5-1-21. Big Small Jaws Today.

[Champ188]

12 hours ago, dtrs5kprs said:

Sometimes things are better kept quiet 😉.

Amen and amen. 

[Champ188]

22 hours ago, Mitch f said:

They’re probably bed fishing...those fish will munch anything

Who is bed fishing? If you're talking about Bill, he isn't sight fishing for two reasons. First, he said he was catching them 12-18 feet deep. Smallmouth don't bed that deep. Second, Bill wouldn't intentionally bed fish during spawning season. He can catch them half a dozen different ways at any time of year and besides, he's smart enough to leave the bedders to their business for the future of the fishery. 

[Bill Babler]

Thanks James. I wasn’t going to dignify it with a comment. 

As everyone on here knows the only time I get that close to the bank I’m either launching or pulling the boat out

If you don’t know it by now, I’m a clear deep water fisherman.   Always have been, always will be

I post exactly what I do, and how I do it, good or bad. 
 

Good Luck

[Mitch f]

1 hour ago, Champ188 said:

Who is bed fishing? If you're talking about Bill, he isn't sight fishing for two reasons. First, he said he was catching them 12-18 feet deep. Smallmouth don't bed that deep. Second, Bill wouldn't intentionally bed fish during spawning season. He can catch them half a dozen different ways at any time of year and besides, he's smart enough to leave the bedders to their business for the future of the fishery. 

I know if water is clear they can spawn up to 15-20 deep. 

[Bill Babler]

Good point Mitch. I have never seen Brown fish bed that deep, but the K’s will without a doubt. 
 

The water was super clear till the heavy rain hit. It has colored up now to a degree. 
 

I’m pretty much catching staging fish, now pre spawn, but any day post spawn fish will start to appear. These fish are just getting ready to move up.  
 

After they spawn they will move right back out for a bit, and really gang up.  Just like the K’s at times where a huge portion of fish in a lake section will be congregated in very small areas. 

[Mitch f]

1 hour ago, Bill Babler said:

Good point Mitch. I have never seen Brown fish bed that deep, but the K’s will without a doubt. 
 

The water was super clear till the heavy rain hit. It has colored up now to a degree. 
 

I’m pretty much catching staging fish, now pre spawn, but any day post spawn fish will start to appear. These fish are just getting ready to move up.  
 

After they spawn they will move right back out for a bit, and really gang up.  Just like the K’s at times where a huge portion of fish in a lake section will be congregated in very small areas. 

Well I know Watson won a couple of weeks ago with bed fish....according to his report

[Mitch f]

3 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

Good point Mitch. I have never seen Brown fish bed that deep, but the K’s will without a doubt. 
 

The water was super clear till the heavy rain hit. It has colored up now to a degree. 
 

I’m pretty much catching staging fish, now pre spawn, but any day post spawn fish will start to appear. These fish are just getting ready to move up.  
 

After they spawn they will move right back out for a bit, and really gang up.  Just like the K’s at times where a huge portion of fish in a lake section will be congregated in very small areas. 

Back in the day I fished a few times with Fred McClintock at Dale Hollow. He showed me some beds at 15 ft deep and said the smallies will bed down to 20. I haven’t seen Fred in at least  10 years, I think I heard he passed a while back.

[Bill Babler]

Watson caught his 2 biggest LM off the bed and all the rest on a small swim bait according to Robbie Dotson who  is one of his best buddies. 
 

Don’t guess it really matters. 

[m&m]

22 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

Thanks James. I wasn’t going to dignify it with a comment. 

As everyone on here knows the only time I get that close to the bank I’m either launching or pulling the boat out

If you don’t know it by now, I’m a clear deep water fisherman.   Always have been, always will be

I post exactly what I do, and how I do it, good or bad. 
 

Good Luck

I’ve fished with Bill a few times and he’s very honest about fishing far from the bank. The thing I like about table rock is you can fish every way, any depth and still catch fish. Most of the time. 
Mike

[Mitch f]

7 hours ago, m&m said:

I’ve fished with Bill a few times and he’s very honest about fishing far from the bank. The thing I like about table rock is you can fish every way, any depth and still catch fish. Most of the time. 
Mike

I don’t have any big problem with bed fishing on a huge reservoir