Bass slow

Crappie slow

CRAPPIE: Fair: Lots of small fish being caught. The fish have moved into their summer patterns but the big fish have not showed up yet. Fish standing timber in the arms and ledges with cover on the main lake. 12' to 20' of water but the depth the fish are at varies. Minnows are working best.

BASS: Still Good to Excellent: The bass tournaments are going well with numbers of fish being caught considerably up from past years. You can fish two basic patterns. Fish the grass on the main lake or fish tree rows in the arms of the lake above the bridges. In either case the fish are fairly shallow. (less than 8') No one bait seems to be that much better than the others. Worms, brush hogs, shallow crank baits and some top water.

CATFISH: Good: The cats are spawning or have spawned already. Lots of nice fish are being caught shallow and on trot lines. Bait varies depending on how you want to fish. Most baits are working well if put in the right place.

White Bass: Poor: I don't know where the whites are but they are hiding good. I am catching a few here and there but nothing consistent and no big ones.

White River Area 

The bass are on summer patterns. Carolina rigs with green pumpkin fish doctor or centipedes in watermelon candy in 25-35 feet deep on main lake gravel points. Drop Shot rigs with Zoom finesse worms in green pumpkin color and watermelon candy on main lake gravel and bluff ends in 25-35- feet deep for Kentucky bass and 5/8 and 3/4 oz. Jewell football head jigs in peanut butter and jelly or brown and purple on main lake points 25-35 feet deep is working the best for Kentucky and some Small mouth bass. For early morning top water bite use a Cordell Red Fin or Zara spook on pole timbered points, back in the creeks and on main lake points. White bass are schooling on flats in the morning and on cloudy days and can be caught on top water lures and spoons during the day.

Mid Lake-Kimberling City Area 

The bass are on summer patterns. Carolina rigs with green pumpkin fish doctor or centipedes in watermelon candy in 25-35 feet deep on main lake gravel points. Drop Shot rigs with Zoom finesse worms in green pumpkin color and watermelon candy on main lake gravel and bluff ends in 25-35- feet deep for Kentucky bass and 5/8 and 3/4 oz. Jewell football head jigs in peanut butter and jelly or brown and purple on main lake points 25-35 feet deep is working the best for Kentucky and some Small mouth bass. For early morning top water bite use a Cordell Red Fin or Zara spook on pole timbered points, back in the creeks and on main lake points.

Lower End-Dam Area 

The bass are on summer patterns. Carolina rigs with green pumpkin fish doctor or centipedes in watermelon candy in 25-35 feet deep on main lake gravel points. Drop Shot rigs with Zoom finesse worms in green pumpkin color and watermelon candy on main lake gravel and bluff ends in 25-35- feet deep for Kentucky bass and 5/8 and 3/4 oz. Jewell football head jigs in peanut butter and jelly or brown and purple on main lake points 25-35 feet deep is working the best for Kentucky and some Smallmouth bass. For early morning top water bite use a Cordell Red Fin or Zara spook on pole timbered points, back in the creeks and on main lake points. Kentucky bass are taking night crawlers good on gravel points 26-32 feet deep on the main lake.

Upper End-James River 

Carolina rigged Zoom centipedes in watermelon red and watermelon candy on main river gravel points in 15-25 feet deep. Football head jigs in peanut butter and jelly in 15-25 feet deep is working best for bass. Also use deep running Shad colored crank baits. Top Water use a spook in shad patterns on bluff ends and timbered points in early mornings and for schooling bass.

Crappie Crappies fishing has slowed down but some are still being caught under deeper docks and deep pole timber, but are scattered.

Lake Taneycomo

GENERAL COMMENTS

Lots of time to wade, however, they are still running something every afternoon, usually starting around 4:00 p.m, but has started as early as 1:00 p.m. Monday, it was 1 at 5:00 p.m.

Water Conditions: Water really clear. Running something every afternoon. Table Rock Lake is still a little above pool (915.0).

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

Boats out all week. Fishing in the mornings, especially from 8:00 a.m. to about 10:30 a.m. is still pretty slow. Had several all days trips out this week so after we fished the Rocking Chair area for a little while and found it to be very slow, we started moving down toward the KOA area. Deeper water so we changed over to the red tunghead midge. Started picking up fish pretty regularly starting just below the KOA narrows and all the way through to the Pointe area. The bank opposite the KOA area fished best. Just above the island at the Pointe, we switched over the the KOA side and caught several nice fish there. There is a little jut of land which comes out there and we had shore lunch there. The guys were able to get out and fish here while we fixed lunch. After lunch we drifted on down to the island, got out and fished the Primrose & Pearl midge the rest of the afternoon. Most of the fish were in the 10-14 inch range. It was Alan's birthday, so we finished the day off with a nice 17-3/4 inch Rainbow for him. I had the same two guys out Wednesday and it was pretty much the same scenario. This day our numbers were at least 60 fish to the boat. Lots of misses. Yesterday I had a half day out and just headed for the Pointe. Caught 20 plus fish, but it was much more hit and miss than Wednesday. Red midge through KOA and Primrose and Pearl at the Pointe. A few of our customers have been catching some nice fish on a black ant in the area between outlets 1 and 2, and the bank opposite outlet 2 all the way down to the narrows just above the rebar hole. Still resorting to 7X tippet if I see the fish refusing flies.

STAN'S TIP: Sun lotion, sunglasses (polarized) and lots of water right now. Weather has been in the upper 80s and low 90s. Stay hydrated! We know from the North Platte about staying hydrated. Was not out there (90s) and we drank tons of water. Still washed out by the time we got off the water.

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TRUMAN LAKE

Updated 06/30/06

Inflow: 3000 cfs Outflow: 6042 cfs Level: 0.77 feet high  

Lake Map      

Lake Level: 706.68
Water Temp: 78 deg.
Water Clarity: Clear to light stain

Happy 4th. of July !! 

The fishing continues to improve here on Truman. The crappie are still a little slow, but the whites are starting to pick up a little and the bass and the catfish remain good. With the holiday weekend up on us please drive with care on and off the water. Fireworks will be shot off the dam Saturday night.

BASS: Big worms on points in 8' to 12' of water is the best bite. Watermelon red or plum are the top colors. The Sweet Beaver is still working also. Juicy and watermelon red are the better colors. The is a suspended bite starting in the outside tree rows in about 12'. Jig and frog and the beaver are catching fish here. Last nights hawg fights took 11.15 lbs with Ernie Cox and Russell Beck the winners. Second went to Randy and Jim Lutjen with 8.94 lbs. and big bass of 4.46 lbs.

CRAPPIE: These fish are still on the outside tree rows in 12' to 17' of water. Fish the trees that are just starting to come out or just under the surface. Minnows are the best bait. There are some good brush pile fish starting to hit. Look for piles in 15' to 20' of water.

WHITES & HYBRIDS: The whites are starting to surface a little more each week. The cemetery has been the hot spot this week right before dark. Road runners and 2" grubs are the best baits working now. There are a few spoon fish hitting when they are running water. Check O 3 and the weir. The small spoons seem to be working the best. There is a rumor going on around here that Roger Pihl is too cheap to buy a good graph so he has been jumping out of the boat and looking for them that way so if you are out fishing and see someone in the lake looking for whites just stop' pick him up and put him back in his boat.

CATFISH: Trot lines are still working good. Shallow sets in 4' to 6' of water baited with leeches or black perch are the top baits, Fish the flats that are next to deep water.

That's it for this week from Steret Creek Marina

Have a safe holiday.

Tommy

Crappie fishing is good. The crappie are on the flats in 12 ft of water or more and catching them 10 ft deep. The best approach is to look for the isolated trees or the fence rows. Fish all the trees you can using minnows. We are seeing lots of good fish come in.

Catfish are being caught on cut bait on the flats. Fish the flats in 10 ft of water fishing 6 ft deep. You can catch fresh shad for bait. Most fish coming in are blucats and channel cats.

White bass are schooling early and late in the dam area. Use any thing that resembles a shad and you can catch them. The best bite is early and late. If you get a cloudy day you can catch them all day.

Black Bass, The best bite is on the flat points early using a buzz bait. As the day goes on switch to a 8" black neon worm and fish the same points but move out some.