Last Nights Fishing Report...

[Leonard]

After a quick run into town at 10pm... Since I was already there...I thought "why not"

first things first.... THE WATER IS STILL HIGH!

Went to outlet 1, and the water had the bottom 5 steps covered..

(WARNING----- The water is washing out the step at outlet 1... everyone be careful!!)

Now for the good part...

well its been a LONG time since the spinning rod saw the light of the moon... so that was the weapon of choice.

I went through a few rapalas, rebels and Yo-zuri's... and it was the 6in (suspending) smithwick that got the first fish. A few more cast and it was time to change again. What I started with was all small stickbaits.. They wanted the big ones. After going though Large pin minnow (catching 2), a couple jointed rapalas (catching 3), and a shad rap x-tream (catching 2)..

I went back to a smaller (about 2 1/2in) jointed rapala (the fire tiger), and really got into them. The biggest thing I noticed was getting it out.

I ended up catching close to 20 fish... about every 4 fish was a brown...

Leonard

[Downhilljohnny]

I tried fishing at outet 1 twice while still dark in the early morning. A couple mornings ago I caught 7 all on white jigs. I tried the small jerk baits but never had a bite. Probably wasn't fishing it the right way. This morning I caught 8 with the first 3 being browns. Once it got good and light they stopped biting which is usually the way it works for me when the water is down and I can wade. Both mornings I was fishing the jigs real slow and deep. Went to Roark one morning from about 7 to 9 and caught them the same way although I did get a few on a small sinking Rapala. Also caught a couple of whites and crappie while there. I haven't seen the water close to this high since I lived here back in the seventies. Been a few changes in the Branson area since that time.