Table Rock Lake Fishing Report
Capt. Jamie Kowalsky
March 14, 2011
Table Rock - Freshwater Fishing Report
The water temp was back down this morning. It started out at 44 and by the end of the day was up to 50. I started the day swimming a grub around some mainlake points hoping some fish would be up early. Did not have any luck on the main lake so I went to a secondary point in a main creek and caught a good smallmouth in about 8 feet of water. I had a feeling it was going to be a tough day as they were calling for light and variable wind. I think that is one of the tuffest conditions to fish on a clear water lake. I fished a couple more secondaries with no success so I moved out over some deep trees and started dropping the grub down to fish I can see on the locater. These deep fish were a little more responsive but would only take the grub by the tail. After missing 3 fish in a row a slight breeze started blowing out of the east. I wanted to check out a couple coves on the west side of the lake and the east wind would be blowing in so we picked up and headed a couple miles south to the coves. When we got there lo and behold there was no wind. How can that be? You can look back and just a mile away there was a breeze but not where we were. I decided to fish awhile because I knew I was in a good area. After an hour of swimming the grub with no luck I told my client that we have to find some wind. I motored back to the area we started in and the breeze was almost gone. What was once a chop on the water turned into a ripple but a ripple is better the slick water so we motord over to a deep water swing and started swimming or grubs working our way to a flat point. We started catching fish right away. First a good Spotted Bass followed by some keeper Smallmouth. In the next hour we were able to catch 9 keepers anchoring our catch with a 6lb 1oz Largemouth. The action slowed so we moved to the back of a cove that had some breexe in it. We managed to catch a small spotted bass and then one that was pushing 3 lbs. All in all not a bad day for a 3/4 day trip.
It just goes to show you when conditions are tough,you just have to grind it out and put all favorable conditions in your favor and good things can happen.
Till next time Good Fishin
Jamie
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