“Get ready! They’re coming up fast! You’re going to get bit … right now!”
We heard those emphatic instructions often from our excited guide, Mike Webb, throughout the day on Missouri’s Table Rock Lake. It was a cold, bluebird-sky day in January when my fishing buddy Charlie McConnell and I hooked up with Webb to probe the depths of the Missouri reservoir for chunky spotted bass.
With his depthfinder fine-tuned to display our lures descending and bass ascending on the graph, Webb could just about predict every time we would get a bite. While I shot photos most of that morning, McConnell and Webb caught seven keepers, some short fish and had several bass come tantalizingly close to their offerings. When I finally got a chance to fish later that morning, I caught a 3-pound spotted bass, broke off one fish and had a couple more pull off.
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