3-19-2010-Shell Knob, Missouri Fishing Report:

Meanmouth Bass caught on the Kings River, Table Rock Lake

Two very good days on Thursday the 18th. and Friday the 19th.  Guided Fishing out of Shell Knob.  Area fished was Campbell Point to Eagle Rock on the White River and Twin Rivers to Royal Point on the Kings River.

Table Rock Lake Spotted Bass caught near Eagle Rock, Missouri

Don Gable was the guy on Thursday.  It is my really great honor to take a fisherman of his caliber.  He is probably in the top 2 or 3 percent of Fishermen I have ever guided.  It really shows, as he just lets the fishing come to him in a very relaxed manner.

Early season cool water dictates the stickbait, and the Blue Bandit Spro McStick has just been “Lights Out.”  We Presented the bait on long casts to bluffends, transition banks, and channel swings in the White and Kings River.  The bait was fished on 8 pound test Fluracarbon, and worked to a suspending depth of about 8 ft.

Table Rock lake Bass caught near Shell Knob, Mo

Presentation was to either reel or jerk the bait to the proper depth and then give the bait a series of either two or three twitches and let it sit.  Up to 20 seconds between twitches.  All the strikes came as the bait sat motionless after the twitches.

30+ fish to the boat with about a dozen keepers up to a dandy 3 pound Meanmouth, ie cross between a Spotted Bass and a Smallmouth.

Table Rock Lake Meanmouth Bass caught with White River Outfitters Guide Service

Table Rock Lake Fishing Guide Bill Babler with a Kings River Spotted Bass

March and April are multispecies months, and this 19 inch Walleye also became a sore lipped victim of the stickbait.

19" Walleye, caught and released on Table Rock Lake, near Shell Knob, Mo