So I've decided to start fishing LoTO...

[45acp]

That's how my luck has run this year.  Almost without fail, the day I have time to go fishing is the day after a frontal passage.

But it beats sitting on the couch looking at the teevee, so I'm going anyway.

My wife is a cracker from Florida, and doesn't much like going out in the boat when the air temp is below 70°.

Chances are good that she will bail when she finds out that the weather is going to be cool.

[conorsixtakc]

First time I’ve heard somebody call their wife a cracker lol. She must not be a forum member 😄

[Blazerman]

When i was a teenager me and some buddies decided to wade down to the big cave that was downstream from our cabin on the Meramec. Think it might be called Fishers cave but not sure. It has a big opening that faced the river and went back a long ways. We got there and were hiking around in it and the bats were everywhere. They were spooked and flying around and eventually will all had bat monkey dodo on us. But right as we were leaving my one buddy ended up with bat monkey dodo on his face and turned around hollering and we started laughing and he ran down to the water and started splashing his face. Then he said "stop laughing. You don't understand. It got it in my eye. Now i have to get rabies shots"

When we got back to St Louis he called the health department and they told him he was right. And he ended up getting 14 shots in 14 days right in the stomach.

[fishinwrench]

4 hours ago, 45acp said:

 

All this chit-chat and only one response to my question of where to start fishing.

Do ya'll ever fish the lake, or do you just float around drinking cocktails and ogling the bikini girls?  lol

You won't find much feedback on here from the guys that fish LO regularly.  

They all read the stuff here (I know this because I get comments from customers all the time regarding topics on here) but they seldom contribute.   

It's been that way forever. 

 

 

 

Honestly though, if anyone tells you anything different from what I told you, it's likely inaccurate.  Jus'sayin'. 😊 

There are a few isolated spots that occasionally are good for hybrids (like the ledge at Porter Mill bend) but they are hardly worth mentioning because you'll get blanked there a dozen times for every one time that you catch a few. 

[45acp]

That's alright, you told me enough.

10 minutes perusing the Navionics chart and I've got a game plan formulated.

Succeed or fail, I'll be out there having fun.

 

 

[nomolites]

17 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

You won't find much feedback on here from the guys that fish LO regularly.  

They all read the stuff here (I know this because I get comments from customers all the time regarding topics on here) but they seldom contribute.   

It's been that way forever. 

 

 

 

Honestly though, if anyone tells you anything different from what I told you, it's likely inaccurate.  Jus'sayin'. 😊 

There are a few isolated spots that occasionally are good for hybrids (like the ledge at Porter Mill bend) but they are hardly worth mentioning because you'll get blanked there a dozen times for every one time that you catch a few. 

Wrench is largely correct about where to start, although I would add that most of the main lake flats where you get current will pull stripers in summer in the mornings or evenings.  This includes the Niangua as there is a very good population in that arm as they are riverine in nature and like the current.  It pays to know what they are doing a Bagnell - fish when they are moving water.  He will bash me for saying that…but so be it.  Find the shad.  If they are scattered look for them, if they are bunched up move on.  This time of year wind blown banks on the main lake or the center of coves taking the wind off the main lake can be good as well.  Anywhere you find the hybrids there are usually a pack of big blues as well working the area and they will hit a spoon or crank bait maybe even more actively than the stripers….so there is that.  I don’t care much for the catfish but sure catch a lot of hogs fishing for hybrids.

Mike

[45acp]

1 hour ago, conorsixtakc said:

First time I’ve heard somebody call their wife a cracker lol. She must not be a forum member 😄

I've known her for 40 years.  She was a cracker when we met, and she's still a cracker now.

[nomolites]

And I almost forgot to mention…when hybrid fishing LOZ lots of ditch pickles will foul your line as well…lol

Mike

[Flysmallie]

13 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

Haven't been to the cave in Silver dollar city.

 

All three of our girls have drug me through there numerous times. It's pretty impressive. The walk down is quite impressive. 

 

I have a buddy that I have floated with for the past 30 years and we have explored a lot of caves along rivers. I have no idea where we even were, a problem with a lot of our trips, but we went into a cave that he knew of but hadn't been in. He knew it went far enough back that we would need our flashlights. We made a couple of turns and it got pretty dark in there. He goes around a corner from me and I shut my light off and freeze. I can hear him continuing on and talking about some bones in there. He soon realizes I'm not right there with him. I'm not that far from him but where I'm at he can't see me. I hear him call out my name. I didn't respond of course. He hollers again a little bit louder. Nothing. By the third calling his voice cracked and he came running. And of course I jumped out and scared the hell out of him. Funniest thing ever. For me. Second funniest thing was him peeing on my leg and ending up with poison ivy on his peter. But that's another story. 

[fishinwrench]

2 hours ago, nomolites said:

 It pays to know what they are doing a Bagnell - fish when they are moving water.  He will bash me for saying that…but so be it.

Not gonna bash you for it, but I've never noticed that it made a reliable difference in their positioning or their willingness to chase and bite up in the lake.  Tailwater areas where the current is more drastic..... it definitely positions them.