"TABLE ROCK LAKE FISHING REPORT"

Fishing Reports

February 1st, 2012

TABLE ROCK LAKE FISHING REPORT

LAKE LEVEL: 915.0 WATER TEMP: MAIN LAKE – 47 degrees clear
The new year has brought some awesome fishing here on Table Rock Lake. There is a lot of fish deep and they are biting ½ oz war eagle spoons and chompers smoke grubs rigged on 3/8 oz darter heads. We are catching the fish vertical watching them on the graph. Most of the fish are 35 – 45 feet deep over timber on roll offs and bluff ends and can be caught on the bottom and suspended. Starting to catch some nice fish on a spro mcstick in blue bandit and norman flake colors as well. Wind and clouds help this bite for sure. The biggest bite going on currently is throwing the Alabama rig. Zoom swimming fluke jr’s and chompers 5” milky white grubs are the deal. Fishing it in the same places you throw a jerk bait is the areas to fish it.

"LAKE TANEYCOMO FISHING REPORT"

February 1st, 2012

LAKE TANEYCOMO FISHING REPORT

Lake level: 710.0 (varies due to generation) Water Temp – 46 degrees
Trolling with spinners, medium crank baits and jigs is working well. I would recommend trolling below Cooper Creek and do down past the Landing. There’s more room down there plus that’s the area where Shepherd has been stocking their trout. Freshly stocked trout tend to stay close to the surface for a few days. Trolling lures run through this layer of water. Jig and float works well for these rainbows too.
Live bait is definitely catching bigger numbers lately and Gulp Power Bait using a white and chartreuse and orange and yellow either drifting down the lake when the water is running or still fishing. Four-pound line is the right weight line to use right now. You don’t need to drop to 2-pound. If the water is running, try minnows on a drift rig and when the water off–fish with air injected night crawlers.
On calm days, no wind, fishing jigs straight line and using 1/8th oz if the water is running and 1/16th oz if it is not. I’m using white, sculpin/orange and olive below the dam during generation, then dropping the white and using brown and sculpin below Lookout. Try a 1/16th oz jig under a float if the water is running and fish it about the depth of the water you’re fishing or a little deeper. Go to micro or marabou jigs in same colors and experiment with the depth of the jig till you find that happy level where the trout will bite.

Fly fishing has been pretty good below the dam when the water is shut down in the afternoon and evenings. Midge hatches continue to come off especially later in the day. Crackle backs and soft hackles stripped when the water is a little choppy is working – #14 and #16 green and red. We have done well using #16 red or rusty zebra midges under a palsa indicator around where I see trout rising later in the evening in the Narrows area but to be honest there are a bunch of small rainbows here–lots of action but not much size.

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