Lake Niangua

[FishermanTodd]

Use to be real secretive about lake Niangua but I think today was my last day fishing it. Have watched the fishing in decline every year. Pretty much completely filled in with silt. Not worth the work of getting a boat in there just to catch a few fish that all look deformed. May give it one more chance during a month that I still have a little bit of confidence in it for. You guys probably already know. Anyways just thought I’d speak my mind on it and wondered if anyone else felt the same way about it.

[oneshot]

I have never fish it but fished below the Dam and did well. Now I usually just fish the rivers.

oneshot

[fishinwrench]

Pretty much like any other lower river section.  Slow, boggy, and looks way better on the surface than it does below.

[FishermanTodd]

4 hours ago, oneshot said:

I have never fish it but fished below the Dam and did well. Now I usually just fish the rivers.

oneshot

Riffles below the spillway is excellent at certain times of the year!! If you can figure out the times it’s hot we are talking a fish every few casts while standing in one spot on the bank!! Whites, smallmouth, largemouth, walleye, Crappie, catfish. I’d also say it’s probably the most snake dense area in Camden County. Lol

[FishermanTodd]

Lower Niangua fishing is underated in my opinion. I may be biased because I learned to fish on this stretch but the few smallmouth that are below the dam are BRUTES! But I do love that most people stay up upper Niangua. Fishing pressure is very low on the lower. I highly recommend anyone reading this to take a fall float on the lower. I’d bring a scale too. Do be advised that some landowners are to not use to human interaction.

[fishinwrench]

I had a Asian dude pull a knife on me at Edith bridge.  I walked past them and just said "How's it going, doing any good?", and this crazy basturd jumped up and whipped out a butcher knife.   I threw my hands up and said HEY, SETTLE YOUR @$$ DOWN! and kept walking.    I had an equalizer back in the truck and I truly contemplated getting it and ridding the world of that freak.  Who the hell does that?

[snagged in outlet 3]

39 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Who the hell does that?

The guy at Ho Hum maybe???

[fishinwrench]

30 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

The guy at Ho Hum maybe???

True, that psycho is not above it.   

[snagged in outlet 3]

I used to fish Ho Hum all the time when we frequented Bennett.  When they put that pipe in the chute below the main bridge I haven't been back.  I miss that place.

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

I used to fish Ho Hum all the time when we frequented Bennett.  When they put that pipe in the chute below the main bridge I haven't been back.  I miss that place.

Me too.  Used to enjoy wading up from there in the Wintertime.   I'll pass on that now until I hear that the place has either changed hands, or they locate where that wacko hides his bodies.