Nice evening

[MOFishwater]

Finally got to dust off the new (to me) kayak and take a little spin on the river. Wife took the kids up to visit the inlaws so I had a long afternoon to get out and explore. 

Never fail to be amazed at how we can have such an awesome resource next to a main artery of the state and there's literally nobody using it much of the time. Sitting there watching a couple kingfishers rattling up and down the river, mature bald eagle cruising by, deer drinking from banks while thousands of cars zip by a few hundred yards away oblivious to what's going on outside their vehicle's windows. Not complaining, I thoroughly enjoyed the serenity and alone time! I can be loaded up and down on the access in minutes so I plan to take as much advantage of it as possible. Only thing that would make it better would be having a friend upriver that would let me dump in there and float down instead of having to get a workout in to float back down all too quickly. 

Had one small spot hit an inline spinner and come unbuttoned, other than that it was pretty slow, more just getting in tune with the new boat and adjusting to the space limitations. Still a wonderful few hours of having a river to myself, hard to beat. Never been much of a river fisherman so it's going to take some patience to find some success, I'm quite sure I'm not in high % water either but that makes it all the more fun to try and figure out. Threw jigs, spinners, whopper plopper, cranks, swimbait, buzzbait. Mebbe next time! 

 

 

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[MOFishwater]

we hit it Friday and Sunday for a few hours. River was insanely busy yesterday as it was perfect out (albeit windy). Still no bass, lots of gar and a big drum. Gonna need to hit up some newer stretches of water. Planned to float down from Allenton yesterday but we nixed it and just checked out some new spots close to home. Kinda funny, I caught a lot more from the bank the few times I was down goofing around. go figure.

[ColdWaterFshr]

2 hours ago, MOFishwater said:

 River was insanely busy yesterday as it was perfect out (albeit windy). Still no bass, lots of gar and a big drum.

Meramec blows.

No bass (except for Mitch and Hogwally's pet fish!)

lots of gar

a big drum

and . . . . . jet boats aplenty

[Mitch f]

The lower Meramec is spotty at best. The Meramec in general hasn't produced much in the last 2 weeks...that should change soon. 

[DownStream]

52 minutes ago, Mitch f said:

The lower Meramec is spotty at best. The Meramec in general hasn't produced much in the last 2 weeks...that should change soon. 

I've noticed this myself. I'm thinking the flooding gave them plant of food for a while. Hopefully that means some chunky bass coming our way soon 😁.

[Gavin]

Still looked a bit high, but the Gasconade & Big Piney look like hell around the Ft. Lots of devastation, Jerome looks completely different. Access is still closed.

[Seth]

56 minutes ago, Gavin said:

Access is still closed.

Hate to be greedy, but I don't mind this. The fishing up that way has been great the past few weeks. The fish are dispersing though. It was decent this past weekend, but not nearly as good as it was afew weeks ago.

[MOFishwater]

16 hours ago, Mitch f said:

The lower Meramec is spotty at best. The Meramec in general hasn't produced much in the last 2 weeks...that should change soon. 

I reckon I need to get some of those fancy crawdad thingamajigs everyone whispers about on here.