Shell Knob - 5/25-5/28

[Steve Ladd]

Hello,

First time poster. I’m heading down to the Shell Knob area this weekend for the holiday weekend. I usually get out right at sunrise to fish for a few hours. Any suggestions or tips on some good spots around there or anything else you can pass my way?  Thanks!

[Bill Babler]

Welcome Steve,

Go out and throw the Whopper Plopper at Turn Around Island at the mouth of the Kings River and on any of the flats and long points in the same area and up the White River away.

I'm going to guess you will have from 5:30 till about 7 each morning before your run over, flipped over or washed up on the beach.  Make the best of it and try not to get mad as the wake boats drive between you and the shoreline

It may not really be that bad

Good Luck

[Steve Ladd]

Thanks so much for the info. I picked up some whopper poppers the other day in preparation so I will definitely be using your advice. Thanks so much again. 

[196champ]

A few suggestions to start with, ill be in a red and white champion...stop by and say hi

 

[Phil Lilley]

I guess a grub swam on about any gravel bank is producing lots of fish.  I just wish I could pull myself away from these HUGE brown trout and go over and fight a few cousin brownies up there!

[176champion]

This is going to be a busy weekend on Table Rock.....good luck and be safe.

[Steve Ladd]

Thanks for all the suggestions and tips. I will be staying right on Needles Eye Rd which is in the cove right across from the island. Looking forward to catching some. I’ll stop by and say if I see you out. 

[Steve McBasser]

Welcome Steve.....The Shell Knob area is awesome for sure. I have been fishing there regularly since '74. Mr. Babler is right, top water is amazing this time of year. Go early......

[Champ188]

Good luck and please practice CPR! 

[Bill Babler]

Nice point Champ.  What a lot of folks do not realize is that the big K's are still trying to spawn, especially in that Shell Knob area.   A few years ago at one of the locations that 196 marked we caught K's trying to spawn on that long gravel runnout.  When you released them you had to be mighty careful as they were nesting in 15 to 20 feet in that clear water.

Our old lake biologist said the spawn on TR usually ends with the full moon in June so there is still some baby making going on.

Good Luck