ozarkgunner

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I use to go to fin and feather all the time when I lived in SGF! In fact, they got me into my first g.loomis rod. They are good guys. However, I am i COMO (Columbia) for 4 more months.

I target the brand new docks with the brightest lights. They act like the crappie lights you drop into the water.

I was looking at all of my fishing gear in an attempt to clean out a lot of the trash before I move back to Springfield. I came across 9 spinnerbaits with trashed skirts. Anyone have any recomendations for replacement types? I almost never fish a spinnerbait, but I somehow have close to 30 of them now. Do they make skirts that don't dry out or melt now? It's been years since I actually purchased a spinnerbait.

I was looking at all of fishing gear in an attempt to clean out a lot of the trash before I move back to Springfield. I came across 9 spinnerbaits with trashed skirts. Anyone have any recomendations for replacement types? I almost never fish a spinnerbait, but I somehow have close to 30 of them now. Do they make skirts that don't dry out or melt now? It's been years since I actually purchased a spinnerbait.

Waxed 'em = got lots of fish = a term from when SWMO people would make candles from the oilly fish they caught.

Welcome! If you want to catch trout, go to the trout dock (just below fall creek... $3 fee to get on it) and throw a rig with a #6 gold hook and 2 orange and 2 yellow powerbait balls on the hook. The sinker needs to be up 18 inches from the hook. Use only one sinker unless the water is running. You MUST use light line (#4 vanish is great!). Tight Lines!

It gets hard to get bait up there when it is thick with shad. You catch a lot game fish in your net and you have to get them turned lose really quick. FYI: Bagnell is ALWAYS watched by game wardens. I am legal 100% of the time, but that's just the way it is up there. DON'T go past the line !!!!!!!!!!

Anyone from Cedar Co. knows exactly where I am talking about. That is all I am going to say. My family owns one of them, a really nice family owns the other(s). I love fishing a spook about June in farm pond.............ZZZZZ .......ZZZZZZ.........ZZZZZ..............ZZZZZZ......ZZZZZZ..... BANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the report.

It seems the only time you can land the spooners on light tackle is when you snag them right under the bill by the mouth. Every other time they spool you. NICE CATCH!!!! The boys down below Zink dam catch the spoonbill on fly rods a lot.

I think it is odd how sometimes you can stick a really heavy fish that just doesn't want to put up a fight. Then you get a dink that is thinking it's swimming for its life!

I found 8 whites on Friday up by Stockton. The end of the week looks good for a large bunch coming out.

YES.. still stopped by Warsaw in the COLD rain and wind on Friday. I got a few small crappie, but headed down south after an hour in the cold. I saw a few guys with some big whites/ hybrids. The weather really hurt the bite. Talked to a few good ol' boys who said it's starting to get hot right now. On the bright side, I fished a 40 acre private lake later in the afternoon down towards Stockton. The weather was nicer just 60 miles further south. I waxed the bass. Fishing with my dad, we got over 50 keepers in less than two hours. I love farm ponds. Jig and pig (a white zoom trailer), spinnerbaits, jerkbaits, and crappie jigs (we were trying for papermouths at one point) all worked well. The strongest bite was on a large yellow spinnerbait, but to be honest I don't think there was anything I threw that didn't get slammed every other cast. Dad got the big bass of the decade, a nice 8lbs.+ (I didn't have a scale, but this fish was bigger than an 8lb. 4 oz black he has mounted on the wall from the 1970's) on a blue and black jig with a white trailer. WOW what a great place to fish!!!! I got to the ranch and respooled my rod. Well.... I had to "make sure" it wasn't over spooled so I went down to another pond below the cabin and nailed 7 more bass (14ish inches) on a Rapal x Rap (The eyes finally fell out from geting slammed!). The next day my dad and I took my brother to the lake and we each got around 20 bass before they shutdown during the bluebird day on Sat. I managed a few crappie also. The bass were smaller on Sat. We went back today and had NOTHING... not a bite. The front hit and the rain came and we went home. I'm back up in Columbia and ready to got to Bagnell now. Overall, a great weekend. (I can tell when my thumb looks like hamburger from liping bass) Good night, Tight Lines.

Gentlemen (and any ladies), Heading down to Warsaw from COMO right now. I'll be the guy in camo muck boots and a green Browning hat. Stop by and say hello if you are around. TIGHT LINES.

I'm thinking about fishing it for a few hours tomarrow on my way down to Stockton. I will post a report on Sunday. I haven't fished at Warsaw much so I think I will have to try my Bagnell tactics. Tight Lines.

I'm thinking about fishing it for a few hours tomarrow on my way down to Stockton. I will post a report on Sunday. I haven't fished at Warsaw much so I think I will have to try my Bagnell tactics. Tight Lines.

"GO WEST YOUNG MAN" I will NEVER forget my years out in Co and WY. The sunsets and dry fly fishing are forever burned into my mind. I quit fly fishing in Missouri after I moved out there. It's kind of like eating chicken after you had steak every day. If my family, grad school, and my love of turkey hunting didn't drag me away, I think I would be buried beside a little 3 wt stream I use to fish. I will never forget my friend's fly box. He had two boxes. One had around 100 princes in it and the other was filled with p-tails. That's all we ever really needed................................................................. Good times. Tight lines.

I live in Columbia also (well for 4 more months) and I can begin to tell you how valuable this board is in the making the decision to drive the 75 miles to the dam.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a great a report! I love Table Rock Browns......!

We anchored in the middle of the stream this weekend. It actually wasn't that bad. I agree about landing big fishing in the current, I scale up to a big bass rod with 14 lb. test to jerk them in.

I vote the white bass familly (stripers, hybrids).

I have to say the best fight of my life was back in August when I landed a 5oish Lb. spoonbill below Bagnell (right at the yellow line)on my crappie rig spooled with #4 test on a small #6 gold hook. I got it it the bill some how.... 30 mins later I got it to the boat on my St. Croix "Light" rod. What a rush! I love catching fish when you are " under geared" What a rush to land a PIG on #4 lb. test. Landed many cats while crappie fishing down there.

Did you get any fish?

No problem! I think the most valuable people on the forum are the ones who post when they catch nothing. Every bit of info helps! You personally are great and I thank you for all of your posts! Tight lines!

Bagnell was SLOW this weekend. I picked up 5 Small crappie 4 small spots and one male white bass. my two buddies in the boat got one VERY small white and two catfish. The best fishing was in the very middle of the current by the dam. I saw nobody catching anything . Saw no snaggers with paddlefish. Tightlines.