Another Fall Update

[Cindyjo]

Lake level is dropping.  Water clarity has improved significantly.  Steady weather.  Went out for 2 hours today.  Caught a total of 19 with the largest in the 4-5lb range.  All spotted bass.  All caught on spoons.  Absolutely fabulous fishing.  Same pattern as described in previous postings.  I dont know when it will stop, but it has been great.  I can only hope most of you are enjoying the great fishing this lake has to offer.

[cheesemaster]

That's impressive.  I need to learn how to fish that way. Good work.

[Bass Enforcer]

I too had a great trip this past weekend. I had some pics but I dropped my  phone in the lake. Lost everything, contacts and tons of photos of kids and family. I will start backing my phone up and down loading pics to external hard drive.  All of my fish to include several 3lb small mouth came on a spoon,ice jig and drop shot.  First day (Saturday) I caught over 20 before I ever started up my big motor within the first hour and a half. Every fish i caught was fat and all were keepers. They were suspended  in  70' foot of water at 40-45' deep in the center of creek channels. I graphed them in front of docks at first,then later on in the day is when they really loaded up in the center of the creek.  Good luck to everyone.  

[Alex Heitman]

I had a good trip as well this weekend. Thanks for the report. I threw a wart on Saturday and caught some nice fish but you had to cover a lot of water and I mean a lot. I had one I would say close to 8lbs and break my off on the boat on a wart when I was trying to lip him. Did not ha e the net out and I did not retie for quite some time so it was my fault. Man he fought and was a huge rush and let down at the same time. Lost my all time favorite wart that was a fish catcher. After that I decided to go deep because I knew they were biting out there but just wanted to get them shallow. I know there is a shallow bite somewhere but I have no idea why there isn't a bunch of fish up shallow right now. I also went into big creeks and caught them in deep of water as 70 in about 30-40 feet and also caught some on the bottom or close in about 35ft. Caught a lot of nice K's and SM and a few LM on spoon. Threw the A-rig quite a bit and caught some nice ones but not a lot. They should be all over that as well and they probably are somewhere but I didn't find them. I think at any time the shallow bite should develop as well as the arig but I  could be wrong. This weather might throw them a curveball. I really think the water needs to get a little colder. It was 56-58 degrees. Fished deep again Sunday and caught them as well. It seemed they did not like when you got over them and had to cast to them. They were really finicky but once you got them to bite you could get them going. Can't wait to get back down next week.

 

[Champ188]

9 hours ago, Bass Enforcer said:

I too had a great trip this past weekend. I had some pics but I dropped my  phone in the lake. Lost everything, contacts and tons of photos of kids and family. I will start backing my phone up and down loading pics to external hard drive.  All of my fish to include several 3lb small mouth came on a spoon,ice jig and drop shot.  First day (Saturday) I caught over 20 before I ever started up my big motor within the first hour and a half. Every fish i caught was fat and all were keepers. They were suspended  in  70' foot of water at 40-45' deep in the center of creek channels. I graphed them in front of docks at first,then later on in the day is when they really loaded up in the center of the creek.  Good luck to everyone.  

Really sucks about your phone, Enforcer. I keep saying I'm gonna back mine up to the Cloud or something but never seem to get around to it. Maybe I will now.

Thanks for the good report. I would normally say that if you guys see me out in the middle of a creek over 70 feet of water, my motor is broke down and please come help. But with this deep bite going on and lack of a shallow one, I just might be fishing.

[Champ188]

9 hours ago, Alex Heitman said:

I had a good trip as well this weekend. Thanks for the report. I threw a wart on Saturday and caught some nice fish but you had to cover a lot of water and I mean a lot. I had one I would say close to 8lbs and break my off on the boat on a wart when I was trying to lip him. Did not ha e the net out and I did not retie for quite some time so it was my fault. Man he fought and was a huge rush and let down at the same time. Lost my all time favorite wart that was a fish catcher. After that I decided to go deep because I knew they were biting out there but just wanted to get them shallow. I know there is a shallow bite somewhere but I have no idea why there isn't a bunch of fish up shallow right now. I also went into big creeks and caught them in deep of water as 70 in about 30-40 feet and also caught some on the bottom or close in about 35ft. Caught a lot of nice K's and SM and a few LM on spoon. Threw the A-rig quite a bit and caught some nice ones but not a lot. They should be all over that as well and they probably are somewhere but I didn't find them. I think at any time the shallow bite should develop as well as the arig but I  could be wrong. This weather might throw them a curveball. I really think the water needs to get a little colder. It was 56-58 degrees. Fished deep again Sunday and caught them as well. It seemed they did not like when you got over them and had to cast to them. They were really finicky but once you got them to bite you could get them going. Can't wait to get back down next week.

 

Well, that's one Wart I won't have to worry about getting beat with in a tournament. LOL. Just kidding, dude. Sorry to hear you lost your best one. I'm guilty as sin itself when it comes to not retying often enough. Glad you caught a bunch to soothe the pain.

[dtrs5kprs]

You would think since they make phones that wipe your nose and work jigsaw puzzles for you, they could figure out how to make a waterproof floating version. 

[Flysmallie]

18 minutes ago, dtrs5kprs said:

You would think since they make phones that wipe your nose and work jigsaw puzzles for you, they could figure out how to make a waterproof floating version. 

 

They could but that would cut into their sales of new phones. They like it that you break them. Just like everything else you have to keep it backed up somewhere.

[ness]

23 minutes ago, Flysmallie said:

 

They could but that would cut into their sales of new phones. They like it that you break them. Just like everything else you have to keep it backed up somewhere.

Yeah, I double backup everything. Phone pics are offloaded frequently to iMac, and it's backed up daily with Time Machine. I also have a Carbonite backup going all the time in case of a disaster.

Anyhoo -- sounds like good fishing!

[abkeenan]

Nice reports by all. Sounds like there is good fishing to be had lake wide. Enforcer sorry to hear about your phone. Mostly because of the pics lost. I am more concerned with the actual content on my phone (pics of family and daughter) than the phone itself. I back all my pics up on an external hard drive every so often just in case I fat finger/stone hands the phone into an abyss somewhere.

 

Alex, maybe even more painful that losing a phone is losing your best wart. That hurts and even worse it was on a fish of a lifetime on Table Rock. Maybe you will get redemption this weekend when you go back. What area of the lake were you fishing big guy?