Table Rock Lake Fishing Report — Dec 7, 2009
Water temp varies from the lower 40’s in the upper James river to around 54 degrees around Kimberling. Lake level is falling and presently 914.04.
I can’t remember a time when I’ve seen the white bass fishing last so long. At this rate it could still be going on around Christmas. The whites are still concentrated on flats and long tapering points from Kimberling to around the Aunts creek area in 50 to 65 ft. They will be shallower on cloudy days and deeper on bright sunny days. The pattern is holding about the same. A half or three quarter ounce “Hazie Dazie” jigging spoon can load the boat as demonstrated in the above photo. These two world class anglers dared to venture out in the cold and were rewarded with a cooler full of whites some up to 18 inches.
Bass are also starting to show up with more regularity in the same area as the whites and some of them are keepers.
I got several reports of anglers catching several big walleyes in the same areas as the bass.
I caught several nice crappie up the James just before the recent cold snap but they haven’t schooled up in their normal winter haunts yet.
Those who dare to venture out this Christmas season will experience some fantastic white bass fishing while others huddled around their fire places will just be “dreaming of a white bass Christmas”.
Good Fishing and Merry Christmas!
Dan Boyer’s Professional Guide Service
417-207-6278.
Daniel Boyer
Table Rock Lake Fishing Report–September 15, 2009\
Lake level is 915.7 and the average water temp is in the mid 70’s. You can tell that the season is beginning to change and so can the fish. The lake is full of newly hatched thread fin shad that are about an inch to two inches long.and the fish are having a smorgasbord. I think the only thing I’ve found that can out number the size of our national debt is the amount of shad running up and down the James River right now. Now that’s a scary thought.
I would rate fishing right now better than average for this time of year and white bass would be my primary target. Huge schools of white bass are being found up and down the lake. Many of these better than average size whites are being taken on top water when they are up schooling . When they go down they are usually about 10 to 15 ft deep sometimes suspended over 150 ft of water. The best bait I found is a quarter ounce ” Hazie Dazie” jigging spoon chartreuse or white jigged slowly up and down . Today 2 clients and I caught over forty white bass using top water chuggers and jigging spoons.
Bass fishing is pretty good also . Top water are working early, swimming grubs on long flat gravel points are catching a lot of Kentucky and small mouth in the clear water. Up the river arms, shakey heads and small shallow running crank baits are taking numbers of bass. Tom Bird alias T- Bird came all the way from Nevada to experience some of Table Rocks premiere bass fishing as shown in the photo.
If you think fishing is good now wait until things cool down in the next couple weeks. I can hardly wait.
Remember baseball , hot dogs, apple pie and bass fishing. Now that’s American!
Dan Boyer’s Professional Guide Service
417-207-6278
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