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Fishing Reports for Table Rock Lake and Taneycomo Lake

Serving Branson Missouri on Beautiful Table Rock Lake and Taneycomo Lake

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Captain Don House of Branson Fishing Guide Service

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Fishing is hot right now and the Bass have really turned on for Table Rock Lake daily catches have really jumped from 1 - 4 per 4 hours to 20 plus on good days. We are going after the pre-spawn fish suspended waiting for the right time to move in and spawn. These fish are really active for just about all of the day, certain places and fishing areas are just loaded with fish and we are catching alot of good Small Mouth and Spotted bass all over the lake with the baits below. Dam to Kimberling City area is on and also from what I hear the White River is on as well.  Slow fishing is the key, but locating the fish is a must and common sense and knowing the lake will put you right on the fish. Now is the time were a guide can deliver one of the best fishing days you could ask for so in stead of sitting there on your computer reading this report give me a call and lets book a trip and go fishing this week, month or even year! Tell me you follow my reports and book a half or full day fishing trip with Capt. Don, Call today!

Also before you get down here and need some tackle the best place to pickup all of your baits for Table Rock Lake is Wildcat Tackle Company in Springfield, stop by and see Marty to buy all of your fishing tackle needs, it's where I go for all of the hard to find baits. Now let's get to what is going on.  

BEST BET!! 

• Slow Swimming Grubs are the ticket around the Long Creek to the DAM and Indian Point area to Kimberling City area. This week just about every small mouth bass and spotted bass caught came on the swimming grub with a 3/8 ounce dart head and a White Salt and Pepper 4 or 5" Swimming grub, in the clearer parts of the lake Green Pepper with red flakes is working now.  We are slow rolling these guys from 15 feet back out to 35 feet or right under the boat. Throw up to the shallow water or the old bank line which is about 20 -25 feet and bounce it through the flooded bottom, Remember these are pre-spawn fish that have not moved into spawn, on the bank they will not be there, maybe a few but not like out in deeper water! So Stop beating the bushes with that spinnerbait and start to fish Table Rock Lake like it should be fished.

4/30/08 Catches plus a bunch more!

BEST BET!!

Next the good old stand by 3/4 ounce football Jig in Missouri Craw, PB&J and All Brown and green pumpkin colors for the best action. I attach a 4" matching twin tailed grub trailer. Slow seems to the trick for these jigs. Drag this bait slow back to the boat waiting for the bite on the main lake and secondary pea gravel points and flats. Slow is the Key!

Next on the list of baits to use will be the split shot rig with 4 - 6 inch trick worms in colors of Green Pepper with flakes colors like Black, Purple or Red. Casting these baits into the bushes and dragging back out slow to the boat. Fish seem to hit this on the fall close to the bushes or as soon as it is moved. For more control in the wind I go to a shakey jig in a 1/4 ounce rigged with a 6" Jackall Flickshake worm in Green Pumpkin or Watermelon Pepper. I also love to tip the end of these worms with some spike-it color die in bright Chartreuse color that helps attract the fish in the dirty waters. Fishing in same location as the swimming grubs.

A few other good baits to use here now will be a Fluke on in shad colors, dip the tail. Floating worms rigged on light hook and one of my favorites a Senko weightless around these flooded bushes for some of the spawners. 

Taneycomo Lake is fast and best bet for fast steady action!!

Trout fishing is unreal right now on Taneycomo, The Ramp at Cooper Creek is open for now until they run more flood gates. Even as the fishing on Table Rock can be up and down we are moving over to Taneycomo and catching alot of big Trout in the 2 to 3 pound range alot for me here in the past few weeks with really good success with 3 - 10 fish per drift and 20 - 30 fish on power bait per 4 hour trip! I was at the Bass Pro at the Landing today and I young man brought in a 14.2 Brown trout caught down by Rockaway Beach on a stickbait. Taneycomo is HOT!

With the water being high we are able to drift from the DAM to the Fall Creek with the current right now using all types of drift rigs, the best I have found to get the jig’s down in the deeper water is a 1/8 ounce barrel weight with a swivel then a long 3 – 5 foot leader with 6 - 8 pound test and a small glow ball jig in bright Orange, Pink, and Peach colors tied above the jig about 18” to 24 inches. At the bottom of the leader we are using a 1/60th ounce Jigs in all white on the bottom of the leader and dragging these baits along the bottom feeling for the bite in the strong current.  There are still shad coming through the DAM right now, along with all types of fish, we are catching Browns, Rainbows, Small Mouth Bass and even some reports of walleye's are coming in. We are catching anything from 3 – 10 fish per drift and making about 15 - 20 drifts per 4 hour trip. Yesterdays trip was a little bit slower in the afternoon but still good fishing and fun. 

Lower End of Taneycomo Lake for Trout

Fast Trout action is still going on the lower end of the Taneycomo right now with catches of trout in the 40 - 60 per 4 hour trip. All of these fish are coming from below the 65 hwy bridge up to and past Branson Landing in the slow moving waters. Berkley Power Bait on small jig heads along with minnows on the same jig head are working well. Even seen some folks using small pieces of night crawlers on the same jig head with good success. Well worth your time for a good fishing day on the water.  

Fishing can be slow but is sounds like the fish are starting to turn on big time. Reports of 5, 6 and 7 pound fish are starting to come in from the local tournament on the weekends. Daily catches can be from 1 fish to 5 with good days in the 7 - 10 keepers per day. Worth a good try as the water starts to warm back up. Lake is still pretty flooded and more rain is on it's way. Time to get out and start fishing both lakes now, call me (417) 270-7157and let's book a trip to go fishing! Until next week  

Good Fishing Everyone

Capt. Don House

Branson Fishing Guide Service

417-270-7157