An Outing on the Insane Upper End

39 minutes ago, Quillback said:

I used to see the WP quite a bit around Big M, but have not seen them so far this year.  And guys say they've never seen a game warden on TR, but I have been checked twice in the last 3 years by the GW, once on the water and once at the dock. 

Sad to say but you are an easy target. They don't want to mess with pleasure boaters so they go after good law abiding citizens. I see tons of illegal fishing going on from the banks and I don't ever see those folks getting checked. 

22 hours ago, rps said:

Hello, my name is Randy and I am a fishing addict.

Despite all the reasons NOT to go out this morning, I went out of HI at 10 AM. I will have kids in the Classroom on Monday, and I had the urge to fish before then. As I idled to the no wake buoy I noted fish at 20 feet with bait above them. I added that to reports that others have posted recently.  I decided to troll a crank at 20' to start. In three hours I had five fish on. Three came unbuttoned before I could get them in the boat. One, a bass, was foul hooked and shook off on a jump. Two others that behaved like walleye, got off when they hung me in brush or trees. I netted  the other two.

All hit an original series wiggle wart in firetiger trolled in water between 19 and 21 feet deep with 150 feet of 10/2 braid out from the rod tip at 1.8 to 2.0 mph. All hits came as the bait ricocheted off the bottom or trees and changed speed - reaction bites.

My Lund is a very safe boat, but it is only 16.5 feet long and made of aluminum. By 1:00 PM it was no longer safe to be amongst the tube towers, the wakeboarders, and the slow cruisers not quite on plane.

Be safe everyone!

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I'm not a trolling guy at all, but I'm curious about the fact that you could hit the bottom at 20' deep with an original wiggle wart with 50 yards of line out? 

4 hours ago, Quillback said:

I used to see the WP quite a bit around Big M, but have not seen them so far this year.  And guys say they've never seen a game warden on TR, but I have been checked twice in the last 3 years by the GW, once on the water and once at the dock. 

well, they just watch the shady characters.

bo

5 hours ago, skeeter said:

I apologize for contradicting you but one of the OA members who posts on the Lake of the Ozarks Forum has posted about a large, Commercial Dock owner on LOZ who knows that one particular boat that comes by his dock will create expensive structural damages from to the dock from its wake every time the boat passes by. 

The dock owner went to the extent of making a HD video of the passing vessel clearly showing the State registration numbers on the vessel's bow and following the wake that was created hitting his dock and doing a claimed $1500 in damages to the poles.  The owner took the video to the Water Patrol where they viewed it and said they were sorry but there was nothing they could do due to a lack of enforceable State Law about wake damage. 

That is why I have posted that it's important to also communicate with your State Legislators about this issue.  Our local State Senator and State Representative in the TR area both sit on committees concerned with Tourism and should be addressing this. 

http://www.boatus.com/seaworthy/magazine/2015/october/boat-wake-damage-liability.asp.

read this article.  the water patrol is just using an excuse.

bo

1 hour ago, Mitch f said:

I'm not a trolling guy at all, but I'm curious about the fact that you could hit the bottom at 20' deep with an original wiggle wart with 50 yards of line out? 

 

  RPS has posted this excellent link in the past , which has helped me Greatly....

http://www.ozarkanglers.com/table-rock/trolling-for-walleye/

 

  And this recent thread has some good tips too...

 

That is a great article, thanks for sharing.

There are two terrible stretches of water up the White. Bad is from the SK bridge down Stream to Mill Creek.  Terrible is up stream from The Kings River to Emerald Beach. Yesterday there were at least 20 maybe 30 or more wake boats on these stretches. 

I was watching a set of docks rise and fall sometimes 5' or more coming clear out of the water and splashing down. Big Phoenix rolled with it but I had to watch it very close and have people seated at all times even when fishing. 

We have one more weekend of it

good Luck

48 minutes ago, Bill Babler said:

There are two terrible stretches of water up the White. Bad is from the SK bridge down Stream to Mill Creek.  Terrible is up stream from The Kings River to Emerald Beach. Yesterday there were at least 20 maybe 30 or more wake boats on these stretches. 

I was watching a set of docks rise and fall sometimes 5' or more coming clear out of the water and splashing down. Big Phoenix rolled with it but I had to watch it very close and have people seated at all times even when fishing. 

We have one more weekend of it

good Luck

bad enough to deal with when just out on your own, but i would be very uneasy with folks in the boat that are not very water wise.  i worry enough when i have linda in the boat, and very good reason that i just will not get her out on the water in those conditions.

bo

From about August 1 until school starts, I do not take guests in my boat unless they are warned about the risks. After school starts, things are not perfect, but they are so much easier.

I will say we have boats in Port of Kimberling, and the water patrol has a boat or two there.  I've seen them buzzing the lake and pulling people over more than I ever have.  We were out last month cruising on a houseboat and we counted 26 boats they pulled over for very brief checks in a few hours one evening.  I have been impressed with their presence in that part of the lake this year.