Shell Knob this Weekend

[crazy4fishin]

Santa must be real....I got a lump of coal last year in my stocking (real story)....I cried (not real story).....

BTW - you guys that will be fishing this weekend - I am jealous....it might crack 30 here......then it will be hitting the deep freeze!! 

So vernon while I might not be over 40 mentally my body sure is! And it tells me on these nasty cold days! 

[Dhunter1]

I'm tossing the idea of going as well but I'll probably fish the Cape Fair area. Good luck. I'll be in a little red Bass tracker

[abkeenan]

1 hour ago, vernon said:

Danged kids always wanting to hang around adult websites and forums.  I didn't realize so many of you guys were under 40.  It was bound to happen eventually anyway so just take your trophy case full of "Bass Fishing Participant" awards and deal with it!

[Macsimus]

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[Champ188]

This forum gets scarier by the day.

[Donna G]

On 12/9/2016 at 0:41 PM, crazy4fishin said:

Santa must be real....I got a lump of coal last year in my stocking (real story)....I cried (not real story).....

BTW - you guys that will be fishing this weekend - I am jealous....it might crack 30 here......then it will be hitting the deep freeze!! 

So vernon while I might not be over 40 mentally my body sure is! And it tells me on these nasty cold days! 

Launched at SK this morning.  Put it on the trailer in the afternoon and went to Eagle Rock.  High was 40.  Might sound balmy, but I wouldn't have been very comfy without my UnderArmour and GoreTex.   

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

Just checking in.   I'm 38...  lol. (Really I am) 

[KCFinesse]

Saturday:

Found fish both deep and related to chunk rock banks. I spent most of the day rotating between the chunk rock transition areas between docks and the cove guts where fish were suspended deep around baits in front of docks. I also found a few on runout points. In the evening, I fished a wind blown steep-bank cove spur pretty close to the main lake and found fish stacked in/adjacent to cedars in about 15-20fow. Hot baits for the day: a little bit of everything, a couple rk crawler fish, a couple mcstick fish, some spoon fish and a pretty good amount of ned and shakeyhead fish. In total around 25 with four being in the 15-16" range. I did get my first TR grand slam courtesy of a 10" meanmouth. 

Sunday:

It was a pleasure meeting 96 Champ Sunday morning. It sure seemed like it was going to be a good morning on the water. 

I picked up in the same area I found fish Saturday evening, but without the wind the fish had scattered. I marked a few fish suspended in the 12fow range and swapped out the RC STX I was throwing for a deep diving KVD jerkbait and picked up a couple fish between cedars that were 16-17". I spent too much time doing this for how spread out these fish were and late morning switched back to the transition rock bite, consistently finding groups of 2-4 fish. By early afternoon I had stopped at a few bluff points between searching for transition areas and found a pretty good ned ledge bite that I ran until calling it a day a little before 4. The Sunday total was closer to 30 fish with 6 being over 15" hot baits were neds/shakeyheads with a few jerkbait fish and one healthy smallmouth on a rk crawler. 
The main things I noticed:

• I couldn't get a consistent crawler/wart bite going- I ran 10lb fluorocarbon and mono and was suspend dotting but only caught a handful. I fished a lot of phantom green but switched to mudbug after a spot spit up something close to that boatside. I did catch a lot of fish dragging bottom in the 15-20fow range. Maybe these were wart fish a bit deeper...
• I was very surprised at how close some of the deeper suspended fish were to the bottom oriented "wart" fish. I found a lot of transition bank directly adjacent to channel swings and fish were on both... Perhaps these fish think a lot like I do, and are looking forward to dinner prior to eating lunch...
• I wasted waaay too much time on dead water. Fish were concentrated in target areas and spread out over a lot of other good looking water.I think if someone were strictly fishing transitions and points without running up every adjacent chunk rock bank this weekend they could've made hay. 
• It's hard to put down a ned when it catches so many fish; it's hard to put down a jerkbait when its catching better fish....

I didn't get my 17" spot... My biggest of the trip was maybe an 1/8th inch short, and I guess I'll just have to keep trying.  Table Rock was great to me this weekend and its pretty cool to see such diversity in effective patterns.

-Jared 

[96 CHAMP]

7 hours ago, KCFinesse said:

Saturday:

Found fish both deep and related to chunk rock banks. I spent most of the day rotating between the chunk rock transition areas between docks and the cove guts where fish were suspended deep around baits in front of docks. I also found a few on runout points. In the evening, I fished a wind blown steep-bank cove spur pretty close to the main lake and found fish stacked in/adjacent to cedars in about 15-20fow. Hot baits for the day: a little bit of everything, a couple rk crawler fish, a couple mcstick fish, some spoon fish and a pretty good amount of ned and shakeyhead fish. In total around 25 with four being in the 15-16" range. I did get my first TR grand slam courtesy of a 10" meanmouth. 

Sunday:

It was a pleasure meeting 96 Champ Sunday morning. It sure seemed like it was going to be a good morning on the water. 

I picked up in the same area I found fish Saturday evening, but without the wind the fish had scattered. I marked a few fish suspended in the 12fow range and swapped out the RC STX I was throwing for a deep diving KVD jerkbait and picked up a couple fish between cedars that were 16-17". I spent too much time doing this for how spread out these fish were and late morning switched back to the transition rock bite, consistently finding groups of 2-4 fish. By early afternoon I had stopped at a few bluff points between searching for transition areas and found a pretty good ned ledge bite that I ran until calling it a day a little before 4. The Sunday total was closer to 30 fish with 6 being over 15" hot baits were neds/shakeyheads with a few jerkbait fish and one healthy smallmouth on a rk crawler. 
The main things I noticed:

• I couldn't get a consistent crawler/wart bite going- I ran 10lb fluorocarbon and mono and was suspend dotting but only caught a handful. I fished a lot of phantom green but switched to mudbug after a spot spit up something close to that boatside. I did catch a lot of fish dragging bottom in the 15-20fow range. Maybe these were wart fish a bit deeper...
• I was very surprised at how close some of the deeper suspended fish were to the bottom oriented "wart" fish. I found a lot of transition bank directly adjacent to channel swings and fish were on both... Perhaps these fish think a lot like I do, and are looking forward to dinner prior to eating lunch...
• I wasted waaay too much time on dead water. Fish were concentrated in target areas and spread out over a lot of other good looking water.I think if someone were strictly fishing transitions and points without running up every adjacent chunk rock bank this weekend they could've made hay. 
• It's hard to put down a ned when it catches so many fish; it's hard to put down a jerkbait when its catching better fish....

I didn't get my 17" spot... My biggest of the trip was maybe an 1/8th inch short, and I guess I'll just have to keep trying.  Table Rock was great to me this weekend and its pretty cool to see such diversity in effective patterns.

-Jared 

Nice meeting you to Jared, good to hear you caught them & had a good time, take care and we will see you next time. Good report & thanks for the info.

[Champ188]

Thanks for the detailed report. Glad you got them to cooperate and obviously had a good time. Very pretty spot in the picture.