May 5, 2020 Table Rock Lake Report

[wily]

We whacked em pretty good this afternoon...only one goggle eye but I caught 8 keeper small mouths and 2 shorts...biggest was 19 inches 

oldest caught his limit of small mouths and Probably 10 short spots...the spots were 12 inches or so...he would make longer casts up closer to the bushes...and he worked it faster

most of mine were in 10 foot or so...around a stick up on a bama craw Ned...I did catch 2 small spots on a jig on the other side in the very back of a cove

Great day...got to Campbell point about 1...felt like we had the lake to ourselves ...wind was out of the north about 15 all day...

water was rolling pretty good on the ride back from Baxter 

[dtrs5kprs]

The wind has just been brutal.

[KistlerLews85]

I picked up an underspin this afternoon and did pretty well as far quality goes. Had 8 bites. Landed 6. Lost a really nice smallmouth that was nearly black in color right at the boat. Heart breaker for sure 

[Bill Babler]

Very nice reports guys.  Don't know what it is but a few of these Jaw's are as dark as I have seen this year, almost a black/green.   I am presuming it is a water color depth thing.

Thank for the reports and congrats.

[JerryK]

I noticed huge schools of minnows yesterday with Bass chasing up into the shallows.  Are those shad that have spawned?

[wily]

Thank you for the help....we would’ve went to the pits if I didn’t see your report and I promise you we wouldn’t have caught a 19 inch smallmouth in the pits...it looked and fought like a carp...I wasn’t sure if it was a smallmouth til we got it in the boat

We just let the wind blow us down the bank...at the end we were fishing in those pockets right where it turns back on itself...at about 6 o’clock...we could tell the wind was whipping pretty good...son said let’s get a little closer to the truck...so we headed back...glad we did...there were rollers headed back towards big bay

i tried my homemade under spin for about 10 casts...and thought I had a bite on it...but don’t have a lot of confidence with it...so just stuck with what was working...you caught some good ones on yours.  Good job

 

[KistlerLews85]