KC report 5/4 (find the wind and swim the Ned:-)

[motoman]

Fished Kimberling City since Saturday and struggled........until today.

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2 of us in the boat started fishing Saturday evening caught maybe 10 fish in 2 hours in typical Ned fashion.........let it sit.......nothing huge and don't recall if any keepers.

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Sunday was VERY difficult with little wind and high skies. Fished from sunup, with 3 hour lunch break until sundown and threw everything but the kitchen sink in every type of water/bank I could think of. Caught a few on the grub in the timber. A few on the Ned. And had some blowups early evening on a buzzjet and a showerblows; but neither connected.(RATS!:-(.........we had to WORK for every sign of life that sniffed our offerings.

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Today started at sunup throwing everything but the kitchen sink........even the Ned left us high and dry. Fished until 10:30am and decided to run to town; for a few things.........as the high skies and little wind was not a good combination for whatever we tried. Just like Sunday.

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But wait..........:-)

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We decided to get back on the water at 2:00pm and fished until 6:30'ish. Plenty of gusty wind was just what we needed! (I know, I know.........pretty obvious;find the wind, find the fish........but it was refreshing)

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Caught about 30 fish just in that time frame. Over 20 of them were Nice keepers. No need to measure; they were nice and angry too. (Probably not mad at us though; probably mad at Dave and his darned jigheads:-P

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Started on a main lake gravel point on the windward side; boat in 20 feet of water and about 5 boat lengths from shore. Always casting to deeper water. 1/8 ounce Ozark Finesse Heads (Dave=dtrs here on the boards) let the bait sink to the bottom; then sllllowwlllyyy reel it back; lightly ticking the bottom. New Money color was winner of the day, Mardi Gras close second then Canada Craw rounding out the best color choices.

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The wind slacked a bit..........bite died.........so we moved to a windblown, pea gravel/chunk rock shoreline and it was on again (boat in 20; diagonal/perpendicular casts to shore, catching them in 10 feet).........as long as there was wind........there was a bite, winds slacked; fish lost interest. The occasional cloud cover seemed to help too. Same colors.

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Also too; the last 30 minutes before coming in; went to some standing timber that's just underwater; used same techniques/colors as above and pulled some nice fat kentuckies out of the base of those trees.

The Ned had to be moving for us to get any action. Looks like weather change coming soon; so that should help?

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Enjoy.:-)

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(I'll try and post pix later)

[dtrs5kprs]

About time you got those thumbs chewed up.

If the little guy slows, you might try a big shakey head on those same windy banks. Or the goofy swing heads. Would not bet on weather improving things.

[Bill Babler]

You have created the Wobble-Ned.

[dtrs5kprs]

You have created the Wobble-Ned.

I actually tried that with some custom swing heads with #1 or so Owner hooks. Did not work worth a rip, even though I could catch one on the big swing head. Was really surprised by it.

[motoman]

You have created the Wobble-Ned.

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Too true Bill!:-)..........funny thing was I threw the darned wobble head in those same areas; at different speeds with a yamamoto Kreature and a few other creature baits with flailing limbs while my partner threw other stuff.......without a sniff. I can't help but think the 'wobble-Ned' (:-P......was just the right speed for an easy meal.

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The bites were mostly aggressive bites; no mystery you had one on. Not like that occasional bite where the line feels heavy, and they just kinda 'ride' the bait in.

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We actually had several nice smallmouth at the 3 pound mark that fought like they were twice that size!

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My buddy Adam, in the boat with me caught one a couple boat lengths from the boat; that mean mamma-jamma went straight for the depths, and his drag was screaming. I had to run back and forth from the trolling motor to fight the wind; to the back with him (net in my hands) cause that fish would get close several times; then make another hard charge for the depths.....drag on his real, just begging for mercy. Darn thing was under and around the boat a couple times too. Just insane.:-)

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I think Dave musta sent me some cayenne pepper infused jigheads!:-P

[dtrs5kprs]

I do believe you found some brown fish on deep beds. They don't like little green things dragging through their beds.

[Guest]

thats exactly how the swimbait bite setup for me last week at Beaver.

Sounds like I need to move the Ned a little bit faster.

[Ham]

thats exactly how the swimbait bite setup for me last week at Beaver.

Sounds like I need to move the Ned a little bit faster.

Most of the time NO. What we all need to do is pay attention to what you were doing when you got bit and repeat that action looking for additional bites.

[motoman]

About time you got those thumbs chewed up.

If the little guy slows, you might try a big shakey head on those same windy banks. Or the goofy swing heads. Would not bet on weather improving things.

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You said it Dave, it was LONG overdue! Hope to be back down in a few weeks. Nice to get back down. (I missed this post previously.......goofy little phone screen:-(

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That would sure stink if the weather didn't improve things:-(..............is it just that time of year, and the fish getting into summer patterns?

[dtrs5kprs]

Might be different now, but for me this spring rain put them in a funk. Best looking days were the worst, bright sun was the best. Lot of that had to do with the cold nights.

Let me know when you are headed back down. Will be down again in a few weeks.