Friday, 9/29, near the mouth of the Kings.

[Quillback]

 

A beautiful early fall morning.  I began my day by fishing the edge of the buck brush with a tail spinner type top water.  Caught 2 bass total working the brush, one was a keeper large mouth.  Did that for an hour and moved out into the channel to try again for the bass that are living out there.

They were scattered, no schools, and every once in a while one or two would come up within casting range.  Caught another 4 bass, all spots, fishing main channel.  If you can get on them, they will jump on that top water, but if you're late, they'll ignore your bait.  I can't make fan casting around the boat work, they've got to be up feeding.  Only thing I haven't tried is to try finesse type top waters, may try that next time.  Might even try a float and fly.

Seems every time out lately I have a Big One that Got Away story. 

I tied up to the dock at Big M, backed the trailer in, as I got in the boat I saw a bass pin some shad against the bank right at the edge of the blacktop in the parking lot.  Close enough to the boat that I stepped in the boat and picked up my top water rod and threw a pencil popper right at the spot where that fish came up.  Made two casts there, no sniffs.  Made another cast about 10 feet further down the bank, walked the bait about 10 feet of the bank, and pow, got a blow up - just felt a little tick, didn't hook up, but I got a look at the fish as it rolled on the bait and it was a good one.  Made a few more casts but that bass wasn't coming back.

[wily]

Cool picture

[176champion]

Thanks for the report Quill!!

[Carl W]

Thanks Quill. Me and a buddy went out early this morning out of Eagle Rock. It had been awhile since I had been up to the Rock. We headed to one of my favorite spots and nothing. We started to run the bank near by and caught one decent spot. We moved around from there moving point to point / docks some but all on the main lake with nothing to show when I finally just moved out to sort of the middle of the lake and was casting Swim baits towards the few that would bust the top. We finally caught our second fish and then our third and fourth but it was still real slow.   

We found one more spot near a point that they were doing the same thing and we would catch a few but they were hard to hook up it seemed. 

Tough day!  I really thought it would be better. 

 

Carl

[m&m]

Quill & Carl,

thankf for the information. Seems difficult right now. 

Mike

[Bass Yakker]

Great picture!

[vernon]

Yep, that photo might eventually become the highlight of the day.

Earlier on a different thread I alluded to what a great time of year this is for us wanna be photographers.  Every now and then I sit and sort through all of the photos that I've taken over the past forty plus years of our many visits to Table Rock and I never cease get all warm and fuzzy when I do.

I cherish them all - especially the ones of me and my late dad - but the sunrise and sunset shots never get old and always stand out.  

They're kind of like snowflakes - all similar but each one is equally unique and different.

Nice going Quill!

[Champ188]

Great shot, indeed. Thanks for posting.