

[eshay]

Thank you for all the feedback. Hopefully we'll get some cooperative weather conditions and have some fun.

[Alex Heitman]

I was down this past weekend and had fair fishing trip. I fished mostly between the Indian point area up to Kimberling. I was tired of dropshotting all summer so I decided to try and find a shallow bite. I focused on long coves that had creeks coming in (not that any of them were coming in the lake) that had lots of timber all the way to the back. I started about halfway back in a creek arm and fished all the way to the back. If there was silverside minnows in the back, I found a great topwater bite on larger fish. They were just smoking the spook. I had several non-hookups with some really nice LM keepers but they would destroy it up to three times if they missed. They were hard to kook to say the least. Below is a pic of a really nice smallmouth I caught before dark on Saturday that torpedoed 4 ft out of the water with my spook. I've never seen a smallmouth jump that high out of the water to hit a topwater. Talk about neat. The rest of the fish came about halfway back in the arm with the boat in about 25 fow and came anywhere from 2ft to 15ft on a pigsticker jig. They only hit the jig if it was moving and on the drop if it went over some tree limbs. The better fish I caught were dead shallow in the back on a spook. I think in the next week the shallow bite could really pick up. I seen tons of bait everywhere in the backs of pockets. Good Luck.

[Alex Heitman]

By the way that smallie had been shallow for quite sometime. I took that picture back at the dock because I had no camera on me at the time of the catch. He was as dark and brown as could be.

[Bill Babler]

Thanks for the report and Great Fish.

[Quillback]

That is one nice smallie, congrats!

[Champ188]

Very good report, indeed. Congrats on a great day and thanks for sharing.