Kimberling City Blues

[Big Keene]

Do any of you regulars know if it is worth the effort to try to find big blue cats in the Kimberling City area? 

gonna be down that way in about a month, and i want to try to catch a truly heavy fish.

Are there big blues in that area of the lake? 

we catch the occasional channel and flathead while bass fishing, but never a blue that i can remember. 

just curious if anyone has ever targeted them?

[vonreed]

I've caught hundreds of catfish from Tablerock,  never a blue cat.

[Hunter53]

For a big blue; go to Milford lake in Kansas. I have not personally fished for them but have seen tv shows and heard from people who have; there are some big blues in that lake!

[garyw]

below the dam at Truman. blue cat capital

 

[MOPanfisher]

There are a bunch of big blues in Milford for sure, Truman is also rotten with them, don't ever remember hearing about any from the rock though.

[Dutch]

A guy showed me a pic of a cat from the rock that they called a blue.  I just smiled.  It was a flat head.

[Quillback]

I have never seen a blue in TR either.  They used to stock them in Beaver, but recently stopped stocking them.  

Grand lake is another area lake that has excellent fishing for blues.  

[Big Keene]

looks like i'm going to have to spend some nights hunting a flathead or 2. i know they get husky.

[MOPanfisher]

Remember flathead like live moving bait, bluegill and gren sunfish seem to be the easiest to get and keep alive on a hook.  Used to every year a fisherman or two would bring by a Polaroid  (way back) of a big old flathead caught on a plastic worm, crankbaits or jig. 

[Quillback]

4 hours ago, Big Keene said:

looks like i'm going to have to spend some nights hunting a flathead or 2. i know they get husky.

Cool, I'll be interested to hear how you do.