Rainy Day On The Rock Saturday 11/22

[Donna G]

Slow day for us but we fished until 4 p.m. Seven total with three keepers. All brownies except one keeper spot. Most caught on blade or jerk. Wind was temperamental - blow for awhile and then quit. The only constant was the nonstop rain. You'd think with clouds, wind and rain there would have been a better bite. Launched at Cow and worked down to North Indian. Water temp 55. Later we went up as far as point 7. Tried Warts, jigs FB jigs, swimbaits and buzz baits, along with the blade and jerk. Flat points and gravel weren't cutting it and nothing in the backs of pockets. Mostly main lake and secondary points with 45-degree chunk rock. Champ188 did connect with a bruiser brownie pushing 5lbs on a blade. He leaned on it a bit and it came unbuttoned. That rascal boiled and porpoised like a big brown behemoth.

Enjoying the fire and dry house watching the Razorback game on top. Did make a run to Harter House before leaving TR and stocked up on their good meats while we were in the neighborhood. Steaks on the grill tomorrow. Yum.

[Pepe]

Lily and didn't stay out as long as you guys did but we had a great wiggle wart bite going in the morning. We ran up the Kings River and found them on chunk rock points. Main lake and some secondary points were good with a fairly steep drop. If deeper water was near we did better.

Almost all of ours were very healthy K's with just a couple LM. No big ones but the largest percentage were legal size. Lily loves her spinnerbaits and didn't pick up a wart until I teased that I had a limit and she had nothing in the boat (I almost had to beg for the coffee thermos after that dumb remark) .

As you said, Donna, there just wasn't a consistent wind to keep a spinnerbait going. They wanted it up shallow and if I got it past halfway back without a bite - there wasn't going to be one on that cast. Lily's first cast with the wart resulted in a LM slurping it down like a Pop'R in less tha a foot of water.

We saw 2 boats together with a marker buoy between them WAAY out on Icebox Point vertical fishing, but not another boat. We came in about 2 and called it a day, I'm hoping the weatherman is wrong about the constant rain tomorrow, but if it's not too cold we will probably go again.

[merc1997 Bo]

good reports. really does seem on good cloudy days the best bite is up on the bank.

bo

[fishingaddiction]

You two were awfully brave to stick it out all day. I don't know what it is about a constant rain, but I can't remember very many great days, it may just be mental for me. Gotta get some of that Harter House meat when you near Kimberling. I bet Champ was sick when the big brownie to come off! I stayed in and watched the HOGS hammer Ole Miss...WPS. Thanks for the report.

[Champ188]

You two were awfully brave to stick it out all day. I don't know what it is about a constant rain, but I can't remember very many great days, it may just be mental for me. Gotta get some of that Harter House meat when you near Kimberling. I bet Champ was sick when the big brownie to come off! I stayed in and watched the HOGS hammer Ole Miss...WPS. Thanks for the report.

You aren't kidding about that big brown fish, addiction. I told Donna, since I've taken a break from tournament fishing the past year or so, losing a fish doesn't bother me so much. But that thing thumped my spinnerbait like a big one does and then turned and tried to swim away with it and we had a momentary tug of war that ended with the fish coming to the surface and the spinnerbait flying back at me when the hook pulled out. I shouldn't have put that much pressure on the fish but I just went braindead. At least with it coming to the top, Donna and I both got a good look at it and agreed it was closer to 5 pounds than 4 pounds. Would've been my biggest brownie.

I'd also have to agree with you about the all-day rain. Don't recall ever having a banner day in it. Interesting to hear another seasoned angler say the same.

All you guys have a good Thanksgiving week. Donna and I are hoping to be back out there Friday and Saturday.

[Pepe]

Sunday was supposed to rain all day but turned out pretty nice. We wanted to get into smallmouth and ran to KC area. The wart, shallow on small points, (like the one behind me to my left) was still working best though we tried jerk bait on bluff ends, jigs on flats rock piles and blade at (mild) windy pockets. In at 8 and out at 1. Half dozen nice fish, mixed bag. Only a few small ones

[Champ188]

Nice ones. Fall fishing is the bomb.

[Quillback]

Some great fish - I made the mistake yesterday of thinking that the weather forecast calling for rain all day was going to be correct, so I did not go. Looks like it turned out to be a great day to be on the water. I had to console myself by watching football.

[dtrs5kprs]

You're just killing me. Know what would work over those shallow fish if you can make yourself stick with it in wind and weather...

[Ham]

You're just killing me. Know what would work over those shallow fish if you can make yourself stick with it in wind and weather...

I do, I do.