Goggle-Eye...

[whetstone]

Any creek/river guys having any luck? My usual tactics aren't producing much except a bunch of short smallmouth...

[Idylwilde]

Big Piney is great right now all the way from Sand Shoals to Slab Town and more. Bass is good also on top water right now.

[whetstone]

Thanks for the tip! I haven't floated that stretch of river in years, it's a little far for a day trip for me. Glad to know they're biting somewhere, that means I just haven't found the right water yet. I'm trying new areas I've never fished before, the upper Osage mainly, and gonna try out the upper Niangua within a week or two.

[timinmo]

I don't know about your area but in the streams south of St Louis the goggle-eye are on fire. In the areas I fish, this time of the year, you can hammer the goggle-eye and two months from now you will be hard pressed to catch any. My son and nephew were out yesterday on a local creek/river and caught about an equal mix of goggs and smallmouth. By the time June rolls around if you catch 10% goggle-eye it would be a surprise. I assume it is about their spawning cycle but if you really wanted to exploit a resource it would be pretty easy this time of the year.

Tim

[G-ROD]

I finally got out & caught one..