Take what she gives

I spent the lions share of 2 hours crappie hunting Pool 9 today. Completely avoided bumper boats in DeSoto Bay and headed to uncharted waters that have proven successful in yesteryears. But all I had to show for 2 hours worth of work on this day was a hand full of baby bass. Switched gears to Walleye and spent 20 biteless minutes watching the WB put on a surface show a short distance away. Enough was enough. I felt like the defeated 8th grade bully by this point. Tied on a red-eye, trolled over and gave the ole arms a work out. Had these guys been in that proverbial 10 to 13 inch Pool 9 range I probable would have left long before I did. But these guys were big-guns. Constant 15 plus inch fish with the larger ones flirting with the 17″ tick! It’s the Mississippi.

Nice ones! Looks awfully tasty to me!

Now that is good fun!!!
Way to make the best of a nice fall day!!

Whites are a blast this time of year. Actually they can be a blast any time of year that they are feeding actively.

Last year my better half and I were throwing towards shore in 3 fow that dropped to 12 fow pulling spoons back to the boat and for about 90 minutes we would catch one at least every third cast. But none of them were close to your 17 inchers. That is a nice creel you guy caught…

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Whites are a blast this time of year. Actually they can be a blast any time of year that they are feeding actively.

Last year my better half and I were throwing towards shore in 3 fow that dropped to 12 fow pulling spoons back to the boat and for about 90 minutes we would catch one at least every third cast. But none of them were close to your 17 inchers. That is a nice creel you guy caught…

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I’d be fibbing if I didn’t admit childhood memories of the late 70’s & early 80’s fishing with my pa at the Cassville spillway didn’t creep back into my mind. In those days it was nothing to see 50+ boats from far & near on a Saturday morning jostling for the right to take a couple shots at spot on spot locations for WB. All before the violent & relentless influx of water coming through shoved them back down river just out of the zone.

Cassville, that brings back memories of fishing on the east side below the spillway. We used to stand right on the blocks below the roller and throw into the dam and catch one after another. Whitebass 15″ and over are nice fish, an 18 incher fights like heck, its hard to run into a school of those sized fish though.

Great day saver, nice whities Bosman

Great Report

Nice fish