My dog is outfishing me!

[gitnby]

Okay, my Australian Sheperd has been bringing me several fish heads from the shore for the past few weeks?

These have all been LM or K's, and appear to be just under, right at, or a bit over keeper size?

No one on my dock keeps bass and cleans them.  No one else but me really even fishes that much.

We are right at the mouth of Fisher Creek, across from Ahoy's.

I know the lake is down and all that, but should there be that many dead bass washed up in a 75 yard stretch of shoreline?

 

 

 

[Riverwhy]

People who keep bass at Table Rock are like Trump voters.  They are probably all around you but just don't want the argument.  (By the way, I have never kept a Table Rock bass).

[Jerry Rapp]

1 hour ago, Riverwhy said:

People who keep bass at Table Rock are like Trump voters.  They are probably all around you but just don't want the argument.  (By the way, I have never kept a Table Rock bass).

spot on.  No pun intended.  But 98% of the fishermen at any lake are not tournament anglers.  They fish off their docks and the family and him/her likes a fish fry.  Pop up a nice 13 or 14 inch bass onto the dock. Fillet it and eat it.  Throw the carcass off the dock.  Happens at all lakes, but since Table Rock crappie are sparse, I bet a lot of fish fry's consist of dock caught illegals.

[gitnby]

4 hours ago, Jerry Rapp said:

spot on.  No pun intended.  But 98% of the fishermen at any lake are not tournament anglers.  They fish off their docks and the family and him/her likes a fish fry.  Pop up a nice 13 or 14 inch bass onto the dock. Fillet it and eat it.  Throw the carcass off the dock.  Happens at all lakes, but since Table Rock crappie are sparse, I bet a lot of fish fry's consist of dock caught illegals.

They are not coming from our dock! And, there is not another dock within a quarter mile to the North and maybe 200 yards to the South, which is around the point from us.

We don't even have a fish cleaning station on the dock, and there's maybe 2 other guys that even own a rod & reel and I know these guys don't even like to eat fish. I've seen them throw back nice flatheads and even keeper crappie.

Could be tourney released fish, but not many weigh-ins out of Ahoy's lately, and hard to believe they floated all the way from Mill Creek or Port of Kimberling and just happened to end up on my lake frontage?

Hoping it's not some early signs of a fish kill?

 

[vernon]

Don't know if this has anything to do with it but that's the area where we saw lots of dead keeper and larger bass back in mid September. The floaters were out from the docks at the Kimberling Inn a little more in the direction of the main lake. 

It was posted here at the time as there was a pretty good sized tournament out of that ramp a day or two before. A couple of OA members fished the event and posted comments as well. If I remember correctly, a release boat was used to return the fish to the water but the surface temps were in the 80's so it "seemed" that heat and stress might have been a factor. 

Again, I have no idea if the two or related but thought it was worth mentioning. 

[Champ188]

The Jack Emmitt Memorial Tournament was held this past Saturday out of Mill Creek. Doubt they floated all the way over to the mouth of Fisher Creek from the weigh-in but if they used a release boat, it could be some of their fish.

[gitnby]

13 hours ago, vernon said:

Don't know if this has anything to do with it but that's the area where we saw lots of dead keeper and larger bass back in mid September. The floaters were out from the docks at the Kimberling Inn a little more in the direction of the main lake. 

It was posted here at the time as there was a pretty good sized tournament out of that ramp a day or two before. A couple of OA members fished the event and posted comments as well. If I remember correctly, a release boat was used to return the fish to the water but the surface temps were in the 80's so it "seemed" that heat and stress might have been a factor. 

Again, I have no idea if the two or related but thought it was worth mentioning. 

That certainly sounds like it could be the answer?