Back from Table Rock

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Our trip to Table Rock was a lot of fun - awesome to fish for bass so early in the year. Got to fish under lots of different weather conditions and took the longest run (45 mins) of my fishing experience. That is one HUGE lake - gives me a much greater appreciation for the pounding the pros get making their runs during tournaments. First 2 days were hot (75-85 degrees and bluebird skies with some wind), next day was transition with severe thunderstorm and tennis ball sized hail, then temps fell like a ton-o-bricks - temps in the 30's with heavy NNW wind for the rest of the trip with bluebird skies and some clouds at the end of the last day. Water temps went from mid-60's down to mid-upper 50's.

Did not catch as many fish as we hoped/expected but still everyone caught at least a dozen but it was tougher than we expected. Top bag in the 125 boat tournament on second day was 19 pounds. I did manage to get a "Grand Slam" - Largemouth, Smallmouth, Kentucky, and Meanmouth. Meanmouth turned out to be the last fish I caught on the last day. Very strange looking fish to be sure but vicious attitude. Wish I had taken a picture but was just too cold to mess with it at the time.

No huge fish but several were caught in the 5-6 pound class.

Everyone who went wants to go again next year so watch for another open invitation during the winter months! We pretty much has the lake to ourselves after last Sunday.

As they say, a good time was had by all.

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[LEECH21]

Sounds like a good time.

[Deitz Dittrich]

does sound like fun... but no picts?.. your killin us!

[river rat316]

Daze... your killing me... this last week has had to be the hardest on me over the whole winter, I thought for sure I would be lipping some bass by now on the river down around lower pool 4 by now, but this last weeks weather (and the upcoming forecast) have absolutely sucked! Congrats on the good trip... hopefully some year I can go

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Sorry Dietz - did not take a single picture the whole week for some reason - very unlike me. Did take a cell phone video of the tennis ball-sized hailstorm though.

River rat - I'm with you on that one too - all I could think of coming home was how soon would I be able to get on Pool 2 and bang some banks. Not sure which is worse - getting a taste and then having to wait or just plain waiting....probably a "grass is greener" deal I guess.

After fishing on such a big reservoir for a week it becomes very clear why pattern fishing is so critical - there is so much water that it can overwhelm you quickly unless you can narrow it down with patterns, etc.

Aside from fishing the worst part was watching summer disappear as we drove north - all the leaves were fully out, grass green, flowers, tree frogs singing, insects, etc down near the Rock.

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[river rat316]

Yeah Ive been out 5 times now, mostly for sewer trout, but the last time i tried your spot (the one you and Hawgtide went to last year) and they weren't in there yet, that or they had plenty of shad to eat, man there was shad everywhere back in there, I was taking em out with my TM prop

[EBass]

RR where have you been going? Red Wing or Wabasha or further south? Supposed to snow Friday and Sat - oh yeah snow tonight to - what happened to April showers bring May flowers?

[river rat316]

Its a secret Honestly not my "spot" so can't post it, hopefully by early next week though I will be on the lower end of pool 4 chasing some greenies and brownies around

[Daze Off]

RR - what's the water levels like on that Pool 2 spot?

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[river rat316]

According to the guages its up about 1.5-2 feet since I was there, all I know is I had to take the long way around and its a haul! Kinda eary being in flat water and feeling the hull lift over the extremely shallow parts . I think I'll stick to lower pool 4 from now on, its almost a wash when I figure in gas for the boat getting all the way there! Lower pool 4 I can pretty much trolling motor or am very close to good fishing areas without wasting 14 gallons of gas there and back.

[Daze Off]

LOL - there is a bit o' "pucker factor" when we run the couple of miles from the main channel up to the bridge near the outlet for Moore Lake - 18" - 2' fow at 65 mph is always interesting....not so much with HT's boat but with the Nitro I usually ride in.

Perhaps we'lls ee you in there one day!

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[river rat316]

Yeah, mines a jet to, Im used to the lift in current, you can "see" whats underneath, but in flatwater its a whole new experience, especially never being back there. I would think that ride in a prop boat would not be fun. I more than likely won't be back there anytime soon... if this weather doesn't clear up Im just gonna take a header out my bedroom window Ohh wait its only 1 story up it might not work .

[ikeslayer]

not sure if you can post it but isn't there a HSOforum for this tourney in table rock??? love to see the results. ike

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Ikes -

Not sure what tourney you are referring to If you mean the trip to Table Rock, it was just something I organized and we just flat-out fished all day - no formal competition although there were @ 225 tournament boats on there the first day we fished. The lake is so big you hardly noticed them. Am planning to put together another trip next spring. Probably March 29th - April 5th which would be roughly the same week but after Easter next year. Might be the week before that though. Already have three additional boats interested .

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