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So yesterday I attempted to get out between the storms before the river became un-fishable and the weekend crowd showed up.  Checked the river levels which showed about a 2' rise and headed out to find the river up 4-5' and looking like a chocolate milk log flume!  Despite the wife's terrified misgivings I'm chasing smallies!  Fished my usual spots and some calmer backwaters thinking they might be looking for a break from the current.  Tried everything but a ned rig and caught........ nothing.

tried bouncing soft plastics on the bottom and deep cranks in a few spots with good current breaks and seams with eddys and caught ...........nothing.

finally gave up and just went for a ride.  Came around a bend and found a clear water source dumping in and thought I would try working the clear/muddy color line and caught......nothing.

trolling motored my way into the clear water source and the wife's rod loads up on the first cast, aaaand the second, aaaaaand the third, and so on. I caught...wait for it....nothing.

so then I look at the little Ned rig kit I bought awhile back and due to "self pride/man card/it's not cool if everyone else does it" reasons I've never used.....hell with it! where's the super glue!?

so yeah, 15 minutes and 15 fish later (13 for the wife on her magic crank bait) I'm looking at this half a senko blob of glue thing like "great...now I'm THAT guy".  

The moral you ask? Go ahead and take the redhead marching band girl with freckles and bony knees to the prom.  Your pride might suffer but your dance card won't.

PS.

how do you guys catch those beautiful fish in these muddy conditions?

"Floaters make it hard to fish but sometimes they improve the scenery..."

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5 hours ago, Parkerhollow said:

 

how do you guys catch those beautiful fish in these muddy conditions?

there is a magic crankbait of unsaid color that is the only thing that they will bite under those conditions.  Has your wife been holding out on you?:)

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6 hours ago, Jerry Rapp said:

there is a magic crankbait of unsaid color that is the only thing that they will bite under those conditions.  Has your wife been holding out on you?:)

Brother, you have no idea!

"Floaters make it hard to fish but sometimes they improve the scenery..."

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I've only fished truly muddy conditions a few times on the Meramec and the Gasconade. Each trip was tough, but I did catch a few on a black/blue chatterbait fished very slowly and a 1/2oz black spinnerbait with a single colorado blade slow rolled with my rod held high. I didn't catch many, but each trip yielded some nice fish to make up for it.

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On 5/27/2016 at 9:25 AM, Parkerhollow said:

how do you guys catch those beautiful fish in these muddy conditions?

I don't.  I've fallen out of the boat and tore up more equipment (i.e. trolling motor shafts and transducers) in muddy water than I ever have in low clear water.  I don't have to fish so badly that I have to fish muddy water.  It isn't worth the headaches anymore.......

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