2-18-14 White River Arm Table Rock Lake Report

[Champ188]

Heckuva day, Bill. World class. Word has it a bite cannot be bought just upstream on the other side of that big concrete thing. Beaver, they call it. Of course, that's nothing new.

[Sore Thumbs]

Heckuva day, Bill. World class. Word has it a bite cannot be bought just upstream on the other side of that big concrete thing. Beaver, they call it. Of course, that's nothing new.

That would be correct Champ. I fished for 3hrs today and not a sniff. Throwing nothing but A-rig and jerkbait. Beaver will humble you in a hurry.

[Bill Babler]

Good report Bill. The shad bodies on you rig look like larger swimming minnow's about 3 inches long?

A school of shad is a school of shad. I think size really matters, and for a school of threadfin shad this time of the year, there has not been a better A-Rig bait invented than the swimming minnow.

Buster touched on this in his seminar last week. We use a combination of the swimming tail and the paddle tale. I like the pearl and the the shad colors and do not change to much. I do like my back center bait to extend at least 5 inches out the back of the bait ball and I will sometimes use a Castaic bait on it in paddle tail of a very similar size to the swimming minnows.

I tried yesterday to create a bigger bait ball by putting 2 PigStick 5 wire A-Rigs together. I get these at a very good price but it still pains me to cut one up. It seems the bigger bait balls are the better deal. That gave be 9 total baits with the back 3 trailing the mob being hooked baits. It took quite abit of modification on this double rig to keep it from spinning and to run correctly but I did it.

Worked like a charm. I have ordered some of the multiple arm Rigs, but the expense is horrible. The one recommended to me that has been working here is a whopping $24.00. You lose it and that is 30 bucks down the drain, I don't care who you are, that hurts.

Problem is we have probably got 2 more months of this deal, so plenty of time out there to get your A-Rigs in order.

Good Luck

[Bill Babler]

With temperatures in the Mid to Upper 70's today and these 40 MPH winds, this pond is going to gain at least 5 degree surface temp today. Might change the entire deal, it has to be bringing them up in the water column.

[Sore Thumbs]

What brand are the baits? Thanks.

[abkeenan]

What brand are the baits? Thanks.

They look like these from lurepartsonline.com

1.99 for 3" and 2.99 for 4" and 10 per pack. Have them in both the paddle and swimming tail. Not the cheapest but not expensive either. Could probably find them cheaper somewhere online if you look.

[Jozark]

I believe Fin and Feather has them in Springfield.

[Bill Babler]

Lilleys' is the best place to buy swimming minnows. Phil can get anything you need. He keeps thousands on hand.

[abkeenan]

Lilleys' is the best place to buy swimming minnows. Phil can get anything you need. He keeps thousands on hand.

x 2. Made a stop in there and picked some up last year. Phil has a nice little setup down there on Taney.

[Jozark]

Bill can you tell where Lilley's located. I would love to stop in next time I am down.