Lower Lower Niangua

[Goggle-Eyed]

Put in at Lake Niangua and ran up to about a mile below the lower Lead Mine access yesterday. Fishing was "okay" but not what I would call great.

On about my third cast I had a fat 15" LM blow up my Sammy and thought, holy crap it's gonna be a great day! Well that was my first and last topwater fish for the day. The bite was very slow all day but did manage to catch about 15-20 smallies and what could have been a mess of keeper goggle-eye. I would throw reaction type baits and if didn't get any takers would then throw soft plastics back in and usually pull out at least one fish from likely spots.

I have really been trying to fish "faster" this year but this trip they just wanted it slow.

Joe

[Wayne SW/MO]

What was the flow like down there Joe?

[Greasy B]

Thanks for the report Joe, is there a public ramp on lake Niangua?

[delopez]

A couple of weeks ago, we were about a mile below the Bennet Springs access, just down from Sunset. We caught the hell out of trout, goggle-eye, and smallies (Well, my fishing partner caught the trout...I didn't do so well, trout fishing that day). I'd never had so much fun on the niangua. However, the day before (Saturday), the Aluminum-hatch was horrible. I could barely fire a cast off. We waded up from Barclay access to the first bend and fished it. It only produced one fish... However, I could have landed a floater or two

[Goggle-Eyed]

Wayne, the flow wasn't bad. I did have two "gravel" shoals that I bumped the jet foot on, both going up and coming down. Greasy, there is a public ramp on the "Macks Creek" Side of the lake. It is right by the darn and a long slow run to get to the river. There are a ton of stumps in the lake and you really need to know where the channel is if your going to run much above a no wake speed.