High water, good for the fish?

[Quillback]

These folks think so.  

Why Flooding is Good for Fishing

[Bill Babler]

Without going into it I will say myself and 2 buddies from Minnesota had the best walleye day today I have ever had on Table Rock. 

That’s saying something after 35 years. 
 

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53 minutes ago, Bill Babler said:

Without going into it I will say myself and 2 buddies from Minnesota had the best walleye day today I have ever had on Table Rock. 

That’s saying something after 35 years. 
 

Did you use the scope to catch them?  No hate just really interested.  

[Bill Babler]

Yep Sorry  

I’ve learned what they look like. Can’t totally eliminate the bass as we caught some giant K’s today but both of my buddies caught on (No Pun intended).  pretty quick and they could tell the walleye from the bass looking at LS. 
Had 3 doubles and I counted one down for Bob. Got so crazy Lucky. I go 3-2-1 and Bob said there he is. 
We laughed so hard all three of us had tears streaming down our cheeks. 
Caught  just some monster gills bigger than your palm also  

We ran 3/4 oz. bottom bouncers with Northland Tackle Butterfly Blade crawler Harness. Started with Pink on 🤣🤣one rod and Chartreuse on the other. Within 20 minutes the pink was back in the box. 
 

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[dan hufferd]

On 6/23/2025 at 3:43 PM, Bill Babler said:

Without going into it I will say myself and 2 buddies from Minnesota had the best walleye day today I have ever had on Table Rock. 

That’s saying something after 35 years. 
 

Sizes ?

[Bill Babler]

4 pounds was the biggest.  “Released”.  Boat full of others.  Had at least a dozen shorts 17” to 17  7/8 inches. 
3 of us only kept 5. right at 18”. I kept 1 and my buddies kept 2 each  

 I’m going to say the 17” to the 19” fish we caught were all from the same spawn year. 

All totally fat and unmarked. Might have just gotten out on their summer locations. 

1/2oz. White Dixie Jigging spoon also did major damage. 

 

[Bill Babler]

Northland makes the best crawler harness but they are expensive. We never lost a single one. I usually add 3 additional floats. 

Randy’s post of making your own is classic Ozark Angler sharing. Review it if you’re going to give this a try. Or, drop the bucks to Northland. The Butterfly Blades out preformed the Colorado by far. 

Some of these locations are holding dozens of walleye. They may or may not bite but TR has turned into a pretty fair walleye pond. 

 

[dblades]

When I moved back here in the middle 90s. Was in a guys shop  that had several nice Walleye mounts. He said they were from Table Rock but far from RPS's haunts.

[Bill Babler]

The biggest I have seen caught here was a guide trip I had in 2014. We had 2 right at 9 pounds suspended in the trees on the deep side of point 9. We were catching K’s out of the tree tops. 28’ over 70’. 

My personal best was a10 pounder below Truman Dam. 

I believe both Buster and Tim Sainato have had 12# plus out of Bull.