Last Weeks Good, Bad, Ugly and Very Good 3-30-15

[Bill Babler]

This has been a very different past few days here with just a multitude of different patterns working or not working here. It is just a bit off the hook.

We have water that ranges from full blow Mississippi Mud, to Lake of the Ozark Stained to our usual clear. Folks are catching them in all 3. Personally I cannot catch a fish in any kind of stain or mud, I have to have my clear water.

Surface temps are 45 to 53 and really muddy or no, it does not seem to matter on the temps.

First I would like to thank Hammer Time, BassCatFan, Cadewompus, and those guys posting out of Big Creek Resort for some wonderful information and pic's on who, what, when, where and how.

I have fished all the same water this past week and as Champ put it, both of us were more than put in our places. I have just flat ground the bill off that Rock Crawler in every color and have had limited success while others have hit them pretty hard on it to their credit.

Best deal for me early was swimming the grub and the A-Rig, before the rain came. After the rain we have been catching them fair to decent, my average day has been 14 to 18 fish with usually only one or two shorts. Most have been solid keeps, but no kickers. Slowest day was Friday with 9 fish, but 7 were pretty solid.

Fish are not scattered and there is not one here and one there. They are either there in numbers or not at all. The comments I read from Cadewhompus were exactly like I have been finding, however he caught them better. You find a place holding fish you better make a milk run as they are there for a reason.

Since the rain the RC and the Sticker have been about my best deal. Either a Blue Bandit or a Pro-Blue Megabass has done the majority of my work for me. Beck had a very good day swimming a grub yesterday. He had numbers but we had some very nice size on the stickbait.

Also had some wobblehead fish and one of all things on a floater.

Look for things to really improve this week, and again boys thanks for taking time to post, it is the lifes blood of any fourm.

Good Luck

[dtrs5kprs]

Gosh, that was some brown water in the background. Nasty.

It is great we have more folks posting reports this spring. Hope they feel welcomed by all.

[abkeenan]

Nice report Bill. The veteran angler in the 2nd pic down with the red coat has a real tank of a spot there. Congrats.

[abkeenan]

Gosh, that was some brown water in the background. Nasty.

It is great we have more folks posting reports this spring. Hope they feel welcomed by all.

Go figure the Turd Worm Maestro doesn't like Turd Water conditions.

[*T*]

Bill, your comment about them either being there or not at all seems like a common theme about this time of year. I remember similar bite last year. If we weren't finding them, we would move until we did. Thanks for you report.

Good luck out there, all.

[dtrs5kprs]

Go figure the Turd Worm Maestro doesn't like Turd Water conditions.

I don't like dirty water generally. Spent the first several years I fished the lake running upriver from Viola or Cape Fair, until I figured out how to catch them in clear water. Figuring out the smoke grub and split shot pretty much finished my dirty water days, at least unless forced.

At some point I had to ask myself why I was driving past Truman and LOZ if all I wanted to do was throw jigs and blades at wood up a river.

The little guy actually fishes pretty well in dirty water. Looking forward to trying the small Garland crappie rattles. Don has been catching them pretty well with one of those in the bait.

[*T*]

I don't like dirty water generally. Spent the first several years I fished the lake running upriver from Viola or Cape Fair, until I figured out how to catch them in clear water. Figuring out the smoke grub and split shot pretty much finished my dirty water days, at least unless forced.

At some point I had to ask myself why I was driving past Truman and LOZ if all I wanted to do was throw jigs and blades at wood up a river.

The little guy actually fishes pretty well in dirty water. Looking forward to trying the small Garland crappie rattles. Don has been catching them pretty well with one of those in the bait.

The modifications are never ending!?

[Bill Babler]

Ab's I have been very fortunate to really be on some large spotted bass this year. Most have come from the same general area. Those fish that we were catching 3 weeks ago vertical have now moved in the water column and I'm starting to see them on a stick bait. Very Seldom do we catch one pushing up on 4 pounds on a grub, unless they are deep suspended fish.

His Grandson is just down the story with another nice K. I had caught a 3.5 pound Jaw just previous on a wobblehead, and then these boys came back strong with the stick bait fish.

We had pretty close to 15 pounds yesterday, but not a huge number of fish.

Pretty easy to see where Josh got his passion for fishing, it came from his Grand dad. Both of those guys were very good hands and a pleasure to spend the day in the boat with.

[dtrs5kprs]

We have to know...what inspired the floater?

[Bill Babler]

it is time.