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Table rock walleye

I have spent the last couple of days beating up on bull shoals walleyes but decided to switch gears to table rock. 

As was on bull shoals the early morning bite is the best by far. Trolled flickers shads with 2 ounce snap weights. Flicker shads in your standard shad patterns were the best. Speeds 2.3. Gravel roll offs 22-25 foot deep and there is also a suspended fish pattern but may have to contend with some white bass. Planer boards lines were picking fish up 4-1 over flatlines. I had 9 walleye this morning in 2.5 hours and some giant whites. Did keep a limit for supper. Go get em! And get off water by 10 cause it gets HOT!

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I like crawler harnesses as well, but our southern lakes you get a lot of incidental catches. I really like cranks the best due to having the ability to really cover water. I had a friendly competition with my dad whom was at bull shoals this week and while he was hovering over and trying to make fish bite with harnesses and slow death rigs, I was banging on the walleye with cranks. Myself and my son had a limit in an 1 hour 55 minutes. All about covering the water and finding the active schools 👍🏻👍🏻🎣

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nice walleye - I have seen planar boards used on Lake Erie but never considered them on Table Rock.  Are you using down riggers as well?  Are you trolling with your big engine or your trolling motor.  I'm trying to get an idea of the speed your running this rigs at.  Thanks for a great report.  I know there are Walleye here but had no idea you could catch so many at one time.  

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To add to Randy Moore’s questions, I am not familiar with the snap weights you referred to. What is that, and how does it work? It sounds like you hook weights onto your flicker shads???

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Off shore tackle makes a snap weight kit for those whom don’t want to piece one together. Basically the or12 releases (red ones) are made for snap weights.  This trip, I run out 50 foot of line and then snapped 2 ounce weights on and ran out another 75 foot. Offshore tackle is good about posting editorials about there usage. Lead core line is another option but I haven’t used it In awhile.

Down riggers are hard to use here (unless they are open water suspended) because I like to bump the tops of these humps before pulling over them. The crankbait will drag over the gravel hump and drop right into the fishes face. 

I use planer boards everywhere for all species especially in clear water. A lot of time it can make your trip by getting baits out of the path of the boat. Watching a 30 pound sturgeon bay king salmon grab a crank on a board is a Adrenalin rush.

I have 9.9 Mercury kicker I use in conjunction with my motorguide xi5 I use to make quick adjustments to speed and turns. 

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2 hours ago, slothman said:

To add to Randy Moore’s questions, I am not familiar with the snap weights you referred to. What is that, and how does it work? It sounds like you hook weights onto your flicker shads???

  There are a few youtube videos that describe the use of snap weights.

You really don't want to use downriggers on Table Rock due to all the submerged timber. Snap Weights are a better alternative.   The linked article provides some good tips on trolling TR for walleye.

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

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Awesome! I don’t fish walleye very much, but I’d like to sometimes. I don’t really want to invest in a dedicated walleye setup. These snap weights sound like the deal!

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This post reminded me of a night bass fishing trip about 15 years ago out of Shell Knob. I had my brother with me and he caught a Sauger, or at least that is what I determined it to be. It was not a walleye. He thought he caught a walleye, but once I got a good look at it in the light it certainly was something else. I called one of my buddy's dads the next day and he was convinced it was a sauger based on my description.Only one I have ever seen or caught. Certainly never saw one come out of Stockton growing up.

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2 hours ago, MickinMO said:

This post reminded me of a night bass fishing trip about 15 years ago out of Shell Knob. I had my brother with me and he caught a Sauger, or at least that is what I determined it to be. It was not a walleye. He thought he caught a walleye, but once I got a good look at it in the light it certainly was something else. I called one of my buddy's dads the next day and he was convinced it was a sauger based on my description.Only one I have ever seen or caught. Certainly never saw one come out of Stockton growing up.

A few years ago while trolling for walleye in March up Kings we caught what we thought was a sauger....the markings were different from a walleye ....I dunno 

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