Water's On Again....fishin' Too?

[fishinmachine]

Fished the tailrace a week ago Wednesday, no gates or generation in the late afternoon when I arrived. Hoping for a hybrid or walleye. Fished about two hours in on/off drizzle. Managed a nice 16" LMB on a 1/16 oz. white curlytail plastic at 7:45pm, then landed two average whites at 8:10. Hooked and lost a small channel cat, as well. No target species landed, but a nice homecoming after not fishing in my home state for a year. Left at dark for lower LOZ and a bass tournament(ended up catching some keeper walleyes in the lake proper, there.).

I see the gates and generators are open again. Anyone been out? Water temp is coming up fast, figured it should be a good time for the end of the walleye run and the start of some good hybrid fishing.

FM

[jackaroe22677]

Welcome back to Missouri, we're glad to have you.

I'd love to hear how and where you caught those walleye in the main lake. I'll be down this weekend fishing the lake, mostly for crappie, but I love catching walleye.

I haven't heard anything about the tailrace, but I bet you're right - should still be plenty of 'eyes about. The hybrids were biting like crazy at the tailrace when I was there 4 weeks ago. They're probably still around.

Paul

[fishinmachine]

Welcome back to Missouri, we're glad to have you.

I'd love to hear how and where you caught those walleye in the main lake. I'll be down this weekend fishing the lake, mostly for crappie, but I love catching walleye.

I haven't heard anything about the tailrace, but I bet you're right - should still be plenty of 'eyes about. The hybrids were biting like crazy at the tailrace when I was there 4 weeks ago. They're probably still around.

Paul

We were fishing the Big Niangua arm of LOZ. We caught the walleyes fishing a small blue/silver Rogue over relatively flat lake bottom pockets with gravel. We were bass fishing at the time, but at one spot I landed 4 walleyes and lost another (2 were legal size) in 25 minutes. All of the fish took the bait in less than 5 feet of water in the middle of the afternoon...lots of cloud cover that day, though. Several other anglers in our group of 16 caught walleyes on crankbaits that weekend. Good luck at the lake...crappie fishing was pretty consistent for us, but we didn't have much time for them. We had a little friendly tournament going for those ugly green fish with the lines on their sides. Crappies were hanging about 5 to 6 feet down near shoreline cover.

FM