Who ya Pickin? Redcrest on the Rock.

[Bill Babler]

Mark Davis won on a wiggle wart in Rock  Creek, right at the mouth. It was a flood year and he was throwing it right where the dirty water met the clear. Man he was just flat stacking them. 

He threw the hard head in Big Creek, on the run out right in front of Big Creek Resort.
I just hammered them there this year it was one of the only places up here you could touch the bottom without bringing back a green fur ball  

Like Jeff ever since watching him with that hard head I’ve had one tied on. 

Mike M. also won one here using the hard head a bit. He mostly caught them on a bigger swimbait but caught a lot on it 

The guys in the White fishing the senko  wacky style are pretty much picking it up and putting in down.   

Mark likes to fish it like a Texas rig worm with a small bullet weight, instead of free sinking wacky. 

Scope period is going to be interesting today with the wind and beating on them yesterday. 

Gill said he wasn’t fishing anything today he fished yesterday. Can’t wait to see where he is. 

I think he is in command as I believe Wheeler used up the stump row fish and I’m sure as soon as he left it, it was totally hammered. 

I took very few guide trips out of old 86 that it wasn’t my first stop and all the Big Cedar Guides run there first thing. 
There are lots of SM  there so he might go back  

I have no idea where Zack Birge is but he is on them and is Hot as Fire.  He was in clear water, and really they only had him on for a couple of short  clips  

 

[Quillback]

When I was watching Wheeler on that stump row spot there were half a dozen boats hovering on one side of him.  Probably others on the other side off camera too.  

[Bill Babler]

Yep, as soon as he left it was probably like an ocean drag net of Keitech’s over it.  it’s about a city block long and 50 yards wide. 

Gill really didn’t have many boats on him. Some family and maybe a couple others. 
He did run from Long Creek to Campbell Point, that’s a run, especially with these gas prices and if you were not predisposed where he was going you would have most probably lost him. 

Long Creek Marina to Hobbs is 50 miles. That’s 100 miles if you followed from the start. That would put a nice dent in the Visa Bill. 

 

[Quillback]

2 minutes ago, Bill Babler said:

Yep, as soon as he left it was probably like an ocean drag net of Keitech’s over it.  

LOL, that is funny!

[Bill Babler]

Dock, Birge is  on your junk. 

[Bill Babler]

The pocket Birge is fishing looks like a traditional KC small mouth pocket but for some reason it really holds LM. Quite a bit of pole  timber on the left bank going in that is not visible. 

By the time Birge is done, Dock will have to move to Shell Knob. 
I love that house he just caught the LM in front of, but I hate Joe Bald Rd.  
 

[Quillback]

Listening to Gill talk and I realized that the ones that get to the cut, all start at zero tomorrow.  Gill is sandbagging now, he's going to make the cut.

[Bill Babler]

1st. Thru 4th. Should end up with 100 pounds. 90 plus let’s say  

Depends on how many Wheeler pulls the trigger on when he runs his scope.   I believe he said the 3rd. Period,  if he is safe.  I think if he is safe, he will back off.  

Gill will stumble on enough in the next 5 hours NP.
 

I think Birge and Shuffield will keep catching them. 

Ehrler is on a non-repeatable top water bite so he may just keep catching them. 
 

 

[Ron Burgundy]

3 hours ago, Quillback said:

When I was watching Wheeler on that stump row spot there were half a dozen boats hovering on one side of him.  Probably others on the other side off camera too.  

There was 8 boats , we was one of them …wheeler seemed to thrive on a crowd . We followed DC the last period as he surged from 21st to 10th…..his demeanor never changed and when the time expired you could see the exhaustion come out , those guys focus is unreal , to witness it first hand was something…..we followed Birge in period 2 as he surged up the leader board and once again just a machine , no emotion.  He was near Baxter in main lake . 

[razorbackfan4life]

I don't know how I feel about them all going back to 0 after making the cut. One thing it does is add more drama.  

Typically two days after the cold front(tomorrow) the bite is the toughest.  With that being said they are in the middle of the spawn so fish should still bite.  Scopers will, once again, have a major advantage tomorrow.