Lvn2Fish

Probably no complaints. Van Buren can be like the niangua though, a real Party spot. Figure it’s a big business down around there busting floaters.

I was at Lake of the Ozarks last year in December. While my father and I are Fishing the mouth of the Osage I hear a buzzing and see this drone like 200+yards away maybe 100ft over the water. I kinda ignore it but then the tone of this thing changes , my dad says “ we’ve got problems “ this thing fell out of the sky smashes down in probably 80ft of water . We are cracking up. This dude comes running down from this mega lake house . Says “ did you guys just see what happened “? .we reply yup. dude says “ can you guys go try to get that for me ?” We respond “Does the darn thing float ? He’s like. “No, I mean how deep is it ? can you use your sonar ?” I tell him, sure . We idled out and got the hell out of there .

It’s law enforcement. Had a buddy float the current last weekend he said they were using drones to catch people smoking reefer. Hell of a deal

It’s not the trees that are grabbing them. There’s a lot of line around . Where do you purchase those 1oz grass jigs at ?

With all the positive reports I thought I would dump the boat in and give her a try. Put in at aunts creeks at about 5:45 with sun just starting to peek over the hills. Water temp stayed pretty consistent throughout the day at 84 degrees. Unlike Mr. Babler all off my fish today we’re puking up shad, and by the end of the outing my deck, my shorts , my seats were all covered in a nice white Shad paste . From Aunts I decided to head down lake to the confluence of the James and white . First stop was a long gravel roll off where the channel eventually skirted the gravel . Sitting the boat in about 35 ft casting in 15-20. First fish of the day was a dandy smallmouth that was black as coal . With beautifully bars . Right around 3 lbs . Fat healthy fish . This one came on a football jig. Ended up catching three or four off this roll off . The rest were feisty spotted bass all around 14 inches . Made a move and really started dialing them in . Fished some secondary roll offs, and they all produced very nice smallmouth, all on the FB jig . Pretty consistent bite around 20ft of water. With the boat sitting in 40ft . Made another move to a secondary point and the schooling started. Caught probably ten in ten minutes. All fat spots. All throwing up profusely as I would swing them in the boat . These fish all came on a super spook jr . Pretty sure you could have caught them on anything resembling the forage they were consuming. By now it’s about 11 and the wake boats are doing circles all around us. The bite definitely slowed . Decided to hit one more little point up the James and relocated fish sitting in 30 ft . Had a nice flurry from 11-12. All on the football jig again . Was a great day on the water with totals probably around 40 fish for the day . Best five were all brown estimated around 12-13 lbs . On a side note , usually the smallmouth I catch on the rock are missle shaped fish long and skinny . These fish were not that way . They are fat stocky fish, obviously eating well . And a few of them were very dark with very colorful bars. The bite stayed fairly consistent all day . The cloudy sky’s probably help us a bit today . Caught serval out of deep trees. I think if someone wanted to keep catching after the sun gets high this would be a solid pattern. Not so much a guide friendly pattern. And you better have a big bag of jigs . Thanks to everyone who has been posting reports figured I would share what I found.

Bledsoe Ferry

Tim Hughes is a legend when it comes to painting a bait. You will not be disappointed

The predator baits are fine . You will have to tune them if you’re painting them . I think I remember paying around 2 bucks a piece for the blanks. But after you put hardware and hooks on you’re about the price of the storm original wiggle wart . Both of these baits are supposed to be designed from the pre rapalas. 10 lb Floro line is usually my go to . I’ve been know to go down to 8 if I think I need the bait to run a bit deeper . The rod you choose to fish the wart on has a huge impact on being a successful wart fisherman. I have one gloomis bronzeback that’s 6’9 medium action. The thing is like a whip. That flimsy rod lets the fish take the bait without feeling any resistance. It also allows the bait to get to the bottom and hunt without hanging up. And remember you better be grinding the lip off that bait or you’re not fishing it right. Some days you can really burn it , others it’s a slow crawl.

I think they only take 28 guys .

I’m not sure , I could see that working

Now let’s see what you did with it !

Oh yeah !

The water temp is good for it . But for me I have to have stained water . That is the only time I’m throwing one

Yeah, it’s a nasty yellow ! But with just a touch of that and white it makes a pretty good bone

I can’t believe it’s legal for them to spear the bottom of the cup with flag pole after each hole ! What the hell is that !

My notes show 10 drops opaque white 1 drop wicked colors yellow ochre

My favorite is the 11 pt ! Upper is good if you have the water . But I’ve never been south of Riverton . I usually float Greer to Riverton a couple of times a year . Makes for a nice two day float . If you add Thomasville or cane bluff it’s easily a three dayer.

I was there Saturday also at Indian . I have never witnessed 4-6ft rollers on tablerock until Saturday. We caught fish in the backs of a couple pockets on a shakey head . Fished in the wind for an hour , until it hit about 45mph . Of course the smallies were right in the teeth of it . Boated three in about 10 min . With one being over three . And another large mouth close to three also . All the larger fish were still hammering the jerkbait

I bet you will be able to find clean water , dirty water, and everything in between

I think they can learn something from Grand Lake . Duck creek and Woodward hollow have a rule in place. If your boat is wider than 8.5 feet , if your boat is longer than 26 ft . You must have absolutely no wake . Anything smaller has a 30 mph limit .

Champion/charger owners tournament in Oct. on Tablerock, it’s a draw boat. Any of the three Nichols tournaments give away a boat that’s on Grand

I knew it ! Had to throw your gigged bass in there !

This happened Friday before the tournament on my way down , when I was passing a logging truck on hwy 5 !

Let’s be clear your post started as carp regulation changes to promote the species you love . And ended with bass with arrows through them.

It’s funny that you say you’re “bullied” but half of your posts have people gigging bass in them.