Anybody have experience hitting the white bass spawn in south missouri/ north arkansas?

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Found this great sight to buy your sinkers & weights and fishing apparel :D


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Anyone tried the Twitch lure?

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It was pretty windy here too lol.


I've maybe got the best spot on the lake. Im VERY blessed in that department.

It's had beds built over 20 years ago and maintained.

Slaughter.

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I finally made it out yesterday. Not a bite in my regular spot. Figured it would be like that with the high winter waters, all the fish headed for deeper water.

All we need is rain. Rain rain rain. Bring on that high water!!!

!ROFL!

Everyone in town knows it. It's all built under a private dock just pull up a chair and fish through the doors.

No.trespassing lol.

People fish all around it though.

The assholes get up there and leave a mess so we run them off.

I'm just going post this here for you weekend warriors out there..

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Red Green you silly goose :)

I used to watch him all the time before SNL came on, he always has some wacky new invention

Details, man, details!

I'm looking forward to getting down to Truman for some slabs in the next few weeks.

Took a backcountry charter out of Islamorada with my youngest this morning. Caught a mess of snapper and a few specks. The boy tied into a stingray which was hilarity watching an 8 year old freak out when he was fighting something that heavy.

I "caught" a freaking loggerhead today too which was insane. My guide has been fishing for 50 years and has never snagged a sea turtle before. After an insane "fight," we managed to get the poor guy unhooked and released safely.

Isla Morada, is that where they keep the dinosaurs?

Such an epic day... pics please?

Pm me before coming down and if there isn't any family down I can probably point you right where to go.

If they are biting anywhere it's there.

I'll definitely do that. My wife was just saying how she's never limited at Truman. It's been a long damn time for me too.

Lol, TECHNICALLY... My spot is below the dam so it would be on the ozarks. Lol.

I'll post a pic of a pic next time I go to the in laws.

It's crazy

Couple years ago my 5 year old and FIL and nephew caught so many so fast I never put a line in, just pulled fish off of theirs and the them back. My daughter pitt het line in and told papa she was hung up immediately. He told her she wasn't just pull the fish out. Lol


On thanksgiving day.

Are you fishing from the bank or a boat?

Dock.

Are you sure you aren't fishing into an aquarium at bass pro?

Headed to Taneycomo for some Trout fishing in about a month. Looking forward to it

I'm positive.

I'm sure dartgod is familiar with the spot if he's been around the dam at all.

It's just a private dock in a great location that has had beds that were built and maintained for over 20 years by some very smart crappie lovers.

In an area that is heavily fished and traveled, but really is open with not much underwater cover for a ways. They all just stay in this cover built under this big ass dock.

Pull up a door and catch fish.



And damn I should have proof read that post to dart last night lol

I am getting ready to buy a Deeper fish finder. I used one once before and they are really cool. It is basically a transducer that you can cast and then it connects to your smart phone via Bluetooth. You can cast it or attach it to a kayak or canoe. As you reel it in or drift along you get live sonar, water temperature, depth, etc. It is a game changer for fishing from the bank. There are plenty of demonstration videos on YouTube.

https://buydeeper.com

Since you guys were talking about Truman....
http://www.kansascity.com/sports/out...e68451422.html

My father and I caught probably 25-30 White Bass Friday and Saturday out at Canton lake, OK. Probably around 10 of those were 2+lb's with the largest weighing 2.62. We were hoping for some walleye but only had one, which came off the hook next to the boat.

Yeah I have been catching lots of white bass for over a few weeks now. They are active and hanging out pretty close to the banks. I don't keep them but they fight hard and are fun to catch.

Oklahomans call them sand bass. Took me two years to figure out sand bass were white bass.

I had a fish break my line. First fish of the season, where I felt it was going to be a big one. I hooked her, she took off and my drag was not even close to set.

I was using a Johnny Morris spinner on six lb test. I hate spinner reels but it was an Xmas gift. I went to bass pro and bought me a new baitcast and rod today, $170. Most I've ever spent on a rod/reel.

New house is on a lake so I went out and re-bought shit I threw away years ago.

Grabbed a Berkley graphite rod and a Shimano Spirex w/ the rear drag. Seems like most people prefer the front drag but I like the ability to adjust the drag as I'm bringing something in. It also has the trigger on the gate so I can flip the bail open with my pointing finger on my right hand. Just a handful of little features that I liked and it felt very smooth.

So far everything I catch seems to be about a 1 lb small-mouth so I'm pretty sure the thing is incredibly underfished keeping everything fairly small but maybe I'll find some better spots when I get a boat and get out there a little more. I've pulled surprisingly large crappie and sunfish so it seems like there's some decent fish in there and I just need to find them. It's a large pond as much as it is a small lake so it'll be paddle-boat at best.

Get a fishing kayak. They maneuver well and there are tons of ways to outfit it with neat accessories. They are also pretty cheap starting at around $500.

They are pulling some monster rainbows out of Bennet Spring State Park. Weavers posted a picture of a 5 pounder this morning. That is a massive fish for that stream. I'm wondering how they are pulling these big fish out with the flooding that occurred down there early this year.

Because many of the lunkers that they release throughout the season all washed out of the hatchery in to the spring and the river.

BTW, I saw that picture this morning too. I would shit if I ever hooked one that big.

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Those are the size they catch out in the mountains where these things are naturally. Opening day there were at least 7 caught according to weavers. That's the size of the Brown Trout they pull out of there.

We were there the weekend after opening day and there were a lot in the 3-4 lb range on Weaver's lunker board. The largest was over 7 lbs. We fished exclusively in the river and caught a shitload. A lot of them were really small but we got into some areas much larger. No lunkers though. I caught over 70 in 2.5 days. Best fishing I've ever experienced there.

One of two things:

they are fat stocker brooders that were put in the river after they were already big.

or

fish are VERY good at staying put during flooding. They will almost always move up into the shallower, slower water during flooding.


I lean toward number 1. Wild fish (or fish that are holdovers from previous seasons) are never that fat. They just don't look like that. THIS is what a fish that has been in a river a while looks like:

http://www.aardvarkmcleod.com/wp-con...0/p1000702.jpg

See how strong and lean it is, and see how the fins are nice and crisp? That's in stark contrast to a hatchery trout, which may turn into fat abominations from learning to gorge on pellets at the hatchery.

Any of you guys ever strayed down to Spring River and trout fished? Grew up on it, never was a big trout guy.

Caught an assload of goggle eye, smallmouth and walleye down there though.

I've been out on the Kansas river three times this spring, all i have to show is one god damn Drum.

They're catching the fire out of the white bass at Norfork right now. Or atleast they were the last few weeks.

I have a trip to a new creek planned for this weekend, its supposed to be in the low 70s

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So I have been using my Deeper fish finder from the bank. I love it. It has really changed the way I view some of the places I have taken it already. The depths are way different than I thought in a few areas and it also helped me avoid wasting time in areas not holding any fish.

It reads the water temperature and I took it out this past Saturday and found an area of the reservoir that was 5 degrees warmer than off the damn where I started and didn't see much. This told me right away this might be where the crappie are hanging out and sure enough I found a hole that was about three feet deeper in a small spot and the fish were in that area. We didn't catch a ton but we ended with 8 good keepers and a few non keepers and the usual misses. It was great knowing the depth to concentrate fishing at so you aren't just guessing.

It also helped because when I threw it 10 yards either direction no fish were showing up on the finder. If I didn't have it we surely would have spent more time in a wider area with no idea what was going on or why fish weren't nearby. We could focus on the one area with the knowledge of why that area was the spot holding fish.

Thats sounds like an awfully handy little gadget

It really is. It works especially great for me because I can use it in my kayak like any regular fish finder or I can cast it from the bank. I just got an arm band for my phone so it's right there for me to see.

By the way...that's not me. That was just a picture I found that illustrated my point.

Does anyone know if the crappie are spawning in Truman lake yet?

I haven't been in a couple days but talked to a friend yesterday that said No

I have been multiple places and read around dome sites and they seem to be spread out and in pre spawn locations. This should be the first consistently warm week so they should start pushing shallower very soon.

Thanks guys

No one would believe me if I told them I went fishing and didn't catch anything..

I did an overnight on Lake Wilson and it was slow as ****. Not one freaking bite all night, but I persevered and ended up with something





Am still on two 1/2 hours sleep. It got kinda freaking cold last night.

It's always embarrassing to get skunked. Way to avoid the 0-fer!

Yes God was listening to me cuss I hope I didn't use his name in vein.


Btw using my Bass Pro Shop "Cat Buster" , that drum was no Daisy he was no Daisy at all.

Hoping to make it up to Watkins Mill on Saturday morning before my tee time. Can't imagine a much better day than slaying a few Largemouth in the morning and then spending the rest of the day drinking and golfing.

getting closer

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Finally got into something this afternoon! A new personal best. About 30lbs or so 3 1/2 foot long blue catfish.

Kansas River on shad sides.

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Excellent work BDj, thats a hoss... what kind of rig got him in?

7 ft catfish rod with an open face reel and 30lb braded line and some shad sides.

Only bite i got all day.

I'm guessing he was around 25-30lbs, but with fish stories you always go on the heavy side! I wish i could have gotten a better photo, but there wasn't anybody anywhere close to me.

I picked him up by his jaw and held him about shoulder level and his tail fin went down to my knees. I'm 6'3

Last weekend I hammered crappie at Redmond. Literally every cast was a catch and Redmond produces big fish. It got to the point it was boring since they were in like 2 feet of water biting almost instantly. Between mt dad and I we could have kept 100 12 inch crappie and 30 15 inch crappie and that is not an exageration. We ended up keeping about 30 between us. Here is one of the larger ones. And these things are wide with big backs. Basically got strip steaks off them.

If you're only gonna get one bite, might as well make it a doozie

Catch and release, or golden fried fritters?

I'm looking at that and thinking potato salad, onion and iced tea


Awesome, crappie some of the best eating fish I've ever had

What were you catching them with?

I'm typically a catch and release guy, I'd like to see him grow bigger and hopefully catch him again, so it was his lucky day. Plus, despite it being a great place for big catfish, you're not really supposed to eat bottom feeding fish out of the Kansas River because of pollution.

Copy that, I usually release as well... but there are exceptions

Jigs. Mine were tube jigs with chartreuse tails. Don't think it would have mattered though. It literally must have looked like a tank of minnows in there with as many crappie where there.

That just sounds crazy, I've never experienced a situation quite like that

I know this, wish I could be at the fish fry

Heading back to Truman in the morning. We went last Saturday and got skunked. We didn't get out until nearly noon, fought the wind and dogs were being a pain. Tomorrow we'll head out much earlier, no dogs and the weather will be much nicer. Hoping we find the crappie on the banks and get our limit.

Almost forgot, I didn't put the plug in last week so the bilge pump got a workout.

Yep, ditch the dogs and hit those warm banks... thats a plan

Maybe if I'm not dealing with getting the damn dogs in the boat I'll remember to put the drain plug in this time.

They are getting closer to the banks but not quite there yet. You are probably a couple days early. I talked to several guys last night who didn't catch anything yesterday

Yes, I should mention that Redmond is probably the shallowest large lake around. It's maximum depth is about 12 feet so the spawn is early there much like the creeks and rivers above a reservoir or a small pond would be. Most other large reservoirs on the actual lake are not there yet with the fish on the bank.

You should how many freaking fisherman are down at the Lake this weekend. Big amateur tournament, $60,000 top prize.

I tried to get back out this morning.

The Kansas river doesn't have a lot of access to it for shore fishermen and the water had resided a few feet since yesterday. The steep banks and syrupy mud would have made landing fish impossible without a long net or gaff.

I guess I'll try again tomorrow.

We got out on the lake about 8:30 this morning. I'm happy to report that I remembered to put in the plug this time.

The morning bite was pretty good. I got three in the live well that were caught within 5 feet of the bank. My wife stomped my ass today though. The three I caught early would be it for the day. I don't know what the hell happened. I had one that got off just as I was lifting it into the boat. Other than that, I really didn't miss too many opportunities.

My wife had staked me to an early lead while she was dealing with tangled line issues. And then she started catching fish. And more fish. And more. She ended up with nine nice ones in the live well to kick my ass 3/1 on the day. Most of the fish we caught were in the 11" range.

It really slowed down in the afternoon. I had hoped for a little better day, but still brought home a nice bag of fillets.

I really, truly hate it when my local lake has tournaments, which is weekly... those guys act like they run the place just because theres a tourney going on

About 3-4 years ago I was at one of the more popular points, had been there for atleast an hour and was having some luck... here comes these two guys in their boat wanting to pull up about 20 feet from shore and start casting

I stood there looking at them for a bit, just stunned that they thought this was ok... I'm like "uh, what the hell are you guys doing?"... "uh, we're fishing"

The hell you are I said, I've been here for an hour... "well we're here now", at that point I said to hell with it, I told them if they were going to butt in on me, none of us were going to catch anything and started picking up larger rocks and throwing into the water around the bank to spook any fish away

"Hey mfer, you better knock that shit off or we'll come up there and handle this"... so I walked to my truck, pulled my ax handle from behind the seat and told them to come on up and handle it

"We'll see you around mfer", ok sure was my reply as they moved on... the fishing was ruined at that spot, but my point had been made, couldnt believe they thought that just because they were in a tourney that they could just roll up and fish over me

What area are you in? General :D

Put in at Bucksaw. Fished Cedar Creek today.

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Glad to hear about that solid haul today, DG

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Eagle Claw

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First flattie of the season.

He was small though, probably 7-8lbs

Very sleek looking cat... your spots usually pay off, always getting a mix of species, blues, flatheads, whatever

What you've described in the past sounds like steep and very muddy banks, thats tough fishing... nice work

It's been a massacre this week

There is a boat ramp that you can usually fish that was built to be accessible. So that's where i caught him.

Went down there again today, no luck whatsoever. The Kaw is way up again. Used 10oz of weight and my lines still drifted into snags. Shameful display.

Nice evening. Had a few beers and decided to throw a line in the pond for the hell of it with no expectations....

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Personal best today of 5lbs. Caught it at Sooner lake, OK. They have Florida strain large mouth. It's a large reservoir owned by OG&E for their power plant. Water is always warm near the plant discharge.

Very very nice catches, gentlemen

That 5 pounder is a brute