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Never fished this lake before. We have rented a house on the lake June 19-26. I would like to bing my boat and fish some. Couple questions: 1. I’d like to drive up there maybe a day or two before the 19th and go fishing with someone. Even if that is hire a guide. Fish for the day and run gps everything for the week. Don’t worry. Not going to sell your hot spots on eBay, I’d just like to have some places mapped out to catch fish that week. 2. Not real picky what we fish for but I’d like to know up front so I pack the right gear. Spider rigging for crappy is great? Striper fishing at this time of year is it. Nope, it’s all walleye. Sorry, we bass fish then and you’ll be in some good holes. Just like to find fish easy and stay on them for a week. Even if it’s breaking white bass etc. 3. Will it depend on where I am at on the lake? If so I’ll find out what marina is near this house so you locals can help guide me to whoever I need that could help me out. Thanks in advance. While I’m definitely going to explore a little bit being on new water and just graph graph graph I really want to be able to take a couple days and catch fish at a few designated spots. Just don’t know who to call. Brian

Thanks everyone.

Never been to this lake before. My friend and I were informed by our wives that we are going to be renting a condo and I think it even has a dock on this lake. So i'm bringing my boat up. Will be there for the week of July 13th. Figures the start of the dog days of summer. I'm sure the pro's catch whatever they want whenever they want, but for the first time ever visit, what should I be chasing for this time of year? There anything at all during mid July that is easier than something else? Bass? Spider Rig Crappie? Walleye? I'm not set up for down rigging stripper unfortunately. Also, I figure for my very first morning, i want to hire a guide. You locals know the best ones i should go hunting? Just looking at Internet pages, everyone looks good, Same thing in my area but we have a couple who are top notch and the rest just don't compare. If you wanted crappie, you call these 2 guys, if you wanted bass, it's this guy, etc etc. Or maybe one of you on here doesn't mind taking me and my friend out, show us some hot spots that we could fish for the next 3-4 days and be gone. Just want some fun every morning before the wives then drag us to Branson for the day, and who knows what at night. Thanks in advance, Brian

So, do they not update the phone number? They are releasing water. Have been for I don’t know how long. The number I call says 0 units running. I’ve not been here since the late 90’s so maybe this number is no good any longer? ‭(417) 336-5083‬ is what I always use for the white river system.

Made a trip up her to some cabins. Hoping to do a little fly fishing tomorrow 4/21/18, anyone been and could tell me the magic fly? Or more importantly what water generation might be like on the weekends? If they have been generating non stop kind of thing. Boy I hope not.

Hope you're right.

No sir. I backed out. Couldn't even go trout fishing. After seeing all that water in wondering how many years until I can trout fish there again. Wow! I think this might wreck the whole white river.

Back for my once a year trip but with all this rain I'm thinking of canceling. You guys seeing any surface action with the striper with all this water? I don't know the lake like some of you locals and I don't want to burn a week of PTO and go fishless. Just heard that Horseshoe Brnd campground has closed due to flooding?? Sheesh. From you guys who get on the water often, were you in my shoes what would you do? Thanks, Brian

I bought a leighht weight anchor off amazon.com. I purchased it for my once a year trip to Canada for walleye. We fly into a private lake and there is a weight limit on how much we can put on the plane. This thing works great. Held in all Canada wind. Beaver mighty be a bit stronger but I think this would hold my bass boat in place. And it is super light weight. Used it for three years now. Trying to remember the brand name. It looks like the marinetech anchors on amazon but I don't remember if that's the brand or not.

I'm both impressed you can fillet those, small trout are always difficult for me, and the fact that the meat is not orange, green, hot pink from all the powerbait those fish ingest. Lol.

Yes. About 10 feet above the trees I saw. Only found the one school. As I would zig zag around I kept run I across them. Think it was the same one in different spots.

Yes. Same way. But my iphone pics were too large. I had to use the software on the iphone and edit it, choose crop, and just picked 4x3 I think it was. That shrunk the size down fine. On my phone reading the forums the pics looked good. Dunno if on a PC they would show as tiny thumbnails.

I just got done chasing the striper around for a week. It's tuff right now. Nothing seems to be schooling and breaking for top water fun. If I were fishing live bait, from what I saw this week, I'd try the following places. The mouth of the bay for Lost Bridge South campground. You'll have to troll around a lot, but they are there. I think they just moved up. I had not even seen any striper guides there until Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. By Saturday I counted 6 boats all right there in a pile. The fish are there. I also checked one of Feathers tips. They are there in front of point 3, but everything I saw was pretty deep. I didn't troll around but for maybe 45 minutes. Feathers gave a pretty large area to search and not knowing the bottom well I just drove all around. I never found any schools in 20' FOW but did see them Down deep in 80' FOW. Again, you'll have to troll around a lot. I caught my striper on top water. Point 6 and the one beside it. And they were up close to the bank. Maybe 20-30' away from the shore. Was sitting in abou 40-50' of water and just casting to the bank. Might try there as well. Last place I saw fish but didn't catch any were the two little islands out by point 6. There is a small one to the right, if you are leaving point six and a small one out front before you get to Rocky branch and that great big island. Saw the fish, don't know what they were though as nothing ever surfaced for me. Other than that, I saw nothing in Shaddox, Ventris, Fords, Cedar. Lot of posts saying to go there but I never saw a thing. Couple of those are pretty large areas to check. My best guesses of where to look were wrong if the fish are there.

I caught 4 striper next to point 6. You know the point right beside with the Starky/Rocky Branch sign? That point right there. Fist time I've caught them there. But that point and point 6 both were holding shade. Very small shad. Hybrid seemed to school on point 6, the striper were on that other one. I put an entire tank of gas through my boat searching out spots holding bait fish. And even with the bait I really didn't see much surface action or even get splashes in most places. And for me that tank of gas was $146 bucks!!

Trying this again where I have better reception. Couple of the fish from my once a year trip to the beaver...that sounds dirtier than I meant it. I did an edit on the photos so they were not to big. Let's see what this looks like. Last pic is one of the little walleye we kept catching. One day I hope to figure out where all their big brother and sisters are.