3-31-18 Snagging Footage

[Seth]

 

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

Thats awesome, you really are dialed in on it.  Ive spent a lot of time in the Coffman bend area on Lake O and see people snagging out there and most of them are in Jon boats with no electronics.   Looks like such a crap shoot since the lake is pretty big there, but many of them had fish tied to their boats

[nomolites]

Thanks for sharing-was curious how fast you were trolling.  Used to catch them the hard way from the Mississippi but you have that deal down!  I hope that mud doesn’t make it down to the lower end...

Mike

[Seth]

2 hours ago, aarchdale@coresleep.com said:

Thats awesome, you really are dialed in on it.  Ive spent a lot of time in the Coffman bend area on Lake O and see people snagging out there and most of them are in Jon boats with no electronics.   Looks like such a crap shoot since the lake is pretty big there, but many of them had fish tied to their boats

I was able to snag a few fish before I got a good graph as well further up the river. I just used the bent rod pattern and then snagged around the outside edges of everybody else. Down in the big water where I was snagging in this video, the lake can get up to a 1/2 mile wide. I'd be lost without a good sonar unit down there.
 

58 minutes ago, nomolites said:

Thanks for sharing-was curious how fast you were trolling.  Used to catch them the hard way from the Mississippi but you have that deal down!  I hope that mud doesn’t make it down to the lower end...

Mike

I try to stay around 4.5mph.

[Jrod Shelton]

Awesome vid.  I want one of those boats so bad I cant stand it.  How do you like it for versatility from rivers to lakes?

 

[Seth]

1 hour ago, Jrod Shelton said:

Awesome vid.  I want one of those boats so bad I cant stand it.  How do you like it for versatility from rivers to lakes?

 

I honestly think it is about as versatile of a rig that you can possibly have for Missouri. It handles rivers like a champ, but the slight V and 1860 sized hull give you enough weight to handle choppy lake water fairly well. It won't handle a lake as well as a glass bass boat of course, but you also can't run that bass boat in 4" of water like this one can either. It sees Lake of the Ozarks fairly regularly for crappie and I have fished the Big Bass Bash out of it a few times as well.

[LoweSTX175]

Good snagging!  I've used the same method but I've made my divers out of PVC pipe, eye bolts, nuts/washers and a 14-16 ounce weight.  Just curious if the divers you were using get hung up frequently and lost.  I tend to get the divers I build hung up forcing us to cut the lines.

[Seth]

47 minutes ago, LoweSTX175 said:

Good snagging!  I've used the same method but I've made my divers out of PVC pipe, eye bolts, nuts/washers and a 14-16 ounce weight.  Just curious if the divers you were using get hung up frequently and lost.  I tend to get the divers I build hung up forcing us to cut the lines.

I know the holes pretty well where I run these now so I don't get hung up much at all. If the fish are suspended or if there is quite a bit of trash on the water surface, I will run them up off of the bottom 5-10' or just put lead on and save the diver.

[fishin_addict]

I've heard varying opinions on eating them.  What are your thoughts (maybe a comparison to other fish)? 

[Seth]

2 hours ago, fishin_addict said:

I've heard varying opinions on eating them.  What are your thoughts (maybe a comparison to other fish)? 

As fried fish go, I'd much rather eat crappie, white bass, walleye, etc. Most guys I know who really like them grill or smoke them. I've not tried it yet, but I have heard that cubing them up in to 1/4-1/2" cubes and boiling in a cajun seafood boil is pretty good as well. We've had fish fries where people actually preferred the spoonbill over everything else that we had, which was crappie, suckers, white bass and blue catfish.

They are a lot of work to get cleaned up and it's just not worth it to me since I fish nearly every weekend. If you don't get the chance to fish very often and want to stock the freezer, they are perfect for that.