Hideaway.... what a day....kentuckies play....1-21-21

[Steve McBasser]

It had been about 35 years since I'd fished the Hideaway area of Table Rock Lake. So....when my buddy Gary invited me down to their recently purchased cabin to do some fishing, I was too excited to sleep. I jumped up well before the alarm went off and headed south. I reached the cabin well before the sun came up and to my surprise Gary's wife was up too, fixing a bacon and egg breakfast for us..... Awesome. After finishing our coffee we headed toward the dock, lowered the Charger off the lift and loaded my stuff in the boat. As always, the old Mariner Mag fired first crank and we headed up river. Just seeing those banks again gave me an odd feeling of de ja vu. This is the very cove where my love for catching fish started. My grandparents bought property at Hideaway before the lake filled up. Some of my earliest memories are sitting on the boat dock with a Prince Albert can filled with garden worms and a Zebco 202 on a little glass rod.  At the age of 4, I could bait my own hook, catch perch and take them off the hook and repeat...... The thrill is the same or even more now...Anyway....We hoped to start catching fish right off the bat of course but instead it was over an hour before we got bit. We caught 'em here and there all morning but really didn't get them figured out until the early afternoon. We wound up catching several fat spotted bass that just tear you up when they hit. Some guys complain about all the kentuckies in the lake but as far as I'm concerned,  I love 'em. They have saved more trips than I can count at Table Rock. We also caught a handful of keeper large mouth and a couple short smallies.  Hope you guys are getting to go too....

[Steve McBasser]

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

I think that is the most overlooked section on Table Rock, I spend a lot of time around there and always see way less guys fishing than anywhere else. Even less pleasure boats in the summer

[Quillback]

Way to go Mr. McBasser!   I have no idea where Hideaway is located, but looks like some good fishing.  

[Dutch]

11 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Way to go Mr. McBasser!   I have no idea where Hideaway is located, but looks like some good fishing.  

Go to Point 9 turn left and head towards Cape Fair.  I’m not sure of the distance but I guess 8-10 miles.  It somewhere in the middle of Cape and the mouth of the James.

[dwiebenga]

Great day!  Love the aggressiveness of the spotted bass.  Thank you for sharing your day.

[Bill Babler]

Great report. Wish I could have been with y'all. 

On another note you take the K's out of here or mess with that 15" mark and this pond with the pressure it gets would, go to H-E double C-K IN A New York minute. 

With this being a no stocked lake, these free roaming shad chasers have more than carried us thru thick and really thin. I just love them, be they for clients or ripping the paint off a Red fin. We are totally blessed to have them

[moguy1973]

16 hours ago, Quillback said:

Way to go Mr. McBasser!   I have no idea where Hideaway is located, but looks like some good fishing.  

 

[Maverickpro201]

Eat all the spotty's, they taste like Chicken. YUM YUM!!!!!

We sometimes go strickly spotty fishing for this reason. Not as good as Walleye but think they are better than crappie's,

Spotties Fried in beer batter with fried battered onion rings and cole slaw. 

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

4 hours ago, Maverickpro201 said:

Eat all the spotty's, they taste like Chicken. YUM YUM!!!!!

We sometimes go strickly spotty fishing for this reason. Not as good as Walleye but think they are better than crappie's,

Spotties Fried in beer batter with fried battered onion rings and cole slaw. 

They are pretty good, Ive mixed them in with some crappie and no one ever had a clue. Just wish they would lower the limit to 12".  The spots have taken over Table Rock