Current Fishing Report April 7th. 2015 Baxter, Missouri

Last 3 days I have fished Baxter to Shell Knob on the White River section of Table Rock. Decent success to say the least. I have fished some cloudy water, but personally I need the clear to slight green to be successful. Surface temps are ranging between 52 and 56 degree main lake and secondary points where I have been fishing.

Really calm early and then later in the morning the wind has started to blow and that is when it starts to click. Early for us has been the Varmint.

About 70 fish to the Guide Boat the last 3 days with the majority being Jaw's. Son Steven and I really hammered them Easter Sunday. Had 15 keepers mostly on the Wobblehead and the Jerkbait. If you missed one on the head all you needed to do was fling that jerker in there and they would hammer it. I told Bill Beck I'm going to lose a rod this year, as we had some very violent strikes the last few days. Probably running with it on slack line and then just pounding me when it came taut.

Today I had Dave and Christine from Colorado, what a super couple. They also have a home in Williams Landing and just purchased a Spankin New 619 Phoenix/Mercury Rig from McCallister Marine. We showed them what they were looking for today.

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Counted back and I believe we put 26 fish in the boat with the best 5 at 13.5 today. We hit the slam and Christine had a really nice solid 4 pounder escape as she tried to hand the rod to the guide to get it unstuck. I heard her drag wizzing and said that AIN'T STUCK. The Big Blacky jumped and spit-tued the Varmint right back at us.

In the White River the fish are mostly in 12' to 15', but to fish these fish correctly you have to put your boat in at least a full cast from that range.

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Today I had a bank I wanted to fish, and when I pulled into the creek, a nice new boat with twin power poles was going down it. I told Chris and Dave that we would catch them on it as soon as the boat got out of the way and off the fish. He was going down so close that the guy in the back was casting out of the back of the boat.

As soon as they moved we took 1 jerkbait, 2 Varmint 1 Wobblehead, and 1 Grub fish off it, 3 solid 15" keeps in the bunch of fish.

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This is the first day that I have seen multiple fish in the water column, while casting the bank, they were all over. This deal is getting ready to kick loose.

Good Luck

Our fish today came as a combination of Varmint, Wobblehead, Grub, and Jerker.