Upper White - Wed April 5

[SKMO]

Another fine day on The Rock with Jeff from MN and we hit a new benchmark for me personally as we boated a legal fish of all 4 TR bass species: LM, SM, Spot, and Meanmouth. For those of you wondering a meanmouth is a SM/Spot hybrid and is recognized as a species in MO fish recordkeeping.

The big fish are a 19 SM, a 19 LM a 18.25 SM. The meanmouth is on the deck. Before you say "hey the spot and meanmouth are short fish" cover the pigs with your hand and put it in proportion. Actually caught a couple larger spots later but I wanted the fish back swimming around after this photo op.

Days tally 7 legals and again in upper teens for total fish. Still a lot of dead water. It seems to me that best bite is mid-day. All these fish were caught on stick and spinnerbaits, we were movin' on hard and trying to cover as much water as possible looking for active fish, not begging them for bites with plastic. This works well (sometimes) in a nice wind like we had today. Depth we were fishing was 4-20' on 45 degree gravel banks with chunk.

[Don House]

SKMO, nice fish!!

Sounds like our day up in Indian Creek area, Most of our fish came early on topwater (wiggle diggle bait) and mid-day on swimming grubs and spinnerbaits shallow! 8 keepers total and alot of shorts and some keepers on plastic. Best 5 were around 3 pounds, total for 5 fish around 15 pounds or maybe just alittle more.. Fish are really moving into that pre-spawn mode, all on the inside of secondary points right close by the spawning coves. We had one pig on top water right off the bat, but came off at the boat. Still a great day of fishing with a little rain and alot of wind..

How are thoses crappie up in your area? In Long creek they move in and then move out really fast, still catching a few on a swimming minnow dragging it on the bottom in the creek channel. Fishing the poll timber seems to catch alot of smaller males. It's getting close they are ready to move in but the weather keeps pushing them back out.

Good Fishing

[riverrat]

Don what is a wiggle diggle bait? Am I going to have to add to my arsenal?

[Don House]

Don what is a wiggle diggle bait? Am I going to have to add to my arsenal?

Riverrat,

The wiggle diggle, is a double jointed stickbait with the bill of the bait heated and bent all of the way down. This allows the bait not to go deep, it stays on the surface and wiggles as it goes across the water. Looks like a big shad that can not go deep. Big fish just can't take this one.

I will go out and bring mine in from the boat and get pic's to show you how and what it looks like later today..

Good Fishing