wily Posted February 26, 2017 Posted February 26, 2017 We went up the neosho this afternoon for a couple hours...we didn't go up very far...stayed below the gravel road. water temp was 57. Air temp was quite a bit cooler. Bout the same results as last time...handful of fish...both trolling and with the swimming minnows. not near as many people out...only saw 3 boats in the river...about 15 trailers in lot. Did see a spoonbill being cleaned at the ramp Johnsfolly 1
BilletHead Posted February 26, 2017 Posted February 26, 2017 Thanks for the report Wily, I made the trip back over last Wednesday. Found the WT just like you did. Started fishing a couple miles above the gravel road ramp where we had our best luck from the trip before. Caught a few there but more just below the gravel road bridge ramp on same side as the ramp. Ended up with twenty, two fishermen. No one was tearing them up that day as far was we could see. Four caught trolling looking for fish, the rest pounding the muddy banks with small crank baits after we found a concentration of fish. Fire tiger and purple back Flicker shad. Passing time waiting for them to hit the shoals so I can break out the fly rod, BilletHead Johnsfolly 1 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
wily Posted February 26, 2017 Author Posted February 26, 2017 That's where we've been fishing...but most of our time has been on other side of river...from the little shelf rock down past the quansat hut a couple hundred yards.
Members nwaflakes Posted February 27, 2017 Members Posted February 27, 2017 I'm finally getting a chance to get out on the river tomorrow in search of whites! Thanks for all the updates! When using crank baits did you have success with one particular color or model over another? What depth were you trolling at? I think our plan now is to put in at twin bridges and head up about the Neosho about a mile or so pass that first bridge and troll with crank baits then move over to jigs and gogo minnows if we can find a pocket. Anybody try the spring river yet?
BilletHead Posted February 27, 2017 Posted February 27, 2017 The ones we were catching on crank baits were from a foot deep on the banks casting to ten to twelve foot deep trolling. Like I put in post above fire tiger or something with white. Smaller size baits, BilletHead "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
Members nwaflakes Posted March 1, 2017 Members Posted March 1, 2017 We fought the wind most of the day yesterday on the Neosho, but did have some success trolling white crank baits about a mile or so from the twin bridges boat ramp. We jigged fished north of the gravel bridge with chartreuse and white gogo minnows and marabous on road runners with very limited success. Not many boats out yesterday and those we talked to seemed to be doing about the same. We'll try em again in a few weeks and may go up the spring the next go around. wily and BilletHead 2
wily Posted March 5, 2017 Author Posted March 5, 2017 We went back this afternoon. More spoonbill fishermen than white bass fisherman today...but didn't see many being caught of either today. It was pretty slow. Water temp was 55 to 57.
BilletHead Posted March 5, 2017 Posted March 5, 2017 Glad you got back out Wily, Would of liked to be looking for fish myself but the wind oh my goodness. The distance of our drive plus the wind equals a no go. Would get me pretty frustrated. In your opinion do you think the fish have moved farther upstream? Water temp is looking better, BilletHead "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
wily Posted March 5, 2017 Author Posted March 5, 2017 No, I felt like we were around fish...just couldn't get many to bite. The fish we did catch were a little bigger...not sows but not little bucks. The drive is the nice part here...it's the closest to us. We waited til about 230 to leave the house...we passed a lot of boats coming North on 43...by the time we got there the wind had kind a laid...at least in the neosho river...we only fished a couple hours. My son caught a couple so that's all that really matters to me BilletHead 1
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