T_boy
05-29-2009, 02:22 PM
Bull Shoals Lake
BEAVER CREEK AREA: good
Crappie: In the brushy areas. Jigs and minnows.
Black bass: On the lake and in the creeks. Spinnerbaits.
All other species slow.
HIGHWAY K AREA: good
Walleye: Trolling deep with any lure than has an orange bottom, nightcrawlers.
Bass: On spinnerbaits and topwaters. In the coves and have moved off the points.
Crappie: Have gone deep at least 20 feet. On live minnows.
BUCK CREEK: fair
Smallmouth: Small spoons and crankbaits
Walleye: At night using rogues, xraps and rebels.
All other species slow.
THEODOSIA AREA: fair
Walleye: Around old shorelines in 20 feet of water. Crankbaits.
Catfish: In the back of coves. Shiners on jug lines.
Bluegill: Getting ready to spawn. On pea gravel banks. Any type of bait.
Lake of the ozarks
NIANGUA ARM: fair
Catfish: Live bait, worms and shad. In shallows.
Crappie: Moving off the banks a bit in deeper water. Live minnows.
Bass: Plastic baits and spinners. In 3-6 feet of water.
GLAIZE ARM: Excellent
Bass: Inside main lake points. Crankbaits.
Crappie: Below the dam. Jigs.
Catfish: On cut shad.
Gravois ARM: good
Catfish: Using any type of bait. Live bait off the docks with rod and reel. Some using trotlines with goldfish, minnows.
Bass: Lizards, Brush Hogs, jigs. Around the docks.
All other species slow.
Fellows Lake
ENTIRE LAKE: Good
Back in business. Damage being repaired. Open to the public. Still catching crappie. Fishing in moss beds toward the bridge.
Lake Pomme De Terre
POMME ARM: good
Bass: On plastic baits and crankbaits closer to shore.
Crappie: In 12-15 feet of water. Jigs and minnows.
Walleye: On crankbaits on the flats.
LINDLEY ARM: Fair
Crappie: On minnows. In standing timber and under the bridge pillar.
White bass: In the mouth of coves. Spinnerbaits late in morning. Early evening.
Black bass: 10 feet out using spinnerbaits.
LOWER LAKE: fair
Crappie: Minnows. Close to the docks.
Black bass: Casting up into the brush. Spinnerbaits and crank baits.
All other species slow.
Lake Taneycomo
BRANSON AREA: Excellent
Trout: Great water. Pink and yellow on power baits. Brown and white 1/32nd oz jigs. Rappala gold and black.
UPPER LAKE: Good
Trout: Fly fishing and in the boats. Red midges, red worms, wooly buggers. Fair in the outlets areas.
Stockton Lake
LITTLE SAC ARM: fair
Crappie: In 15-20 feet of water around brush piles. Minnows and shad Rappala.
Walleye: In the shallows.
Catfish: Juglines with cut baits, chicken livers.
BIG SAC ARM: Unknown
Storms destroyed docks. No report at this time.
LOWER LAKE: good
Crappie: Near shoreline in 12-15 feet of water on chartreuse/white jigs or minnows.
Walleye: On bottom bouncers with worm or minnow trailers.
White bass: Texas rigged or purple worms.
Table Rock Lake
JAMES RIVER ARM: good
Bass: Top water action early in the mornings on Zara spooks, Pop-R's and chugbugs.
Crappie: In 5-15 feet deep in spawning pockets around standing timber. Crappie jigs in white or chartreuse and white and minnows.
All other species slow.
KIMBERLING AREA: good
Bass: Top water action good. Cordell Redfins and Zara Spooks are working best on pole timbered points. Some being caught on Carolina rigged Zoom centipede in green pumpkin or watermelon candy in 10 to 18 feet.
All other species slow.
LONG CREEK ARM: good
Smallmouth: On the main lake points. Carolina rigged Zoom centipedes in either green pumpkin or watermelon candy fished in 10 to 18 feet of water on very flat gravel points.
Kentucky bass: Secondary and main lake chunk rock banks with a Shakey head worm and Carolina rigged Zoom centipede worm around 12 to 20 feet deep.
All other species slow.
KINGS RIVER ARM: good
Catfish: Pole and line, limb lines and trotlines using cut baits, stink baits, live shiners, nightcrawlers, small sunfish or goldfish.
Black bass: In 8-10 feet of water on smoke colored grubs or black or green tube baits, crankbaits or soft plastics.
White bass: Silver or gold spoons.
UPPER WHITE AREA: Good
Bass: Carolina rigged Zoom centipedes and 1/4 oz. Shakey heads with Chompers finesse worms in green pumpkin and brown and purple seem to working the best.
White bass: On main lake flats and points chasing the bait fish on the surface. Top water lures and grubs.
Kentucky bass: Moving out on the main lake points in 24-28 feet of water. Drop shot rigs.
Truman Lake
POMME ARM: good
Catfish: Trotlines and jug. Perch and goldfish. Around the islands.
Crappie: In 30 feet of water 12-18-feet deep around the cedars and the bluffs. Using minnows.
Bass: Spinnerbaits off secondary lake points. 18-25 feet deep.
WARSAW AREA: good
Bass: The best bite right now is half way back in the coves fishing the flooded willows on secondary points. Big Brush Hogs are the top bait.
Crappie: In the coves in the flooded cedars and hedge trees. In 25-30 feet of water 10-12 feet down. Minnows.
White bass: On the humps using jigging spoons.
GRAND ARM: Excellent
Catfish: On trotlines, jug lines and limb lines using cut shad, leeches and sunfish.
Crappie: 10 to 12 foot depths on minnows and jigs.
White bass: 12 to 20 foot depths off points on spoons.
Other MISSOURI LAKES
A. Montrose: 70 degrees, high, dingy; catfish good; all other species slow; fishing pressure moderate.
B. Norfork: 74 degrees, high, dingy; black bass fair on topwater lures; white bass fair on jigs.
C. Schell-Osage (Atkinson Lake): 74 degrees, high, muddy; catfish good; crappie fair; all other species slow.
C. Schell-Osage (Schell Lake): 74 degrees, high, muddy; catfish good; crappie fair; all other species slow.
MISSOURI RIVERS
1. Big Niangua (above Bennett Spring State Park): 64 degrees, high, clear; smallmouth bass good on soft plastics; trout good on bright colored Power Baits; goggle-eye fair on worms and other live baits.
2. Big Piney (lower, below Slabtown): 70 degrees, falling, dingy; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on soft plastic jigs; channel catfish fair on live baits.
3. Big Piney (upper): 70 degrees, normal, clear; black bass and goggle-eye good on soft plastic lures; sunfish good on a variety of lures.
4. Bryant Creek: 67 degrees, high, dingy; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on soft plastic lures.
5. Current: 64 degrees, normal, clear; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on jigs and plastic worms.
6. Eleven Point: 60 degrees, normal, dingy; rainbow trout good on corn and small spinner baits in the white ribbon area downstream from the Turner Mill Access; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on soft plastic baits.
7. Gasconade (middle, near Waynesville): 60 degrees, falling, dingy; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on soft plastic jigs; channel catfish fair on live baits.
8. Gasconade: 60 degrees, high, dingy; goggle-eye and sunfish fair on nightcrawlers and soft plastic lures; all other species slow.
9. Jack's Fork: 64 degrees, normal, clear; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on soft plastic lures.
10. James River (lower): 65 degrees, normal, clear; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on jigs and soft plastic lures.
11. North Fork: 61 degrees, normal, clear; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on soft plastic lures.
12. Osage (Bagnell tailwater): 70 degrees, dingy; catfish and white bass fair; crappie slow.
13. Osage (Truman tailwater): 71 degrees, dingy; releasing 35,000 cfs; catfish good on cut baits and shad; white bass and hybrid bass fair on spoons; all other species slow.
MISSOURI TROUT PARKS
14. Bennett Spring: 54 degrees, high, dingy; stream is up 2-3 inches due to recent rains; best success is to fish deep; successful lures and baits include: jigs (black/yellow, ginger/orange); mini-jigs (beadspread and John Deere); glo balls (chartreuse with flame dot and white); also successful are bright colored Rooster Tails, hot pink brassies, orange, and white Power Baits and bright colored plastic worms.
15. Maramec Spring: 58 degrees, falling, dingy; spring branch is murky and up somewhat; fishing has been good; green and white colored lures working well.
16. Montauk: 58 degrees, falling, clear; fishing is good; the river has nice flow with a greenish color to the water; the river is slowly falling back down to normal flow, but is still a few inches above normal; in the fly area scuds and mini marabou jigs suspended under a float are producing good numbers of fish; also heavier weighted marabou jigs fished in the swift water are doing well; check at the lodge for other good fly choices; in the bait area, corn, doughbaits and Power Baits in white, yellow, green, cheese and pink are producing good numbers of fish.
17. Roaring River: 57 degrees, falling, clear; levels are down to what they were at the end of April; water is clear with visibility a little greater than 3 feet.
Arkansas waters
White River: Anglers reported success on midge patterns. The most effective were zebra midges in black with silver wire and silver beads and red with silver wire and silver beads. The best sizes were sixteens and fourteens. Other hot patterns have been pheasant tails and egg patterns.
Bull Shoals tailwater: Fishing is great, especially fly-fishing. They are using woolly buggers, zebra midges and copper johns.
North Fork River: If you are fishing Quarry Park the hot fly has been the sowbug. On the lower river, zebra midges in black with silver wire and silver bead (size 18) and red micro worms (size 18) have been the go-to flies. There are still a few caddis out. Here again the presentation of your elk hair caddis must be flawless. Dry Run Creek continues to fish well. There is little room to cast here so you should keep your line short. The hot fly is the sowbug and the San Juan worm in red.
Lake Norfork: The surface water temperature is in the mid- to upper 70s. Crappie fishing is fair. Striper fishing is fair. Bluegill fishing is good on crickets, worms and small minnows. Catfishing is good using trotlines and jugs baited with stink bait, chicken liver or shiners. Bass fishing has been fair. White bass fishing has been fair. Walleye fishing has been fair using minnows and worms.
Beaver Lake: Bass fishing continues to be good. Try fishing soft-plastic baits in and around flooded cover. Another good place to fish has been grassy points and flooded parking lots. Crappie fishing is still tough. Try minnows under a float 8-12 feet deep around standing timber in coves and along bluff lines. White bass can be found in main-lake shallow bays and on grassy points. Try using small swim baits. Bluegill fishing has been good using crickets 2-6 feet deep around docks and flooded brush.
Buffalo River: White River Zig Jigs in ginger or black/orange have been very consistent. Chartreuse and White Power Bait fished on the bottom has been especially productive. Any place the water speeds up a little due to a small shoal or rocky bottom will hold the most fish.
BEAVER CREEK AREA: good
Crappie: In the brushy areas. Jigs and minnows.
Black bass: On the lake and in the creeks. Spinnerbaits.
All other species slow.
HIGHWAY K AREA: good
Walleye: Trolling deep with any lure than has an orange bottom, nightcrawlers.
Bass: On spinnerbaits and topwaters. In the coves and have moved off the points.
Crappie: Have gone deep at least 20 feet. On live minnows.
BUCK CREEK: fair
Smallmouth: Small spoons and crankbaits
Walleye: At night using rogues, xraps and rebels.
All other species slow.
THEODOSIA AREA: fair
Walleye: Around old shorelines in 20 feet of water. Crankbaits.
Catfish: In the back of coves. Shiners on jug lines.
Bluegill: Getting ready to spawn. On pea gravel banks. Any type of bait.
Lake of the ozarks
NIANGUA ARM: fair
Catfish: Live bait, worms and shad. In shallows.
Crappie: Moving off the banks a bit in deeper water. Live minnows.
Bass: Plastic baits and spinners. In 3-6 feet of water.
GLAIZE ARM: Excellent
Bass: Inside main lake points. Crankbaits.
Crappie: Below the dam. Jigs.
Catfish: On cut shad.
Gravois ARM: good
Catfish: Using any type of bait. Live bait off the docks with rod and reel. Some using trotlines with goldfish, minnows.
Bass: Lizards, Brush Hogs, jigs. Around the docks.
All other species slow.
Fellows Lake
ENTIRE LAKE: Good
Back in business. Damage being repaired. Open to the public. Still catching crappie. Fishing in moss beds toward the bridge.
Lake Pomme De Terre
POMME ARM: good
Bass: On plastic baits and crankbaits closer to shore.
Crappie: In 12-15 feet of water. Jigs and minnows.
Walleye: On crankbaits on the flats.
LINDLEY ARM: Fair
Crappie: On minnows. In standing timber and under the bridge pillar.
White bass: In the mouth of coves. Spinnerbaits late in morning. Early evening.
Black bass: 10 feet out using spinnerbaits.
LOWER LAKE: fair
Crappie: Minnows. Close to the docks.
Black bass: Casting up into the brush. Spinnerbaits and crank baits.
All other species slow.
Lake Taneycomo
BRANSON AREA: Excellent
Trout: Great water. Pink and yellow on power baits. Brown and white 1/32nd oz jigs. Rappala gold and black.
UPPER LAKE: Good
Trout: Fly fishing and in the boats. Red midges, red worms, wooly buggers. Fair in the outlets areas.
Stockton Lake
LITTLE SAC ARM: fair
Crappie: In 15-20 feet of water around brush piles. Minnows and shad Rappala.
Walleye: In the shallows.
Catfish: Juglines with cut baits, chicken livers.
BIG SAC ARM: Unknown
Storms destroyed docks. No report at this time.
LOWER LAKE: good
Crappie: Near shoreline in 12-15 feet of water on chartreuse/white jigs or minnows.
Walleye: On bottom bouncers with worm or minnow trailers.
White bass: Texas rigged or purple worms.
Table Rock Lake
JAMES RIVER ARM: good
Bass: Top water action early in the mornings on Zara spooks, Pop-R's and chugbugs.
Crappie: In 5-15 feet deep in spawning pockets around standing timber. Crappie jigs in white or chartreuse and white and minnows.
All other species slow.
KIMBERLING AREA: good
Bass: Top water action good. Cordell Redfins and Zara Spooks are working best on pole timbered points. Some being caught on Carolina rigged Zoom centipede in green pumpkin or watermelon candy in 10 to 18 feet.
All other species slow.
LONG CREEK ARM: good
Smallmouth: On the main lake points. Carolina rigged Zoom centipedes in either green pumpkin or watermelon candy fished in 10 to 18 feet of water on very flat gravel points.
Kentucky bass: Secondary and main lake chunk rock banks with a Shakey head worm and Carolina rigged Zoom centipede worm around 12 to 20 feet deep.
All other species slow.
KINGS RIVER ARM: good
Catfish: Pole and line, limb lines and trotlines using cut baits, stink baits, live shiners, nightcrawlers, small sunfish or goldfish.
Black bass: In 8-10 feet of water on smoke colored grubs or black or green tube baits, crankbaits or soft plastics.
White bass: Silver or gold spoons.
UPPER WHITE AREA: Good
Bass: Carolina rigged Zoom centipedes and 1/4 oz. Shakey heads with Chompers finesse worms in green pumpkin and brown and purple seem to working the best.
White bass: On main lake flats and points chasing the bait fish on the surface. Top water lures and grubs.
Kentucky bass: Moving out on the main lake points in 24-28 feet of water. Drop shot rigs.
Truman Lake
POMME ARM: good
Catfish: Trotlines and jug. Perch and goldfish. Around the islands.
Crappie: In 30 feet of water 12-18-feet deep around the cedars and the bluffs. Using minnows.
Bass: Spinnerbaits off secondary lake points. 18-25 feet deep.
WARSAW AREA: good
Bass: The best bite right now is half way back in the coves fishing the flooded willows on secondary points. Big Brush Hogs are the top bait.
Crappie: In the coves in the flooded cedars and hedge trees. In 25-30 feet of water 10-12 feet down. Minnows.
White bass: On the humps using jigging spoons.
GRAND ARM: Excellent
Catfish: On trotlines, jug lines and limb lines using cut shad, leeches and sunfish.
Crappie: 10 to 12 foot depths on minnows and jigs.
White bass: 12 to 20 foot depths off points on spoons.
Other MISSOURI LAKES
A. Montrose: 70 degrees, high, dingy; catfish good; all other species slow; fishing pressure moderate.
B. Norfork: 74 degrees, high, dingy; black bass fair on topwater lures; white bass fair on jigs.
C. Schell-Osage (Atkinson Lake): 74 degrees, high, muddy; catfish good; crappie fair; all other species slow.
C. Schell-Osage (Schell Lake): 74 degrees, high, muddy; catfish good; crappie fair; all other species slow.
MISSOURI RIVERS
1. Big Niangua (above Bennett Spring State Park): 64 degrees, high, clear; smallmouth bass good on soft plastics; trout good on bright colored Power Baits; goggle-eye fair on worms and other live baits.
2. Big Piney (lower, below Slabtown): 70 degrees, falling, dingy; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on soft plastic jigs; channel catfish fair on live baits.
3. Big Piney (upper): 70 degrees, normal, clear; black bass and goggle-eye good on soft plastic lures; sunfish good on a variety of lures.
4. Bryant Creek: 67 degrees, high, dingy; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on soft plastic lures.
5. Current: 64 degrees, normal, clear; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on jigs and plastic worms.
6. Eleven Point: 60 degrees, normal, dingy; rainbow trout good on corn and small spinner baits in the white ribbon area downstream from the Turner Mill Access; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on soft plastic baits.
7. Gasconade (middle, near Waynesville): 60 degrees, falling, dingy; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on soft plastic jigs; channel catfish fair on live baits.
8. Gasconade: 60 degrees, high, dingy; goggle-eye and sunfish fair on nightcrawlers and soft plastic lures; all other species slow.
9. Jack's Fork: 64 degrees, normal, clear; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on soft plastic lures.
10. James River (lower): 65 degrees, normal, clear; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on jigs and soft plastic lures.
11. North Fork: 61 degrees, normal, clear; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on soft plastic lures.
12. Osage (Bagnell tailwater): 70 degrees, dingy; catfish and white bass fair; crappie slow.
13. Osage (Truman tailwater): 71 degrees, dingy; releasing 35,000 cfs; catfish good on cut baits and shad; white bass and hybrid bass fair on spoons; all other species slow.
MISSOURI TROUT PARKS
14. Bennett Spring: 54 degrees, high, dingy; stream is up 2-3 inches due to recent rains; best success is to fish deep; successful lures and baits include: jigs (black/yellow, ginger/orange); mini-jigs (beadspread and John Deere); glo balls (chartreuse with flame dot and white); also successful are bright colored Rooster Tails, hot pink brassies, orange, and white Power Baits and bright colored plastic worms.
15. Maramec Spring: 58 degrees, falling, dingy; spring branch is murky and up somewhat; fishing has been good; green and white colored lures working well.
16. Montauk: 58 degrees, falling, clear; fishing is good; the river has nice flow with a greenish color to the water; the river is slowly falling back down to normal flow, but is still a few inches above normal; in the fly area scuds and mini marabou jigs suspended under a float are producing good numbers of fish; also heavier weighted marabou jigs fished in the swift water are doing well; check at the lodge for other good fly choices; in the bait area, corn, doughbaits and Power Baits in white, yellow, green, cheese and pink are producing good numbers of fish.
17. Roaring River: 57 degrees, falling, clear; levels are down to what they were at the end of April; water is clear with visibility a little greater than 3 feet.
Arkansas waters
White River: Anglers reported success on midge patterns. The most effective were zebra midges in black with silver wire and silver beads and red with silver wire and silver beads. The best sizes were sixteens and fourteens. Other hot patterns have been pheasant tails and egg patterns.
Bull Shoals tailwater: Fishing is great, especially fly-fishing. They are using woolly buggers, zebra midges and copper johns.
North Fork River: If you are fishing Quarry Park the hot fly has been the sowbug. On the lower river, zebra midges in black with silver wire and silver bead (size 18) and red micro worms (size 18) have been the go-to flies. There are still a few caddis out. Here again the presentation of your elk hair caddis must be flawless. Dry Run Creek continues to fish well. There is little room to cast here so you should keep your line short. The hot fly is the sowbug and the San Juan worm in red.
Lake Norfork: The surface water temperature is in the mid- to upper 70s. Crappie fishing is fair. Striper fishing is fair. Bluegill fishing is good on crickets, worms and small minnows. Catfishing is good using trotlines and jugs baited with stink bait, chicken liver or shiners. Bass fishing has been fair. White bass fishing has been fair. Walleye fishing has been fair using minnows and worms.
Beaver Lake: Bass fishing continues to be good. Try fishing soft-plastic baits in and around flooded cover. Another good place to fish has been grassy points and flooded parking lots. Crappie fishing is still tough. Try minnows under a float 8-12 feet deep around standing timber in coves and along bluff lines. White bass can be found in main-lake shallow bays and on grassy points. Try using small swim baits. Bluegill fishing has been good using crickets 2-6 feet deep around docks and flooded brush.
Buffalo River: White River Zig Jigs in ginger or black/orange have been very consistent. Chartreuse and White Power Bait fished on the bottom has been especially productive. Any place the water speeds up a little due to a small shoal or rocky bottom will hold the most fish.