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Report from my trip down

Little late getting this posted as was really busy after getting home.

Anyway wife and I were down from4-23 till 5-6. Since it is her vacation she doesn't like to get up real early so most days we didn't get out until 9-9:30 and would fish 5-6 hours. We had some good days and some not so good days. The not so good days were always the bright sunny days with little to no wind. Also didn't fish in the rain any. Yeah I know we should have but we didn't.

Ned was the bait that we caught most fish on. I did catch a few on a jerkbait and crankbait(one day). The jerkbait did produce some walleys too. I caught 6 eyes but only one was a keeper size (21 1/2") the rest were 16-17 7/8ths.

Most days we caught somewhere around 25-30 with 1/2-2/3 of the fish being keeper size. The exception to that is the bright sunny/no wind days that I mentioned being our worst days. The sunny days we still would catch around 20 or so but most all of them were SMALL and it was a grind to catch them! One of the sunny days we could't get anything going around Kimberling so ran up the white and found spots and a couple walleye on flat gravel main lake point. Those fish were on ned as well and were in 15-20 feet of water.

As for the fish around Kimberling. We had our best luck using ned rig on secondary gravel and small chunk rock points. Our fish were mostly in the 14ft range give or take a little. The one day I caught some on the crankbait it was 8-10ft. With ned it was cast and let it sit for a little bit then drag a few inches to a foot and let it sit for a few seconds and repeat.

Our best day our best 5 would have been 14 3/4-15lbs; didn't weigh one largemouth that would have been close to 3lbs give or take a couple ounces. The other 4 were smallies that went 3-2, 3-1, 3-1 and 3-0.  The other days would have been 13-14lbs; except for those sunny/no wind days then we would only catch 2-3 keepers.

Caught a couple BIG bluegills and Goggle eyes on the ned too.

As always; all the fish we caught including the walleye, gills and goggle eyes are still swimming.

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Thanks for the report. Can’t wait to spend a week there next month. 
 

great pics....I’m curious about the black pedals on the starboard side of your front deck. I recognize a couple as being for your shallow water anchors, but wonder about the other set of pedals with the yellow sticker on top. 
 

thanks again....wonderful report. 

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2 hours ago, Brennan said:

Thanks for the report. Can’t wait to spend a week there next month. 
 

great pics....I’m curious about the black pedals on the starboard side of your front deck. I recognize a couple as being for your shallow water anchors, but wonder about the other set of pedals with the yellow sticker on top. 
 

thanks again....wonderful report. 

That is for my livescope. I have the transducer mounted on a separate pole and the foot pedals control turning the livescope transducer.

It is called The Livescanner. They are out of Hillsboro, MO. 

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14 hours ago, Hunter53 said:

That is for my livescope. I have the transducer mounted on a separate pole and the foot pedals control turning the livescope transducer.

It is called The Livescanner. They are out of Hillsboro, MO. 

Curious as to how valuable the Livescope was or how much you used it for the kind of fishing you were doing last week?

Fortunately (or not) the days of me being able to afford such amenities has come and gone but I still find the technology and its applications to be of interest.

Glad y'all had a good trip after last year's cluster!

 

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3 hours ago, vernon said:

Curious as to how valuable the Livescope was or how much you used it for the kind of fishing you were doing last week?

Fortunately (or not) the days of me being able to afford such amenities has come and gone but I still find the technology and its applications to be of interest.

Glad y'all had a good trip after last year's cluster!

 

For the fishing I was doing during our trip the livescope really isn't a lot of help.  If fish are right on the bottom you really can't see them unless they are moving around.  With that said there were a couple times I saw suspended fish and picked up a jerkbait and caught some.

There was another time I was able to keep track of a big ball of shad pretty shallow moving around and caught 4 walleye and a couple bass by throwing a jerkbait in and around the shad ball.

There were other times I just shut the livescope off as it wasn't doing any good to have it on.

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19 hours ago, Hunter53 said:

For the fishing I was doing during our trip the livescope really isn't a lot of help.  If fish are right on the bottom you really can't see them unless they are moving around.  With that said there were a couple times I saw suspended fish and picked up a jerkbait and caught some.

There was another time I was able to keep track of a big ball of shad pretty shallow moving around and caught 4 walleye and a couple bass by throwing a jerkbait in and around the shad ball.

There were other times I just shut the livescope off as it wasn't doing any good to have it on.

Thanks.  That's kind of what I figured but was curious nonetheless.  If it was ten years ago when I was still gainfully employed I'm sure I would have been among the first to have one but now being on the "fixed income" and all........👨‍🦳

Now I just have to be happy living vicariously through all you one percenters!

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5 hours ago, vernon said:

Thanks.  That's kind of what I figured but was curious nonetheless.  If it was ten years ago when I was still gainfully employed I'm sure I would have been among the first to have one but now being on the "fixed income" and all........👨‍🦳

Now I just have to be happy living vicariously through all you one percenters!

Vernon - with all the grief that you bring about being blamed for the weather I just assumed that you were being sponsored by the Weather Channel.....you know, the guy that creates hell and havoc so Jim Cantore has a place to go each week 🙄

Do you have a jersey or at least a patch!?

C4F

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On 5/13/2021 at 2:10 PM, crazy4fishin said:

Vernon - with all the grief that you bring about being blamed for the weather I just assumed that you were being sponsored by the Weather Channel.....you know, the guy that creates hell and havoc so Jim Cantore has a place to go each week 🙄

Do you have a jersey or at least a patch!?

C4F

Actually I did have but they declined to renew the deal a couple of years ago.  Said they just didn't have the resources and manpower to keep up and they were gonna just stick with the "natural" occurring stuff from here on out. 

Currently have a deal in the works with the History channel though.  It's a documentary called "The Vernon Chronicles - Natures Not so Natural Natural Disasters."

If it all works out it could amount to a pretty penny for ol' Vern if you know what I mean.😉

Might even be able to work out some guest shots and interviews for a few of you guys if you're interested!

That is if you don't end up on the cutting room floor..........📽️✂️

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