LOTS of water... and several whites too

[bwcballer10]

Part 1 Saturday May 6th

Decided I needed to see all the water with my own eyes last weekend. Pulled up to Taylor with a buddy and my father in law right at sun up last weekend (5-6) The parking lot was completely under water. Water color was BROWN. We brought the john boat with us but caught the majority of our fish wading in the parking lot. When the bites would stop we would jump in the boat and go fish the creek for 30 minutes or so. Then we would go back to the parking lot and start catching fish again. We had 3 limits of whites by 11 o'clock. We were all using a purple swimmin minnow on an eighth ounce head. My father in law caught all but 2 of his fish out of the creek. My buddy and I caught 90 percent of our fish out of the parking lot. Weird how that happened since we were using the same set ups.

Part 2 Saturday May 13th

Had a buddy come down from St. Louis this weekend and said he was ready to catch some white bass. I told him I didn't know if there would be any whites still left in the river but I was definitely willing to give it a try. We put in at 215 bridge and floated to Orleans. Caught our first white right there under the bridge. We would find a fish or 2 every place that we stopped but only found 1 spot right below the frisco line trail bridge where we caught more than 3 fish. We ended up catching between 40 and 50 whites (several of the dink males), 4 crappie and one 4 pound large mouth. The river turns into lake right around the s-curves above Taylor (CRAZY!!!) This is where the current stopped and there were no whites below that point. After not catching anything around Taylor we just trolled the rest of the way to the truck at Orleans.