Friday the 13th Yikes!

[moguy1973]

Ugh.  Looks like we chose the wrong part of the lake.  Water clarity here in Long Creek is only a couple feet at best with a green tinge to the water.  Reminds me of water I see at LOZ.

[Champ188]

2 hours ago, moguy1973 said:

Ugh.  Looks like we chose the wrong part of the lake.  Water clarity here in Long Creek is only a couple feet at best with a green tinge to the water.  Reminds me of water I see at LOZ.

Moguy, i know it's not ideal for topwater, etc., but that off-colored water in Long Creek can be a blessing for flipping/pitching or working moving baits like spinnerbaits or square bills at close range. Anytime there's a pro tour derby here and the water is off-colored, Long Creek usually kicks out several of the top strings.

Try getting in close and flipping a MIssouri craw jig, or a green pumpkin beaver or other creature bait with the tips dyed chartreuse. You can also back out just a little and toss a 3/8 War Eagle hot blue herring spinnerbait or a 1.5-sized square bill. I like the new 6th Sense one-knocker baits.

Hope this helps put a few more fish in the boat.

[Pepe]

Thanks for the report, Bill. Very helpful tips.

What is that white topwater bait in the picture?

I can't wait to get back to the lake as soon as Ulrich gets my boat squared away. We had a big tree fall on it - hitting the TM, graph and front pedestal. Bad luck but at least nobody was up front

[96 CHAMP]

3 hours ago, Pepe said:

Thanks for the report, Bill. Very helpful tips.

What is that white topwater bait in the picture?

I can't wait to get back to the lake as soon as Ulrich gets my boat squared away. We had a big tree fall on it - hitting the TM, graph and front pedestal. Bad luck but at least nobody was up front

Sorry to hear that Pepe, did that happen at home recently with the passing storms or down at the lake??

[Bill Babler]

Quick report from Saturday.  Morning greeted us with a howling NW wind colder than a Mother-in-laws heart.  My guys were dressed for it and we set in on them immediately, with the boys bringing close to 20 to the boat before 7 AM.  Surface temps at Shell Knob were ranging from 68 to 69 and cooled during the morning to 67.7 on the main lake.  Big or little the WP even with a very big chop was bringing them to the boat.  Jeremy tried a fin for a bit but with no love, they wanted the Plop City.

 

When the top water deal expired I put a sticker in their hands and Jeremy a super 33 yr. old just flat hammered them.  This young man is a HAND.  I have fished with some of the best stick bait fishermen that have plied these clear Mountain waters and he could be in the boat with any of them and hold his own.  No Problem.  You can tell a jerkbaiter immediately.  This is really not something you learn.  Yes you can improve, but this style of fishing has multiple components and you either got it or you don't from cadence to rod position to feel and timing, he had it X10.    Just smoked his pap, Larry from the back of the boat.  I kept my rod on the deck, cause I believe I would have been in serious trouble also.  Pleasure to watch him fish.

Ended our morning by 10 pushing 40 fish to the boat, with perhaps 8 good keeps, with several really nice fish coming in late on a chigger craw and a pbj ned off one short stretch.

[Quillback]

Some very nice chunks!

[Bill Babler]

Ya, Pepe, very sorry to hear about the rig.  That top water is a modified Whopper Plopper, small size in I think they call it powder.

[Quillback]

Chris Lane is throwing the Plopper on the Toledo Bend BASS tourney and is doing very well with it.

[dtrs5kprs]

45 minutes ago, Bill Babler said:

Ya, Pepe, very sorry to hear about the rig.  That top water is a modified Whopper Plopper, small size in I think they call it powder.

Modified, you say?

[Bill Babler]

27 minutes ago, dtrs5kprs said:

Modified, you say?

Of Course.  You know me, rings and hooks always.  Also the Plopper does not come with a split in the nose.  I just got to have one.  Could not remember if I put a tail on that one or not.  I have on most.