Table Rock Lake Shell Knob 12-11-18

Quick addition from reading Bobby's post on the bite.  Usually you can see fish at times when fishing deep follow or chase the spoon up or down.  This did not happen yesterday, you pretty much had to fish the bait extremely still.  I tried and tried jerking the spoon or quivering it, to get them worming, but the  only worming was when you had one hooked and the others would follow it almost to the surface.  They wanted the bait extremely still.

The bite was more of a whisper than a thump and at times even on a tight line with the bait suspended it would seem as it was resting on the bottom, and that was the bite.  I could see the fish move in line with the bait and then the line was just a bit slack and that was the bite. 

Also like Bob said, I lost several fish on the journey to the boat, they just came unbuttoned, mostly on the jig/grub combo.   They don't come off that Ice Jig, if they get near it.

The C-tail grub is an excellent deep fishing tool when the bite is this lite.  The C-tail continues to swim when it is in a sitting vertical position and really gets their interest.

Good Luck

Bill, are swapping out trebles on the ice jig, or leaving everything stock?

Stock, that is one bait I leave alone.  That little center treble is sharp as a death trap.