8-22-13 Dateline Eagle Rock Missouri

[Bill Babler]

Quite abit tougher for us today. Had long time clients and friends Garry and Kelly Miller from KC. Both are experienced and very good hands.

Hit the pond at 0700 and was not the first boat at the ramp this morning. I have been most of the last couple of weeks. I am in search of walleye and they are really not being very friendly.

1st. location was a main lake hump right in the middle of the White River that tops out at 22' Water all around it is 40's to 70' in depth. Just a great walleye location. We had 17 bass off this spot in under an hour with Kelly catching 10 and Garry the remainder. No keeper size, but fun. All on Crawler rigs. I watched and unhooked fish. This location is hard to hold as it is about the size of a tennis court.

Next location again was a off-shore hump but it has a saddle that connects to the bank. Just about a good deer rifle shot off shore. We had 6 here in the 25' range all 15 inch fish. Surface temps had warmed up from 78.9 this last weekend to 84 degree by 9 a.m.

Water was just flat calm and you could see every boat trail. It was muggy. Fished deep trees and flat rolloffs all the way up to the mouth of the Kings and only had 3 more fish. One here and one there. 23' was the number, and I looked as deep as 50' still with the walleye in mind. Saw no shad or surfacing fish all morning. Did see a few spoonbills, but nothing like I have been seeing. There have been paddle fish purging everywhere up the White.

About 10:45 we started to get a little breeze. The last 3 locations were just runnout long points that are usually community holes up there and we caught 4 off one and 7 off the other. 1/2 were keeps, and all on the crawler. I threw a jig quite a bit up in the morning after the first onslawt but only had two fish and both were youngsters. Wind for sure made the difference and I believe they would have continued to bite, but it was time to head in.

Not bad for August, but had to work a little harder than usual on my beloved White River.

Good Luck

[jmes]

Thanks for the report, I'm going this weekend to see how I can do

[powerdive]

Aha, it's not just me, fishing for walleyes and can't keep the bass away........