Pothole Report Wed.

[mmirg]

Tried the pothole tonight for about an hour and a half before dark. Lots of water coming over the top of the dam. We threw the kitchen sink and never had a bite. The lowest part of the cable was about 5' from the surface of the water.

[Brendan Armour]

Good to know I am fixing to go put in at river run and try to track the whites down, guess I'll try swan since nothing is hitting up there.

[Moswimb8slinger]

we got into white bass up beaver but i dont think you could get a boat pass just upstream of the Tubes yet, maybe now that the lake is up about 4-5ft @ powersite (over the rockpile). A-rig with 2 small willow blade attractors and 3" pearl paddle tail minnows. we only caught 2 small whites and 3 over 15" on sunday and then 3 more over 15" tuesday

[Wayne SW/MO]

Swan is pretty dirty, I would look for the whites around the color line outside the creek.. Boats were all the way up to the shoal below Fishermens Nose before the rain. I haven been over to Beaver so I can't comment on the color, but after the rain last night I would be surprised if it wasn't pretty dark.

[Phil Lilley]

I was going to start a new thread with my report but... I'll just add it here.

We put in this am at 7:30 am at River Run. Current moving pretty fast and water off color. Not as much junk floating as I thought there would be.

Headed to the dam. Water is clearer up there. Not bad at all. Water temp 48. Worked the Powersite side- nothing. Ran the west bank at the high dirt banks and caught a nice black bass on a chartreuse swimming minnow right on the bank.

Went down into Swan. Water temp 53 outside the mouth and 54 in the creek. Again, clearer than I thought it'd be- very fishable. No bites though.

Headed down to Barker. Temp still 53 down there. Water still off color but fishable but no fish were interested there either. Current was moving.

[Wayne SW/MO]

Swan must have cleared up some. It was chocolate when I was there and there was a distinct line between it and the lake.. Did it go over the flat across from Shadow Rock? It was starting that way.

I think 54 is on the bottom rung of acceptable temps for the whites.

[Phil Lilley]

I didn't see the flats when I looked but I didn't go up around the bend. There was a faint line at the mouth but not much of one. Swan usually clears up pretty quick, quicker than Beaver.

[Moswimb8slinger]

Saturday Report... tried powersite to fish the rockpile but with half the top of the dam down, the other half up and they were generating, it was a little frustrating trying to find a current to drift and cast, plus the colliding currents created some rough water for my kayak...

moved down to Swan, launched just up stream of the 160 bridge and paddled up stream looking for deep holes similar to what i found the whites in at Beaver, almost made it to the old "broken Bridge" hole. caught several small LM bass and one 16" smallie on a pearl fat free shad crankbait, but no whites. floated back down stream, saw a kid catch a 18" walleye at "old school road", continued down stream back at the park, caught a 16" LM bass right against the bluff just upstream of the 160 bridge. Continued to drift pass the short bridge, made a cast toward the bridge with my homemade A-rig with pearl paddle tail minnows and hooked up, it was two 12" white (my first double on the rig), so i found a spot to anchor and caught 9 more whites the biggest being 15", and missed 20 or so other hits. My butt gave out before i limited out ( lost the cushion to my kayak).

[vonreed]

Saturday Report... tried powersite to fish the rockpile but with half the top of the dam down, the other half up and they were generating, it was a little frustrating trying to find a current to drift and cast, plus the colliding currents created some rough water for my kayak...

moved down to Swan, launched just up stream of the 160 bridge and paddled up stream looking for deep holes similar to what i found the whites in at Beaver, almost made it to the old "broken Bridge" hole. caught several small LM bass and one 16" smallie on a pearl fat free shad crankbait, but no whites. floated back down stream, saw a kid catch a 18" walleye at "old school road", continued down stream back at the park, caught a 16" LM bass right against the bluff just upstream of the 160 bridge. Continued to drift pass the short bridge, made a cast toward the bridge with my homemade A-rig with pearl paddle tail minnows and hooked up, it was two 12" white (my first double on the rig), so i found a spot to anchor and caught 9 more whites the biggest being 15", and missed 20 or so other hits. My butt gave out before i limited out ( lost the cushion to my kayak).

Hey Richy, I don't know if you noticed or not, but me and my 2 boys were under the bridge down there while you were there, I seen you catching some whites and wondered how many you caught. We were down there from 11 to 7.

[Moswimb8slinger]

ok, i did see ya, i got started that young, casting a 1/2oz bell sinker in our front yard of our Iowa home

i got 11 whites, but missed probably 20 or so, i think they might have been hitting the Blade Attractor on my A-rig, key thing i noticed watching other people throwing the A-rig is that they started their retrieve as soon as it hit the water, where i was letting it sink to the bottom first and then start reeling, the bass usually hit it about half way back to the Yak, i dont have my sonar hooked up so i'm not sure what depth they were hang out at. I haven't taken the time yet to figure out the sink rate of my homemade A-rig.