I just spent 3 days down there this last weekend. I actually signed up on this site because of this thread, wanted to thank Jack....we took his advice from his fishing report and it really helped. My girlfriend and I recently bought our first boat and are getting back into fishing, we both did a lot of it in our childhoods and teenage years.
Anywhoo, we had great luck with largemouth last couple weekends on plastic worms. Green pumpkin I think is the color. She was using a finesse worm and I was using ones with swirly tails, Texas rigged.
And as far as the white bass, she would switch to a Rapala crank bait, looked like a shad, she said it was about a 6' diver, and she was just tearing white bass up. Weren't eve particularly fishing for them. We were catching them off of points.
Bass were hitting pretty well too. Caught a few in the 13-14" range, but almost as many in the 16-18" range. Not a big deal I realize for most, but understand i know so little about fishing, I'm lucky to know which end of my fishing pole is the end I hold on to lol
This was on the niangua arm. Which was a neat experience as far as navigating in a an 18' boat and trying to fish, as Ive always stayed at condos on the 13mm of the main channel. That's a little rough on the weekends.
Good luck!