Up-to-date White Bass Report

[whitebassman]

3/10 - Fished in and out of the rain today. Slooooooow. Caught two small ones. Water temp 60. Probably slow due to the coming cold front. Will be back out this weekend.

Go Cats

How is fishing up around the highway 10 bridge area of the Spring? There ought to be some sows up there by now.

[msubobcats]

3/14 - SLOW. Temp 39 when we started. Caught a 5 lb drum in the first two hours. Water temp heated to 49 by 11am, until the clouds rolled in, then quit heating and stayed at 49 til we left at 1pm.

Fished for 6 hours, caught 6. One BIG sow, the rest males. Everyone slow. Most catching a couple here and there, nobody 'tearin 'em up'. Saw a few caught trolling.

On the #10 question...talked to a guy in the parking lot. He said they are catching em at #10, which I didn't believe, until he came up with this possibility..."The river's shallower up there, and heats faster." Which could be possible I guess. Other than that conversation, I have no info on #10.

Heading out this morning...more info this evening...

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[msubobcats]

3/15 - Boats, Boats, everywhere! Caught 16. Water temp started at 48, climbed to 51 then leveled off. Started catching a bunch in about 15 minutes, but then the trollers showed up and started doing laps around the boat. The fish shut off as we choked on fumes for awhile, then finally gave up due to the traffic and left.

Cleaned mostly males (Big ones), and the females we did clean were nowhere near ready to spawn. Long way off still.

My guess is that the fish will REALLY turn on in the next two days.

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[emjay]

nice job! looks like the weather this week will be prime for fishing.

[Slabhunter]

anyone seen any number of Bills caught on the river yet. Im chompin at the bit to go but it a good drive for me to go over there and not catch anything.

[wildhunter066]

anyone seen any number of Bills caught on the river yet. Im chompin at the bit to go but it a good drive for me to go over there and not catch anything.

They are catching bills all the way from sailboat bridge on grand lake to riverview park in miami. We killed the white bass in tar creek this weekend.

[emjay]

wildhunter, where is tar creek? how many did you catch?

[msubobcats]

3/17 - Weird, but it was slow again. Thought the females would be there.

Caught fish after fish after fish at the start, but all of them were 10in or less (all males, obviously). Threw back probably 15. Temp started at 50, rose to 56. Caught 15. Caught 4 females, and a couple of BIG males. Spoke to a guide who told me the fish are stacked up at 'Three Fingers', ready to move into the river. He said the temp there was 52. My guess is anytime this week the fish will be running up the Spring.

Parking lot LOADED again today.

Will not go again until Saturday, if I choose to brave the crowd.

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[Okieflyfisher53]

It's good to hear that Tar Creek is able to support fish once again. When I was a young man it was an excellent crappie/white bass fishery until it got polluted by runoff from the lead and zinc mines. The last time I was there the water was orange and even the vegetation on the banks was dead.

Steve

[wildhunter066]

Tar creekis just above the i 44 bridge on neosho river. We caught about thirty Anytime the river is up and muddy like it was they will stack up up in creeks and and sloughs. Tar creek from were it dumps into neosho up it a mile or so has always kept fish int it. This s just my two cents on white bass they are way up river by now. If you have a jet prop go up as far as you dare and hit the eddies and gravel bars.