Table Rock 9-16-15 Report

[Bill Babler]

I think I have some pretty good news for most of us.  Lake temps this morning are at 77 and the water is still really off color, green/brown with a visibility almost lake wide at under 5'.  Some places less.

There has really been a pretty good bite the last week, week and a half on just about anything you want to do.  Mostly throwing a RK or a Wart early, till the sun hits the water and then fishing a jig has been good.

Sunday I had an excellent day with a regular client putting close to 18 pounds of SM in the boat and catching over 30.  Friday we had a huge day with lots of fish.

Yesterday I fished Baxter with one client and he and I caught close to 80 fish.  35 of a RK Crawler in Spring Green.  The rest we caught on a Dixie Jet.

only had 7 keepers but were just hooked up all the time.

There are way to many derby's coming up for me to tell how we caught the big sack, but believe you me, the fish are biting.  It will take a big bag if conditions stay the same for the Western Open.  Only problem is the lack of LM.  Everyone is catching tons of Jaws, but any big LM seem very hard to find.  We did have over 30  LM yesterday but all were young and most very thin.  Best 5 out of Baxter yesterday would not have weighed 9 pounds,  Long and very thin,  I weighed one LM yesterday pushing 17 inches and it weighed 1.2 pounds.  Fish had great color and not visible injuries or hook marks.  He fought big and did not have a large over size head.  He was just a snake, as were most of the LM we caught.

There are crayfish and shad just thick, so you have to wonder why.

Get out and try your luck, you may discover the big fish pattern.

[Chunk Rock]

Coming down soon ,thanks for the report.

[Quillback]

Thanks for the report Bill, I may finally be able to get out there again in a day or two, good to hear they are biting.

[5bites]

Will be down this weekend staying at our friends cabin by Eagle Rock for my sons birthday. That's one way you know you're raising them right.  I wonder how that wart bite will translate on the upper end? I'm gonna find out...

[MOPanfisher]

Man that kind of Smallmouth action is giving me a nervous tic. . . .. . . ..

[Bill Babler]

Quill and 5bites, I'm sure the crank bite is coming on up there but to tell you the honest truth, I have not been above Campbell point in a coons age.  Just have not had folks up that way so far since August.  I'm missing my old haunts.  There is starting to be a pretty good schooling and chasing bite.  It just started for me on Sunday, and the boys in the dam area reported it to be very good today.

You could not get any out of trees or get them to come up, but if you saw schooling or chasing activity you could get their attention.

[m&m]

Bill, thank you for the report.  This is good news to hear.  

Mike

[Champ188]

Yup, nice to hear things are cooling down and the fish are starting to show up. Gonna be interesting to see what our LM population does over the next few years. Hopefully they are just in a down cycle and will bounce back.

[abkeenan]

Yup, nice to hear things are cooling down and the fish are starting to show up. Gonna be interesting to see what our LM population does over the next few years. Hopefully they are just in a down cycle and will bounce back.

 

Well, the bully smallies were restricted to the dam area but someone transplanted them up river (won't name names) and they beat up all the wimpy largies and evicted them from their homes. The LM's are probably somewhere in the middle of the lake holding a cardboard sign and pushing a shopping cart with their belongings on a creek channel corner. Poor things.

[OldMillRoad]

All Largie Refugees are welcome in a small cove between Point 7 and 8.  As long as they don't wage Jihad on the smallies and the spots.