Short Report

[decoded]

Finally had a couple of days off...spent one at Bennett standing in the cold water and a few hours yesterday on Truman. Didn't get skunked, but it was a little tough. We put in at Longshoal about 9:00 and ran up to G8-ish to hit a few cedar trees. We caught about a dozen crappie right off the bat so we thought it was going to be great. Didn't seem to matter what color jig. But after a half hour or so it shut completely off. The water was definitely more stained that I thought it would be.

We went back around to Sugar Camp area and didn't get a bite. Next we decided to see if we could find a white bass at G4 and caught a nice hybrid in the first 100' of trolling a while grub. But that was that and nothing else seemed interested there so we ran up to the dam. At least there we were successful in catching fish and in good numbers. Those Truman Lake Redfish (drum) sure do hit hard! We could have caught them all day I'm sure but we had enough and headed back home.

Beautiful day on the lake without question. Got a little warm after lunch with not much breeze. We'll try again in the morning...

[MOPanfisher]

Awesome, good report. Drum are fun if aggravating sometimes to catch.

[slab slinger]

Got a tip from a bud the crappie bite was hot. I Fished Tebo Arm yesterday. Had to run slow when we hit the fog wall, the thickest I've ever ran in. Chased crappie Fished trees from 7 to 25FOW and didn't do so well. Got 3 slabs couple drum and a few bass. Saw alot of boats moving spots fast so I beleave they were having trouble putting together a pattern as well. Ramp talk sad slow for them as well. Long trip for me but you dont know unless you go.

[Hook Dupp]

Group of us headed up in October with the kids. No experience on this lake. Any advice on areas to start would be greatly appreciated. Thanks