Water Is Low Fishing Is Slow

[watermen]

Fished above trophy area today with small fish the norm and not very fast action. Water is getting low even after rain it had dropped. On the plus side jet boat traffic is down as there are sections cut off from even the most daring of guys in a light tunneled boat. Nothing over 14 inches today and lots of largemouth on the buzzbait. Moss is bad as well and kept a crank from being fishable. Tubes and stickbaits worked the best simply because you could fish them.

[Greasy B]

Thanks for the report, slow but not all bad. Yes it will be quite now that the power boats can't run the river. Did you fish up or downstream from waynseville (17)? Are there many weed beds choking the river?

[Gavin]

Beats work! Sounds like a nice time.

[eric1978]

Same exact results we had yesterday, Schlicht Spring to Roubidoux. Perfect fishing weather, mediocre fishing. Have a feeling that stretch gets absolutely hammered with jetboats.

[watermen]

Specifically house on the rock to about 2 miles below 17. The river is cut off from there up to a jet and plenty of shoals are real skinny. Water was about perfect color not too clear. Fish were in summer pattern below shoals or in rocks in faster water or close to lumber. brown chomper outfished pumpkin today, and fish stayed on buzzbait till we quit at 1, it was cloudy over here though. and windy as well. Very pleasant day after the chill went off at 8 with these temps.

[watermen]

weed beds are on side greasy, but moss is floating in current and covering bottom, Made fishing difficult at times, atleast hard to fish effectively and stay close to bottom.

[Greasy B]

If that water gets pounded by the jet boaters they'd have to do it early in the season. The water drops out real quick above 17. This year the window closed a month or more ago. At times of good water the jet boaters may run into weed beds that completely clog the river if they were to float down stream over one they would be hard pressed to get back up. It's kind of entertaining to think about, all the horse power in the world wont save you.

[eric1978]

We saw several jetboats docked up or on people's property...we also heard one but never caught glimpse of it. So they're out there, and they have access...they're just limited to certain stretches between certain riffles. Just a few jetboats and a few local meat-hungry anglers can do a lot of damage in a short period of time. And I'm betting they have.

[Greasy B]

Your probably right, sad. That is one river that just begs for better regs on more miles.

[Smalliebigs]

I love how you guys blame your poor fishing days on Jet boat fisherman......we all need a scapegoat for our bruised egos. I haven't seen good fishing many places right now so make all excuses you want.......I do the same thing.