CollegeFish86

Have any of you guys used or seen the alpha jig? I have been looking and debating on them and was wanting to hear a few opinions on them to see what everyone else thought.

Get some beaver style baits on a shakey head and get some pearl staycee pointers in the deep diver. also in the mornings take a bone colored spook and throw it in the stalls. also if you can find the small a-rigs throw those with the 4" grubs. That should help you get a limit every day.

Im not a guide. I took Joe out for a fun day on the water. I am very close with all my Field and Stream friends and always opt to take them fishing when they are in town, but when they are in town or they have their competitors in town and I cant go, I ALWAYS recommend the guides on here. All I can say is you gotta love those guys!

RPS, I don't know if this will help you any but my buddies went to Bull Shoals this weekend spear fishing and they killed their limit of walleye every day and they said they were in brush piles 21-28' deep. Said they had no problems finding fish if they could find the brush.

I know at Lake of the Ozarks you better have them. Its sort of aggravating to be using the same set up as the guy in the boat with you and he is catching them are you aren't, only to find out he was putting them on his jig. Took a few fish to figure out what he was doing different.

fishing brush piles or trees?

Riverfish- I run a black/blue stratos

Call mike at top gun marine! He is an awesome guy and a tournament fisherman that is about as honest as the day is long and will treat you right! Mike is in NIxa- 725-1887

I was up by blunk last night and caught a few. I have been catching them slowly but surely every time but not in the numbers like last year. Water temps last night for me was 58*. The sows that I cleaned were full of eggs and the eggs were bloody. I def think that the current might have a little to do with it as well. A little running water never hurts!

I was up there last night and caught a good limit of white. Saw a guy try to swing an 8 lb+ eye into the boat and that didn't pan out for him Caught a few short eyes and a bunch of whites around McCord bend. The water temp was 60 when we put in and 58 when we got up in the river. The bite hasn't really turned full force yet but by this weekend it will be rocking. Swimming minnows, pearl sliders and olive back rapalas are what did the trick last night. Saturday we had 26" walleye in the same spot but no big females this trip. I will be out again Friday night and Saturday night in a black/blue stratos with a 225 pro xs. if you see me give me a shout

Anybody been on the river to see if its still muddy/stained after the rains?

Fished last night in swan and caught one little male white and 3 keeper largemouths at the bluffs

Swan is right there where you put in at river run isn't it?

How far up from Cape Fair are they?

I fished yesterday around prairie creek and coose creek for stripers and bass and had a tough day. Caught 3 stripers between 17-26lbs and was the only three bites we had. Caught them all on the a-rig. Fished for bass for a little bit and only managed three keepers as well. Caught 2 monster whites in front of the marina at prairie creek that were both pushing 3 lbs+. Couldn't get bit on a jerk bait or a jig for bass.

How do you guys approach the tail waters with a boat? What types of baits do you guys use for whites/hybrids and walleye?

Ok, I am new to crappie fishing especially in the spring time and during the daylight. What do I need to look for and what do I need to be using or how do I need to present it. Im a college kid that if I ever do get to crappie fish, its at night under a light with jigs and minnows. Any help would be much appreciated.

how close to the dam where you? Thinking about hitting it this weekend and looking for all the info I can get

any report on the whites yet?

If you can find them, now or in the summer would be the time to try them

Hey Fish, how much did they say for the gelcoat if you dont mind

Being a farm kid this is my little trick. Go buy you a couple of scalpels from an ag store and keep in your boat bag. Keep a small bottle of iodine in there too. You just have to make a small little cut about an 1/16th of an inch on the back side of the hook and then pull. It will pop right out. I have had the unfortunate pleasure of having a couple of megabass hooks in my hands and a leg. Just stick your hand your hand in ice till its numb and pour alcohol on your knife and area you are going to cut. Its pretty much the same thing the doc does and it wont cost you your hook or $300. Like the old saying goes, no pain no gain:D

$100 obo

I have a airmaster 350 airbrush along with a 1/8hp compressor. It also comes with about 6 different colors of paint and several hard bodies, jerk bait and lipless crankbaits,. All of this is less than a year old. PM me if you are interested. $125 obo

I have a compressor, paint and clear bodied baits along with a air brush that needs a good cleaning for sale if you are interested.