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Table Rock Lake and Taneycomo Lake Fishing Reports
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Water Level: 914.76 Normal Pool 915.00 Water Temperature: Low 50's Main Lake Water Color: Main Lake Clear, Rivers: Stained Color. Wind Condition: calm Forecast: Turning colder this next week and snow. BASS What is the best and fastest way to find the bait fish? Right now on Table Rock just look for the Seagulls and Loones. Even if the birds are just sitting in a large group over an area, you can bet they are there for a reason. Large schools of shad are starting to gather and long with the shad are some really large schools of Spotted Bass.. Best depth runs from 45 to 60 feet of water on the Main Lake and Creek Arms.. Just start looking for the shad find a group and start working a 1/2 all white spoon or even better a 1/4 ounce dart head with a 3" grub vertical jigging in and around schools.. Hold on tight because when they start the whole school of bass will start to feed.. Also slow rolling the new Alabama Rig is having hte same effect with suspended fish.. Counting this rig down to the fish and then SLOW rolling it back to the boat.. Fish just load up on the rig, lean back and fight the fish. This is the time of year you can get a quick limit of bass and even have days with 30 fish in the 3 to 4 pound range in not unheard of this time of year!! Primary Bait: Alabama Rig: Weight 1/2 ounce rig with 5 Arms. 2 Arms with #5 Gold Willow Leave Blade. Other Three are rigged with a 1/4 Dart head with 4" Grub or Super Fluke in Natural Shad Colors.. Extra Heavy Casting Rod with a good reel loaded with 25 Pound Mono seems to work the best for me.. Working on Braided Line now.. Use Electronics to find suspended fish, match depth with running depth of A-rig.. Slow Rolling is the key and will produce a lot more fish.. All of these are being used back in the main lake creeks and deep cuts. Primary Bait: Spoons are working as well in the right school of fish. Smaller 1/2 all white spoons worked well for me last week. Fishing these spoons just like the drop shot rig on the bottom.. Hoping these off the bottom in those schools of shad on the bottom. Strike will come on the fall and sometimes hard to feel.. Also now have larger groups of spotted bass suspending over and around these larger schools shad on the main lake and larger creek arms. Vertical fishing these with small jerks in and around schools.. For even more action I run a second treble hook free floating on my main line or what we call the double trouble rig.. First fish will hit the spoon and the second fish will go after the all RED treble hook.. Bang two on a once.. Depths are ranging from 40 to 60 feet suspended over 100 plus feet of water.. Primary Bait: When I have trouble getting these fish to commit to a spoon I have found vertical jigging a 1/4 to 3/8 ball head jig with a 3" single tail grub in my favorite color of White Salt and Pepper and Smoke and Red flake.. To even better the action try running a blood knot on main line and using two jig heads and doubling your catch. Best to use your electronics, watching these baits go down the screen until to reach the school of shad.. Small jerks of the rod tip and allowing bait to fall.. Strikes come on the fall, load rod and hang on!! Secondary Fall Back Baits: Drop Shot Rig's with plastic (4" Robo Worms) and Live crawlers is working as well. Running these rig's just off the bottom on some main lake points. Trick is to find the shad on the bottom of these points. Run the rig just above the groups of shad stuck to the bottom right now. Fish will come up and take the bait, so watch for that bow in the line. Set hook hard but set straight up. Last on a good cloudy or even clear with wind or without wind Spinnerbaits and Wiggle Warts and Square Bill Crankbaits are working well on the same banks with larger chunk rock banks with cedars or pole timber... Just keep chucking it will pay off.. Craw pattern with alittle orange and green for the Wiggle Warts and Square Bills and Spinner Baits in all white with gold willow blades and many natural colors like firecracker and ghost shad and Golden Shad get the nod from me right now.. size 3/8 to 1/2 pounce just throw towards banks with wind or around shad balls with standing timber, fish will just stop it.. Colder Nights will really start these fish into a full on feeding movement, watch for fish in the mouths of the major creek arms and primary points.. Will report back on next outing.. Good Fishing Everyone.. Taneycomo Trout Fishing is getting better.. Trout fishing is on fire right now!!! Good sizes of fish and can be just plain simple to get a limit. Fish are ranging from 10 inches to some in the 20 plus inch range. Spot fishing seems to be the best with no current, or drifting with a slow current early is the only way to get your bite on!! Powerbait is still the ticket colors change everyday..
Good Fishing Everyone
Capt. Don House
Branson Fishing Guide Service
417-270-7157
