Fishing report for June 2
02.06.11
<strong><span class="subhead">Missouri</span></strong></p><p>•<strong>TABLE ROCK: </strong> 68, slightly dingy, 12 1/2 feet high. <strong>Outlook: </strong>White River Lodge reports: smallmouth bass excellent on 4-inch plastic grubs in 28 to 32 feet of water off gravel points near the dam; black bass excellent on football jigs off the points in the river arms.</p><p>•<strong>JACOMO: </strong> 67 degrees, clear, normal. <strong>Outlook: </strong>Forty Woods Bait and Tackle reports: bluegills excellent on crickets, redworms in the shallows; channel catfish good at night on cut bait off points; crappies fair to good on jigs, minnows in main-lake brush.</p><p>•<strong>JAMES A. REED: </strong> 69 degrees, clear, full pool. <strong>Outlook: </strong>Missouri Department of Conservation reports: crappies fair on jigs in the deeper brush; black bass good on plastic frogs over weeds and plastic baits in the brush; bluegills, redear sunfish very good on redworms under bobbers; channel catfish fair on cut shad, chicken liver.</p><p>•<strong>STOCKTON: </strong> 67 degrees, clear, 6 feet high. <strong>Outlook: </strong>Stockton Lake Guide Service reports: walleyes good on jigs with night crawlers in 20 feet of water off points; crappies fair to good on crankbaits trolled 15 feet down in 20 to 30 feet of water; bass good on jigs in 12 to 15 feet of water off points; catfish good on cut bait off points and along rocky banks.</p><p>•<strong>SMITHVILLE: </strong> 67 degrees, murky, 2 feet high. <strong>Outlook: </strong> Burton’s Bait and Tackle reports: crappies fair on jigs, minnows in 8 to 10 feet of water; black bass fair to good on plastic baits, topwater lures in the shallows; channel catfish good on a variety of baits in the back of coves; white bass fair to good on Pepper Spoons, Road Runners, Rooster Tails off main-lake points and humps; walleyes good on Rat-L-Traps, jigs with night crawlers or leeches in 2 to 8 feet of water off main-lake points.</p><p>•<strong>TRUMAN: </strong> 67 degrees, slightly murky, 12 feet high. <strong>Outlook: </strong>State Park Marina reports: crappies good on jigs, minnows in 10 to 20 feet of water along banks; bass fair on spinnerbaits in 8 to 15 feet of water; catfish good on jug lines, crankbaits in 8 to 15 feet of water. Below the dam: Rocky Top reports: crappies good on jigs, minnows off the docks in the deadwater channel.</p><p>•<strong>LAKE OF THE OZARKS: </strong> 72 degrees, clear on the main lake, slightly stained in the back of coves, 1 foot low. <strong>Outlook: </strong>Gier’s Bass Pro reports: crappies good on jigs, minnows in 6 to 8 feet of water in the brush; bass good on Brush Hogs, plastic lizards, jigs, spinnerbaits in the shallows; catfish good on jug lines with live bait in 20 to 30 feet of water.</p><p>•<strong>BULL SHOALS: </strong> 76 degrees, clear, 37 feet high. <strong>Outlook: </strong>125 Marina reports: white bass, walleyes good at night under lights; catfish good on setlines, limb lines with live bait.</p><p>•<strong>LONGVIEW: </strong> 67 degrees, murky, 1 foot high. <strong>Outlook: </strong>Longview Lake Marina reports: crappies fair to good on jigs, minnows off the marina docks; walleyes fair to good on jigs with night crawlers off points (walleyes weighing 7 pounds, 11 ounces and 6 1/2 pounds were caught this week); catfish good on prepared baits off the marina dock.</p><p>•<strong>NORFORK: </strong> 71 degrees, murky, 24 feet high. <strong>Outlook: </strong>Bink’s Guide Service reports: stripers good on Bink’s spoons, jerkbaits off main-lake points.</p><p>•<strong>TANEYCOMO: </strong>50 degrees, clear, four units running, five flood gates open. <strong>Outlook: </strong>Lilley’s Landing reports: trout good one mile below the dam on shad imitations, white jigs; and on orange Power Eggs on the bottom below Fall Creek.</p><p>•<strong>BLUE SPRINGS: </strong> 68 degrees, murky, 1 foot high. <strong>Outlook: </strong>Forty Woods Bait and Tackle reports: crappies fair to good on jigs, minnows in the timber and brush; catfish fair on liver near the Blow Hole.</p><p>•<strong>POMME DE TERRE: </strong>69 degrees, stained, 7 1/2 feet high. <strong>Outlook: </strong>Nemo Landing reports: crappies fair on jigs, minnows along the banks; catfish fair on live bait.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Kansas</span></strong></p><p>•<strong>WILSON: </strong>68 degrees, slightly murky, 1 foot high. <strong>Outlook: </strong>Knothead’s reports: smallmouth, largemouth bass good on crankbaits, large minnows, night crawlers in rocky areas; walleyes good on jigs with night crawlers or leeches in 10 feet of water on the flats.</p><p>•<strong>HILLSDALE: </strong>67 degrees, clearing, 2 feet high. <strong> Outlook: </strong>Jayhawk Marina reports: crappies good on jigs, minnows in 10 to 12 feet of water in the brush; walleyes good on night crawlers, crankbaits in 6 to 9 feet of water on the flats; catfish fair in the creek channels.</p><p>•<strong>SHAWNEE MISSION: </strong>68 degrees, clear, normal. <strong>Outlook: </strong>Johnson County Park and Rec reports: catfish fair on liver, worms, shad on the flats; wipers fair on Rat-L-Traps along the dam; bass good on buzzbaits, dry flies, jigs lakewide; panfish good on minnows, worms along the dam and on the flats.</p><p>•<strong>LA CYGNE: </strong>78 degrees at the dam, fairly clear, normal. <strong>Outlook:</strong> Linn County Parks reports: flathead catfish good on trotlines with panfish; channel catfish good on a variety of baits lakewide; white bass fair on jigs, spoons at the hot-water outlet; largemouth bass fair on plastic baits.</p><p>•<strong>POMONA: </strong> 65 degrees, fairly clear, 3 feet high. <strong>Outlook:</strong> Lighthouse Bay Marina reports: crappies good on jigs, minnows along the banks; catfish good on setlines with a variety of baits.</p><p>•<strong>TUTTLE CREEK: </strong>66 degrees, slightly murky, 11 feet high. Outlook: Derrick’s Bait and Tackle reports: crappies good on minnows on the main lake; catfish good on large shiners along rocky banks and in the outlet; walleyes fair on leeches in Rocky Ford.</p><p>•<strong>MILFORD: </strong> 67 degrees, slightly murky, 6 feet high. <strong>Outlook: </strong>Milford Lake Marina reports: white bass, wipers fair to good on minnows, night crawlers, crankbaits; walleyes very good on jigs with night crawlers on the flats; catfish fair on live bait on the north end.</p><p>•<strong>KILL CREEK: </strong>68 degrees, 3-foot clarity, normal. <strong>Outlook: </strong>Johnson County Park and Rec reports: catfish fair on liver, worms in the headwaters; wipers fair on crankbaits, liver along the dam; bass good on crankbaits, plastic baits along the dam, on the south side and in the headwaters.</p><p>•<strong>WYANDOTTE: </strong>69 degrees, clear, normal. <strong>Outlook: </strong>Wyandotte Boat Rentals reports: smallmouth bass excellent (but small) on a variety of baits in rocky areas; largemouth bass fair to good on plastic baits in the shallows; channel catfish fair at night on night crawlers, liver; crappies fair on jigs, minnows on the main lake.</p><p>•<strong>CLINTON: </strong>69 degrees, fairly clear, 2 feet high. <strong>Outlook: </strong>Clinton Marina reports: crappies fair on jigs, minnows on the main lake; channel catfish fair on a variety of baits; walleyes fair on jigs with night crawlers on the flats.</p><p>•<strong>COFFEY COUNTY: </strong> 66 degrees, clear, normal. <strong>Outlook: </strong>Coffey County reports: white bass, smallmouth bass fair to good.</p><p>•<strong>HERITAGE: </strong>69 degrees, 1-foot clarity, normal. <strong>Outlook:</strong> Johnson County Park and Rec reports: catfish fair on liver, worms; bass good on plastic baits, dry flies, live bait; panfish good on worms, minnows.</p><p> •<strong>GLEN ELDER: </strong>65 degrees, murky, 5 feet high. <strong>Outlook: </strong>Little Bait Shop reports: crappies fair on minnows in Granite Creek, along the face of the dam and the coves at Campground 3; walleyes fair on jigs, night crawlers, minnows, crankbaits along mud lines; catfish fair on jug lines, setlines with live bait.</p><p>•<strong>PERRY: </strong>70 degrees, murky, 5 foot high. <strong>Outlook: </strong>Rock Creek Marina reports: all species poor.</p><p>•<strong>MELVERN: </strong>70 degrees, fairly clear, 1.3 feet high. <strong>Outlook: </strong>Melvern Lake Marina reports: all species poor.</p><p><strong><span class="subhead">Brent's best bet:</span></strong> The water is still high at Table Rock Lake, but that hasn’t hurt the bass fishing. The fishing for both smallmouth and largemouth bass is rated as excellent this week. Try the deep gravel points near the dam for smallmouths. Hit the points in the river arms for largemouths.</p><p></div>
Source: Kansas City Star
Have bass overtaken trout?
05.06.11
It's time to think bass, both smallmouth and largemouth.
Without a doubt, the smallmouth now rivals trout in popularity. Bass season for both smallmouth and largemouth opens of June 18 this year, and although it usually doesn't attract the attention as trout season does, the amount of anglers targeting bass has grown in popularity.
This year, especially due to the high waters during the past two months, it slowed the number of days trout anglers spent on the water. But as the status of smallmouth bass has risen, their numbers have declined on some of our better rivers.
Bass fishing on the Susquehanna River has been on the decline, and it looks like that trend will continue. The woes
Source: Lebanon Daily News
Read between the lines, and essentially, Grigsby is predicting this field of bass fishing's best is preparing to bask in the sunshine by way of many heavyweight bags on the weigh-in stage. “To be honest, with all the sunshine we're going to get,
Largemouth and spotted bass are biting on swimbaits with the 8-inch Huddleston ROF 12 in rainbow trout or the ABT Multi-Rig filled with shad patterned swimbaits working best. Manny Basi of the Bait Barn in Waterford said Robo Worms Hologram Shad or Pro
