Truman and LOZ Last Week

[Ryan Miloshewski]

Been MIA fishing and without a computer the last two weeks. Hit Lake of the Ozarks with my cousin and grandpa and then Truman with Hunter Bowling. 

LOZ had a ton of fish around condo docks near the dam area, but they are fairly small. Had to weed through a lot of 9 to 9 3/4" fish to get some 10-11 inchers. They were shallow and on various sides. No rhyme or reason. We caught a ton of fish.

Truman was Truman..tons of fish in creek mouths and moving half-way back on the Grand arm. We used Livescope to find active fish and dropped a jig or minnow on their nose. And you had to. I would say 1 out of 10 fish we dropped to, even with a minnow, ate. The fish were in 15 fow or less. The ones above 6-ft or below 12-ft would not eat at all. Some we fished for, for five minutes and nothing. Biggest was right at 16-inches, a male. Most were 12-14" fish. Not really fat, but they all had shoulders. Now, back to reality starting today..

 

 

[Seth]

For whatever reason, I tend to catch much nicer fish the further up the lake I get on LoZ. Glaize to the dam is good for 9-10" fish with a few nice one mixed in. Our size increases dramatically once we reach the Nianguas and move on up the river towards Truman Dam. Not sure if it's due to less pressure o what.

[fishinwrench]

21 minutes ago, Seth said:

For whatever reason, I tend to catch much nicer fish the further up the lake I get on LoZ. Glaize to the dam is good for 9-10" fish with a few nice one mixed in. Our size increases dramatically once we reach the Nianguas and move on up the river towards Truman Dam. Not sure if it's due to less pressure o what.

Yeah I don't catch those BARN DOOR crappie here in the Gravois arm.   Ever. 

From Purvis on up the Osage they are definitely bigger.  And I wanna say that it has been that way forever.   

 I don't think I've ever spent a day crappie fishing in the Niangua arm, but I would expect it to fish similar to the Gravois arm.  

[Johnsfolly]

@Ryan Miloshewski I'm glad that you were able to take out your grandfather for some fishing fun! I hope that when my grandkids are old enough that they are willing to take this old man out fishing. Sounds like even though you had to cull the smaller fish that you had a great time on those crappies!

[Seth]

2 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Yeah I don't catch those BARN DOOR crappie here in the Gravois arm.   Ever. 

From Purvis on up the Osage they are definitely bigger.  And I wanna say that it has been that way forever.   

 I don't think I've ever spent a day crappie fishing in the Niangua arm, but I would expect it to fish similar to the Gravois arm.  

The Niangua fish tend to get nicer for us the closer we get to the main river channel. The further up the Big/Little I go the more Gravois/Glaize like it becomes. I've caught some really nice fish on the Gravois, but never very many of them in one outing. Honestly I don't care if I catch a limit of 9-10" fish or 11-12". They all make a pretty good turd.

[fishinwrench]

35 minutes ago, Seth said:

Honestly I don't care if I catch a limit of 9-10" fish or 11-12". They all make a pretty good turd.

Agreed.  The fillet off a 12-13 incher isn't any bigger than the fillet off a 11"er.  

They just have bigger heads and tails.   

[MoCarp]

3 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Agreed.  The fillet off a 12-13 incher isn't any bigger than the fillet off a 11"er.  

They just have bigger heads and tails.   

Yeah we see how you fillet spin your case I’d agree

[fishinwrench]

6 hours ago, MoCarp said:

Yeah we see how you fillet spin your case I’d agree

When was the last time you filleted a mess of fish, hotshot?   

As much as you like to post stolen internet photos I'm sure you wouldn't pass up the opportunity to take pics and brag about your latest bucket of fish.     But for the life of me I can't recall a single report as of late.   

Just pics of you when you were like 12 or something.     🤔

[navery]

Somebody couldn't sleep and was cranky.......

[MoCarp]

7 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

When was the last time you filleted a mess of fish, hotshot?   

As much as you like to post stolen internet photos I'm sure you wouldn't pass up the opportunity to take pics and brag about your latest bucket of fish.     But for the life of me I can't recall a single report as of late.   

Just pics of you when you were like 12 or something.     🤔

It’s been a while…but considered quite skilled at said task….a quality knife is step one…I had a wonderful Chicago cutlery fillet knife jacked from me once…couldn’t replace it as it had been discontinued….looked one up on eBay recently…they go for almost 200 bucks now……you couldn’t know this about me but I’m a big fan of Japanese knifes and knife work…amazing to watch….that said once I was butterfly filleting trout at RR at the old cleaning station turned around and had a group watching me….asked me how I learned…told him where I grew up people made a living cleaning fish…bet I can still shuck oysters too…