Any Reports - It Should Be Happening

[Wahoo61]

Water temp acording to the Corp website was 60 today. Wipers and white bass should be doing it below the dam. Anybody been down? I will be going down this weekend and will report. Thanks for any reports!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bill B.]

I looked at the same thing this morning and took tomorrow off work.

[Wayne SW/MO]

I heard they're going to have a lottery drawing for the first rock.

Just kidding, good luck.

[Bill B.]

Got down there yesterday (Tuesday) at 6:45 a.m. Fished until 10 a.m. on the generator side. Took a break, then fished from noon until 2:30.

Not many people fishing, really, not for Truman Dam. Many more fishing over in the slack water. The docks were pretty much full in the morning, not so much in the afternoon. Maybe 30-40 boats clustered there at noon. Couldn't see how the people in the boats were doing, but the folks on the docks were catching a lot of crappie, mostly small. I didn't see an honest 10-inch fish on the dock that I visited.

On the generator side, the crappie bite was light but consistent. If you know where the concrete slide down to the water is, I fished downstream from that. There were maybe half a dozen other people there in the morning, scattered along 50 yards or more of bank. Most crappie were 6-8 inches long, but every third or fourth fish broke the 9-inch barrier. Some were bigger than that. I quit with 15 fish, none under 10 inches, and several that went 12-13 inches.

By afternoon, the generator-side bank was nearly empty. I caught more and bigger fish in the afternoon.

If you let your jig hit the rocks within 10 feet of the bank, you'd usually catch a short white crappie. Farther out, on the bottom, you'd pick up bigger fish. The biggest were all black crappie, and my biggest came off the bottom at least 50 feet out from the bank. Their bite was super light.

I didn't catch a single white bass. Caught one hybrid that might have weighed two pounds. Where are the white bass?

Lots of spoonbill out in the current.

[Wayne SW/MO]

Is the water over the walking area on that side?

[oneshot]

Is the water over the walking area on that side?

Nope!

oneshot

[Wayne SW/MO]

Good, I'm getting to old for the rocks on the ferry side.