

Fishing Report compiled by Steve Koehler/For the News-Leader.Kings River: The river is stained and low.īuffalo River: The river is navigable and clear. Lake Norfork: The lake is warming up fast and the stripers are moving to the banks.īeaver tailwaters: There is a bit of a fishing slump on the tailwaters. North Fork River: There has been some wadable water. White River: Water conditions are trending toward the high side.īull Shoals tailwater: White bass are starting to get in the mood for a spawning run. Source: Arkansas Department of Conservation The water level is slightly below normal and running clear.ġ7. Osage (Truman tailwater): 56 degrees, low, dingy.ġ5. Osage (Bagnell tailwater): 45 degrees, dingy.ġ3. We’d been hammering male largemouths, some of which were comfortably over but the lake. By Truman Lake standards, it had been a slow early-April morning for Jeff Hamilton and me.

North Fork: 60 degrees, normal, clear.ġ2. Year after year, Truman Lake serves up some of the Show Me State's most rewarding bass fishing. James River (lower): 46 degrees, normal, clear.ġ1. Gasconade (middle, near Waynesville): 66 degrees, normal, clear.ġ0. Eleven Point: 58 degrees, normal, clear.ħ. Big Piney (lower, below Slabtown): 66 degrees, normal, clear.Ħ. Big Niangua (above Bennett Spring State Park): 58 degrees, normal, clear.Ģ. Trout: Fly-fishing is good with almost all baits including midges.Ĭrappie: Minnows and jigs in 20 feet of waterĬrappie: Minnows and jigs in the brush piles and deep creek channelsĬatfish: Using livers in the back of coves and pointsĬrappie: Jigs in open water about 10 to 20 feet deep.īlack bass: Wiggle Warts, jerkbaits and Alabama rigs in the river armsīlack bass: Jerkbaits on secondary points in the mouths of covesĬrappie: Spider rigging in 10 to 25 feet of waterġ. Trout: In the creeks using Power Baits, night crawlers. Source: Missouri State Department of ConservationĬrappie: In the standing timber in 20 to 40 feet of water about 15 feet deep with chartreuse jigs and minnowsĬrappie: In 5 to 22 feet of water with minnows and jigs Walleye: Yellow and chartreuse jigs upstream Source: Missouri Department of Conservationįolks are catching crappie suspended in 20 to 25 feet of water. Black bass: Stick baits, plastic baits in deep water along the channel swingsĬrappie: Live minnows and swimming minnows around brush piles and stumpsīlack bass: Slow rolling a Hot 'n' trot in 4 to 6 feet of waterĬrappie: On the brush piles with minnows and jigsĬrappie: Blue and white jigs or minnows in 3 to 30 feet of water
