Water Is Getting Low And Dangerous

[Mitch f]

That's a feat!

[Hog Wally]

All clear! She came up 8" or so. Easy running again. I was getting used to having the whole river to myself. A lot of top water chases going on. A Slugo or buzz bait ought to get em

[fishinwrench]

I was getting used to having the whole river to myself.

There's some danger in assuming that.

[Blazerman]

All clear! She came up 8" or so. Easy running again. I was getting used to having the whole river to myself. A lot of top water chases going on. A Slugo or buzz bait ought to get em

Nice to hear there was a little rise. You know i was still out there every weekend in my little Blazer but it was getting hairy and if i didn't know my stretch of river i would not of been.

i will be there tomorrow so hope you right about the topwater bite. the green slime has made it impossible to fish much of anything subsurface.

[Smalliebigs]

All clear! She came up 8" or so. Easy running again. I was getting used to having the whole river to myself. A lot of top water chases going on. A Slugo or buzz bait ought to get em

dude lets go!!!!!

[Hog Wally]

I ran to pickles ford and back this morning. Water is perfect color now and dog days moss is nearly gone. Caught one really nice smallie on a crank. Unfortunately I only had a short window to fish. Not a single other boat out. Water is up 8" but still pretty sketchy for outboards because of all the hairpin turns in shallow spots. I don't think I've seen a prettier meramec than what it was this morn

[Mitch f]

I ran to pickles ford and back this morning. Water is perfect color now and dog days moss is nearly gone. Caught one really nice smallie on a crank. Unfortunately I only had a short window to fish. Not a single other boat out. Water is up 8" but still pretty sketchy for outboards because of all the hairpin turns in shallow spots. I don't think I've seen a prettier meramec than what it was this morn

I can be to your place in 1.5 hours........we going today?

[Hog Wally]

Okay, so it's time to hit the river boys. I'm telling you they are biting. I ain't worried about a mass of people showing up cause the water is treacherously low still. I ran from red horse down to river round after church today and had the river basically to myself. Big black smallies readily grabbed my walleye crank. One really really big walleye thrashed off at the boat when he took the lure with 3 ft of string out By the way, nice to meet blazer man

[Blazerman]

Yeah, Nice to finally meet you HW. Did you get the walleye on one of those crankbaits you showed me?. Oh wait, you probably won’t tell me. By the way, right after you left the guy who was fishing across from me and was wading, said he had caught 3 walleye right there. And he them go. He said he never keeps anything. He was using a crankbait too.

I was using minnows, looking for whatever will eat them, which is pretty much everything, and got into some nice cats plus a big white bass/Hybrid. My brother-in-law caught this decent smallmouth, which was let go right away.

I caught the one cat and white in the morning, and cleaned them. Then later, about midmorning, I got together with a buddy of mine, who is a big into cat fishing. I told him how I got the cat fishing in faster water about 3” deep and he didn’t believe me. So I finally said, ok grab your rod and bait and let’s go. I had been telling him about my honey hole where I have been getting these catfish and finally broke down and showed him. He promised to only fish it with me.

So we get there and he couldn’t believe where we were. It is so shallow there I usually just run the front of the boat right up on shore and wade it, because we are on fishing about 5’-8’ from shore in water about 2’-3’ deep.

He loads up his rig with a big gob of stink bait and I throw out my minnow and in 20 minutes we had the three cats in the pic. Made a believer out of him.

[Hog Wally]

Yes that was the crank. And right now the 1 to 5' water with good current and a chunky bottom are hot. Above riffles