T_boy
06-26-2009, 03:21 PM
Bull Shoals Lake
BEAVER CREEK AREA: gooD
White bass: Anywhere from the surface to 15 feet deep. Small spoons, jigs with spinners, rattle traps, anything that looks like a minnow.
Bass: Top water patterns working. Also in the brush from the bank to about 8-10 feet of water. Purple plastic baits, spinnerbaits, crank baits.
Walleye: Spoon casting in 12-20 feet of water towards the bank just short of the brush line.
HIGHWAY K AREA: Good
Walleye: In main lake 10-15 feet deep along the drop offs. Any type of crank bait with orange bottom.
Bass: On football jigs or 10-inch plum-colored plastic worms, top water buzz baits. Off the sandy points.
Crappie: Minnows and spoons in about 20 feet of water and off sandy banks and halfway up into coves.
BUCK CREEK: good
Walleye: Trolling with spoons and crank baits.
Stripper bass: Live baits.
Black bass: Spoons, cast up to the bank and worked back to the 25-foot range has been the best technique.
THEODOSIA AREA: fair
Walleye: Trolling over the main channel 25-35 feet of water with crankbaits.
White bass: Topwaters early and late in the day.
All other species slow.
Lake of the ozarks
NIANGUA ARM: Fair
Black bass: At night with a red/black or blue/black worm or jig & pig.
Crappie: Minnows around docks with brush, with some success night fishing with lights.
Catfish: Using garlic-scented baits and cut shad.
GLAIZE ARM: Fair
Bass: Deeper brush 10-20 feet deep. Jigs with 10-inch worm.
Catfish: Juglines 10-12 feet with shad guts or live bait.
All other species slow.
Gravois ARM: Excellent
Bass: Power worms and spinnersbaits. Main lake points and between the docks. Deep diving crankbaits, Brush Hogs.
Crappie: Minnows and jigs. 10-12 feet deep.
Catfish: Cut shad, nightcrawlers. 6-10 feet deep.
Fellows Lake
ENTIRE LAKE: Good
The fishing couldn't be better. Heat hasn't hurt anything. Amazing amount of bass being caught on everything from power baits, top water, spinnerbaits. Crappie and muskie being found. Water still high. Moss is growing up. Plenty of brush underwater. Shade in shallow water. That's where the fish are being caught.
Lake Pomme De Terre
POMME ARM: good
Crappie: Over brush piles in 12-20 feet of water. Jigs and minnows.
Bass: In 10-15 feet of water around structure.
Walleye: Trolling with crank baits.
LINDLEY ARM: Fair
Bass: Trolling on the flats in 10 feet of water. Crank baits.
Walleye: On the flats about 17 feet of water. Wiggle warts.
Crappie: About 12-15 feet deep over the brush piles. Minnows and jigs.
LOWER LAKE: Good
White bass: Crank baits.
Walleye: Spoons and crank baits.
Crappie Minnows and jigs.
Lake Taneycomo
BRANSON AREA: Good
Trout: Using gold or copper spoons. Using jigs in olive and olive and tan. Sunrise Power bait.
UPPER LAKE: good
Trout: In hatchery area, egg patterns, green crackle backs. Boat ramp area on down on olive or black woolly buggers, crackle backs.
Stockton Lake
LITTLE SAC ARM: good
Black bass: Spinnerbaits and tube baits.
Crappie: Jigs and minnows.
White bass: Trolling on diver baits.
BIG SAC ARM: Good
Black bass: On the banks. Crank baits, live worms.
Crappie: Minnows, 10-15 feet deep.
White bass: Top waters and rooster tails. All over the lake.
LOWER LAKE: good
Crappie: Minnows and jigs.
Black bass: Crank baits and tube baits.
All other species slow.
Table Rock Lake
JAMES RIVER ARM: good
White bass: Top waters in the morning with Zara spooks , Pop-Rs and chugbugs.
Black bass: Carolina rigged Zoom lizards and brush hogs in green pumpkin and watermelon red in 10 to 18 feet on the main lake gravel points.
Crappie: 10-25 feet deep around standing timber on bluffs. Crappie jigs in white or chartreuse and white and minnows.
KIMBERLING AREA: Good
White bass: Top waters in the morning. Cordell Redfins and Zara Spooks at pole timbered points. baits.
Black bass: In 24-28 feet . Carolina rigged Zoom centipede in green pumpkin or watermelon candy.
All other species slow.
LONG CREEK ARM: Fair
Smallmouth bass: Main lake points early in the mornings.
Black bass: 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: In 24-28 feet where the drop shot rigs.
KINGS RIVER ARM: Good
Catfish: Trotlines with live goldfish and live bluegill.
Bluegill: Live crickets and meal worms.
Black bass: Early morning and evening top waters. During day, gravel points and flats that have brush on them. Zara Spook and Lucky Craft Sammy.
UPPER WHITE AREA: fair
Black bass: Shallow in the early morning caught on top waters and Carolina-rigged Zoom centipedes.
White bass: Main lake flats and points chasing bait fish on the surface. Top water lures and grubs.
All other species slow.
Truman Lake
POMME ARM: good
Crappie: In about 20 feet of water. Jigs and minnows.
Catfish: Trotlines on perch and catfish.
Walleye: Around the island. Using spoons and crankbaits.
WARSAW AREA: good
Black bass: Big worms and jigs.
Crappie: In the cedars 12-20 feet deep. Minnows.
White and hybrid bass: Wind-blown banks in about 10 feet of water. Large sassy shads on jig heads.
GRAND ARM: good
Bass: Flooded bushes 2-6 feet of water. Worm or brush hog, jigs during the day.
Crappie: In the mouths of the creeks and the flats. 8-10 feet deep with minnows.
White bass: Current points. Rooster tails and spoons.
Other Missouri lakes
A. Montrose: A. 88 degrees, high, dingy; all species slow; fishing pressure light.
B. Norfork: 87 degrees, high, dingy; all species slow.
C. Schell-Osage (Atkinson Lake): 85 degrees, dingy; all species fair.
C. Schell-Osage (Schell Lake): 85 degrees, dingy; all species fair.
MISSOURI RIVERS
1. Big Niangua (above Bennett Spring State Park): 74 degrees, normal, clear; black bass good on soft plastics; rainbow and brown trout good on bright colored Power Baits below Bennett Spring; goggle-eye fair on worms and live baits.
2. Big Piney (lower, below Slabtown): 77 degrees, falling, dingy; black bass and goggle-eye fair on soft plastic lures and jigs; channel catfish fair on live bait.
3. Big Piney (upper): 75 degrees, falling, clear; sunfish good on live baits and various artificial lures; black bass and goggle-eye fair on soft plastic lures and live baits.
Bryant Creek: 79 degrees, normal, dingy; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on soft plastic lures.
5. Current: 71 degrees, high, clear; smallmouth bass good on jigs; all other species slow.
6. Eleven Point: 66 degrees, high, clear; all species slow.
7. Gasconade (middle, near Waynesville): 79 degrees, high, muddy; channel catfish fair on live bait; all other species slow.
8. Gasconade: 76 degrees, normal, dingy; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye fair on small plastic baits; sunfish fair on nightcrawlers; all other species slow.
9. Jack's Fork: 69 degrees, normal, clear; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on soft plastic lures.
10. James River (lower): 76 degrees, normal, clear; smallmouth bass good on minnows and soft plastics; white bass good; catfish good on nightcrawlers.
11. North Fork: 69 degrees, normal, clear; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on soft plastic lures.
12. Osage (Bagnell tailwater): 85 degrees, dingy; releasing 28,000 cfs; all species slow. 54 degrees, high, dingy; successful lures and baits include: jigs (black/yellow, ginger); mini-jigs (beadspread and john deere); glo balls (any 3 color combo and white); also successful are kapok flies, hot pink brassies, and bumblebee rooster tails, white and orange Power Baits and trout nip.
13. Osage (Truman tailwater): 85 degrees, dingy; releasing 28,000 cfs; all species slow.
MISSOURI TROUT PARKS
14. Bennett Spring: 54 degrees, high, dingy; successful lures and baits include: jigs (black/yellow, ginger); mini-jigs (beadspread and john deere); glo balls (any 3 color combo and white); also successful are kapok flies, hot pink brassies, and bumblebee rooster tails, white and orange Power Baits and trout nip.
15. Maramec Spring: 58 degrees, spring branch is at normal flow; water is somewhat murky; fishing good; white colored lures and baits working well.
16. Montauk: 60 degrees, falling, clear; fishing is good; the river remains a few inches above normal and is beginning to clear up; in the bait area, corn, doughbaits and Power Baits in white, yellow, green, cheese and pink are producing good numbers of fish; in the fly area, scuds and mini marabou jigs suspended under a float are producing good numbers of fish .
17. Roaring River: 7 degrees, falling, clear; the river continues to clear with visibility down to about 6 feet; 2-3 lb. test line is recommended.
Arkansas waters
White River: Anglers reported success on midge larva 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 sixteen s and fourteens. On higher flows, the hot patterns have been pheasant tails, hot pink San Juan worms and egg patterns.
Bull Shoals tailwater: Bass fishing has been good. Spoons, cast up to the bank and worked back to the 25-foot range has been the best technique. The top-water bite is also good early and late in the day. A jig-and-pig, hula jig or a grub on a º-oz. jighead will work well on smallmouth. Night fishing has really picked up, with crankbaits, spinnerbaits and jigs the most effective.
North Fork River: The overall quality of fishing on the Norfork Tailwater remains poor. If you want to avoid the crowds, fish very early. The most productive flies have been small black zebra midges, Norfork beadheads and red micro San Juan worms. Dry Run Creek is fishing well. School is out and there is more pressure on the creek as families begin to take vacations. The hot fly is the sowbug.
Lake Norfork: The water temperature is in the mid- to upper 80s. Bluegill fishing is good using crickets, worms and small minnows. Crappie fishing has been fair fishing around 20-30 deep. Minnows have been the bait of choice for the crappie.
Beaver Lake: Bass fishing is going to be best at night for quite some time. Try dark spinnerbaits or 6-inch lizards worked close to flooded cover along gravel banks. During the day, try a Texas rigged lizard or a hula grub on a football jig head and work them under shaded docks or bluff lines. Crappie fishing has been best early and late.
Buffalo River: Hot pink San Juan worms fished on a fly rod or on light spinning tackle under indicators have worked well. One-eighth ounce Zig Jigs on spinning tackle has been working as well. Shipps Ferry all the way to Reds has been producing fish on Zig Jigs and Power Baits. The area from Cartney to Matney is producing quite a few smallmouth on tubes and spinnerbaits throwing to the bank.
BEAVER CREEK AREA: gooD
White bass: Anywhere from the surface to 15 feet deep. Small spoons, jigs with spinners, rattle traps, anything that looks like a minnow.
Bass: Top water patterns working. Also in the brush from the bank to about 8-10 feet of water. Purple plastic baits, spinnerbaits, crank baits.
Walleye: Spoon casting in 12-20 feet of water towards the bank just short of the brush line.
HIGHWAY K AREA: Good
Walleye: In main lake 10-15 feet deep along the drop offs. Any type of crank bait with orange bottom.
Bass: On football jigs or 10-inch plum-colored plastic worms, top water buzz baits. Off the sandy points.
Crappie: Minnows and spoons in about 20 feet of water and off sandy banks and halfway up into coves.
BUCK CREEK: good
Walleye: Trolling with spoons and crank baits.
Stripper bass: Live baits.
Black bass: Spoons, cast up to the bank and worked back to the 25-foot range has been the best technique.
THEODOSIA AREA: fair
Walleye: Trolling over the main channel 25-35 feet of water with crankbaits.
White bass: Topwaters early and late in the day.
All other species slow.
Lake of the ozarks
NIANGUA ARM: Fair
Black bass: At night with a red/black or blue/black worm or jig & pig.
Crappie: Minnows around docks with brush, with some success night fishing with lights.
Catfish: Using garlic-scented baits and cut shad.
GLAIZE ARM: Fair
Bass: Deeper brush 10-20 feet deep. Jigs with 10-inch worm.
Catfish: Juglines 10-12 feet with shad guts or live bait.
All other species slow.
Gravois ARM: Excellent
Bass: Power worms and spinnersbaits. Main lake points and between the docks. Deep diving crankbaits, Brush Hogs.
Crappie: Minnows and jigs. 10-12 feet deep.
Catfish: Cut shad, nightcrawlers. 6-10 feet deep.
Fellows Lake
ENTIRE LAKE: Good
The fishing couldn't be better. Heat hasn't hurt anything. Amazing amount of bass being caught on everything from power baits, top water, spinnerbaits. Crappie and muskie being found. Water still high. Moss is growing up. Plenty of brush underwater. Shade in shallow water. That's where the fish are being caught.
Lake Pomme De Terre
POMME ARM: good
Crappie: Over brush piles in 12-20 feet of water. Jigs and minnows.
Bass: In 10-15 feet of water around structure.
Walleye: Trolling with crank baits.
LINDLEY ARM: Fair
Bass: Trolling on the flats in 10 feet of water. Crank baits.
Walleye: On the flats about 17 feet of water. Wiggle warts.
Crappie: About 12-15 feet deep over the brush piles. Minnows and jigs.
LOWER LAKE: Good
White bass: Crank baits.
Walleye: Spoons and crank baits.
Crappie Minnows and jigs.
Lake Taneycomo
BRANSON AREA: Good
Trout: Using gold or copper spoons. Using jigs in olive and olive and tan. Sunrise Power bait.
UPPER LAKE: good
Trout: In hatchery area, egg patterns, green crackle backs. Boat ramp area on down on olive or black woolly buggers, crackle backs.
Stockton Lake
LITTLE SAC ARM: good
Black bass: Spinnerbaits and tube baits.
Crappie: Jigs and minnows.
White bass: Trolling on diver baits.
BIG SAC ARM: Good
Black bass: On the banks. Crank baits, live worms.
Crappie: Minnows, 10-15 feet deep.
White bass: Top waters and rooster tails. All over the lake.
LOWER LAKE: good
Crappie: Minnows and jigs.
Black bass: Crank baits and tube baits.
All other species slow.
Table Rock Lake
JAMES RIVER ARM: good
White bass: Top waters in the morning with Zara spooks , Pop-Rs and chugbugs.
Black bass: Carolina rigged Zoom lizards and brush hogs in green pumpkin and watermelon red in 10 to 18 feet on the main lake gravel points.
Crappie: 10-25 feet deep around standing timber on bluffs. Crappie jigs in white or chartreuse and white and minnows.
KIMBERLING AREA: Good
White bass: Top waters in the morning. Cordell Redfins and Zara Spooks at pole timbered points. baits.
Black bass: In 24-28 feet . Carolina rigged Zoom centipede in green pumpkin or watermelon candy.
All other species slow.
LONG CREEK ARM: Fair
Smallmouth bass: Main lake points early in the mornings.
Black bass: 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: In 24-28 feet where the drop shot rigs.
KINGS RIVER ARM: Good
Catfish: Trotlines with live goldfish and live bluegill.
Bluegill: Live crickets and meal worms.
Black bass: Early morning and evening top waters. During day, gravel points and flats that have brush on them. Zara Spook and Lucky Craft Sammy.
UPPER WHITE AREA: fair
Black bass: Shallow in the early morning caught on top waters and Carolina-rigged Zoom centipedes.
White bass: Main lake flats and points chasing bait fish on the surface. Top water lures and grubs.
All other species slow.
Truman Lake
POMME ARM: good
Crappie: In about 20 feet of water. Jigs and minnows.
Catfish: Trotlines on perch and catfish.
Walleye: Around the island. Using spoons and crankbaits.
WARSAW AREA: good
Black bass: Big worms and jigs.
Crappie: In the cedars 12-20 feet deep. Minnows.
White and hybrid bass: Wind-blown banks in about 10 feet of water. Large sassy shads on jig heads.
GRAND ARM: good
Bass: Flooded bushes 2-6 feet of water. Worm or brush hog, jigs during the day.
Crappie: In the mouths of the creeks and the flats. 8-10 feet deep with minnows.
White bass: Current points. Rooster tails and spoons.
Other Missouri lakes
A. Montrose: A. 88 degrees, high, dingy; all species slow; fishing pressure light.
B. Norfork: 87 degrees, high, dingy; all species slow.
C. Schell-Osage (Atkinson Lake): 85 degrees, dingy; all species fair.
C. Schell-Osage (Schell Lake): 85 degrees, dingy; all species fair.
MISSOURI RIVERS
1. Big Niangua (above Bennett Spring State Park): 74 degrees, normal, clear; black bass good on soft plastics; rainbow and brown trout good on bright colored Power Baits below Bennett Spring; goggle-eye fair on worms and live baits.
2. Big Piney (lower, below Slabtown): 77 degrees, falling, dingy; black bass and goggle-eye fair on soft plastic lures and jigs; channel catfish fair on live bait.
3. Big Piney (upper): 75 degrees, falling, clear; sunfish good on live baits and various artificial lures; black bass and goggle-eye fair on soft plastic lures and live baits.
Bryant Creek: 79 degrees, normal, dingy; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on soft plastic lures.
5. Current: 71 degrees, high, clear; smallmouth bass good on jigs; all other species slow.
6. Eleven Point: 66 degrees, high, clear; all species slow.
7. Gasconade (middle, near Waynesville): 79 degrees, high, muddy; channel catfish fair on live bait; all other species slow.
8. Gasconade: 76 degrees, normal, dingy; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye fair on small plastic baits; sunfish fair on nightcrawlers; all other species slow.
9. Jack's Fork: 69 degrees, normal, clear; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on soft plastic lures.
10. James River (lower): 76 degrees, normal, clear; smallmouth bass good on minnows and soft plastics; white bass good; catfish good on nightcrawlers.
11. North Fork: 69 degrees, normal, clear; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye good on soft plastic lures.
12. Osage (Bagnell tailwater): 85 degrees, dingy; releasing 28,000 cfs; all species slow. 54 degrees, high, dingy; successful lures and baits include: jigs (black/yellow, ginger); mini-jigs (beadspread and john deere); glo balls (any 3 color combo and white); also successful are kapok flies, hot pink brassies, and bumblebee rooster tails, white and orange Power Baits and trout nip.
13. Osage (Truman tailwater): 85 degrees, dingy; releasing 28,000 cfs; all species slow.
MISSOURI TROUT PARKS
14. Bennett Spring: 54 degrees, high, dingy; successful lures and baits include: jigs (black/yellow, ginger); mini-jigs (beadspread and john deere); glo balls (any 3 color combo and white); also successful are kapok flies, hot pink brassies, and bumblebee rooster tails, white and orange Power Baits and trout nip.
15. Maramec Spring: 58 degrees, spring branch is at normal flow; water is somewhat murky; fishing good; white colored lures and baits working well.
16. Montauk: 60 degrees, falling, clear; fishing is good; the river remains a few inches above normal and is beginning to clear up; in the bait area, corn, doughbaits and Power Baits in white, yellow, green, cheese and pink are producing good numbers of fish; in the fly area, scuds and mini marabou jigs suspended under a float are producing good numbers of fish .
17. Roaring River: 7 degrees, falling, clear; the river continues to clear with visibility down to about 6 feet; 2-3 lb. test line is recommended.
Arkansas waters
White River: Anglers reported success on midge larva 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 sixteen s and fourteens. On higher flows, the hot patterns have been pheasant tails, hot pink San Juan worms and egg patterns.
Bull Shoals tailwater: Bass fishing has been good. Spoons, cast up to the bank and worked back to the 25-foot range has been the best technique. The top-water bite is also good early and late in the day. A jig-and-pig, hula jig or a grub on a º-oz. jighead will work well on smallmouth. Night fishing has really picked up, with crankbaits, spinnerbaits and jigs the most effective.
North Fork River: The overall quality of fishing on the Norfork Tailwater remains poor. If you want to avoid the crowds, fish very early. The most productive flies have been small black zebra midges, Norfork beadheads and red micro San Juan worms. Dry Run Creek is fishing well. School is out and there is more pressure on the creek as families begin to take vacations. The hot fly is the sowbug.
Lake Norfork: The water temperature is in the mid- to upper 80s. Bluegill fishing is good using crickets, worms and small minnows. Crappie fishing has been fair fishing around 20-30 deep. Minnows have been the bait of choice for the crappie.
Beaver Lake: Bass fishing is going to be best at night for quite some time. Try dark spinnerbaits or 6-inch lizards worked close to flooded cover along gravel banks. During the day, try a Texas rigged lizard or a hula grub on a football jig head and work them under shaded docks or bluff lines. Crappie fishing has been best early and late.
Buffalo River: Hot pink San Juan worms fished on a fly rod or on light spinning tackle under indicators have worked well. One-eighth ounce Zig Jigs on spinning tackle has been working as well. Shipps Ferry all the way to Reds has been producing fish on Zig Jigs and Power Baits. The area from Cartney to Matney is producing quite a few smallmouth on tubes and spinnerbaits throwing to the bank.