Lake of the Ozarks Crappie Fishing Trip

Taking a very spur of the moment trip next week to the Ozarks and staying in Linn Creek, on the water, which is near the Camdenton area.

We’ll have a boat but I’ve never fished the area or have any clue about the lake if anyone has any tips on where to start or structure, depth or areas to look for?

thanks for any help you can provide.

Never been to Ozarks, but me and couple dudes went to Truman couple springs ago. Summer time is different fishing altogether to what we were doing but details of the trees stuck out the most to me for structure. The type of trees submerged along the channels could be Vitaly important to whether they held fish or not. The branches(that are still on em from being underwater for decades) differ and fish will.prefer one over the other.

I’d appreciate a report back, on my list to get to eventually, big crappies are very attractive to chase down there!

Too bad you weren’t going in March or april . Snagging season . Combo ya a Spoony and a crappie .

Plan to fish early this time of year. Ozark summer is a different kind of hot usually. Hot at night, unbearable during the day. Also, Missouri tourism does a good job of keeping the boating fatalities quiet on Lake of the Ozarks, Tablerock etc. in the summer. Every year means more and bigger tuna boats and cigar boats. Big up tick since covid. Try to find deep coves that you can get back in to avoid the boat traffic. Best advice, stay north and plan a spring trip. Crappies are much easier to locate. Boat traffic is lighter in March and April. Good cure for the heat, gotta try Andys Frozen Custard!! Good luck!

As stevenoak mentioned early mornings or late evenings this time of year, docks docks and more docks in deeper water. If you have SI or Live cruise the docks looking for schools of Crappie. Dock shooting on that lake is big during summer.

A lot of the people fishing are finding success trolling with Bandit 300 crankbaits. Obviously other brands of crankbaits are used, but the bandits are a lure of choice. I question if you are staying in the Libbey Cove area. I’m sure Linn Creek is very close. We’ve been there several times over the last few years. We’ve had success fishing off the dock and also trolling. We’re quicker to target spring and late summer/fall.

bassh8er wrote:

Taking a very spur of the moment trip next week to the Ozarks and staying in Linn Creek, on the water, which is near the Camdenton area.

We’ll have a boat but I’ve never fished the area or have any clue about the lake if anyone has any tips on where to start or structure, depth or areas to look for?

thanks for any help you can provide.

Wondering if you made it down to LOZ? If so, how was the fishing?

Only fished it once but yeah, everything OAK says x2.
Cigar boats and ocean liners and massive waves on the main parts, side channels and bays much better.
Was a real eye opener – like cruising around Minnetonka on double steroids in my opinion.
Pretty fun though and LOTS of places where you CAN fish.