Capsule Of Buster's Seminar On Bull Shoals

[Bill Babler]

Well, it would seem we hit a home run with this one. Professional fisherman and longtime guide Buster Loving pretty much knocked it out of the park.

Not only did he pass his favorite walleye baits around the room that was full to the brim with over 60 seminar goers but explained techniques, presentations and areas that he like to fish.

Walleye: Kdock to the Powersite dam Target mud flats where the channel hits the flats regardless of how far you are from the bank. Use feeder streams, channels, cove mouths and ditches as indicators that may be holding staging walleye. Target cover such as stumps and lay downs that are along the mudflat banks that relate to the main channel.

Present suspending stickbaits to the top of the flats and fish them ever so slowly with the boat positioned a full cast into the channel from the mudflat edges.

Crappie target mid-channel pole timber with slow falling soft plastics, his favorite being the Crappie Magnet. Do not be afraid to get away from the back especially this time of the year.

White Bass use full size paddletail swimming minnows on A-Rigs a some of the same locations described for the walleye. Swim the Arig so it is moving as slowly as possible.

Target White bass with small suspending jerkbaits, moving the baits very quickly and twitch it very fast. Target the mouth of feeder creeks and the bigger creeks and the pot hole. His favorite was the RC Stick but he replaces the split rigns and hooks with better quality. He also prefers the Leland Lures small suspending 3 hook stickbaits.

His favorite way to catch Bass on Bull Shoals is on a tube as he catches lots of very nice smallmouth on this method. He targets bass most of the year in the 20' plus range. For the bass he targets Gravel areas and transitions rather than the mud flats for the walleye

Lots of good questions and Buster just did a Super Job. I learn something from him everytime I go with him or hear him talk about it.

I thought he was extremely modest for the success he has had. Not of a lot of Bull Shoals experts would have ever done this presentation and my hat is off to him. Hope all there enjoyed the seminars as they are free and the Pro's that put them on are not compensated, they are just doing this to help our fishing community.

Good Luck

[powerdive]

It was outstanding. I learned real stuff I can use to (hopefully) become a better walleye fisherman, from the guy who does it better than anyone else on the planet. Buster was unbelievably open about his approach and Bill was great at helping to amplify important points. An A-plus evening all around, and I really, really appreciate it. Thank you, gentlemen.

[Krazo]

Good seminar. good turnout. Thanks for the putting on this spring series of seminars.

[Bill Babler]

Thank you gentlemen, it was just about as good a seminar evening I have spent and I have heard them all. Excellent turnout and as powerdive said, we can take this right to the water.

Phil has done a great job putting this Spring Series together and it is not over yet, with Stockton, the White River and some more great information on Smallmouth.

Time for me to hit the water this morning as I have a noon guide trip on Taney.

Good Luck

[minnowhooker]

I also enjoyed it very much, very informative the amount of knowledge he shared was great. Thanks to all who had a hand in putting it together.

[jskutt04]

^{I enjoyed go to this. Learn different way to fish to for walleye.}

[Ealy]

I had planned on going to this for weeks, but ended up with family obligations. Did anyone end up taking any pics of the baits that were passed around? I heard he likes to throw a rogue with a lot of red/orange/yellow.

[Buster Loving]

I would like to thank everyone who showed up to listen to me speak Friday evening. I do not consider myself to be a good public speaker so all of the questions made it much easier to talk about something I truly love. Thanks to Phil for asking me and thanks to Bill for helping out.

[packersooner]

You did great Buster! That was a VERY informative seminar. Many thanks to you and Bill.

BTW...liked that hat

[Ealy]

I listened to the audio earlier today and really enjoyed it. I've spent a fair amount of time between Powersite and K-Dock, and it's a very unique place to fish. I usually end up catching something, but usually not what I first set out to catch. It's a good place to salvage the day with a different species. I'm still gonna pester you all about the jerkbait colors. The colors must be something I don't have, because I can't seem to make my colors work anymore!