Table Rock Lake February 1st. 2016 Report

[dwiebenga]

What a report!  Thank you!

[magicwormman]

Great report, Bill! Thanks for the info on Lew's braid and F carbon. I almost bought some a few weeks ago when I was in the store. I've used Power Pro for many years and the stuff seems to last forever. I throw the A-rig on 65 lb power pro and seldom loose a bait. With the price difference, I'll be trying Lew's.

[buckcreekmike]

Nice report. I really like the looks of those fish. Good color to those largemouth and that dark smallie. 

[Bill Babler]

12 minutes ago, magicwormman said:

Great report, Bill! Thanks for the info on Lew's braid and F carbon. I almost bought some a few weeks ago when I was in the store. I've used Power Pro for many years and the stuff seems to last forever. I throw the A-rig on 65 lb power pro and seldom loose a bait. With the price difference, I'll be trying Lew's.

Yes the Power Pro has been the standard especially with the slick 8.  Kind of like the reels.  "There is a new kid on the block."

[abkeenan]

1 minute ago, Bill Babler said:

Yes the Power Pro has been the standard especially with the slick 8.  Kind of like the reels.  "There is a new kid on the block."

When you go from a small building tucked away in residential Springfield on side streets to a building 10 times the size on the side of an interstate you know you're company is doing things right.

[Bill Babler]

Lets face it, 5 yrs. ago how many people were using Lew's reels.  When you make a quality product like that folks will come.  How would you have liked to bought some stock 10 yrs. ago.  Quality, word of mouth and a very good field staff have propelled them to this.  Look at the local and even national tournaments how many of these guys do you see with either Lew's stickers or Lew's clothing.  Just about as good a value for your money as anything that has came along in my lifetime.  Yesterday I was throwing the new Tournament Pro G right into and across a very stiff wind, with a 110 McStick.  Did not have a single blowup.  With the combination of the magnetic and the centrifical drag, you can dial in as much or as little as you want, a click at a time.

Couple more Pic's from yesterday

[*T*]

Like your photos and water color/clarity is really good.

[JacobW]

That is exactly the same bite I found yesterday Bill. You just had to crawl that a rig on the bottom to get bit. And I didn't get a bite on the stickbait til I passed you and cut you off to that bluff end at about 3 pm! I had to beat you there so you wouldn't catch them all!

[Bill Babler]

I had already fished it 3 times.  Where you were sitting is where I caught the 3 K's on a spoon.  There was a pile of worming K's from where you stopped to where you were fishing when I passed you headed back up the river.  I saw you catch one little guy, and by that time I was sure I could get to the other side bluff end and that interior run.  Caught 3 keeps off the other side and 5 keeps on the run.  In the 3 passes I made before you "Cut me off"  I had 5 keeps there plus the 3 short K's.

If you caught some more there you did good.  As I pulled onto it, there was a guy pulling off in front of me around 2 PM, so that place got some attention.  Difference with me was my boat was in 50' and I'm sure the guy in front of me was way in.  Every bite I had there was at least 25' on the bottom.

Next time come on over and say Howdy.

 

[Ketchup]

Excellent report Bill, and with pictures of fish AND the bait, my golly.... Ive only fished that area once, at last years OA tourney, so those places you mentioned are german to me. Glad after your struggles those few days, that you caught fish.