table rock NOT in the top 100?

[ness]

I think these top ### lists are usually crap. They're what lazy journalists do to fill up pages. They're usually a rehash of some previous list, with maybe a tweak here and there based on who's schmoozing who. No way there is any real science in these things.

If you're in a business that benefits from being on a list, you should be lobbying for your spot on the list. To the consumer, well, forget about lists like this. Same goes for political polls and a whole lot of other opinion crap we're subjected to daily.

Use your own freaking brain, and supplement it with the knowledge of real people you know and trust.

And for a true fisherman, I'd say your spot appearing on a list is about the worst thing that could happen. Fans of Table Rock should be happy about this omission.

[Quillback]

And for a true fisherman, I'd say your spot appearing on a list is about the worst thing that could happen. Fans of Table Rock should be happy about this omission.

That is true. Stay off my lawn!

[Old plug]

I think these top ### lists are usually crap. They're what lazy journalists do to fill up pages. They're usually a rehash of some previous list, with maybe a tweak here and there based on who's schmoozing who. No way there is any real science in these things.

If you're in a business that benefits from being on a list, you should be lobbying for your spot on the list. To the consumer, well, forget about lists like this. Same goes for political polls and a whole lot of other opinion crap we're subjected to daily.

Use your own freaking brain, and supplement it with the knowledge of real people you know and trust.

And for a true fisherman, I'd say your spot appearing on a list is about the worst thing that could happen. Fans of Table Rock should be happy about this omission.

Good for you Ness telling it like it really is.

[rkbrowntrout78]

I think that the ease of fishing the lakes comes into play a little too. The average bass fisherman cant just head out and catch a decent limit quite as easily here at Tale Rock doing the same thing as they do at "home" lakes. After May especially.

This is very true. I came home from our trip feeling like I was missing something; like I left something on the table (see what I did there). I caught fish but it was like one fish here and another over there and so on. Never figured out the pattern. I was in need of a guide.

[Sore Thumbs]

Did Beaver make top 100? ?

[Champ188]

Did Beaver make top 100?

Thumbs, the list was posted in Bassmaster, not Stripers-R-Us.

I think these top ### lists are usually crap. They're what lazy journalists do to fill up pages. They're usually a rehash of some previous list, with maybe a tweak here and there based on who's schmoozing who. No way there is any real science in these things.

If you're in a business that benefits from being on a list, you should be lobbying for your spot on the list. To the consumer, well, forget about lists like this. Same goes for political polls and a whole lot of other opinion crap we're subjected to daily.

Use your own freaking brain, and supplement it with the knowledge of real people you know and trust.

And for a true fisherman, I'd say your spot appearing on a list is about the worst thing that could happen. Fans of Table Rock should be happy about this omission.

Ness, I'm a 35-year newspaper guy and you definitely hit the nail on the head. Ray Scott/Bob Cobb never published this kind of nonsense in the days when Bassmaster focused on educating its members rather than lining its pockets.

[GREENTRITON]

No fish in T-rock, move along...

[waterpossum]

Grand should be in the top 15. It is just full of underwater structure like humps and ridges at mderate depths and I imagine grish piles as well as surface things like docks. LMB love that kind of stuff. It is hard to rank any lake. there are ao many variables to contend with.

Grand hands down is the best bass lake in the area. The main feeder arms of Grand insure that every year there will be new fertility flowing into the lake. The Neosho river flowing out of the farm lands of SE Kansas, Spring river starting around Verona in SW Missouri, and the Elk river also flowing out of southern Missouri rejuvenate this lake on a yearly basis. Beaver, Table Rock, and Bull Shoals on the White river chain are more rock laden lakes that lack the same characteristics of Grand lake.

[Champ188]

Grand hands down is the best bass lake in the area. The main feeder arms of Grand insure that every year there will be new fertility flowing into the lake. The Neosho river flowing out of the farm lands of SE Kansas, Spring river starting around Verona in SW Missouri, and the Elk river also flowing out of southern Missouri rejuvenate this lake on a yearly basis. Beaver, Table Rock, and Bull Shoals on the White river chain are more rock laden lakes that lack the same characteristics of Grand lake.

^^^ Truth in every word here. Grand is teeming with life. You can hardly turn on your depthfinder anywhere on it without being on top of schools of fish of every kind ... from the smallest shad to the largest spoonbill. Pelicans, gulls, herons and other water birds everywhere. It may not be the prettiest thing to look upon, but it's flat full of fish.