Report Nov. 2-5

[dwiebenga]

My good Jim and I headed down to my family's place in Shell Knob for 4 days of fishing this past weekend. After reading all the post tonight, we did pretty well.

We started out trip on Friday morning throwing top water and ended up with 5 fish including a nice keeper spot. The rest of the day we "junk" fished looking for some sort of pattern. We caught a few on drop shot, jigs, and c-rigs. In the evening, we picked up the topwater rods again and landed 3 nice keepers (2 LM and 1 SP).

Saturday, we struggled with the top water and only managed 2 fish. One keeper SP on a drop shot and one keeper LM on a spook. We headed up near Campbell Point looking for some sort of blade bite but no wind. In the afternoon, the wind picked up and we got a bit of a blade bait. We had 8-10 fish with maybe 2 keepers. All on War Eagle blades and homemade blades. Jim got another nice spot on top at the end of the day.

Sunday, we woke up to fog and a good topwater bite in front of Basin Hallow. We threw Red Fins from 6:20-8:30, and landed about 15 fish including 4 nice keeper SPs. They were chasing shad, and we also had some blind hits just throwing into the fog. We also started targeting deep trees looking for a drop shot bite. And we found a few trees holding fish (See photos). I am starting to learn more about side imaging, and we are taking advantage. Just need to get more comfortable with the unit and the display. The fish in the timber were pretty easy to see, and Jim proved we were correct. We probably took 15-20 fish out of the deeper trees using Chomper drop shot worms.

Today, we had a similar top water day. We landed combined about 15 fish, but we struggled to find the drop shot bite again. We had to head back to Kansas City so called the day short.

[abkeenan]

Awesome report and really love when guys post pics of snapshots on their graphs. Thanks again and sounded like a good weekend for you and your buddy considering what we have seen from other guys posting about a rough go lately. Thanks again.

[Champ188]

Nice report indeed, dwiebenga. Thanks for sharing. Glad you guys were able to crack the code and capture some of the slippery little devils.

[Quillback]

Great report, you guys did good considering the tough conditions.

[dwiebenga]

Has anyone else caught any LM recently with a fungus on them? I caught 2 this weekend. What is it?

[two old poops fishing]

had younger brother in from indiana fished wed eve thurs friday sat am til noon out agtain 3 till dark three days we allways bet on first biggest and most so keep close tabs on these things caught 20 to 30 each day three to four keeps each day couple of real nice smallies several shorts 90 percent of fish came on crig with four inch watermelon red centipede and shakey hed with pumpkin 4 inch worm slow tolling or wind driven drift in 23 to 25 foot on a real slow tapering small rock bank not flats about halph way backn in the bigger bays at times we were allmost sitting whAT looked to be in the niddle of the cove to stay in that depth range on such a graduall slope fish were locked on the bottom hardly any shad to be seen on locater water temp 62 fished some in tail ends of bays not much luck seem to be a largezard shad but very few threadfin not much luck