Crappie - No Report

Bass - good

Catfish excellent

Black bass slow on plastic worms early in the morning

White bass slow trolling on the flats using rooster tails

Crappie slow on minnows around trees and structures

Catfish slow on shad and worms

Bluegill slow on worms 12 to15 of water

Walleye/Muskie fair in 3 to 5 feet of water using buck tails.

Bass slow using spinners and crankbaits near the brush piles

Crappie good try above the thermocline from 4-12' down. try minnows or tube jigs under a bobber around timber

CRAPPIE: Fair: The fish are really scattered so you have to keep on the move to catch a limit of keepers. Still plenty of smaller fish, just fewer of the big ones. They are still in their summer patterns. Fish the brush piles and tree lines in the deeper water. Catch one or two nice keepers and move to the next tree. The fish are in 8' to 24' of water approx. 10' feet deep. This pattern should hold true for the rest of the summer. Minnows seem to be the preferred bait.

BASS: Fair: There seems to be some main lake action starting. Some nice fish are being caught occasionally but not consistently. Worms, jigs, brush hogs seem to catch the majority of the fish. Some are coming on spinner baits and cranks. 8' or less of water seems to be the areas to concentrate on.

CATFISH: FAIR: The crappie fishermen are catching some nice ones in the deeper water on minnows so try the 20' of water areas with your favorite bait. Also other fishermen are reporting fish in shallow water back in the coves. Dip baits are working very well in the lake and in the rivers. Since they are letting some water out of the lake the spillway should start producing some nice fish.

White Bass: Good: The rest of the summer should continue to produce nice stringers of whites. Fish main lake points early and late by throwing small crankbaits in the 2' to 8' water depths. If the fish don't show up on the points just back out to 15' of water and try pepper spoons on the bottom. Watch for surfacing schools. During the day troll to find the schools which are roaming following the shad. The size of most of the fish is excellent.

WALLEYE: Poor: Still no walleye. The wallies have sort of vanished for the time being. They are either buried in the grass of laying in deep water either making them difficult to get to. Use crankbaits or a jig and leech or crawler.

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GENERAL COMMENTS

Running water this week!

Water Conditions: Saturday and Sunday, water conditions were great. One generator on Saturday for a couple hours in the morning and Sunday they turned on a low two at 2:00 p.m. for about 5 hours. This week it has come on as early as 7:00 a.m. yesterday to the latest of noon on Tuesday. Little erratic pattern. It has been on as late as 10:00 p.m.

FLY FISHING TROPHY AREA (dam to Fall Creek)-SHALLOW WATER-WADING-

Of course, Saturday and Sunday fished very good. With the low water, zebra midges were working very well, especially the rusty, generally in the a.m. and the ugly as the day brightened up. Sunday we fished the sink-tip line with black woolly buggers or the sculpin. It was overcast Sunday and the black woolly buggers did best. I did catch several with the sculpin until one finally took it (5X tippet. next time it will be 4X). With the water flows during this week, the red tunghead midge and tan flashback scud have been the ticket. Tuesday we had three boats out and they did well on the ugly zebra midge. They had one guest throwing the Big Ugly (ugly looking dry fly) and he caught several with this. Customers coming into the shop have been picking up some fish on hopper patterns, especially yellow. Time to try those terrestrial patterns! Yesterday's trip was in two generators and, again, the red tunghead midge and tan flashback scud were the flies. Have seen a couple 24 inch plus Browns cruising the boat ramp area. Know a few nice Browns have been caught in the hatchery area. Mostly fishing scuds, tan or gray in the hatchery area. were If the horn sounds, don't roll it up. Get yourself to a safe place from the water rise and change to a larger, weighted scud (12) or a San Juan worm, add some split shot, a large indicator set pretty deep depending on where you are fishing, and fish the rise. You don't have to cast out very far. Look where the fish are sliding in toward the bank and fish those edges.

STAN'S TIP: Everyone has had it happen. You put your rod pieces together and can't get them apart. If this happens, and you have tried all the other techniques to get them apart, try putting ice around the joint. Let it cool down for a bit then try to get them apart. This usually works after everything else has failed.

It sure looks like fall in the mornings with the fog but about noon when it starts to heat up its just like summer again. The mornings have been cool and perfect for fishing but when it jumps up to about 90 at noon it gets a little sticky. Hasn't seemed to bother the fish though. I think that they could like to start moving on a fall pattern but the temp just won't let them. I have heard of a lot of point fish this week so maybe they are going to move a little anyway.

BASS: We had the Sterett Creek Open Bass Tourn last week end and Doug and Ozzie Wallace were the winners with 12.01 lbs.

2nd. Chuck Strohman and Jeff Rehmer, 9.13 Big Bass 3.80 lbs.
3rd. Russell Beck and Dustin Cox, 7.24 lbs.
4th. Rick Barton and Jerry Heenan, 6.74
5th. Ken Mason and Randy James, 6.66 lbs.
6th. Larry Wright and Ron Taddiken, 6.54 lbs.

We would like to thank all the participants and are looking forward to the Hawg Fights next spring. The best bite right now is either jig and frog or big worms on the points in 7' of water. Best colors are watermelon red or black and blue. The first point off main lake seems to be holding the most fish. There were some spinner bait fish caught in the lower Osage off laydowns. This is the time of the year that the little guys seem to be hungry and you have to weed your way through them.

CRAPPIE: The crappie have slowed up a little this week. Most folks are catching them out of 10' of water. It doesn't seem to matter if you are fishing 12' or 30' the fish seem to be holding at 10'. Minnows are still the top bait. There are still fish on the brush piles but they seem to be running small.

WHITES & HYBRIDS: I don't know why but it seems when the crappie slow down the whites and hybrids pick up. We have seen a lot of nice whites this week and some real good hybrids. The humps are the best spots when fished with spoons. 16' seems to be the best depth. KK Island has been hot along with the airport. The hybrids are still hitting the big sassy shad in the same areas. Haven't heard of much surface activity yet.

CATFISH: Jugs on the flats baited with cut shad seems to be working in this area. Set jugs about 12' Next to deep water. There are still a few fish being caught off the humps on rod and reel with night crawlers. 12' to 16' seems to be the best.

For the leaf lookers our leaves haven't started turning yet. 

But if you are traveling in the lakes area be careful the deer are moving about dusk. 

So till next week we bid you good fishing.

Tommy

fishing is really good on Truman lake catching lots of Bluecat 2-5 lbs nothing big good eaters 15-20ft of water mostly on flats of the main channel fishing seems best in the middle of the day 15-20 fish in 2-3 hours a lot of fun . 

Fishing on the upper end of Lake of the Ozarks very slow not much to report

Crappie fishing is good. Most fish are being caught on flats. There are some fish being caught in the creeks. The best approach is to use minnows and tight line going tree to tree. Most fish are in 12 ft to 20 ft of water fishing 10 ft deep.

Bass are being caught on spinner baits and crankbaits in 2 to 6 ft of water. The best bite is from daylight to around 11:00 or just before dark. Several being caught. Fish the points, main lake and secondary, keep on the move.

Catfish are being caught on the flats in 10 ft of water using jugs. Most are being caught on cut bait. Seeing several white cats and channel cats.