Smalliebigs Posted August 22, 2015 Posted August 22, 2015 Well my wife is working three 12 to 15 hour shifts Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays. Then she has clinicals and NP school Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. She just finished the second semester of this hell tour and had Friday off so we had to take advantage of it while our daughter was exploring her new Kindergarten world. We actually had originally gone to the area to tour an Awesome property on the Courtuois. We looked at the place and ended up not getting out until 12:15. We floated from the Courtuois to the Huzzah and into the Meramec. I started out walking the dawg with okay success only a few here and there but they were all dinks. The water level was up about 6 inches but a very stable flow.The water temps had dropped bigtime since I had been there two weeks prior....the high temp only felt like 78 yesterday. The topwater just wasn't really holding my interest. I had promised myself to use Mitch's craw as it just seems like I am stuck on Topwater baits recently. What a good decision that was.The first log I threw Mitch's craw to produces a fat 16. It seems like as long as you made a good cast to the logs In moving water with that craw they would just gobble it up. This lure was on fire!!!!! I proceeded to just tear up some fish in the Huzzah, it was honestly one of my better days of smallie fishing in Missouri in awhile. Several 17 + fish and large amount of fish from 15 to 16...not giants but man was it fun!!!! The Mitch craw seems to be a bigger fish bait IMO....I just don't catch dinks with that thing. If you know how to fish a jig you will excel with the Mitch Craw. When we got to the confluence of the Huzzah and the Meramec just down stream is a nice big log and I threw the craw in to that thing and felt the bump and on this fish for some reason I felt it was big and set the hook like an Elite series angler and almost tipped the canoe. Initially I though I had snagged the log but, when I had big wide head shakes I really got excited. ....too excited!!! A Bronze beast broke the surface that was 20 for sure, a true Ozark beast!!! I fought her not very well and was it was amateur hour really....lost the fish after it bulldozered me at the canoe three times....Landing bigone's in a canoe without a net is precarious. Even with loosing the hawg it's was just a crazy good day of fishing and relaxing for my wife....Mitch's craw is LEGIT. Hog Wally, Pat Magee, Greasy B and 1 other 4
mjk86 Posted August 22, 2015 Posted August 22, 2015 Great report and pics! Very nice smallmouth! Thats the most realistic craw bait ive ever seen, really incredible. A bonus bikini picture too... this is an A plus fishing report. Mitch f and Smalliebigs 2
Smalliebigs Posted August 22, 2015 Author Posted August 22, 2015 Hahahaha......I'm sure Kate wouldn't appreciate but, I was just trying g to show how she lays on the front t of our canoe....I don't think she has sat in a canoe in a decade. Mitch's craws are really good....I was fishing it on a football head he pours....here is the one they were eating yesterday and a root beer color he did for ultra clear water. Well it seems like I have reached my limit of posting pics on this thread??? It would t let me post anymore....sorry Mitch f and Hog Wally 2
cnr Posted August 22, 2015 Posted August 22, 2015 Awesome report and pics. Way to go with Mitch's craw, if those were any more realistic you could boil em and eat them. Smalliebigs and Mitch f 2
Members jackdizo Posted August 22, 2015 Members Posted August 22, 2015 Great report and pics! awesome looking bronze back. Mitch's craws look nice, especially with that jig head, looks like they pair up nicely!
Members DownStream Posted August 22, 2015 Members Posted August 22, 2015 Nice fish smalliebigs. It's been a great year on the Huzzah and Meramec, atleast for me. Good size and numbers and all but one trip. Those crawls look nice, hope to get my hands on them one day. Thanks for the report. Pics of the livery canoe got a good laugh.
drew03cmc Posted August 23, 2015 Posted August 23, 2015 Man, I'm at work and you're doing this? Looks like a hell of a fun day, glad you were able to get out. Andy
Mitch f Posted August 23, 2015 Posted August 23, 2015 Nice fish smalliebigs. It's been a great year on the Huzzah and Meramec, atleast for me. Good size and numbers and all but one trip. Those crawls look nice, hope to get my hands on them one day. Thanks for the report. Pics of the livery canoe got a good laugh. I think the middle and lower stretches on the Meramec weren't that good this year because of all the rain kept things messed up. But up by the Huzzah it was a much better river I'm sure. "Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor
Seth Posted August 23, 2015 Posted August 23, 2015 Sounds like an awesome day! We had a stellar day on the Gasconade yesterday as well. The weather and water conditions seem to have finally aligned! Gavin, Mitch f and Smalliebigs 3
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