5-19-19 White River Report

[Bill Babler]

Current Table Rock Lake Fishing Report Shell Knob, White River Outfitters. 5-19-19

 

Launched with Tom and Julie at SK 6:30 and it was on like Donkey Kong.  First location with a Red Fin and we had 11 fish, all keepers off one location.  As I was releasing our 9th. fish, I got pulled in on by a Bass Pro Tour guy in a Pee Green boat.  We saw him coming and he pulled in pretty close.  I was unhooking a fish and he yelled over he had driven 65 miles to fish that point.  My lady caught another fin fish about that time and he yelled over again, and asked If I was a guide.  I should have said no, I'm just getting in casting practice today and letting this lady catch the fish.  I kept my mouth shut.  About a minute or two later he yells over he is in contention to win 100 G.   

At this point my lady asked if he was going to cry if he didn't  get to fish here.  "She said its ok, we have caught enough here."  I yelled over that he was making her feel bad and so we went else where.  Which at this point really does not matter.  Our next location we had 6 more fin fish and a bunch of Keitech fish.  Fished a total of 4 location around the mouth of the Kings that right now has beautiful James River Green color.  68 degree and probably 6' visibility. 

 We had 44 Keepers and 62 fish this morning and nothing would have been under a pound.  It was catching this morning and not fishing, just reeling them in.  Biggest fish today was a LM at 2.95,  on the MLF scale.  Julie with a nice Jaw and Tom with a short but over a pound K that they doubled on in the  Photo.

There are fish in the water column from 1' to 35 feet.  and all the area in between.  We would swim the keitech on a 1/4 oz. head Pro Blue Pearl 3.3 with the boat in 25 and when I would see a cluster we would drop on them with the shad shape worm.  Probably over a dozen doubles.  There were bass on the bottom and everywhere in between.

From Baxter to Big M right now the lake is perfect color and just stupid with fish.  Most are solid 15 plus inch fish.  We had lots today in the 2.70 pound range.  K's, LM and Jaws all mixed in and out.   Lots, and lots of fish totally full of eggs, mostly K's and you don't dare grab them around the middle.

Good Luck

This post has been promoted to an article

[wily]

Good job...we caught a bunch of largemouths out of Campbell point yesterday flipping and pitching the bushes with brush hogs.   We only fished from swim beach to mill creek...only there a couple hours

We saw a couple wrapped boats...hard to tell who they are.  Need to keep binoculars in the boat.

only one we recognized was Tommy Biffle...he kind of cut us off a little...but really didn’t matter to us.  We thought it was cool that we were doing what he was.  We watched him for a bit and just boated back where we’d come from and fished same water again.  He didn’t stay very long

the guy I saw doing the best was fishing same stuff we were but with a frog...but I don’t know who he was.

our biggest was a couple that went 16.5...no size but lots of numbers

 

[Hunter53]

Name names Bill; who was it pulled up on Ya.  Pea green boat sounds like Avena.  Possibly Roumbanis but his is a little darker than pea green.

[Bill Babler]

Have no idea and really don't care who it was.  I thought it was pretty tacky however that you think the only place to fish on Table Rock is where a guide boat has been sitting with clients for the past 20 minutes.  It is a hard place to spot so if he drove 65 miles just to fish it, he knows where at least some of them live.

Reese cut me off really bad on Campers the other day too.  We drilled a couple while he was watching just like we did today.  Reese however left instead of begging for the location.  After we left he quickly returned.  He fished a while and when he left,  Rose pulled in and caught a 4 pounder and 2 or 3 others.  We were hammering on them across the lake so we got a kick out of watching the merry-go-round.

I knew we could catch them where ever we went so really didn't matter to me.  It was super nice of my clients to say let him have the spot.

If your fishing right now and don't have a bite in 1/2 dozen  cast.  MOVE. your in the wrong location.  The difference in this tournament and most is this is a numbers tournament or basically what the guides here do everyday.  We strive to catch numbers and we are really good at it.  In a normal tournament these fish that both the MLF guys and the guides are catching would get you a hardy handshake and a slap on the back thanks for your money.

I'm going to say we probably had 13.5 pounds with 44 keeps, that is not a winning tournament bag in any format other than MLF  which is a numbers game..  Our 62 fish would probably have pushed close to 100 pounds, as we had lots of K's at 2 lbs. or above.

[tjm]

16 minutes ago, Bill Babler said:

I thought it was pretty tacky however that you think the only place to fish on Table Rock is where a guide boat has been sitting with clients for the past 20 minutes. 

Why does it matter if you are a guide? bad manners are bad manners, it would be crappy for such a jerk to pull in on anyone - kayak or guide or an opponent in the contest

[Guest]

3 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

Current Table Rock Lake Fishing Report Shell Knob, White River Outfitters. 5-19-19

 

Launched with Tom and Julie at SK 6:30 and it was on like Donkey Kong.  First location with a Red Fin and we had 11 fish, all keepers off one location.  As I was releasing our 9th. fish, I got pulled in on by a Bass Pro Tour guy in a Pee Green boat.  We saw him coming and he pulled in pretty close.  I was unhooking a fish and he yelled over he had driven 65 miles to fish that point.  My lady caught another fin fish about that time and he yelled over again, and asked If I was a guide.  I should have said no, I'm just getting in casting practice today and letting this lady catch the fish.  I kept my mouth shut.  About a minute or two later he yells over he is in contention to win 100 G.   

At this point my lady asked if he was going to cry if he didn't  get to fish here.  "She said its ok, we have caught enough here."  I yelled over that he was making her feel bad and so we went else where.  Which at this point really does not matter.  Our next location we had 6 more fin fish and a bunch of Keitech fish.  Fished a total of 4 location around the mouth of the Kings that right now has beautiful James River Green color.  68 degree and probably 6' visibility. 

 We had 44 Keepers and 62 fish this morning and nothing would have been under a pound.  It was catching this morning and not fishing, just reeling them in.  Biggest fish today was a LM at 2.95,  on the MLF scale.  Julie with a nice Jaw and Tom with a short but over a pound K that they doubled on in the  Photo.

There are fish in the water column from 1' to 35 feet.  and all the area in between.  We would swim the keitech on a 1/4 oz. head Pro Blue Pearl 3.3 with the boat in 25 and when I would see a cluster we would drop on them with the shad shape worm.  Probably over a dozen doubles.  There were bass on the bottom and everywhere in between.

From Baxter to Big M right now the lake is perfect color and just stupid with fish.  Most are solid 15 plus inch fish.  We had lots today in the 2.70 pound range.  K's, LM and Jaws all mixed in and out.   Lots, and lots of fish totally full of eggs, mostly K's and you don't dare grab them around the middle.

Good Luck

is there a place with major league fishing to send an e-mail to voice a complaint about how some of their pros seem to think they own the lake and no one should be fishing where they want to fish?  i watched jt kenney pull right in on some folks fishing from the bank, and he even made the comment that they were just fun fishing and he was fishing for a living.  that is not promoting any type of behavior and courtesy they should be.

now that my rant is over, great job bill!  i believe this to be the main wave of spawners coming in right now.  many of the feeders are going to think more about nesting each day now.

bo

[tjm]

13 minutes ago, merc1997 said:

is there a place with major league fishing to send an e-mail to voice a complaint

https://majorleaguefishing.com/contact-us/

Probably should also send a copy to https://mdc.mo.gov/contact-engage/contact-us

[wily]

Shoot they don’t care...they made so much money...they couldn’t care less if someone got their feelings hurt.

this weekend was like a Branson tourism video

[Bill Babler]

1 hour ago, tjm said:

Why does it matter if you are a guide? bad manners are bad manners, it would be crappy for such a jerk to pull in on anyone - kayak or guide or an opponent in the contest

Does not matter one hoot except he knew my clients were paying $500 to fish that location as he asked if I was a guide. Should not have came in on anyone

[tjm]

If I had spent $40000 on a trip to fish there from a canoe, kayak, bank or wading, would I have more rights there?  It seems to me that money, yours or his, should not enter the equation, first rod there owns that spot. Your $500 is nothing to his $100000, if the amount of money involved means anything to anyone it is obvious that everyone should just leave the lake when a tournament is scheduled; they have so much more money invested and so much money at stake.

If complaints are filed with the sanctioning organization and the MDC etc. the offenders should be made to care. Fines or disqualification...