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Great fish....Releasing that one into the grease????? I would!

Got out for a little while mid day today and went looking for some crappie. Put in across from Cape Fair Marina and went checking some coves and flats in the area. Fishing was slow to start. Nothing in the first cove . Picked up one fish in the second cove next to pole timber. Moved to some pole timber by a bluff and picked up one more fish. Third cove produced 8 fish before we had to leave. Got them all by fishing 1/16th ounce jig head and bobby garland grubs in 16 to 22 feet of water next to pole timber. The longer we could let the jig sink the better we did. Water temps were 66 to 67 degrees and stained tea color. 7 of the fish cleaned were females with eggs. I guess they will get back up in the shallows when the water warms back up a few degrees.

Phil uses them alot and we use some in Alaska. Great waterproof camera/video for HD. Sound is a bit muffled in the waterproof case.

That is a monster gar Scott! Cant wait to get down there tomorrow!

Swpa has posted it for tomorrow already and it looks like the are scheduled to shut the water off at. Midnight till 2 pm tomorrow after noon.....might just have to go take a little look around

Went back today to the same places and only pulled up one 18 inch walleye and two crappie. It was a tough bite today during the rain and wind. Headed out just before the second storm hit.

We found a bunch of them in 6 to 12 feet of water close to a flat where chunk rock turned to pea gravel and there was a little bit of timber on a wind blown bank yesterday up a Stocton. Our group ended up bringing home 7 keepers and the largest was close to 27 inches. One side of the tree was walleye, the other crappie.

Phil has a bunch of the size 8 and 10 in stock.

I've been trying to get some tied up. Problem is, I need about 24 to 30 dozen of them for Alaska this year. I've got about a dozen extra of the purple and greys so far. Gonna work on the olive and cream next, but looks like I wont get any tying in till Saturday. Brother Dave is coming in tonight and we will be running 24/7 till Friday chasing anything that swims.

Fished up there today with a group of two boats and five guys. We started a daylight and fished till about 4 p.m. Slow bite to start and spotty. Around noon the bite picked up and at 1 p.m. it was on fire. The group ended up taking home 75 crappie, 4 walley, and a few whites.

Welcome to the forum Jon. We are happy you found us and look forward to your participation. I can relate to your excitement about relocating to the Branson area. I made the move about 7 years ago.

That is fantastic Scott. I appreciate you trying it out and thanks for taking some pictures. Cool report, and MonaChari really likes the BWT picture!

I'll second that

If your in the Branson area this evening and looking for a nice dinner and some good company come on by and help support the Tri-Lakes Ducks Unlimited Chapter. There wil be a silent auction, some great raffle items and of course a live auction after dinner. Plenty of great framed art peices, 4 or 5 guns and even a john boat with trolling motor. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and you can get tickets at the door.

Ha, and I was worried you might get bored after duck season! Looks like your having a great time Marty.

Welcome to the forum, good luck and let us know how you do.

I would recommend giving it a try

yep

We fished Sun Creek area off highway 39 last night. Free ramp. Easy launch. Shallow, narrow area to fish. Only have to boat about 100 yards and we tore the crappie up. Fished about 4 hours but could have had our limits in and hour.

They are biting pretty good around the bridge right before dark then shutting off at dark. Mostly dink males with a few nice sows mixed in

Welcome to the forum Keith and thanks for joining us. You picked a good name "Learning Keith" and you picked a great place to do some of that learning. There are quite a few unwritten "rules" now-a-days in the fishing world. If those "rules" are broken, you can still be legally correct but some will judge you as morally wrong in the eyes of conservation. It is your right to do with as you please with what you catch,as long as it is within the law, but be warned, others may judge you harshly for some of those actions that are well within the law. For example, bass, especially small mouth, are sacrid fish to many on this forum. Fishing for them is fantastic, but eating is a no-no, Taboo so to speak. Others, the trophy brown trout and rainbow trout hold this status. If you spend some time reading the past threads on this forum, you can get a feel for some of these subjects, but most on this forum started as kids fishing, keeping and eating what they caught. These people have come to mature through the fishing ages realizing that they enjoy the catching way more than the eating. Hope you spend plenty of time on the forum, learning as much as possible, sharing your experience and enjoying the comaradari here.

My wife woke up this morning asking, "What is that noise?" I told her it was swarming hornets....just the boats parading by the house.

LOL! All kinds of thing come to mind that I probably should not post on here.

The Tri-Lakes Ducks Unlimited Annual Banquet will be this Saturday (March 31st) 5:30 P.M. at Big Cedar Lodge in the Grandview Conference Center (Grandview Ballrooms C & D), 612 Devil's Pool Road, Ridgedale, Missouri, 65739. Silent Auction begins 5:30 p.m., Dinner at 7:00 p.m. and Live Auction following Dinner. Tickets are $30/adult or $55/couple, Greenwings (kids) are $15. You can purchas tickets at the door of the event. Come out and join us for an evening of fun and all the while supporting your local Ducks Unlimited Chapter. If it wasn't for your support, Ducks Unlimited would not be where it is today! Come out and support "The Ducks" For more information call..... Ryan Zellar (417) 335-4835

I think OA was down and thats where we go when we cant come here.