Fishing Report From Yesterday 4/6

[Blazerman]

Got out for a few hours yesterday. Had the Blazer in the water by 10:30 and headed upstream. Really nice water color right now and plenty of water but the wind was brutal. Had some whitecaps on the long straight stretches.

Had a plan to fish some slack water areas because the water would be warmer there and thought the fish might move in.

At the first one, I tried the spinnerbait and got nothing. So i switched to a jig and trailer and caught two really nice spotted bass plus a couple small ones.

Moved to the second area which is a large cove and couldn't fish it effectively because of the wind.

At the third area which usually has slack water, the high water had the water flowing through the area so i skipped it.

At the fourth spot I threw the spinnerbait again and caught two beautiful smallmouth on back to back cast. Plus one a little smaller. At the next stop a couple more. Then quit for the day.

All told caught 9 fish with 5 over 15".

Water temp in the slack water areas was 54. In the main channel 49. All the fish came next to lay downs, most on logs but also a couple of large rocks or boulders.

One weird thing i have never seen. 3 of the large fish had the eels attached to them when I puller them in never

seen that before.

[rangerman]

Lampreys!! Those things are nasty! Good fish though.

[Greasy B]

Nasty but harmless. Good report, let's hope the weather due for mid week doesn't take the good water color away.

[Mottled Sculpin]

What general location of the meramec where you fishing? Thanks for sharing the pics. I'm laid up after having food surgery so I have to live vicariously through people like you at the moment.

[Al Agnew]

The lampreys are pretty commonly found on bass during the winter months, when the bass are more concentrated and they can pick and choose where they want to latch on. As Greasy said, they are not all that harmful to the fish unless there are other problems in the fish or the water, but I have seen lamprey bites get infected and cause problems with the fish.

[Blazerman]

What general location of the meramec where you fishing? Thanks for sharing the pics. I'm laid up after having food surgery so I have to live vicariously through people like you at the moment.

Sculpin, one of these days I will haul the Blazer to some different water, but yesterday I did my usual. I keep my boat in our garage at my property on the river by the K bridge so it is real easy to get there grab the boat and launch at Redhorse. Easy to fish half a day and get some chores done as well.

From there I usually head upstream. I usually fish between the bridge and Plum ford but have run as far as the caverns. When I was a kid we had a place at Twins Springs which is downstream from Sand Ford.

Guess that is why the section of river between the caverns and the K Bridge has a special place in my heart.

Nice to hear the eels don’t really bother the fish much but I could see how the bite marks could get infected after seeing the one spotted bass that had a bunch of bite marks.

[Haris122]

Went out yesterday here (St. Louis) at Lower Meramec Park to get a piece of the action but failed. Not sure what kind, but plenty of fish were really active, weather was awesome, bite (for me at least) on the other hand was nonexistent.

[Smalliebigs]

interesting.......were they schooling fish or just fish breaking water randomly??? I have been trying on the whites/hybrids and have struck out so far

Went out yesterday here (St. Louis) at Lower Meramec Park to get a piece of the action but failed. Not sure what kind, but plenty of fish were really active, weather was awesome, bite (for me at least) on the other hand was nonexistent.

[Haris122]

I would say breaking random throughout the day.