The Big M 7/31/2013

[Bill Babler]

Bo, that is probably just about right on. I have been up there the last couple of days before today and as you said and as I posted there were bass from topwater to 50'

Buddy of mine guided Eagle Rock today and had 4 Big Walleye and about a dozen bass. Most of the bass were on a jig and the walleye came on a drop shot with a plastic worm. Of course he was targeting bass when he caught the Walters, but who gives a flip. Eye's are eye's no matter how you poke em.

For RPS the walleye were at 42' on the bottom. I believe he just kept following the bait and the fish out. In the channel, not on a break.

The water up the White is abit cooler than down on the dam end. Water up the White is running 81ish. and the water from Baxter to the dam is in the mid 80's. Bite is much better from Campbell Point to Holiday Island. Surprise, surprise.

KC to Long Creek, best fishing is suspended in and above the deep trees. White River fish are in some of those locations, but for the most part we still have a roll-off, a bluff end bite and a ridge bite, along with a scattering of topwater fish here and there.

Guys I am using my eyes to see the fish as much as anything. Both days this last week when I was on the White I saw boats drive right by fish chasing shad on the surface. I stopped and caught them. Most were LM, nothing over 3 pounds, but in August I'll take every fish I can catch.

Don't care who you are or how long you have fished. You see fish chasing on Table Rock you had better make every effort to catch them. You just never know.

Good Luck