9-19-18 Big Jig Bite Lake Wide

[Bill Babler]

Nope completely sitting still, looking straight down at them.  As I said in my original post there were still bites but it had slowed way down and the trouble with most of the bites up there is they are youngsters.

 

 

 

On a brighter note today was not yesterday.  About 4 times a year I get the pleasure of  taking son Steven.  He is down for the weekend and we hit the water right after the lightning storm.  Launched at Cow and they are still biting and most of them are good ones.

When your son only gets to go a 1/2 dozen times a year, this is kind of what you like to see after a day of jig fishing.

We fished till 3pm and Steven said we had between 20 and 30 keepers.  Not a big fish in the bunch but my gosh we had 15's 16's and 17's out the ying yang. 

 

Never really got out of site of the truck this morning, with the majority of the bite just a bit deeper at 35'.  If I got the boat under 30' you just would not see them.  As soon as you were between 30' and 40' it was on.

We even had fish bust and chase around us, nice big Whites and keeper size Black Bass in all three Table Rock lake varieties, nothing at all like yesterday.  As Bo alluded to earlier point 9 damwards is the ticket and has been for a while.

 

We also did not see a single bass boat that was fishing, not one.  Saw one ranger running but that was it on a overcast Friday in September.

Had lots of Small Jaws out deep and they were just plain mean.  No pictures of Steve as he does not like to hold them.  It hurts his little Chemical Engineering Hands, but here is one of his jaws

[Guest]

that is an awesome day!

bo

[Champ188]

Family and good fall fishin … doesn't get much better. 

[SplitG2]

Great report Bill!   I don’t have enough to start a new thread.  Hope you don’t mind me posting here.   Caught the k at dusk from the dock on table rock yesterday.  One knocker spook.  Boatless this morning so ivy ok the fly rod to Taney below the dam.  Pics of the best 2 below.  Picked up the boat this afternoon.   Hope to have a better deep jig report tomorrow.  

[abkeenan]

3 hours ago, SplitG2 said:

Great report Bill!   I don’t have enough to start a new thread.  Hope you don’t mind me posting here.   Caught the k at dusk from the dock on table rock yesterday.  One knocker spook.  Boatless this morning so ivy ok the fly rod to Taney below the dam.  Pics of the best 2 below.  Picked up the boat this afternoon.   Hope to have a better deep jig report tomorrow.  

 

 

Quit fishing my slip!

[Topwalker]

I tried to find this bite for 2 days and never got it going only got 1 short smallie on the jig and he was in a point in about 12 ft could mark tons of fish in 25 to 35 but they never gave the jig a chance wish I could have had the days you have been having they look fun 

[96 CHAMP]

The wife and I came down for a few days and fished and spent one day in Branson for anniversary vacation. Caught some nice Kentucky’s drop shot and the best was this 4lb 4 oz largemouth I took on the jig Friday morning before we left, caught it close by and the wife wanted to see it so I run back to the dock for a bit before sending him back to the abyss. 

 

[Champ188]

Beautiful LM Steve. Hope you guys had a grand time.

[Bill Babler]

Guys I have been fishing these deep runs and rolls this time of year for the past 25 yrs.  They are locations that 99.9% of fishermen drive by each day.  Steven and I were fishing one right in the middle of the lake day before yesterday and it was only 17' deep on top, I mean right square in the middle.  I have never seen anyone on this stuff, that is not a local or a touring pro or local that looks for it this time of the year.  There are tons of great guides and locals that don't try and mess with this deep jig bite as there are usually other deals going on too.

I'm all over this right now, but I have also had my butt kicked at Shell Knob, and I'll tell you either way good or bad.  I did however hear that a similar bite is going on at Shell Knob, just not on the deep gravel but it is also a big, big jig bite.  Promised not to mention where or how but from what I heard yesterday it is producing the same as the down lake deep big jig bite.

Here are a few that look for it and fish it, or have in the past that I learned from and fished with.  There are many others also, but on some of these locations I have never seen a fishing boat.  I wish the fish were on them all the time but their not, only an early Fall Bite.  They will be gone before I know it.

Brian Snowden, Chris Tetrick, Bill Beck, Buster Loving, Tim Sainato, Tim Paige, Bob Tindle, Mike McClelland, Dan Langley, Rick Holmgren, Phil Stone. 

The other day with Steven it really was super that a boat load of keepers blew up all over us.  As I've said many times it is always better to be lucky.

Good Luck

[Champ188]

Donna and I fished a full 8-hour day Saturday, launching at Cow and fishing down as far as Jake's Branch and up as far as Schooner.

Bill is right … this is not an easy bite to get on and it has to do with being on the right spot than anything else. Guides make their living fishing, and the great ones like Bill have dozens of these pinpoint areas in the middle of nowhere that it would take the rest of us ages to find. If you ever wonder why he's so free with information on here … other than that he's just a really nice guy … part of the reason is that the rest of us couldn't find his fish and set up on them right if we had the GPS coordinates for every spot he fishes. 

So back to our trip Saturday … Donna and I tried HARD for hours to make this big jig bite work out in 25-40 feet of water. Late in the afternoon, all we had to show for it was half a dozen brown fish, of which two were line burner keepers. So as I'm driven to do, we decided to close the day by moving up shallow. Ended up finding a pretty decent bite on a jig, spinnerbait and crank bait … nothing huge but a mixture of SM, K's and LM. Certainly, the wind and dark skies helped but with nighttime lows in the 50s on the horizon, we are about to see a good shallow bite develop.

I'm ready. 😎