My Temperate friends are marching up the river

[Smalliebigs]

They choke on 5 inch swimbaits 🙂

I hope you all are getting out and enjoying the great outdoors.

 

 

[jdmidwest]

Thats a pig that eats like a pig.

[Mitch f]

That looks so fun!!

[fishinwrench]

Kudo's for staying on them.   Mine have elected to just stop eating, for the most part.....or so it seems.   They are smacking or body slamming my flys, but I'm not connecting with them very consistently.    This has been going on for over a week.   It's frustrating. 

 

[Smalliebigs]

8 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Kudo's for staying on them.   Mine have elected to just stop eating, for the most part.....or so it seems.   They are smacking or body slamming my flys, but I'm not connecting with them very consistently.    This has been going on for over a week.   It's frustrating. 

 

Yep the bite here has been quit unusual. I don’t want anyone thinking this is very easy as I’m fishing from the bank at spot that I know produce periodically. These crazy things are here one minute and then if you get too crazy it seems to scare the school out of there and then I have to go try the next spot. I usually have to cycle thru 3 or 4 spots and only come up with 3 or 4 hybrids with a small mix of  Whites and Spotted Bass. The one common factor is they are eating Shad. I did have one on last eve on though that broke my split ring that was attaching my belly hook. It fought much harder than most I run into over here and looked to be about to 8 to 10 lbs, which is big but, I’ve seen bigger. The unique thing about this one was as it kept doing its runs from my feet as I would get it to the bank, I swear on my grandma’s grave it was a Striper. It was long and not as filled out as most of these Hybrids and the Stripes were much closer together and very pronounced Black, it was very obvious it was very different than any I catch over here. Are there Stripers in the Meramec????

[FishnDave]

That's great you are out catching them!  Its getting pretty dark by 7:30pm now.

[Smalliebigs]

36 minutes ago, FishnDave said:

That's great you are out catching them!  Its getting pretty dark by 7:30pm now.

I got pushed off the river by darkness at around 7:30

[Johnsfolly]

@Smalliebigs congrats on catching those toads! You're  putting in the time to target and find those big temperate bass and it is paying big (fish) dividends!

[fishinwrench]

4 hours ago, Smalliebigs said:

Are there Stripers in the Meramec????

There certainly could be.  They quit stocking them in Lake O thirty-some years ago...... but looky here: 

[Smalliebigs]

1 hour ago, fishinwrench said:

There certainly could be.  They quit stocking them in Lake O thirty-some years ago...... but looky here: 

Dude that is exactly what I saw…..it looked to be about 30 inches and fought like crazy but, the stripes were exactly like that fish, closer together than the hybrids and darker