First Trip Of The Year

[2bfishn]

Bill (sportshop) and I made a spur of the moment trip up below Bagnell yesterday and we were pleasantly surprised. We fished less than 3 hours and ended up with 19 really nice whites and threw 2 back........ The key was SLOWWWWWWWW. We caught most on chartreuse swimming minnows. they were running just a little water and we were fishing about 12 ft...... Good luck all and lets really wack em in 09.

[podum]

Nice day. Cabin fever is killing me.

Were the productive areas near enough to shore to fish from the bank?

[sportshop]

  podum said:

Nice day. Cabin fever is killing me.

Were the productive areas near enough to shore to fish from the bank?

no, other side of the gravel bars

[Seth]

Glad you did well on the whites. I fished up there a few weeks ago for black bass and didn't do worth a darn. We loaded up and went down to Tuscumbia and found a good pocket of kentuckies that wanted to bite our crankbaits.

Hybrids have been awesome at the MariOsa access which is way down river from Bagnell and about 15 minutes East down Highway 50 from Jefferson City. Last trip I caught two that were right at 7 pounds and landed a bunch.

[ozarkgunner]

  Seth said:

Glad you did well on the whites. I fished up there a few weeks ago for black bass and didn't do worth a darn. We loaded up and went down to Tuscumbia and found a good pocket of kentuckies that wanted to bite our crankbaits.

Hybrids have been awesome at the MariOsa access which is way down river from Bagnell and about 15 minutes East down Highway 50 from Jefferson City. Last trip I caught two that were right at 7 pounds and landed a bunch.

What are they taking? Jigs>?

[Seth]

  ozarkgunner said:

What are they taking? Jigs>?

Medium diving crankbaits. Anything that looks like a shad has done well. I've had the best luck on a "glow shad" shad rap from Walmart. It's like a glowing white color with a black dot behind the eye. They really like that one. Also caught a few on white rooster tails and swim baits.