Smallmouth

[jbooth24]

How is the small mouth and google eye fishing after the rain we had? I am heading down to Galena to do some floating and fishing on Sunday. Plus how are te catfish biting also.

[Dougie]

Not sure about that far down but we fished from deleware to shelvin a few weeks back and had a great time. The fishing was hot on anything white and shiny small spinners, roster tails, white grubs, small crank baits. Good luck and tell us how it goes

[jbooth24]

I will let you know how it goes. I am planning on going to float from springfield lake darn to hooten town hardly know one fishes from the darn to the first access point

[vonreed]

I will let you know how it goes. I am planning on going to float from springfield lake darn to hooten town hardly know one fishes from the darn to the first access point

I assume you are camping on that float, because that is a very long float/drag. The catfish are biting awesome, if you find their little holes.

[jbooth24]

I do plan on camping I'm taking my vacation and need a much get away from the city. I also thought about just floating it down to galena would be a nice 3 or 4 day float. Am I hear by river cut there is some really good smallmouth and large mouth bass all throu there. I was going to run a trout line at night and catch some catfish.

[Fishslayer88]

The past 4-5 days have been pretty good early morning and in the evening for bass and catfish. Ive been catching cats in deep pools just below some fast water on netted sucker minnows and bass on buzzbaits and anything that looks like a crawfish.

[jbooth24]

I have been having a lot of luck on live cr dad's with the gogle eye and some little small mouth have been biting them. I have seen some nice size large mouth swim by the canoe but I caint ever get them to bite

[vonreed]

Wow it sounds like you are gonna have some fun. Maybe I will see you float by me somewhere. I plan on being on the river with my boy both days, but will be walking in on private ground to try and avoid the crowds. Good luck.

[jbooth24]

I just might and good luck to you also it's always nice to meet a fellow forem guy on the river

[ozark trout fisher]

Did pretty well yesterday floating from Springfield Lake on down to a private take-out. Good bass fishing, especially on Rebel Craws and just about every other type of smallish crankbait. I've never fished there until yesterday so I don't know what the normal clarity is, but it was about 2+ feet of visibilty and cloudy. But not off-color enough to do anything but make the fish less suspicous.

Pretty little river, even in that relatively "urban" stretch.