Eyes

[ozarkgunner]

Anyone catching walleye? It's time.

[vonreed]

I went down and fished under the bridge at Riverrun on the bluff side. Never had a bite and lost 5 jigs and sliders. I also used rogues for a while to. This was 2 days ago. There were a couple other guys there. I never saw them catch one either, but didn't talk to them. I fished from 5:30 - 7:00 pm.

[Bill Babler]

Buster had 15 walleye- 12 white bass 2 crappie and a dozen LM up to 7 pounds Saturday. Sunday he had a dozen bass and 4 keeper walleye up to 8 pounds Yesterday he had 2 walleye and a dozen bass with another 8 pound walleye and another 7 pound bass. All on a megabass 110 + 1 custon paint and a custom made and rebilled and weighed rogue.

It had slowed down for him but as the water has started to clear, he is back on them with a vengence.

[ozarkgunner]

K dock area?

[Bill Babler]

Beaver to K dock. Said today was slower. Man this guy has spent hundereds of hours on Bull the last 4 months. Today he had 2 four pound walleye seven white bass and several LM, nothing huge, but still. He continues to catch them. He has really had a good Winter of guiding. Word has gotten out how well he is catching them and he has stayed really busy.

We have had lots of posts of others just not finding these fish. I must reiterate, I will just guarantee you are fishing to fast. If you fish with Buster, you will see the error of your ways. He may fish a 100 yrd. stretch in 4 hours. He lets that bait set so long it starts to reproduce. I will tell you 99% of us just cannot do it.

No more than at the most 10 casts per hour. That is about the best I can do and I'm fishing no quite two to one with him. He is probably a 10 minute per cast man.

It is pretty much like tight-lining for catfish only with a artificial bait.

Most of us just hate to do that and don't have the confidence in either our baits or our ability or the location we are fishing. He does, and has caught several hundred pounds of walleye this Winter.

Really an eye opener.

[Quillback]

" He lets that bait set so long it starts to reproduce."

That's the best one I've heard in a while, LOL!

I need to start fishing my jerkbaits slower, 10 seconds on a pause is about all I can stand, but I need to change my ways.

[mixermarkb]

Ok, maybe this should be another thread, but why is he doing to hold the boat in place?

I get the patience on the retrive. I can't do it, but I can understand it. The boat control needed to fish that way seems superhuman. How the heck?

Anchor?

I was fishing in my 20' champ Monday and Tuesday, dragging a drift sock, and pushing the boat backwards with the TM from time to time, and still felt like I was going too fast to really soak the megabass as long as I wanted without losing feel to the line bowing.

What am I missing?

[ozarkgunner]

Thanks Bill. I hate upper bull for several reasons.... Which just makes me want to fish her even more!

[powerdive]

mixermark, big difference between upper and lower Bull. Skinny water up there...lotta high ground between Beaver and K Dock. So the wind's not nearly as bad, most of the time.

[Bill Babler]

Ok, maybe this should be another thread, but why is he doing to hold the boat in place?

I get the patience on the retrive. I can't do it, but I can understand it. The boat control needed to fish that way seems superhuman. How the heck?

Anchor?

I was fishing in my 20' champ Monday and Tuesday, dragging a drift sock, and pushing the boat backwards with the TM from time to time, and still felt like I was going too fast to really soak the megabass as long as I wanted without losing feel to the line bowing.

What am I missing?

That is what we all do. If there is 2 units running on Taney, in the area we are fishing it is no problem at all to hold the boat. The only thing that will really bother this type of presentation is a North wind. Everything else is no problem. If it gets to blowing you upstream however its not good.