Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted January 16, 2014 Root Admin Posted January 16, 2014 Another video I shot this morning. I found out why they are liking white jigs below the dam... threadfin shad are coming through the turbines from Table Rock Lake. While I did not see any in the water, some of the rainbows I caught had fairly large bellies and they would not leave my white float alone. Another verification- Babler guided this afternoon and told me he had rainbows spitting up shad. Dickey also cleaned rainbows with shad in their bellies. I don't think many are coming through. The trout below outlet #2 don't seem to be very interested in white lures so what's coming through are getting eaten before they get to the outlet. Hopefully this is the beginning of a long, continuous shad run this winter.
duckydoty Posted January 16, 2014 Posted January 16, 2014 Oh, Im getting excited! A Little Rain Won't Hurt Them Fish.....They're Already Wet!! Visit my website at.. Ozark Trout Runners
Ham Posted January 16, 2014 Posted January 16, 2014 Pretty awesome bite you were on. Every Saint has a past, every Sinner has a future. On Instagram @hamneedstofish
crappie_adams83 Posted January 17, 2014 Posted January 17, 2014 and of course i cant make it down there while this is happening if every body had a pole and a fish on the line there would never be a war
Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted January 17, 2014 Author Root Admin Posted January 17, 2014 I'm hoping cold weather stays around for a month... may be we'll get a big, prolong shad kill here. It will boost the growth of our trout and help some of you guys get down here and enjoy this kind of fishing. I know the White River gets a huge shad kill every winter... we don't. I think it has to do with the height of our dam compared to Bull Shoals and the depth of our penstocks (where the water runs through the dam). BS is shallower than ours. But we still CAN get big shad kills. We have in the past- all the way up to May.
Seth Posted January 17, 2014 Posted January 17, 2014 During these bigger shad kills, do you find that you catch nicer fish on average or is it just a whole lot of fish ranging small to large?
Blazerman Posted January 17, 2014 Posted January 17, 2014 Seth, yes you can catch nicer fish- at least better Browns on the White. I think all the fish turn on when shad start showing up and a shad kill usually means they are running water which also means the big fish can move about freely and attack anything that looks like a dying shad. You will want to use a bait with some White on it and if you are after real trophies use bigger baits. I wouldn't want to argue with Phil, but in 25 years of going to the White river, I am not sure we have seen a shad kill every year. If it is a warm winter without much moisture normally there has not been much of a shad kill. It usually takes a prolonged cold snap and plenty of water coming through the turbines. Of course we are not there all winter so maybe we miss them
Seth Posted January 17, 2014 Posted January 17, 2014 I can whip up a bunch of 1/8oz chrome domes pretty fast if need.
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