Johnsfolly Posted April 3, 2019 Posted April 3, 2019 19 hours ago, David Goddard said: Congrats on some nice bass! You guys put in the efforts to figure out a great pattern and got the rewards! Concerns about the spotted bass are warranted. Meanmouths look cool but shows that spots are affecting smallmouth breeding. You guys make me wish that I was still in Columbia. I would beg to ride in the back for one of your next trios! David Goddard 1
David Goddard Posted April 3, 2019 Author Posted April 3, 2019 4 hours ago, Johnsfolly said: Congrats on some nice bass! You guys put in the efforts to figure out a great pattern and got the rewards! Concerns about the spotted bass are warranted. Meanmouths look cool but shows that spots are affecting smallmouth breeding. You guys make me wish that I was still in Columbia. I would beg to ride in the back for one of your next trios! When you back in town and want to wet a line let us know we would love to get out on the water with a grizzled old OAF vet like yourself! Johnsfolly 1
Smalliebigs Posted April 3, 2019 Posted April 3, 2019 On 4/2/2019 at 9:00 AM, David Goddard said: Table Rock continues to impress me every time I an lucky enough to fish this lake. @Justin92297 and I fished the lower end on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday and we fished the Kings and the White on Saturday. Thursday we had 17.3 lbs for our biggest 5 including a 4 lb smallmouth that Justin caught and a 4.5 lb largemouth that I caught. We caught 12 keepers on Thursday and all of them came off Keitech 2.8 swimbaits in sexy shad color on quarter ounce head with a weed guard and jerk baits. Cedar trees seemed to be the biggest key for us pretty much all week. Just slow rolling that small swimbait through the trees or making a long cast with the jerk bait past the tree to get it down to max diving depth when it came past the tree got us almost all of our bites. We caught some in trees that were in 30-40 feet and topped out in 15-20, and we caught some in trees that were in 15-20 feet. Friday brought more of the same for us. the only difference was this time we found fish schooling like crazy back in a creek. I caught a keeper largemouth on a spook and missed 2 other blow ups and we caught 10 keepers on Friday. Today in the area that we found schoolers we just fished out baits around where the fish were schooling and caught a bunch. Many of them were shorts but we saw some really big ones blow up on the surface. The bite after the schooling activity in the morning was pretty much the same. Small swimbait and jerk bait through trees in the same depth zone. Saturday we decided to see a new part of the lake and put in at Viola. Neither one of us had ever fished the kings and we thought maybe there would be a good rock crawler or wiggle wart bite up there. We did not catch them on crankbaits but we caught them flipping main lake wood that was on the steep banks with a small jig and a swing head with a menace grub and on an underspin with a 3.3 Keitech. Trees were again very important; wherever there were cedar trees in about 20 ft of water on the main lake there were bass. Saturday was definitely our best day for numbers. we caught over 50 fish and had 18 keepers. No big ones but it was a very fun day and I like that part of the lake a lot. Sunday we fished the lower end again and only had like half of a day since we had to get back to Columbia for class on Monday. We only had 4 keepers and all of them came out of very deep trees that topped out in like 15-25 feet that were over 40-60 ft. on the 2.8 Keitech. Sunday was a tough post frontal day. Probably only caught 10 fish and only 4 keepers. Lastly I wanted to touch on the meanmouth that Justin and I caught. We caught a total of 3 that we noticed this week and I had never thought that there were many in the lake. We also caught a surprisingly low number of smallmouth in 4 days (probably only like 10). Is the spotted bass population in Table Rock breeding out the smallmouth? I sure hope not. Either way Table Rock is my favorite lake in the U.S. and I cant wait to go back again. Also, if anyone is looking to fish a tournament this weekend on Lake of the Ozarks come fish the Mizzou Fundraiser Tournament out of PB #2 on this Saturday Tight lines everybody. Awesome report Dave......keep on rocking it brother and we need to get together this Summer man!!! David Goddard 1
David Goddard Posted April 3, 2019 Author Posted April 3, 2019 44 minutes ago, Smalliebigs said: Awesome report Dave......keep on rocking it brother and we need to get together this Summer man!!! We will definitely make that happen!
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