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[Daryk Campbell Sr]

16 hours ago, aarchdale@coresleep.com said:

There are already more bass than all other game fish combined. Thats my opinion from scuba diving in TR and Bull.  It would really blow some peoples minds if they ever went under for 20 min and seen how many bass there are and even how many keepers.  Very rarely if you make a cast into a brush pile there wont be a few keepers in it.  Getting them to bite is a different story.   We may hit 10-15 brush piles before we run into a school of crappie, but the bass are just everywhere. 

Hopefully we will get some good visibility this summer and i can get some video to share with everyone

Looking forward to seeing these. 

[misfitfishingco]

17 hours ago, aarchdale@coresleep.com said:

There are already more bass than all other game fish combined. Thats my opinion from scuba diving in TR and Bull.  It would really blow some peoples minds if they ever went under for 20 min and seen how many bass there are and even how many keepers.  Very rarely if you make a cast into a brush pile there wont be a few keepers in it.  Getting them to bite is a different story.   We may hit 10-15 brush piles before we run into a school of crappie, but the bass are just everywhere. 

Hopefully we will get some good visibility this summer and i can get some video to share with everyone

Aarchdale is right and his comment ties into what I was alluding to with all my rhetoric which is TRL is not short on fish but rather just over-pressured in general I think. If one were to get on the Missouri water patrol regatta list and look, there is 69 (if i counted correctly) tournaments scheduled for the month of June. 69!?!?!?! Think these fish may be a tad pressured? They are in the lake but easy for them to get tight lipped on us when they get hammered week after week. 

https://www.mshp.dps.missouri.gov/WP04Web/app/searchRegattaWeb?action=Search+Again

[vernon]

I sometimes think it's surprising that Table Rock fish ever eat at all.  

If you had your face yanked off every couple of times that you tried to grab a bite to eat you'd probably eventually just starve to death rather than keep subjecting yourself to the "experience".

I guess the alternative in order to survive is to become extremely selective insofar as to what you choose to put in your mouth.

Hence, highly finicky fish and tough fishing.

And with 70 tournaments per month during prime time I doubt it's ever going to get anything but tougher.

[Fish24/7]

if people really cared about the bass they wouldn't use hooks with barbs, especially treble hooks. But probably everybody here does it, I have..

I had some great hook ups and catch rates using circle style hooks on jerks,cranks and topwaters. . Haven't hooked 1 bass outside the mouth, none have been foul hooked either.. no hooks in the gut,back ,eyes,gills etc. using them.  It's typically a saltwater thing but freshwater anglers should try it jmo. If circle hooks aren't your style we know that just smashing the barbs down on your hooks can make hook removal from sensitive areas a lot easier. Recently switched ALL my catfishing hooks to barbless circles and trebles too. 

[Fish24/7]

On 5/26/2017 at 2:59 PM, misfitfishingco said:

over-pressured

the banks are just over pressured imo,  the majority of us won't leave it to find unmolested fish that willingly bite offshore. I was that way until i learned how to drop shot and use my electronics correctly to help me find fish instead of running from bank to bank hoping for a bite. I still hit the banks but only when the conditions call for it.