Burr!

[Bill Babler]

Put in at Baxter at Noon and I will tell you, with a 15 to 20 mile an hour breeze and 36 degree it was for sure cool enough. Fish bit a little for me today, when I wasn't shaking to hard to fish.

Keep hearing of a wart bite, and dedicated 1 hr. to it on windy chunky and gravel banks, not a sniff. I cranked it slow I paused it I did everything I could to convince them it was a daddy. No one was fooled.

Threw the jig shallow some and had two nice keeps on that in the under 10 ft. range on the same kind of places I fished the wart.

Surface temps at 54.3 from Kimberling to Baxter.

Deep fish are there in the 50 ft range, but it was just to hard to hold the boat in the wind. Did catch 4 K's all keeps, and 1 white bass.

Best 5 at maybe 12 pounds. I really toughed it out today, and tomorrow, is going to be colder, starting I am seeing looking at the blue eye weather at 14 degree.

[eric1978]

I really toughed it out today, and tomorrow, is going to be colder, starting I am seeing looking at the blue eye weather at 14 degree.

Supposed to be less wind tomorrow, though, at least in the St. Louis forecast...should feel better

[Dutch]

Bill tie on a spoon. You won't even have to work it. Your chilly shakes with take care of that.

[gitnby]

Fished about 4 hours Saturday and again today.

As Babler said, nothing much happening at the 45' depth on flat tops. Searched all over, picked up 2 shorts and a goggle-eye.

Dragged a FB jig, one good hit, missed him!

Started fluttering a spoon down the bluffs yesterday and got a few late in the day. I was sittin in 50'-60' and workin it down the face.

So today, I worked the spoon straight down and got some nice K's in 28'-35' tight to the bluffs.

Fished the bluff directly across from Pt 9 and caught nine keepers, 14 total on a 3/4 oz chartreuse spoon.

Went up the White a mile or so and had 4 more keepers on the bluff across from the island, again tight to the bluff in same depth.

[Champ188]

Donna and I had wanted to get up there this weekend and drop some spoons on those whites but had a team meeting early Saturday morning and decided against it. As Bill said, spooning offshore structure in gale-force winds isn't an easy proposition, especially for those not practiced at it. Sounds like the K's are making their move to the bluffs like they USED to back in the day when it actually got cold in December. We may be in for a long winter. Oh well, won't hurt any of us to have a longer season to work on our Wiggle Wart, spooning and jerk-baiting skills. Just glad I found some decent new heavyweight thermals in 5XL-Tall size on the Cabela's web site. Looks like they're gonna come in mighty handy.