Bad day at Black Rock…

[Dutch]

Fishing today at Table Rock reminded me of that old movie as it was a bad day at the rock.  Jeff joined me this morning.  I hadn’t been there in several weeks and knew nothing.  We started at a steep bank and Jeff caught a few.  I was busy with a sonar unit that wouldn’t work.  We struggled all over the lake and never could find a pattern.  It was a fish or two then nothing more in the area.  Name a kind of place and we fished it.

The sky was blue.  The wind was light.  The water was 62° about 2’ down.  We wound up with 20 mostly spots and most of them were sub 15”.

[pstone]

Dutch, did you guys launch out of Cape Fair?    I thought about heading down there Friday about mid morning.    Might need to wait a bit.

[Dutch]

Yes we did.  The water color is good and there is very little debris.

[pstone]

Thanks for the update, Dutch!    Gonna be chilly Friday but I might get out for a little while.   Wanted to see if the rock crawler bite is any good yet.

[Quillback]

Thanks for the trip Dutch!  It was a slow day.  Nice day however, saw 72 degrees on the way home.

[Dutch]

12 hours ago, pstone said:

Thanks for the update, Dutch!    Gonna be chilly Friday but I might get out for a little while.   Wanted to see if the rock crawler bite is any good yet.

We didn’t fish cranks very much.  Lots of slick water and I like a little breeze.  I would be interested in getting a report if you don’t mind.

[pstone]

I certainly will submit a report if I do get out.

[Phil Lilley]

At what water temp do the bass turn on in the fall? 

[Dewayne French]

21 hours ago, Phil Lilley said:

At what water temp do the bass turn on in the fall? 

😆😁🤣😂 Usually don't see that temp in my boat ever.......Sorry couldn't resist that one.. But I would hope it is getting there.

[pstone]

We put in at Cape Fair this morning at about 10:00.    Water temp was 58 degrees and there was a pretty good breeze most of the time.     I threw a couple of crankbaits and only caught 3 and had 1 come off.   No keepers, but a Kentucky bass was close.    Caught  the bigger one on a gravel dawg (green gourd) and the others on a rock crawler (stone cold and red craw).     Fished steeper, rocky banks with a little wind blowing in.     It was tough for us today.    My friend caught a 3 lb LM on a wobble head with a Berkley craw near a dock in about 30 ft of water.    High skies all day, but decent wind and thought we would do better.    Saw quite a bit of shad, mostly out in middle of coves/creek and tried to get them take a swimbait but had no luck with that.   We put the boat on the trailer about 2:15.    Most of the fish I saw on the Livescope were  out deep today.    It was a bit chilly all day.