Jon and I just got back from our 5 days of White River/Bull Shoals/Beaver Lake fishing trip and I really have no idea where to start. We left around midnight Sunday night and got to the campsite on the river right as it was getting light out. We tossed up the tent and set up our gear real quick and staggered down to the river to toss a jerkbait at some trout. We both hooked up quickly and loss a couple fish apiece (an extremely common happening while we were trout fishing unfortunately). I finally got one to stick and after we landed it we realized we didn't have the camera so no picture of that one other than on my crappy phone. We went and got the camera and put our waders on and one of my first casts upstream a shallow shoal got popped by my first good brown of the trip.
They started generating so we decided to head to White Hole with the boat. There was fish everywhere and almost every cast we were getting follows, some of them were monsters but just couldn't get any commitment. I caught a couple more and then Jon got his only brown of the trip on a Vision 110.
When the sun got up high they stopped even chasing so we hopped to the lake. Wow the water was clear! We could see rocks in 25' of water and we were getting lots of follows on jerkbaits but very few actually eating. We tried several areas and baits with almost nothing to show for it when I decided to try a bait I'd heard about from another forum from guys who fish the lake a lot, a Keitech Swing Impact. If you don't have any, get some. I was fishing the 4" in electric shad and finally started getting thumped and hooking up with all 3 species of bass. Caught one of the biggest Spots I've ever caught at 3 1/2 pounds.
Of course I caught a big drum I thought was a big walleye They were smacking the Impact so I picked up an A-rig. First cast I got hit so hard I almost fell off the front deck when I set the hook. One of my bigger smallies of the trip actually got 2 of the baits in it's mouth.
Caught several more on the rig when a fish knocked slack in my line and I caught a 4.5lb largemouth, our biggest from Bull.
Got really tough from there with only a few more fish caught and very few bites. We went back to the river that night but nothing of any size wanted to play like we thought they would.
