June 9th Report near meramec caverns

[Haris122]

Not much to report but yesterday me and my gf did the 6 mile float from meramec state park to meramec caverns in the afternoon. Didn't do all that great but at least we didn't get skunked. She wound up catching 4 sunfish on roostertails (probably would've caught more, but her fishing rod fell overboard and we couldn't find it, and she didn't want to fish much after that), and I got 3 sunfish on roostertails too, and 2 small smallmouth on a crawfish crankbait. I also tried fishing a topwater torpedo, and got a few missed blowups on that, and then a beetlespin, another shallow spinnerbait, and a flicker shad, all of which produced no bites. Both the smallmouth were under 10", and 2 of my sunfish were barely any longer than the actual roostertail, but it beat nothing. On a related note, do you guys put any kind of soft plastic on your spinnerbaits, or use them just as is, and if you do put stuff on them what kind of soft plastics do you guys prefer? I did some type of crawfish imitation but it seemed too bulky for the size of that spinnerbait, so I'm wondering what to potentially use next time.

[snagged in outlet 3]

Twin tail spinnerbait trailer.  I think Zoom

[goosetalk]

Grub or Sassy Shad

[moguy1973]

Smaller paddle tail swimbait like a swimming fluke.

 

[Haris122]

Cool. With all these suggestions I'm feeling like I'll have more luck next time I get to use that spinnerbait.