Spoonbill Season

[BOWFISHER]

Hey Guys I will be down there close to ashers straight up midnight as well. I have never tried this at night is there normally a lot of people doing this at night ? How do you keep from running into all the stumps down there ?

[Seth]

I'm not sure what it will be like up at Ashercane bottoms, but I know down at the mouth of flat creek it looks like christmas time. With it opening on the weekend this year, it will probably be worse unless the weather is really crappy.

I don't know if you will have to worry much about running into the stumps at Ashercane Bottoms this year as the water is pretty high. You have to hang pretty close to the banks to worry about hitting the stumps anyhow. We like to go right up a long the tree line snagging because the spoonbill use them as cover just like any other fish I think. That's our most productive technique.

[BOWFISHER]

Thanks for the tips. maybe with a little luck we will get some warm weather before then.

[Seth]

I'm hoping and praying for some warmer weather. Last year we had very mild weather for the two weeks before snagging season and the fishing was awesome that first night. The following weekend it was cold as heck though and my buddy and his dad snagged for 8 hours on the James River and the only fish they hit was 10 minutes after they started right underneath the bridge by Bridgeport LOL.

[BOWFISHER]

I just checked the 10 day forcast for Galena and it looks like that weekend is going to be 50 in the day and 30 at night. The lake level is the crazy thing. on february 4 the lake was at 911.04 and now it is at 917.27. pool is at 915.00 in four weeks it has came up over 6 foot. I just hope the water isnt too muddy.

[Dirt]

Going to be to cold. They'll be staging near Point 15

[Seth]

Going to be to cold. They'll be staging near Point 15

I wish I was taking my boat down next weekend because I've got a pretty decent fish finder on it. There's a lot of holes between Point 15 and Virgin Bluff's that I would like to graph for early season snagging. We always do our snagging just above Point 15 up to the Walnut Springs boat ramp and do pretty good, but a lot of guys target the lower part of the James and do pretty good from the way it sounds.

[Dirt]

I wish I was taking my boat down next weekend because I've got a pretty decent fish finder on it. There's a lot of holes between Point 15 and Virgin Bluff's that I would like to graph for early season snagging. We always do our snagging just above Point 15 up to the Walnut Springs boat ramp and do pretty good, but a lot of guys target the lower part of the James and do pretty good from the way it sounds.

My guess is that the fish will be in the backs of the river with the temp being significantly higher there, or they will be somewhere along James and Flat areas. How do you find them on the graph? Is there something special to look for. We usually just troll around, guess thats why we have never been real consistant.

[Seth]

I just got my graph last summer so I haven't got to try it out at finding spoonbill. We have just snagged down there long enough that we know which holes usually have fish. I'm going to try snagging on Lake of the Ozarks this year in some tournaments so I will have to figure out how to use it to graph spoonbill for that because I have never snagged on there before.