Friday Whites

[bwcballer10]

Headed to the dam for the first time this year Friday morning. Started off fishing on the west side, they started running water right after sunrise and the white bass cooperated pretty well after that. We were standing by the fence (as close to the dam as you can get) casting down the bank towards the flat spot. The way that bank is shaped it was making a current break and that is where the whites were coming from. Action seemed to start slowing there so we moved down to the spillway on the west side and picked up our last couple of whites. We finished out the morning on the east side trying to add a few crappie but we just found more whites. I did catch my best truman dam crappie right before we left (13 incher). Buddy and I ended up with 2 limits of whites and 8 crappie, got them cleaned in the parking lot and started the long drive back to springfield.

[Hog Wally]

Sweet! That's a cool report. Was it crowded?

[bwcballer10]

On the west side there was 10-15 people fishing below the spillway (only one person besides us fishing above the spillway on the west side, surprisingly) and then another 15-20 people scattered down the east bank. So by truman standards it wasn't crowded at all. I'm assuming the front moving in along with the rain deterred several of the crappie fisherman from trying it. Also didn't see any hybrids being caught with the whites.