Moswimb8slinger

dull fillet knifes don't help either...i've been cleaning fish for 10yrs, and a sharp knife is a must, just dont cut yourself cause the wound is usually deep

Thats one of my goals this year is to enter several MO Master Angler Awards (catch and release trophy program, Keith)

i tried saturday morning in my kayak but the current was going every which way anywhere within 400-500ft from the dam, the only "steady" spot was on the river run side where the discharge usually runs, but now they switched the top gates and the water looks a little better to negotiate.

not flooded yet, it is up roughly 5-6ft from before the rain, the water is up to the fence, and the generator half of the dam is down so its not so rough to fish on the Y hwy side. river run side is flooded out though into the trees

i saw a guy catching some nice walleyes with rogues, i tried to duplicate his methods but i was having an equipment malfunction...(baitcaster needs new line, the braid was coming apart or rubbing on something and i lost a couple of lures). other than that crappie, white bass, walleye, and rainbows are biting right now, when you can locate them

on saturday when i almost caught my limit if whites, i was using 3" pearl paddle tail minnows and blades for attractors switching between small willow, indiana, and a hammered colorado

sorry, it is a baitcasting rod and a "Lite" series, it does have a fast tip, but its not as stiff as the BPS extreme rod i tried last summer.

ive seen BSL so low that the mouth of swan was a trickle and its really a flat gravel bed with some small chunk rock, but... we havent seen it that low in years and that area is usually a catch-all for debris, so there might be alot more logs there now. and i started making my own A-rigs and it costs about $3-$4 per rig to make, so losing them now isn't so heart breaking

I'm partial to ugly sticks, but some people say their too heavy or too limber, but i really like my baitcasting 6-6 ugly stick "lite", they have blue thread instead of the traditional red/yellow, their lighter than a regular ugly stick and mine is a medium action, and i toss everything from 3/16oz spinnerbaits/ chatterbaits to larger 6-7" jerkbaits and topwaters. and its one piece. I've caught snad sharks, an 8lbs. striper, 25in walleye, 4lbs+ LM and SM bass on it, and when paired with 20lbs. spiderwire braid and a good reel, it'll cast your lure over the horizon, or just right where you want it. plus its affordable too at about $45

Eric... that canoe is almost to pretty to fish with, the finish on the wood work is awesome

i didn't go down there this weekend but BSL level is up 4-5 ft (@powersite), so i'm not sure if you can even drive down there now near the tubes. And i'd put in at the campground, or nearest to the water at fishermans nose

assuming you have your fishing basics figured out, if you fishing for bass try using a spinnerbait as a "search" bait to locate fish around cover such a riprap (rocks piled along banks to prevent erosion) and any wood cover, and the wood cover doesnt have to be a huge log, i've caught several 4lbs smallies and largemouth bass over 4lbs off of a single twig sticking out of the water, but dont shy away from big cover either, most of the time though you 'll just cast along the edges of the branches and see if anybody wants to come out and play. Try to vary the retrieve speed and depth to see if they want it fast/slow, deep/ or near the surface, but make sure to keep a steady retrieve fast enough that you can feel the blades turning. And for colors rule of thumb is clear water= natural, pearl or shiny colors, dark/ muddy water= bright/neon like, and darker colors. blades and size of spinnerbait... usually stay basic with a 1/4 or 3/8 oz with a long willow blade/ colorado blade combo or just a single willow or colorado blade in either chrome (clear water) or copper(dark/ muddy water) and sometimes painted blades that match the color of the skirt.... topwaters, rattlebaits, crankbaits, plastics, swimbaits, buzzbaits, jigs, jerkbaits... theres alot to it, and were the same age but i've been fishing for roughly 22 yrs. so if you need any tips, feel free to message me

or you have a kayak that glide threw water 4-5in deep

nope forest green with white paddles, why?

i was down there last week and was catching them between fishermans nose and the campground, but that was before all the rain. they might have be washed back down towards the tubes, i was at swan saturday, i paddled a mile upstream from shadow rock and didn't find any until i was back downstream of the 160 bridge, you'll just have to spend sometime looking for them like i did, good luck

ok, i did see ya, i got started that young, casting a 1/2oz bell sinker in our front yard of our Iowa home i got 11 whites, but missed probably 20 or so, i think they might have been hitting the Blade Attractor on my A-rig, key thing i noticed watching other people throwing the A-rig is that they started their retrieve as soon as it hit the water, where i was letting it sink to the bottom first and then start reeling, the bass usually hit it about half way back to the Yak, i dont have my sonar hooked up so i'm not sure what depth they were hang out at. I haven't taken the time yet to figure out the sink rate of my homemade A-rig.

Saturday Report... tried powersite to fish the rockpile but with half the top of the dam down, the other half up and they were generating, it was a little frustrating trying to find a current to drift and cast, plus the colliding currents created some rough water for my kayak... moved down to Swan, launched just up stream of the 160 bridge and paddled up stream looking for deep holes similar to what i found the whites in at Beaver, almost made it to the old "broken Bridge" hole. caught several small LM bass and one 16" smallie on a pearl fat free shad crankbait, but no whites. floated back down stream, saw a kid catch a 18" walleye at "old school road", continued down stream back at the park, caught a 16" LM bass right against the bluff just upstream of the 160 bridge. Continued to drift pass the short bridge, made a cast toward the bridge with my homemade A-rig with pearl paddle tail minnows and hooked up, it was two 12" white (my first double on the rig), so i found a spot to anchor and caught 9 more whites the biggest being 15", and missed 20 or so other hits. My butt gave out before i limited out ( lost the cushion to my kayak).

i did just as good but we were between the campground and slough hollow (beaver creek) on the A-rig

that might be the boat that came over the dam during last years flood. the bow is up in the woods on the river run side of the dam, i saw it there last july when i was fishing from my kayak for whites

upper Bulls Shoals, powersite toi beaver creek, i have plenty of 4-8" plastic swimbaits, large muskie inline bucktail spinners, Red fins, Poppers, "Zara Spook" style topwaters, and #9 rapalas. fished with a 7' "lite" med action ugly stick, baitcast with 20# braid and mono leader, and then a 7' intercostal series uglystick with a calcutta 300 with 30# braid and flourocarbon leader... if you were to fish this area tomorrow, with all this water coming over the dam and the lake level up about 3-4ft. where would start to hunt for stripers?

went to Powersite last night, lots of water coming over the dam and they were generating, so it was really swift. The water is up 4-5 ft covering the "rockpile". my brother caught a small rainbow on a crawler, i moved down and fished the mouth of swan and got a big hit on a white double willow spinnerbait after dark, but i still got skunked and then the rain and stiff wind gusts decided it was time for me to go home. Going to try powersite again saturday in my kayak and fish the backside of the rock pile

congrats. My lil brother got his first double on the A-rig with 2 white bass (15" and 16") tuesday, he said it was like reeling in a 5lbs white bass.lol

Pearl white has been a good color for me in the last couple of years, Roadrunners, hair jigs, sliders, 2.5" crankbaits, small spinnerbaits (3/16oz or 1/4oz., cut the skirt just behind the hook to avoid short hits), anything that they can easily get their mouth around

their up beaver creek, caught them sunday and tuesday on the A-rig, which now that i have actually caught something on this contraption now has become a premanent member of my tackle box/bag. We found them in the deep holes between the campground and Fishermans nose.

we got into white bass up beaver but i dont think you could get a boat pass just upstream of the Tubes yet, maybe now that the lake is up about 4-5ft @ powersite (over the rockpile). A-rig with 2 small willow blade attractors and 3" pearl paddle tail minnows. we only caught 2 small whites and 3 over 15" on sunday and then 3 more over 15" tuesday