Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted April 12, 2010 Root Admin Posted April 12, 2010 The Spring River is primed for white bass fishing... that's all I can say. It's loaded! Not huge fish but perfect size for fillets. And hard fighting. Paul Crews, a long time friend and local to Neosho, and I put in at the Hwy 10 bridge at 4 pm yesterday and headed up river past a big shoal and another 1/2 mile and started drifting and fishing the slack side of the river. It was 64 degrees and stained - perfect I though. I had a 1/8th oz white jig on from fishing here on Taney so I used it and caught fish, not every cast but I had a strike on every cast for the next 4 hours, almost. We found a small spot that had a bunch of crappie too and between the two of us we kept 20 crappie and our limits of 20 whites each. Threw bad a ton other whites. Paul used several different colors of swimming minnows but the best on the crappie was blue... swimming minnows or a white and blue tube jig. Late in the day we drifted down and tried a couple of crappie spots and didn't find any. We drifted down to the big flat/shoal on the shallow side. Just as we drifted in the shallows and the motor dragged and stopped the boat, I turned around and threw out in the big water with a small sluggos and hooked a white. We sat there for 30 minutes till it was dark-dark and caught whites on every cast on the sluggos... lots of fun. We could have stayed all night but we had a lot of fish to clean and I had a 90 minute drive home. This is perfect fly rod water... Video to follow. Warning... Paul couldn't hook a fish on camera so there's not a whole lot of action there.
Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted April 13, 2010 Author Root Admin Posted April 13, 2010 <object width="660" height="405"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="660" height="405"></embed></object>
denjac Posted April 15, 2010 Posted April 15, 2010 The video had a Harold Ensley feel to it. Although you didnt drive down there in your Ford country squire. Good Job! Dennis Boothe Joplin Mo. For a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." ~ Winston Churchill ~
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