Going To Try Fellows Early And See What Happens

[Bimmer]

Sunrise at 6am. Full moon this evening. May not pan out but we'll see while the temps are moderate.

[Joplin Matt]

How did you fare?

I was at Fellows a few nights ago fishing from the bank, not far from the dock near one of the gates. As I unfortunately expected, I didn't catch anything. There were a couple of guys fishing a little closer to the bridge on the same side of the lake, and it didn't look like they were catching anything, either. A little kid that was with his family on that dock caught what looked like a small perch, but I wasn't going to be THAT guy and go take the little kid's fishing spot in front of his family just to catch a perch so I would feel better. :-)

I'd like to try Fellows again soon, but it's going to have to be in the morning rather than the evening next time. It's been too unbelievably hot lately. I tried live minnows, a plastic minnow and a small propeller crankbait and didn't have much luck with any of them.

[Bimmer]

I didn't even get a bump. Water temp was 85 degrees. Fish were scarce pretty much everywhere. The numbers got better as I approached the dam buoys but for the most part fish were no where to be found really. I saw a few lunkers breaching surface but I couldn't tell you what they were. So many factors here. The waters low, the water temps are high, we have a full moon albeit that it rides low in the sky. I'm going to give it a rest until this heatwave is over. The wife and I are going camping on the lower Buffalo River for our first anniversary. Apparently there's just barely enough water to canoe so we're doing that on Saturday the 23rd. I don't imagine the fishing will be worth a darn.