Any Recent Fishing Reports?

[jrjacobi]

Heading down tomorrow, first time to the lake this year. Wanting to know if there are any Cyrene reports? What's working best, how deep, things like that. Gonna be saying close to the dam. Hawaiian island area. Thanks

[jrjacobi]

Supposed to be CURRENT fishing reports. Silly auto correct on my phone. Thanks

[Mike3004]

I am hearing spawn, post spawn patterns. Seconday points with plastics, texas or carolina rigged from two different sources. If you are catching short males on the bank, target deeper water with your casts - 10 feet of water for example. I also would think there would be some topwater action early.

If it's sunny, target the boat docks on points near these spawning coves, especially if there are brush piles. Good luck.

[FishinJack]

I run a guide service here at the lake and have had several good trips the last few days. The mid and upper portions of the lake the bass are in full spawning mode. The lower section (where you're at) the spawn is almost all done. Post spawn fish can throw some fisherman for a loop. But I love it and look forward to it every year. I spend time looking at the depth finder and fishing main lake points with plastic worms to keep my clients on fish. Heavy generation means lots of current running through the lake right now and points are going to be the ticket for you down there. My guide trip today was out of Point Randel at the 2mm. We started off shallow with little luck and then moved out deeper to the points. Ran into several groups of fish out there. Football jigs, jigging spoons, topwaters and plastic worms were the main baits today. One of my customers caught his biggest bass ever today about 6lbs! It was a great morning.

Jack

www.FishingLakeoftheOzarks.com

[jrjacobi]

Thanks for the tips.

Had a great day today on the lake. Best 5 went 18.2. Biggest 4.8.

Caught them on a little bit of everything. Jig, plastic worms, lizards. No top water today.

[Burnku]

Thanks for the report Jack, great information. Are you catching fish suspended off the points, or closer to the bottom?

Any other reports would be greatly appreciated. I'm heading down this weekend for the first time of the year.

Anyone catching any white bass?

[JavelinCaptn]

I just spent 3 days down there this last weekend. I actually signed up on this site because of this thread, wanted to thank Jack....we took his advice from his fishing report and it really helped. My girlfriend and I recently bought our first boat and are getting back into fishing, we both did a lot of it in our childhoods and teenage years.

Anywhoo, we had great luck with largemouth last couple weekends on plastic worms. Green pumpkin I think is the color. She was using a finesse worm and I was using ones with swirly tails, Texas rigged.

And as far as the white bass, she would switch to a Rapala crank bait, looked like a shad, she said it was about a 6' diver, and she was just tearing white bass up. Weren't eve particularly fishing for them. We were catching them off of points.

Bass were hitting pretty well too. Caught a few in the 13-14" range, but almost as many in the 16-18" range. Not a big deal I realize for most, but understand i know so little about fishing, I'm lucky to know which end of my fishing pole is the end I hold on to lol

This was on the niangua arm. Which was a neat experience as far as navigating in a an 18' boat and trying to fish, as Ive always stayed at condos on the 13mm of the main channel. That's a little rough on the weekends.

Good luck!

[Burnku]

Thanks for the report Javelin. Were you fishing main lake or secondary points? How deep were you finding the bass? Congrats on the new boat. Sounds like you've found some good fishing.

[JavelinCaptn]

We were fishing main channel points. The largemouths were hitting in about 5' of water, close to the bank, just inside the cove from the point moreso than once we got farther into the coves.

We'd start in the cove and work our way out to the point, and once we got to the point, I would go out into some deeper water, probably about 15', and that's when she'd switch to that crank bait and th white bass would start hitting.

I would also say that between the two weekends we went, there was much more success with the finesse worm than with my worm texas rigged. I don't know what the proper name for it is, but we just used a small hook, put it thru the center of the worm, with no weight. Results were better probably to the tune of 3:1.

[MOsmallies]

Sounds like your finesse worm setup was a wacky rigged senko... Senko's are very productive this time of year at the lake. I was down last weekend but we caught a lot more dinks than you. We caught several in the 15"-18" class, but a lot more 10"-13" fish than in past years. Must have been a strong year class... That just means there will be a lot of 15"-16" keepers in 2 years

Thanks for the report!

Paul

MOsmallies