Aunt's and KC report 3/23-3/26

[bluebasser86]

Sorry for the late report but my already sick self during the trip ended up coming down with pneumonia when we got back, so I haven't done much of anything the last few days. We had a small group of friends down for a buddy "tournament" that we ran MLF style but still only tracking our biggest 5. My buddy I fished with had never fished Table Rock before, and after this trip, he's completely spoiled. We never caught fewer than 30 fish in a day, both managed 5 fish limits each day, including several solid fish in the 3-4 pound range. I was concentrating on channel swings at first when we got to the lake Thursday around noon and managed to find one little cut that they'd corralled shad into. I did alright for myself there, but Coty would have had a high teens bag by himself, all on a 3/8oz underspin and 3.8 Keitech.

He caught the 3.68lb smallmouth, and 4.20lb largemouth on back to back cast. It was pretty unreal.
Friday we fished around Aunt's Creek. Caught fish about everywhere we stopped and were able to duplicate the small pockets where the channel swung in, again with the underspin. Didn't catch quite the quality, but Coty had another high 3 range fish along with several solid 2.5-2 3/4 pound fish. Towards the end of the day we ran back near the ramp and found fish busting. Fish everywhere on the graph and they were pounding the underspin. All barely short of just barely keepers, but still a lot of fun.

Saturday, we started around KC, but the torrential downpours seemed to shutoff or underspin bite. We managed to get a small limit before running to Aunt's. I started throwing a jerkbait and about the time the wind started blowing, they started really eating it. I ended up catching our 2 biggest fish of the day, a 3.68 largemouth and 2.90 spot that looked like it was about to explode.

The fish had stuck to the channel swings or close to steep drops, but seemed to have moved to gravel or sand banks or points. We ended the day with 13 3/4 pounds, less than half a pound from second.

Sunday, We decided to stick it out in KC because it seemed the better quality bite was there. Started out the morning hot and heavy, but mostly smaller smallmouth. They really wanted the jerkbait, so I kept feeding it to them. It was dead calm, and the bigger ones didn't seem to want to move for it. Finally got a little ripple on the water, and I quickly boated 3 keepers before we made a short move to a point I'd wanted to fish if the wind started moving towards it. It was a good call as our biggest of the weekend literally tried to swallow my jerkbait.

It had been a tougher day, so we were feeling pretty good, but really wanted another quality bite to feel like we had a shot. Then the sun came out, wind died, and so did the bite. We went a couple hours only culling up a little with a 2.5lb smallmouth on the jerkbait, but still had a 2 pounder to get rid of. Decided to try to the little pockets again to see if there was any magic left. Very first one, Coty got slack lined on his underspin and put the one we needed in the net.

We ended up with 14 3/4 on the day, which gave us the win by almost 2 pounds and big bass for the weekend with my 4.14lb fish. 

It was an absolute blast. Always love fishing the lake, but I've never seen her show out like that. 

[Sore Thumbs]

Great report. Sorry u were sick. 

[Quillback]

Great fishing, thanks for sharing!

[Mitch f]

Great report! You guys did very well!!

[motoman]

Well done there..........great report, but you said it........you really did spoil your buddy with his first time on TR!

[vernon]

Wow.  What a report and great trip!

Take care of yourself with that pneumonia - I've had it several times and it's nothing to mess with.  Even when you think you're over it don't get crazy cause it can come back with a vengeance!

Fantastic photos too!

[buckwhisperer]

You guys nailed it, good job and thanks for report and pics! Hope your feeling better soon.

[dtrs5kprs]

That's thumping them.

I've had pneumonia at the lake a couple of times. Laying down on the deck to cough between casts, fever just beating you. Had to go to the hospital ER in Branson one fall. Nasty stuff.

[vernon]

 

That's thumping them.

I've had pneumonia at the lake a couple of times. Laying down on the deck to cough between casts, fever just beating you. Had to go to the hospital ER in Branson one fall. Nasty stuff.

Dang!  I knew you was tuff but you must be almost Mark Zona tuff!

As for my sissy butt, once it actually had me I didn't leave the couch or bed for about a week or more.  I did some stupid stuff for awhile before it really zapped me but after that?  I was in full snowflake mode.

Of course I'm sure that the kind that I had was the really, really, really bad kind that would kill most men.

Not.  

Don't play around with respiratory illnesses - lack of breathing is one of the top causes of death throughout the world!

[Champ188]

Really fine trip and thanks much for the report. Like the other said ... don't jack around with that pneumonia. Get well so you can come back and hammer them again soon.