February 10Th. Current Fishing Report White River Table Rock Lake

[Bill Babler]

White River Outfitters Guide Service Current Fishing Report February 10th. 2015

Have a couple of trips this weekend out of the upper end so I thought I had better get my butt up there and see what the score is today.

Launched at Eagle Rock at 6:45 just at daylight with a 3/4 moon beaming down and a surface temp of 46.7 degree.

I fished hard up to the Arky Line and spent quite abit of time doing what I thought needed done on both locations that I know and locations that J.D. Fletcher had shown me. Fished one area pretty hard that J.D. had always put his Walleye Trout Line out at and I usually can trick one here but Nada.

I'm stubborn and fished the Upper deal till about 9:45. Don't think it hurt me so much but the first deal below the 86 bridge and it was on. Surface temp below the bridge clear to Big M was 43.

Fished to Viney, mostly concentration on? Well, I really don't know. Just everything. Best success on the very long either main lake or interior runnouts, putting the boat in 35 and giving the sticker a hube toss on 8 pound test line.

Bites were in 15' to 25' range and some were mear ticks and other were Hammer the Nail.

Best deal for me was the Megabass deal. Did have a couple on the Varmint, but by far they were suspended.

At times a single cast lasted me well over 5 minutes and a lot of the time I would see fish rise on my graph and hit the bait that I was twitching behind the boat, just turning its head.

I did have a big fish today, Not pictured as regretfully I'm afraid it may not have made it. The 7 pound fish completely inhaled the bait and try though as I might, it was very, very deep. She swam down, but I hold little hope. Put a huge damper on what would have been one of those days you do not soon forget. It made it into one of those days I would rather forget, very sad to say.

I had 36 fish today off of 6 locations. I fished 17 spots, so I had 9 full zero's in the mix. I fished slow and I fished to win. I made each cast seem like my last and when you fish like that good things will happen.

Good Luck

[Quillback]

Good deal Bill - I must have missed you today, I was in the same area, except that I did not go up by Eagle Rock.

[Bill Babler]

OOPS Hit the same fish at the end twice. Was trying to pic a varmint fish.

[Bill Babler]

Quill, I did not make it below the bridge until close to 10. I can usually catch them early like this up there, but did not get a sniff today, and I really hung in there and worked it as well as I could. Got below the bridge and it was a different deal on the cooler water.

Bye the way you may notice I did the Slam X 4 with the Meanie.

[Quillback]

You got the slam - congrats! I did catch a brown fish today, not a keeper, but it's the first one I have caught in probably a month or so.

[dtrs5kprs]

Quill, I did not make it below the bridge until close to 10. I can usually catch them early like this up there, but did not get a sniff today, and I really hung in there and worked it as well as I could. Got below the bridge and it was a different deal on the cooler water.Bye the way you may notice I did the Slam X 4 with the Meanie.

Decent one too, and one with the bigger mouth. Fun to compare the various features on those. Hard to tell which genes got the upper hand at times.

[willyfish]

I said a prayer for the big girl, hope she makes it.

[willyfish]

Looks like you wrapped that 2nd hook? Was that the secret today?

[Bill Babler]

I keep over 100 Diiachi Deathtraps weighted in various ammounts and change them as I think will be the best. If you notice the weighted hook is on the megabass 110. Sometimes I will weight the 110 plus but really feel the need this time of the year to get that bait down in the 15 to 20 ft. range. It just will not do it by its self.

I like it to drop a bit tail down or drop at an even keel, and thus the weight in the middle. They are all different however and you just have to experiment.

Never had a single bite on the cast and just a jerk or so that bait had to be at least 1/2 way back. I had to fish it and twitch it a very long time to get the tick. Seemed just a twitch or two prior to a recast was when I got the Howdy.

Good Luck

[willyfish]

"I made each cast seem like my last " thanks for the tip.