First Visit to Table Rock

[fstaskiewicz]

My son and I depart from Huskers country for Table Rock this evening for our first-ever visit to the lake. We're hauling our new boat down for its inaugural road trip, so if you see us on the water in a white Lund Impact single console with a 115 on back, that's us. We're staying at Shore Acres Resort southwest of Kimberling City and plan to fish both directions away from the resort.

We were supposed to be there last week, but my son had to travel for work. Looks like that worked out for the best for us based on the reports I'm reading about the fishing. This appears to be a very good time to be on the lake. We love the brown bass but are looking forward to catching some green ones too, and maybe some crappies and whites as well.

I'll thank all of you on this forum now for all the great information you share. We feel like we're well equipped with plenty of knowledge to put together a fun and successful trip. It'll just take a bit to adapt to a big southern reservoir.

We'll be on the lake bright and early Thursday through Sunday around noon. I'll be happy to share our fishing information and some photos here as well. Hopefully those reports will be good ones and beneficial to others, just like all of yours have been.

We can't wait to experience your great lake, and perhaps even meet some of you on the water.

Tight lines everyone!

Frank

[big c]

Good luck.

[Smallieguy87]

Good luck to you guys! I'm looking forward to seeing some photos and reading a report.

[Champ188]

Keep reading the reports on here. You might also want to go to hookedonbass.com and watch Pete's video report. All good stuff that will help you on your trip.

A word of advice that is often taken for granted by the regulars but is good to remind visitors of from time to time ... this is a clear, highland reservoir and it demands that you fish it with finesse most of the time. Bring your spinning gear and spool it with either 6-pound mono or 8-pound fluorocarbon. Big line equals big disappointment in most cases on Table Rock. This is for Ned, shaky head, grub and other finesse tactics.

For larger bottom-contact baits such as jigs, swing heads, etc., you'll want baitcasting gear with 10-15 pound fluorocarbon.

Topwaters and spinnerbaits can be thrown on baitcasting gear with 15-17 pound mono. Cranks work best for me on 10-pound mono.

[fstaskiewicz]

Great advice, Champ188. We typically add long fluoro leaders to our expensive braid to combat clear water conditions, rather that peel off the braid. We may just have to lengthen those pieces of fluoro for our finesse presentations. We're loaded up with Neds, grubs, tubes, mushroom heads, drop shots etc. for the spinning gear. Never fished a Ned before and looking very forward to that.

Hoping for some topwater action, and a some after dark fun too. We love to target bass at night!

We're sure excited to experience something different. Should be a blast! We should be on the road in under two hours, with 6+ hours of driving ahead of us from Springfield, NE. I'm sure we'll do lots of strategizing with the lake map on the way down. Plenty of water to fish!

[garyw]

you'll like shores acres. stayed there a coupla times. very nice.