Kimberling City, Missouri June 21St. Bass Fishing Report

[Bill Babler]

Table Rock Lake Bass Fishing Current Report Kimberling City, Missouri White River Outfitters Guide Service June 21st. 2013

Today was the day for the Pratt Boys. Tyler, Nolan and Victor. What a nice group they were traveling from the Windy City to sample some early morning Table Rock Bass Fishing.

Home base on their Ozarks trip was the Village at Indian Point. I launched at Old 86 at 0450 and headed around the bend to pick them up. Counted 16 sets of boat lights from point 2 to Jakes Branch and determined there was just not enough room on the locations I had been fishing. Headed up stream after picking up the crew with a final destination of KC and point 7.

Spent a good part of the morning catching top water fish on a flat gravel runnout. Had one other boat pull up but they stayed out abit and we for sure didn't bother each other. I believe we had 19 top water fish. Most were Jaw's, but we did have several really nice K's and one small Largemouth. Lots and lots of 15 inch fish this morning, but no Monsters, just nice Table Rock Bass.

Top water did not last long this morn, so we threw a tube for a spell and caught one smallmouth and missed another. Pretty slow on the tube. About 0700 we went to the drop shot. First location was our top water runnout and we caught 4 here with 3 solid keepers and 1 short. All K's. These fish were in 32ft. on the bottom.

One of the major lake point in front of Cow Creek is usually good this time of the year. My clients caught several hundred fish off it this Spring Swimming a grub. For some reason nothing here and I cannot explain it. We point hopped up stream the rest of the morning, ending up with 15 drop shot fish to go with the top water deal.

What a great morning with some super guys from Illinois. Surface temps this morning at 82 and the lake continues to clear. We could see those drop shot fishing coming up from a pretty good distance.

Good Luck

[Quillback]

Some quality K's, they sure are fun to catch, glad to see you go your clients into them!

[Bill Babler]

Quill, I really was not going to mention it but hoped someone would. We had a very, very nice bunch of Spot's this morning. I'm going to go out on a limb here, but of the close to 35 fish the boys boated this morning I think we had between 20 and 25 that were at least 15".

You catch 25 keepers on June 21st. on Table Rock in a 4 hr. morning and the rest of your day is "Just Gona be Good."

I commented to Tyler that this was an extremely nice set of fish. He had been following our exploits on this forum and of course had noticed the 7 pounder from the other day. This was by far a better set of fish overall, and just about as good as I will put together this Summer unless I get on some Big Black's and a Big Jaw or three.

Thanks and Good Luck

[9LB]

Bill - Do you have any mornings open next week ? I will be at Indian Point. I can call later but I am on a Darn conference call and will be on it for a few hours.

[Bill Babler]

Bill - Do you have any mornings open next week ? I will be at Indian Point. I can call later but I am on a Darn conference call and will be on it for a few hours.

I don't think I have anything available to mid-July but I know Buster and Beck along with lots of our top guides have some limited availability. I have been pretty lucky in putting a nice string of work days together after a terrible start of the year due to the extreme weather we had the first 3 months. Buster also had a huge morning, Beck is on Bull Shoals today with clients walleye fishing.

Thanks for the inquiry.

[rps]

drop shot live or drop shot plastic? anyone gone to the spoon yet?

[denjac]

drop shot live or drop shot plastic? anyone gone to the spoon yet?

drop shot live or drop shot plastic? anyone gone to the spoon yet? Rps, My drop shot fish have been on a purple yamamoto cut tail, or a green chompers drop worm. Taking grandson tomorrow so I got some night crawlers for that trip. I have dropped the spoon a few times but no takers yet.

[Bill Babler]

Yes they are eating a spoon a little bit. Not very good yet. You can really stir them up with it however. If the drop shot bite slows and you see the fish, just drop it down and they will chase it up and down like mad. Put the drop shot back down and bang.

On the drop shot deal, it really has not mattered much yet, kind of like in Busters report. They seem to bite both with equal gusto. IT will get to the worm pretty quick though. One great thing about live bait is you will catch more kitty and walleye with it.

[flyman]

Yes they are eating a spoon a little bit. Not very good yet. You can really stir them up with it however. If the drop shot bite slows and you see the fish, just drop it down and they will chase it up and down like mad. Put the drop shot back down and bang.

Thats a good little tip.