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Yep! There is no baitfish sortage on Truman.

Same here kind of quiet and haven't done much since the heat wave. I do go a couple days ago and broke one of the steering cables on the trolling motor that didn't do much for the fishing caught a few crappie it got hot so loaded up and came home waiting on parts now. Richard

Thats pretty neat, I was looking at the Truman report will there be one for this time period I would really like to see the oxygen levels when the water temperture is at its highest. Thanks MOPanfisher

Cicada story, several years ago I was driving to the Truman Lake area to meet some friends at their cabin and was planning on some serious fishing. It was hot of course had the windows rolled up and the AC on, I turned off a blacktop road onto a gravel road and I heard some nose coming for the engine I thought, sounded like the fan belt or bearing or something bad was coming loose. I wasn't very far from my friends place but decided to stop and check out the noise I didn't want to really tear something up. As soon as I opened the door I found out what the noise was. CICADAS millions of them everyone screeming his or her fool head off. My friends were more than a little annoyed you couldn't even carry on a conversation outside for all the noise. An thats my story an I sticken to it! Richard

Just a suggesstion the next time turn West on 82 and go to the Sac Access. Here you are dealing with the upper end of Truman lake and the lower end of the Sac river. Sometimes more river than lake depending on how much water is being let loose by Stockton dam, usually on weekends there isn't much current. If you go down, to the right the Osage is about 3 miles, left upstream you can go 8 to 10 miles depending on the water levels safely, past that watchout! You will not see near as much standing timber but look for laydowns into the channel, any brushplies, some stumps that are near deeper water will collect brush can be a real hot spot. This time of the year the crappie seem to be more scattered and you'll just have to find the hotspots, pick up a couple here and there. My favorite tactic is to locate several "spots" and fish them several times a day picking up a few fish everytime. Being new to the area slow trolling with long line jigs would be a good way to locate fish if you like to fish that way. Good luck, Richard

OH Boy! There's a whole pile of questions there! I'll start off with a few quick suggestions and hopefully some of the Truman experts will jump with their views. Osceola is a great place to fish for crappie, bass, and catfish. There are several boat ramps in the area the Sac river access is on 82 highway southwest of Osceola, downtown Osceola has a ramp, and on 13 highway just north of the lake on the right has a ramp. Next you need a really good lake map that shows the channel and a depth finder. This is because the lake is full of tree stumps that are broke off at the water line so you need to learn the channel and anytime you pull off the channel into a fishy looking area slow down you can go from 25 feet of water to about a foot or less in one boat length. Don't mean to scare you but you really need to take the time to learn the area that you intend to fish. I like to fish main lake flats now 8 to 25 feet of water the crappie are holding down 8 to 12 ft. deep around trees and brush. Last week I had the best luck around hedge trees, sometimes it's cedars, sometimes it's the big hardwood trees, and any brush plies that you can find. My favorite method is dipping trees with a 10 long jig pole, usually tie on a 1/16 oz to 1/8 oz jig head can be lead colored, hot pink, or flame orange. Some brand of soft tube black and charteuse, blue and chart, pink and chart, orange and chart, red and chart. something with charteuse works most of the time. You will catch more fish with minnows now but for me I seem to catch bigger fish with the tubes and prefer 2" tubes with a crappie nibble. Hope that gets you started and Good Luck! Richard

I am no walleye expert by any means but would suggest Lake Stockton as a much better walleye fishery, and it wouldn't be much farther to run.

Whats the water temperture? If its in the 70 degree range and warmer I would guess that the spawn is about over and the fish are moving off the banks, sometimes they are sort of hard to entice into biting at this time meaning they can be real "picky" about what they will eat and when. Just my 2 cents worth for what that is worth, not much these days. Good Luck

There is still a lot of fish on the banks. Some have spawned it appears, and are starting to catch some nice crappie on the trees on the first break line off the bank, using a dipping rod. The biggest fish today all came on the dipping rod. A little harder fishing but still ended up with a couple nice limits. Colors didn't seem to matter much as long as it had chartreuse in it. Water temps have come up to the low 70's.

Try this http://www.nwk.usace.army.mil/water_reports/Lakepool.fct

I've been watching and waiting looks like the corps turned some water loose today their 3 day forecast shows that starting tomorrow they will be running 28,000 for the next three days, about time! They have been known to lie though but if they do continue to run water the fishing should really pick up. Good luck!

A friend and myself fished the Bucksaw area yesterday and just guessing caught 75 to 100 crappie mostly along the bamks. The smaller males are moving up tight with the bigger fish coming a little farther off the banks. These were mostly 9 to 10 inch fish with a few bigger females thrown in the mix. The females are just about ready to "POP". Water temps were mostly in the low 60's, water color great most were caught on a 1/16 oz. roadrunner with a black and chartreuse tube.

Great report I'm always looking for something new to fool a fish with, never heard of a shimmer stix got any pictures or a link for them?

Head over to the dam area go down to the Bledsoe Ferry access and there is lots of fishing. When the corps decides to turn the water back on it should be excellent for all species of fish.

Thanks for the report I haven't made it down yet. I've been watching the weather and am trying to pick a good day to go just hate crappie fishing in cold windy conditions especially a north wind in the spring (retired so I can be a bit more picky) Don't like fishing on the weekend either but may have to to get a decent day to fish. Keep trying it'll get better. Good Luck!

Should be great fishing for just about anything you want "IF" we don't have very many major floods like the weather guesser is predicting. I'll be up around the Bucksaw area myself. Good Luck!

Put in at Bucksaw and headed up the lake fished in several creek arms and caught a limit of nice crappie. Some were right on the banks most were out a little ways but shallow. At first I was fishing too deep thinking that they would be out on the first break line didn't do much good there them I moved in on the banks and started catching fish. When the sun got high enough the bite slowed a bit. Anything with chartruse on a 1/16 oz jig head worked some people were using a bobber 18" or so above the jig throwing it up to the bank and slowly reeling it back.

There is a concrete ramp at Black Jack access but I haven't been there in over a year so don't know the condition of the ramp. I did have a friend that fished down by Buzzard Bluff and caught some crappie and small whites, no walleyes. Water temps were in the low 50's so don't know if the fish have made it up to the Black Jack area yet. Good Luck!

You are going to love that area, are you familiar with Sapp Landing on the upper end of the Pomme arm? Can't be too far from your location some pretty good fishing to be had there year around.

I use weedless sometimes depends on where and what type of cover that I fish. I make my own using a fiber weed guard mostly with a #2 and sometimes a #1 hook. Most of my crappie fishing is on Truman and favor larger plastics than most people would use, the reason for larger hooks. If I'm dipping trees I normally use a open hook but when fishing heavy brush and casting into flooded bushes like in the spring then I'll switch to weedless.

Great we'll be looking for a daily fishing report now!

So is a low Truman.

I would bet that there is some on any of the creeks that run into Longview. They are all rocky and gravel bottoms and carry some water at this time of the year. I would check out the lower ends looking for deeper holes especially during low light conditions. Something to think about there is a walleye regulation reguarding the evening and night time fishing on creeks and rivers might be usefull to know where the lake boundarys are. Good luck!

There is some pretty good fishing on the creek that runs into Long View above the lake. I use to access it from Scherer road on the west side of the lake there is hiking trail that runs south that roughly parallels the creek. You can also go on west a bit on Scherer road and turn south there a road that runs on down to a parking area with more hiking trails. There is a trail that runs back to the east and north that runs along the creek. I have caught some bass, white bass, crappie, and few channels mostly on small jigs and spinners in the spring. I would bet that there would be a few walleye run up there in the spring too.

Sure wish they would build one up here in the Kansas City area there's a couple places that could use some competition.