Kim City - Mar 8th - underspin

[Mitch f]

It seems the extra flash of an underspin would help in murkier water, like up a river arm.

[Macsimus]

3 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

Yes, Shane said it is a change in pockets of water temp.  An entire school can swim thru water that is 4 degree warmer or cooler and that is what causes the kill.   He said pockets of different temperature water and its immediate.

Thanks Bill & Dave!

[dtrs5kprs]

4 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

Yes, Shane said it is a change in pockets of water temp.  An entire school can swim thru water that is 4 degree warmer or cooler and that is what causes the kill.   He said pockets of different temperature water and its immediate.

More or less like soft scaled aquarium fish in that way.

[Bill Babler]

I"m reaching back here but when we had our Marina/Resort on Lake of the Ozarks in the 60's and 70's we received our bait from a hatchery in Warsaw.  Prior to them putting the bait in the tanks they always took thermometer reading and then tempered the bait to the temperature in our minnow tank.

We had a 20' by 4' tank with 5 compartments for different size minnows and crayfish.  It was always a big deal when they delivered bait and they took extreme care with it     When we first started in 1962 you could get 5 dozen nice size crappie minnows for one dollar.  I can remember as a 6/7 year old that was my job and I'm sure I cost mom money as I very seldom counted them.  The crayfish lived in a separate wire basket with a wood ramp and a little deck they could crawl  out on.  We fed them the dead minnows.  I was scared as heck of them and would make the adult customers pick out their own.

Even back in those days Big Shiners and Gold Fish were a buck a dozen.   We counted those close and there was no Bakers Dozen.    I can also remember we had some type of water dogs or salamanders for several years, but I think they had to stop selling them.  If I remember correctly I believe they were a Quarter each.   My mom caught some huge flatheads on her trotline on those water lizards.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Bill Babler said:

I"m reaching back here but when we had our Marina/Resort on Lake of the Ozarks in the 60's and 70's we received our bait from a hatchery in Warsaw.  Prior to them putting the bait in the tanks they always took thermometer reading and then tempered the bait to the temperature in our minnow tank.

We had a 20' by 4' tank with 5 compartments for different size minnows and crayfish.  It was always a big deal when they delivered bait and they took extreme care with it     When we first started in 1962 you could get 5 dozen nice size crappie minnows for one dollar.  I can remember as a 6/7 year old that was my job and I'm sure I cost mom money as I very seldom counted them.  The crayfish lived in a separate wire basket with a wood ramp and a little deck they could crawl  out on.  We fed them the dead minnows.  I was scared as heck of them and would make the adult customers pick out their own.

Even back in those days Big Shiners and Gold Fish were a buck a dozen.   We counted those close and there was no Bakers Dozen.    I can also remember we had some type of water dogs or salamanders for several years, but I think they had to stop selling them.  If I remember correctly I believe they were a Quarter each.   My mom caught some huge flatheads on her trotline on those water lizards.

jim mcgruder used to get those big water dogs some place, and he would use them at lake monticello in tx.  however, once in a while, he would make it back home with some leftovers in the spring, and we would go up to haddock and fish the main point going in.  amazing what live bait can do.  throwing artificials we might not get a bite, but throw a water dog out there and bam, the fight was on.

bo

[dblades]

Had a buddy in the service, that had the bait shop, save him or buy the waterdogs that were too large for most people. He caught some huge catfish and the occasional big bass using them. I'm talking baits that were a foot long.

[Dock-in-it]

The swimbait options seemed to expand this morning around Kimberling. I caught some mid creek fish and some from three different pockets. Having shad in the area was key for me. Lots of fish in 25-35 FOW. I used plain swimbaits (both 3" and 3.8") and the 3.8 worked very good. The WT in the creek was near 50 and the main lake showed 48 ish. The attached LM pic was caught in a creek about halfway back and was in a tree top in about 35 FOW. I left them biting and had about 12 to 15 keepers. 

[Bill Babler]

Dock you have just been scary good. Congrats

[Mitch f]

Those treetop fish are the ones we used to catch with the rogue. Reel it down to depth, wait 30 seconds,  then twitch. But apparently the swimbait is the new thing. Congrats, that’s a toad

[curtisce]

On 3/11/2020 at 9:49 PM, Mitch f said:

Those treetop fish are the ones we used to catch with the rogue. Reel it down to depth, wait 30 seconds,  then twitch. But apparently the swimbait is the new thing. Congrats, that’s a toad

I read that quick and left out the fish! I catch those treetops with Swimbaits too, hopefully not with a megabass😩