Fishing Report 3-7,8,10-08

[jackaroe22677]

Howdy,

Just returned from a 5 day trip to Norfork and Powersite Dam, I'll post each part in the respective forums. I tried to post photos, but apparently I'm not smart enough to do that, sorry.

Short Version: Walleyes are biting at Norfork

Drove from St. Louis to Tecumseh on Friday 3-7. Had nice weather despite the sour forecast. Arrived at Tecumseh at 5:30pm, casted rogues for approx 1 hr without luck. Many other fishermen casting rogues, we didn't see anyone catch a thing. Fished again from 8:30-9:30 in 20 degree dark, caught 1 eye (~15in.) on a small purple floating rogue. This was my first walleye caught in Missouri, so I was pretty excited.

Fished 3-8 at the forks pretty much all day. Again pretty cold 30 degrees, blue sky. Couldn't catch any on multiple rogues and deep rogues, also shad raps. Finally found a school on the North fork side of the forks and caught 7 eyes in about 1 hour on jig and minnow/jig and gulp minnow. 2 keepers at 18 and 19 in. One other fellow in the bank caught a keeper on what looked like a white rogue. Around dark caught 1 white on jig and gulp minnow.

Went to powersite dam, had less luck, so returned to Norfork Mon. 3-10. fished at stump hole in the afternoon from the bank, landed 1 nice white on beetle spin with white jig. Report from a local of boats chasing schools of whites/hybrids catching them on a leadhead jig with blue feathers. Trolled around Tecumseh bridge around 4-5pm, caught another nice white and smallmouth on purple shad rap. Returned to forks for evening, got nothing, but on float down to campsite landed another keeper eye, 18.5in. on the same shad rap. Caught that one on my last cast as we pulled into the campsite.

Many other fishermen around during the entire trip - everyone was very nice and helpful to my brother and myself who where fishing the area for the first time. We released everything we caught. Also, big thanks to Brian Wise who gave some good advice and helped me plan the trip, it was much appreciated. I will definitely return to the lake for future walleye or striper trips.

Stopped at Current river on return to STL, caught 3 rainbows on mepps in about 1 hr fishing - rounded out a great trip.

Best of luck to everyone else on the water.

[shawncat]

Nice fish,thanks for the report.