Crappie - fair but small

Bass - bass good 

Bluegill good  

Catfish good

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.

No Report

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.

Fishing Report from Sterett Creek Marina 10/5/05

If the weather forecasters are right we should be in for some good fishing this weekend. We have a real strong cold front moving through the area which should drop the water temp to the point that the whites will be on the banks big time. We are supposed to have some good wind which will also help. the leaves still haven't started to turn yet but the acorns are dropping like crazy so the leaves should start real soon.

LAKE LEVEL: 705.91
WATER TEMP: 74 deg.
WATER CLARITY: Big & Little Tebo, light stain.
                                 Big & Little Pommie, clear.
                                 Upper Osage, stained.
                                 Lower Osage, light stain.
                                 Upper Grand, stained.
                                 Lower Grand, clear.

BASS: spinner baits and tubes in the back ends of the coves. 2' to 5' of water. Look for shad. Main lake points 6' to12' of water, using jig and frog and big worms. There have been some fish holding in the cedars off the points so be sure to check them. Black and blue and watermelon and red have been the two best colors. The top water bite slowed down but with this front I think it will pick right back up.

CRAPPIE: The brush pile fish are the best thing going now. Fish the piles in 12' to 20' with minnows. The crappie seem to be holding right on top of the brush. There has been some nice crappie caught drifting minnows on top of the wier in front of the dam.

WHITES & HYBRIDS: With the weather we have coming in there should be whites on most of the flat bare banks in our area. Last weekend there a lot of fish caught off these banks but they would slow up when the sun got high in the sky. The water has warmed a little this week which slowed them down but like I said with this front I think it will push them right back up. Rat L Traps and Rooster Tails are the two top baits. Remember when fishing the flats that its really hard to fish to shallow. These fish will be in 2' of water or less.

CATFISH: No report.

That's it for this week from Sterett Creek Marina

So till next week we bid you good fishin.

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 are moving to the creeks. The water is cooling off so look for the creeks with lots of structure. Fish water 12 ft or more down 8 to 9 ft. When the water cools off the fish will hit a jig. Fish the creek channels using a black and char tube or a minnow on a 1/16 oz jig. Seeing several fish.

Bass are moving to the creeks and being caught on spinner baits in 4ft to 6 ft of water. The back half of the creeks is the best. Keep your boat on the move cover lots of water and you'll catch fish.

Catfish No report

White bass are being caught on the windy points using any thing that resembles a shad. You need wind to make it good look for points with lots of wind and fish it out and find another point. The long shoal area is the best.