Bass on LOZ

[WeekendWarrior]

After fishing buddy tournament in dam area last weekend and only catching 1 keeper in 2 days fishing with water temps ranging 44 to 49 put in at pb2 and fished glaize area with water temps from 49-55. Fishing still slow but had 2 keepers on wiggle wart and a giant cat out of a brush pile on a jig. Very frustrating when you know you here the bite is good and your not on them. Been fishing creek banks leading to spawning flats with stickbaits along with secondary points. I think I need to slow down because I can see the fish on graph. See some what I believe are crappie just stacked on some of the brush in the 15 ft range when I go over them. I know the new carbontex drag washers I installed work smooth as silk with the big cat, that thing was chalk full of eggs.

[fishinwrench]

Woah! That's a big channel cat.

[WeekendWarrior]

Wrench is that a channel, thought it was a blue?

[fishinwrench]

I'm not 100% but I think so.

[Smalls21]

i can't see the fins, but it looks like a channel

[BHowe]

It's a Blue Cat

[nomolites]

Big blue. I catch a ton pulling cranks for walleye...NICE!

Mike

[conorsixtakc]

100% blue cat. Hell of a tug!

Im with everybody else waiting for this lake to heat up.

[Seth]

Probably full of shad or did you clean it to verify it was eggs? Those blues will pig out on shad till they look like they are about to bust.

[Old plug]

Probably full of shad or did you clean it to verify it was eggs? Those blues will pig out on shad till they look like they are about to bust.

We have not seen many good blues up in the Gravois the past couple of years. They can be suckers in the fall of the year for spoons fished under frenzy feeding schools of white bass. When the whites feed they slash through those schools and they kill about twice as many as they eat. Big blues will lay on the bottom and just open there mouth like a vacuum cleaner and just scoop them up. Fishing for them on purpose in that situation can be about one of the most exciting and also heart breaking things you can do on LOZ with lighter tackle. I usually forget about the whites and start searching for the big blues. They show up on the flasher as blobs rather than arches. When I find one I drop the spoon down right close to him and just beat it off the bottom with small jiggles. I have caught them to 48lbs doing this. and many over 10lbs on 12 lb test line. I always think of it as a poor mans salt water fishing. Sorry to say it has not been that good in the Gravois this past couple of years.

I tended to agree with Wrench on this because off the shape of that head. As soon as I seen the picture I thought Channel Cat. Something about the overall shape in that photo.