Fishing Report Friday And Saturday

[twosets]

Came down Thursday night with my son Eric and daughter Cara and fished Friday and Saturday. I was not sure what to expect with 10 gates open but I wanted to try it anyway. I would say that in terms of the water flow that boating was not much more of an issue than from 4 units of generation, I was certainly more careful but the extra flow was not a problem for us.

Fishing was good Friday and outstanding Saturday. In retrospect, it may have taken a day to figure out the most effective way to get our jigs down to the bottom without losing them or stripping all of the line off of our reels. We in fact quit Friday when we were down to one reel with line on it. Phil wanted me to try 2 1/8 oz jigs at the same time. I think that maybe he was just trying to sell more jigs. For us the best setup was a 1/8 oz white jig with a large splitshot(I would guess about another 1/8 oz) about a foot above the jig. I tried 1/4 oz and caught some, but got hung up a lot.

We primarily fished from the cable to koa, and on Friday caught some really nice fish in the 14 to 17 inch range, Eric caught a 18 inch rainbow that would have weight of about 2.5 lbs. The fish were health, but not with bulging stomachs or puking out scuds and worms like Bill reported last week.

Saturday was crazy good, catching 3 or 4 on a poor drift and 6 or 8 on a good drift. At one point Eric caught 14 in a row on the same jig without losing it. I did not have his touch, and would lose one jig for about each 3 or 4 I caught. We caught a few more dinks than on Friday, maybe they stocked.

On our last drift, we decided to drift from lookout to fall creek, and each picked up 2 nice ones.

We left Branson and hit the Little niangua arm of LOA looking for some crappie. Fished from 5pm to 7pm and only came up with 5 keepers and 5 short from 3 of my good spots. Not a total bust, but not the spawning bight that we were looking for.

Lots of fishing in 2 days, very welcome after preparing all of those tax returns.

George

[2sheds]

Remarkable story.

In fact, I have a niece named Cara and a nephew named Eric.

Did you try any jigs in the range from 5/32, 3/16, 7/32 ?

And how did the chartreuse & carnelian work out ?

[Don]

Hey 2sheds,

Great to see you back on OAF. Are you planning another float on a Missouri river this year? I hope you post another descriptive pictorial as you have in the past. Maybe you can take 2sets with you and call it something like 2 sets of 2 sheds, but that would make it 4 sheds wouldn't it?

Don May