White River Outfitters Guide Service Current Table Rock Lake Fishing Report
Huge Spotted bass caught at 27' Mike Trotter 4lb. 2oz. Been several years since my clients have caught spotted bass of this quality.
There still at it. Very good reports today from the dam area and also from mid-lake. I guided out of Indian Hills Resort this morning with Mike and Dave Trotter and we had an absolute ball. Fished from point 17 to point 9 on the White River arm and only had one brief period when the fish changed depth that stalled us for about 30 minutes. Might not sound like long, but that is 1/8 of the time of a 4 hr. guide trip. If Beck were still alive it would have only been 15 minutes as he would have called immediately and said they moved out. I'm decent, but Billy could change depth quicker than a Beauty Queen changes shoes.
Dave Trotter with nice Table Rock Smallmouth
Surface temps were 87 at 5:30 and by 9 had reached 88.9 extremely, still and HOT, but so was the fishing.
Again we caught more bass than we deserved with some fantastic spotted bass, some of these fish were at and pushing 4 lbs. and that is silly. You have to believe they were over 10 yrs. old. We CPR'ed them very carefully and sent them back in the clear deep water. The quality and quantity were both just unreal.
Mike Trotter 3lb. 14oz. Pretty easy to see where the term Football comes from when describing these bigger spotted bass.
Mike Trotter Kentucky bass 2lb. 11oz.
Fish were shallow this morning on the White, starting out at 22 to 28 feet but as soon as the sun hit pretty directly them skeedattled out to 40/50ft. Same deal at the dam. This was around 7:30, they seemed to move lake wide, and not only did they move as we were catching them on the bottom, they suspended.
I got really lucky and was at the end of a runnout and lost them. I told my guys that I would spin a circle and we would move away and when I spun the boat out over the channel, they were sitting at 38' suspended over the 40/50 number. Better to be lucky than good.
Today we used a number of baits from crawlers to drop shot worms to shad shape worms to the Keitech. About 7:30 when they moved the big and I mean huge bluegill moved up in that 22/28ft. range and we could have caught a hundred of them about the size of your hand, on every gravel runnout, that we fished. That should have been my clue but I missed it.
Again we were pestered by walleye, but only 2 with 1 super nice keeper.
As I said last week, I don't know how long this will last, so you all had better hop on it. Also again this morning my fish were clean, with only a couple of hook marks so not lots of folks are messing with these deeper fish. They were all spitting very small craws so I'm guessing that's the deal if you want to throw a small jig.
Look in the water under Dave's arm and you can see the swirl of Mike's fish. It was another double and another absolute toad K. It was churning the surface like a motor boat.
The 2, K's that Dave is holding were 16" they look like midgets compared to the ones Mike had today. Dave's Jaw was Super nice however and he did catch the 2 walters so he had that to lean on.
Mike was the big K catcher today and both boys came out about even in numbers. Just a fantastic trip.
Good Luck All
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