Osage 45mm

[nitrobass]

hi im new here

Im fishing up the osage this weekend, would like to see if any one had any info on bass fishing around 45mm thanks in advance!

[405z06]

I will be down there this weekend, too. I will be near Tan-Tar-A, I think it's about the 25 MM. I have not seen any reports recently.

I figure we will try bass early, and if they aren't cooperating see if we can find some whites.

Here is something I found, but it's from the 16th

"October 16, 2009 It's been chilly!! Now is the time to put some fish in your freezer before it gets really cold. White bass have still been my main species to try for most days. A bit more spread out now but still the hottest fish biting. 20-30 keepers is average on any good windy day. Caught a monster 35lb 42 inch blue catfish yesterday after catching a bunch of whites and a couple of hybrids. The perfect finish to a great day. Congrats to him on catching his largest fish ever. Largemouth have been feeding heavy on shad. Spinnerbaits and buzzbaits around the big groups of shad will produce numbers and keepers for you. I had a few crappie guide trips before the dirtier water came in and hopefully the dirty water will leave in a couple of days. Did well on taking a number of limits of crappie from brushpiles. Between now and the end of the year fish are going to be feeding as the water temps decrease in advance of the extreme cold coming. "

[motoman]

I get down about every other weekend to fish for white bass at night. (Only in the Glaize arm though, but this may still help) It's been a few weekends, but the pattern for the whites was that they did not seem to be moving up on our shallower spots. (long, gradual sloping pea gravel banks). We had better consistent luck out in the main channel of the Glaize, holding the boat in about 10-15', where theres a nice dropoff to deeper water.

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I religiously throw Cabelas Rad Shads in the 2" size, in the blues/silver colors, suspending model. A slow smooth retrieve, with constant hard pulls/jerks to give the bait an erratic appearance works well.

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Here's a link to the Rad Shads. And at $4.00 a piece, I don't mind so much when they get destroyed.

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http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/template...rset=ISO-8859-1

[405z06]

We fished all day Saturday starting out around the 25MM and then, looking for some clearer water, moved to the Niangua. It was a very tough day all around. I think we caught 3 largemouth, 2 spots, and 2 whites. That's it. And the largemouth were sub-15".

We had planned to fish all day today, too. When I was at Osage Beach Tackle, the guy working there last night said the most consistent fishing and bigger fish were within 6 miles of the dam. But the weather man who had predicted rain in the PM got it wrong and the rain came early, so I ended up not fishing today (Sunday) and drove home.

I had heard that the tournament leader out for some tournament out of PB#2 had a weight of just over 16 lbs. 2nd place was approx 14. The equates to fairly tough fishing for LOZ.

I hope wherever y'all were, you were catching fish.

[Zach Beach]

I was down there from last thursday to sunday. Fished mostly around the 48mm area. Found the whites in the backs of only certain coves. There were shad all over the backs of ever large cove we went to but the whites weren't active in every cove. Saturday was the slowest day out of them all. We didn't start to really catch them until later in the day. We were using black in-line spinners, throwing them wherever we saw the shad flicking. Later in the days we also started to see them busting the water.

We also went up below the Truman dam area. Had a slow start but ended up catching some nice hybrids in the current along one of the shores. The biggest one was a five pounder. We were catching them on a jig dragging it behind the boat. They weren't hitting it hard. It felt more like a crappie thump, but once they took off you knew you definately didn't have a crappie. If my dad gets the picture of one of them developed I can scan it and post it on the site.