Alex Heitman

I chucked around a wart and spinnerbait yesterday with my day on the strong winds in the dam area. Only good for 2 keeps and that was it. Couldn't believe that was all we got with the conditions. Went again this morning and ended up with only 4. Some nice big keeps but there is no pattern or key areas. It's pick a spot and hope they are there. We fished points, bluffs, back of coves. Really hard to figure out right now. The ones we did catch on the wart just really hammers it thought and took drag. Who knows going to give it a other go in about an hour and hope we run Into some.

No I'm in Chiropractic school at Logan in St. Louis. I have a year left and have been trying to fish as much as possible haha. Good thing is I'm going to join my brother in Rolla at his office and we are closed on Fridays.

Ranger z22, Tim posted a few weeks ago that he designed these color patterns for them. They look great but they still lack the action of the old baits. I will be having Tim paint me some pre rapala's like this in the near future.

Got the new wiggle warts in today here is a pic of them. Can't wait to try them out.

I'm hoping they hover and stay around that by thanksgiving. I couldn't get down there this weekend because of upcoming test. Been really itching to get back down.

Thanks guys. I appreciate it.

Anybody have any idea what the water temp is in the dam or kimberling area?

What a tease! Hope you catch some

I'm very interested in the spro rock crawler. I will be picking up a few nyself

RPS good point. There wasn't much of a schooling fish topwater bite but in the dead heat of the summer I had some great days catching some big LM. They were dead shallow right on the bank when it was 100 degrees out. Couldn't really explain it but it was awesome.

I sure hope it will at least group some fish up or put them in more predictable areas. They are scattered right now. Got out last weekend and it was pretty tough.

Sounds like a good time to burn down the bank with a small walking bait or prop bait right now. Just cover as much water as possible and I bet you could put together a decent sack. I won't be down for a couple of weeks. Hopefully they go into a big fall swing by then

I fished the last two days in the dam area with my dad and it is brutal. Could not hardly buy a bite. All the fish we caught were on a jig. Caught a few deep off of points and some shallow. Caught one or two on some docks. It's the toughest time I've had fishing down here in quite some time. The conditions seem like the fish would bite, but they thought otherwise. Probably could of had a better few days if we would have ran up to long creek or the James but did not make the trip.

Miller was not the greatest but never should have taken him out. Then he makes the mistake of pulling Martinez. Adams doesn't help either. Just hard to watch this game.

I'm all for the SEC but I really miss the Big 12 and all the rivalry games we had on both football and basketball.

I have the utmost respect for Mike Webb who runs the tournaments. Great guy. I called him one day out of the blue and met him on the water just to help me repair my carpet from a super glue spill. What guide takes time out of their day to help some one like that? I'm glad he puts on these tournaments. There isn't a lot of circuits put on in my opinion that are run better than the CPA. If you are looking for a good circuit this is one of them.

If you fish to make money you better be one hell of an angler and have a lot of time on your hands because that is what it takes. You have to fish day in and day out and be really good

You guys and your redfins haha. For some reason I haven't had much success with a Redfin. Seems to me they bite a walking bait just as good. It is probably me though. Ihave never been able to get a Redfin to work the way it is supposed to. They take a while to tune and it seems once I get it tuned, I can tie it on at a later date and still have to retune it. I have caught some nice fish on it, but it just seems it's a lot of work when I can just throw a walking bait.

I think the fish kill has a lo to do with there not being a big supply of big LM. If you look at tournaments though, I think most of them won are close to KC and down towards Long Creek. I think this is because tons of fish get released at the KC area from tournaments. The released fish on the other hand are more conditioned to fishermen as well because of this and therefore can be harder to catch. I think they are there but are just smart and harder to catch. Just my opinion though

Nice trip champ. I fished the joe bass Saturday and it was really tough. We had some quality bites on topwater in the dam area but could not keep them buttoned up to the boat. I had one probably over six come right off at the boat when we were getting ready to net him. There is some nice quality LM shallow if you are in the right area. You have got to cover lots of water and make pinpoint casts. We caught a bunch of K's on drop shot, but could not get one over 14 1/2 inches. What I found out late in the day is just like you said. There is some nice bass around docks up in the slips. Caught them from 5-30 ft on jig. We went out Sunday and had a lot better day doing this.

Thanks guys. I forgot about Doug. he really knows his stuff. I would agree its the transducer but it just doesn't make sense how it will read then quit then start again. It really sucks when you get up in the river arms and do not have a depth to go off of when you know you are shallow.

I thought it might be, but my question is why does it always have a side imaging readout working correctly and then the depth, sonar, and down imaging not work all the time? Would they have different transducers or are they hooked up to the same one. I can't find another one unless it is way underneath my battery compartment.

I have a 998 si/di at my console. I'm having a problem with the sonar and down imaging reading. My side imaging always works. For some reason it will quit reading depth and cut out my sonar and down imaging. It will start working again if there is a big depth change such as channel to a point. Anyway know what this could be? Also if you turn it off and back on it will work and quit working when it wants to.

The jump would be nice but what would be nicer is dirty water!

My brother and I have always said the bigger fish send in the smaller scouts to check out the bait before the big ones commit haha