December 12 bass report

Good job.....I can't wait to go again. Been WAY to long....

Good going.  That beat the heck out of me.  I put in at Hartley and fished the mid lake area.  I threw the Arig for 3 hours with only one bite.  I fished swim baits and the Ned.  Not one bite on either.  I decided to run from the stink and try to get something.  I ran about 2 miles up river and fished for walleye.  I had 2 keeper walleye (one was a 6# which is in the fridg.) and 2 short crappie.

Skeeter,

  Nice job on the fishing................ I assume the trifecta means Largemouth, Smallmouth, and Kentucky ??

Funny how just a few years ago on this forum people were saying that there were no Kentuckies in Stockton. Now I see reports of them ( assuming yours had some Kentuckies in it ) more and more often. It will be very interesting to see how many are being caught in 5 years. Even more interesting will be how many are 15" or longer.

Walcrabass

I caught loads of spotted bass in Stockton 30 years ago,just on the small side

 

44 minutes ago, Walcrabass said:

Funny how just a few years ago on this forum people were saying that there were no Kentuckies in Stockton.

They have been in there since at least 1987. 

Fishndoug and Flysmallie,

  Now that it has been confirmed that they have been there a good while..........................  what percentage of the Kentuckies that you catch in Stockton are over 15"?

Wally

Mine would be somewhere around zero lately. But I'm only fishing the rivers these days and usually only in the spring. Been many years since I spent a lot of time on the lake. But when I did I don't think I considered it rare. I I fished a lot of main lake secondary point stuff up around the dam always chasing a smallmouth but was never surprised to catch nice spots. 

 

4 hours ago, Walcrabass said:

Fishndoug and Flysmallie,

  Now that it has been confirmed that they have been there a good while..........................  what percentage of the Kentuckies that you catch in Stockton are over 15"?

Wally

I specifically target them a few time each year.  I'd say maybe 1 or 2 out of 100 would go over 15".  Probably has a lot to do with groceries.

Walcrabass:

Yes the trifecta means largemouth, smallmouth and kentuckies.  Catching kentuckies isn't that rare for me.  One's over 15 inches are.  What I find interesting is that more and more, I'm pretty sure I'm catching meanmouth on a pretty consistent basis.  

Tablerock has better size spots than anywhere you can also catch some decent ones on the Ozarks