Table Rock Fishing Report

As the previous post demonstrates, we did catch a few nice fish last week on Table Rock Lake. I fished for 8 wonderful days. The water temp varied from 78-80 degrees. We had both clear & windless days and overcast with a breeze but I couldn't tell a great deal of difference in the bite. Most of what I caught came in the flooded brush off main lake points in 12-15 feet of water on some form of red-shad worm - either the 5 inch stick worm, 4 inch shakey head worm, or regular worm. I couldn't get a bite on any other color or size; I tried a jib with a grub and caught one or two. We also caught a fish or two trolling bleeding shad rattle traps (larger size seemed to work better) and medium running yellow-green crankbait near the same areas. (We saw one boat take a 5 pounder trolling a blue-white crank bait.) I marked up our Table Rock map with all the key areas that we hit (sorry - no scan here).

If I had it to do over again I'd go back with a heavy football jig with a twintail grub tipped with a live worm and fish off the same main lake points. Drop the jig to the bottom in 30-35 feet, roll it up a crank, and then jig it. I'd let myself drift off the edges of the point and hold the same depth with the jig.