Middle meramec report

[BassMaster#1]

Posting for my buddy jigmaster82.....fished middle meramec caught 8 8-12" spots that he threw up on shore.....1 smalie 14", big drum and this monster walleye.....walleye and drum came on a crank rest on mitch craw and fluke.....walleye was about 23" and weighed 6.9lbs

[BassMaster#1]

Said it was hard but threw walleye back...was full of eggs

[Al Agnew]

Excellent!  I sure wish more people would practice catch and release on big walleye.  They are one of the very few fish in Missouri capable of reaching world record size, but they aren't all that abundant, and everybody seems to want to keep every one they catch.  Their reputation for being such a delicious fish to eat is overrated in my opinion, especially the bigger ones.  Crappie and bluegill are as good or better.

[Chief Grey Bear]

Just threw those spots up on the bank. 

Classic.

[Hog Wally]

Nice report.   Love hearing about catch and release on the meramec walleye. I ate only 2 last year off this river.  I'm really liking your catch and release spot technique much more ?

[harber01]

I am new to fishing the Meramec and other rivers in the area.  I see you are in a boat (not a canoe/kayak).  I am fishing out of a 17' aluminum bass tracker with an outboard.  I was wondering, where the "Middle Meramec" is considered - it looks like it may be deep enough for me?  I know some of the streams and rivers will just be too shallow.  I have fished over near Route 66 in Eureka and have no problem with the 5-8' water, but am limited with the shallow rapids at the 44 bridge and Big River mouth.  Thanks for the help and nice job on the catch and release.

 

[moguy1973]

On 3/7/2017 at 3:48 PM, harber01 said:

I am new to fishing the Meramec and other rivers in the area.  I see you are in a boat (not a canoe/kayak).  I am fishing out of a 17' aluminum bass tracker with an outboard.  I was wondering, where the "Middle Meramec" is considered - it looks like it may be deep enough for me?  I know some of the streams and rivers will just be too shallow.  I have fished over near Route 66 in Eureka and have no problem with the 5-8' water, but am limited with the shallow rapids at the 44 bridge and Big River mouth.  Thanks for the help and nice job on the catch and release.

 

Most of the middle Meramec is too shallow for a prop. Can't really go above the Big with a prop very easily.

I think the upper Meramec generally is from the source to the Huzzah, the Middle is from the Huzzah to the Bourbeuse, and the Lower is below the Bourbeuse.

[Chief Grey Bear]

On 2/28/2017 at 8:17 PM, Chief Grey Bear said:

Just threw those spots up on the bank. 

Classic.

If you catch a meanmouth, do you throw it  on the bank too? 

Or do you let the interracial ones go because they do have some smallmouth genes in them?

[trythisonemv]

Are the spots so bad that you have to kill them? Seems wasteful could eat them or something.  

[Flysmallie]

I think that tossing them up on the bank is a fine. No different than a gigger sticking a smallmouth at that point.