Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Kings River, Arkansas June 8th, 2011: Smallies really were turned on, fishing excellent!



It is kind of funny how it works sometimes.  The weekend before I was fishing a kayak fishing tournament in Faytteville, Arkansas on the Illinois River and just could not get up on any kind of substantial fish (did catch one smallie that was about 9")

The table turned on the Kings River on this day.  The river is still really up, due to the fact the Table Rock Lake is up.  The first fish I started to catch were Largemouth Bass.  As I started to paddle in, that is when the Smallmouth Bass started to hit, and they hit strong.  Caught a nice 16" beauty that really made my day!  I ended up paddling about 6 miles that day (3 in against the current, and 3 back in drift fish mode)  Incredible day of fishing, will be back sometime soon.

It seems like the best success I have had this year in the Ozarks has been from about 4:00-7:30 p.m. in the evening (seems like this pattern was even true in March).

Flow(cfs): 880
Guage Height: 4.5'

Fish ON!

Mike
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3 comments:

Hawaiian Odysseus said...

Excellently written and photographed...one can vividly imagine gliding along in an accompanying kayak. Keep up the great work and your sharing with the world.

June 16, 2011 at 7:52 AM
Mike Tobin said...

Thank you so much Hawaiian Odysseus, appreciate the comment :)

~Mike

June 17, 2011 at 5:52 AM
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