BassMaster#1

I'm heading down that way middle of this week and was looking for a report on water temp and smallie report? I'm wondering if the bite is in because no one has posted in a while. Heck, even bullshoals boat dock hasent reported in a few weeks, hows the lower area fishing? Thanks

Is the big m area the upper part of the lake. I'm heading down that way on thursday and still trying to decide between bull shoals and table rock. Was thinking on staying at indian point area and looking to chase smallies. What is the water temp looking like down that way? Thanks for the report

I still dont understand why 6 days of fishing? With all the tournaments that already take place, there are going to be a lot of lure shy or dead fish. Why not keep it just a few days, but suprise the mlf anglers. Make one tournament biggest 5 and the next most 1bers....dont tell the guys till the day of the tournament. I think mlf would be more interesting that way. For the weekend anglers this is good, but if I'm watching professional anglers fish I want to see what biggins a lake has to offer.

Great year for sure. I was really hoping to stay in the top 10 just to see what tackleware house has to offer. I ended up getting second place to champ a few years back and received a custom crankbait that year. Im not sure anyone mentioned custom lures this year, but i had a good time just playing with everyone. I will be looking forward to next year

Stayed at sister creek resort and as everyone knows the lake went up about 8 feet when we got there on Thursday and ended up about 12 feet up when we left. It looked like we were fishing in a flooded forest. We found fish in the bushes and off the bushes, but be prepared to get hung up. It seemed like the fish were confused on if they should be in the bushes or out on the original lake points. We ended up holding our own with all the rain that came in and no sunshine till sunday. I think if they would have had time for the high water to stabilize we would have seen more In the bushes. Maybe by next week the and stable high water, the majority of fish wil be in the bushes. The majority of our fish were over 2lbs with a few 3 and 4lbers mixed in. Friday was windy, rainy and maybe the worst day of our trip but the most productive for us as we managed 16lbs of fish. The majority were smallmouth but those smallies feel like double thier weight when you fight one. We caught the bigger ones on tubes and jigs around little sisters creek, bull shoals boat dock and oakland area. We were fishing brush on sides of points, and backing out off the brush which seemed to produce bigger bites. Picked up a few on cranks, and dragging wurmbs and flukes along with a few walleye in the 17" range. No top water bite for us. On Sunday sun was shining and decided to get out of the bushes and fish secondary points all morning for those bigger smallies. Landed better quality fish with.my buddy hooking what look to be close to a 5lber that got off at the boat. He caught it right at high noon dragging a big jig and teased me by handing me the rod and asking if I want to reel it in. Guess it back fired on him as he lost it at the boat. A few of the smallmouth we caught were not totally spawned out like they should be but most of the ones we caught were. A few of the largemouth had red tails as well. All fish released...ran Into some meat eaters from up north at the resort and they had no Intention of release anything. They ripped some big fillets off about a 5lb smallie and a few smaller ones. Said they were down passing time till the northern fishing kicked in full swing. Was seeing down 20ft is some coves which amazed me after all the rain dumped on the lake.

58lb 15oz

Lol...looks that way...I jumped out to weigh it and figured I'd dunk my self since it was a hot day...water felt good though

Pulled boat down to fish bullshoals but brought kayaks along to fish the ever popular crooked creek. Floated the 3mile float from Kelly's slab to yellville. Didn't catch any any 4 or 5lb fish but did catch lots of nice smallie on jigs, ned, flukes and cranks...they are all in spawning mode and pulled this 3lb one on a jig and pig ...I can see how these deep pools can hold some big fish

That stretch of adventure outdoors to Indian spring is a great float that gives you the opportunity to catch some nice smallie, largies and trout...great float

Just wanted to add that the fishing has been fabulous...stayed at sisters creek resort and didn't have to go far to find fish as sisters creek was full of them....caught multiple smallmouth all in the 2lb range. I kept the boat in 20 - 25ft of water and was nailing them on cranks and swimbaits. Guess we were catching spawning fish because they still had fat bellies and red tails. Was catching smaillies on top water in the morning in Howard creek but guessing they already spawned as bellies were not fat.....did nail a big walleye on the crank in sisters creek that would have went 8 - 10lbs but net was to small and my buddy let her jump out. It's just a fish story now, but all fish were smallmouth with one or two largemouth mixed in. Smallie were have way back in the coves or cuts of the creek arms and evening bite was great with cranks up to last light

Same here. Good times

Yeah I say that on the semo group...sorry to hear that. I have agreed upon insurance which I'm assuming will replace you for the amont you agree on? Are you getting a new haul or getting it repaired? Just curious on the process...bummer about the boat

Was wondering if the sullivan river gage has been fixed or if it is still down? A little off because we just got rain, but the gage in steelville is reading 516, Sullivan is reading 760, and Eureka reading 640. Steelville and Eureka have pretty much been below the norm last few months because no rain, but why has sullivan been above the norm all summer? Wondering if the moved the gage to a differnt location or higher than previous location? If this is the case sort of throws all refrence points off when reading Sullivan gage.

Lol...I put in at blue springs on sunday and ran to cambell bridge....fished till 11 and ended up with 3 all at 12".....water was still murky that far up river

I would just save the money and get a down imagine fish finder. Dont take my kayaks out as much as myself and buddies have boats. They both have downimaging and work very well

Not fast enough for as in eureka...darn valley park levee article from last time we flooded ..http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/engineering-report-says-valley-park-levee-may-have-been-built-too-high#stream/0

I would love to get a spot lock motor, but curious about a few things.....how hard is it to pull motor up in a hurry....sometimes motors bind in shallow water and you need to raise it in a hurry. In those cases you are able to scissor the motor up to get it unstick....wonder how this will work for you? Don't those motors only slide up and down to adjust? How quick can u drop it in the water....say after some quick shallow current you want to drop motor in a hurry to fish the eddies...is this possible?

Look, all I can say is for you all don't like the fact we are tring to do our part and help out the smallmouth population by trying to rid the spots no matter the method we choose then stay off the river and fish the county parks

http://www.david-w-shaw.com/beavers-eat-fish-wait-what/......you'll enjoy it

Guess depends on how you were raised....everyone was raised differnt

We have a farm pond and do the same when it gets overpopulated. We do the same with coyotes during gun season.. shoot coyotes and leave them where they lay. If you ever lived on a farm you would understand why.....passion for turkey and deer hunting...Dont get me wrong we all love fish but sometimes u dont feel like cleaning anything and We have a passion for small mouth fishing....plus there are a lot of raccoons, beavers, mush rats and what not that will eat it

Said it was hard but threw walleye back...was full of eggs

Posting for my buddy jigmaster82.....fished middle meramec caught 8 8-12" spots that he threw up on shore.....1 smalie 14", big drum and this monster walleye.....walleye and drum came on a crank rest on mitch craw and fluke.....walleye was about 23" and weighed 6.9lbs

So according to this diagram I would sharpen the underside as if it was installed in the the motor. Just a file would do it? Thanks

What I'm confused about is what part to sharpen, the top portion or the bottom. if i have the impeller faceing the the way it goes in boat do i sharpen the top part or bottom part....thanks for the link