Need some advice.

[Bass Hunter]

My brother and I are down here for the week fishing the Kimberling City area.  I keep reading how everyone is slaying them but we have not been so fortunate.  We have used topwater, Neds, football jig and swimbaits and we have gotten a few nice ones and most are keepers but no where  near the number others on here have been catching.  We have had to really work hard to get the ones we have so far.  We have been primarily working the point 7 area and a few of the bays in that area.  If anyone could give us some tips or spots to check it would be greatly appreciated.  I've been coming down to Table Rock for almost 18 years and hope to move down here one day but I have to admit I'm using to bass fishing up north and that is usually  spinner baits, rattle traps and texas rigs.  Table Rock is a whole new learning curve for me.  This is a great forum with a lot of useful information and I'm glad I found it. 

[bferg]

There are a lot of people here with way more experience than me but here is my .02 after the last two days up at Big M.

Get in the water early and check long tapering main lake points and in front of deep docks near the main lake for topwater.  Walk the dog baits were the only thing we could really get them to eat.  Use your electronics, find shad, fish that area.  If they are not hitting top then throw a 2.8 or 3.8 swim bait around the shad.  Let it fall on semi-slack line and give it a slow retrieve.  

During the day- if you have some wind you can catch them on some swimbaits.  If not I think the bite gets rough run main lake points and bluff ends and you can probably put together some bites.  

There were a lot of fish in the buckbrush up the white river.  We never caught anything big but it was fun.  Buckbrush has to be on or very close to the main lake.  We didn’t get bites back in the coves. 

I’m still learning how to fish this lake too...  biggest thing I can say is use electronics to find the bait right now.  And remember that bright sunny skies with no wind makes the Rock a lot tougher to fish!  

[IL Fisherman]

Mid day is fairly tough.  I caught a dozen on the PBJ Ned rig in KC area.  5-12 fow on gravel points and banks.