Semi current Kimberling area report

[dtrs5kprs]

This info was current as of last evening. So not current at all, in one sense, but I think it's pretty solid.

Won't bore folks with info from 2 weeks ago. I did what I like to do, fishing the little guy for shallow brown fish, and despite conditions and pressure, caught fish every day.

With the pool jump, water temps, and decent clarity here I did not expect fish to rush to the bushes. Felt like the big rise in 2011, but thankfully stopped short of those numbers.

Had a dear friend from Oklahoma come up Wednesday to learn our version of the Ned and other finesse methods. Friday, we took a quick look at the bushes, then went straight outside. Took a bit to get the math right, with the water still coming up, but the fish were basically where they were, or deeper, plus the added water.

Read that as, they did not go to the bushes, but also we're not relating to the old bank line. We caught them pretty consistently, with decent quality, from about 24'-33', mix of brown/spots/blacks. Also a mix of stages, post and pre spawn fish.

Best baits were ye olde 1/8 Ozark Finesse Heads and cut Zinkerz in PBJ, GP red, and goby. Also caught a few on big GP tubes, and a 3/4oz swing head with a custom Menace grub.

Quality was good out there, sometimes ridiculously. Had several 4# brown fish, good numbers of 18" fish.

This was still working Monday morning, even with higher water temps. Wind killed the joy yesterday. We did catch some blacks on lawn grass, willow bushes, and flipping green bushes in the afternoon. Temps were pushing 68-69 by then. Straight worms and Bugz/menace on those fish.

Could they have moved up hard today? Possibly. But if I had to catch a decent limit tomorrow, I'd be *shudder* off the bank like Mr. B. Shad are starting to ball up where they should be, and it should be a whackfest soon.

 

 

 

 

[Zulu]

Amazing

[Hawg]

Thanks. Nice fish.

[Quillback]

Some great brown fish!

[edwin]

Oohweee!  Great job!!!!

[m&m]

Dave, thanks for the update. Nice looking fish. 
Mike

[Bill Babler]

Fantastic update right from the fishes mouth. Thanks Dave. 

[TRRANGER]

Those are really beautiful examples of Table Rock Bass. Fat, healthy, amazing colors, it just shows how good a fishery we have to use. Thank you for showing them off to those of us stuck at work.

[96 CHAMP]

We were catching some nice ones all the way back as far as you could go in some specific coves, they were in 3’ of water. Good ole spinner bait

[Bill Babler]

Great day Dave. Your having another great vacation. 

Quick report from Phil Stone on today. He was having a really good day in the dam area with a single client this morning. Long runnouts using a 2.8 Keitech and catching good jaws in 15' 

Out of the corner of his eye he saw a huge boil in the middle if the lake. Told his client to sit down and headed that way. Of course the one acre feeding frenzy was over when he got there, but he followed that school of shad, black bass and white bass for over 1.5 hours and they never resurfaced again the entire time. 

They could not get away from his Lowrance Active Target. 

Said he has no idea how many he and his client caught but could have never achieved that type of success without his FFS. 

Said in all his years he has never been able to follow fast moving fish like that, usually a couple and done, never an hour and a half and a 1/2 mile circle. 

He said the FFS turned a nice day into a lifetime memory for his client, as well as himself, a seasoned guide. 

My son and I had a very similar day last year on fast moving suspended fish that only came up once. 

Carry On.