The upper stretchs of the Mighyt Miss. have been on fire since the start of the heat wave. By far the best action is coming off live bait weather on a jig, a rig or a bobber. Hands down the smallie fishing is second to none, the last 5 days have been simply catching rather than fishing. On Thursday I went 33 smallies off 25 minnows in under 2 hours all over 15inches 
All coming off a circle hook and a sucker, sinker is optional, as the top water bite is just around the corner. The multi species action has been decent also with plenty of panfish to be had after dailing down the bait sizes. By far the best areas have been high flow current eddys for the toothed creatures and shallow slack water for the pan fish. The Pike have slowed abit now but still seeing 1 or 2 per tri but the size just isnt there anymore. As for the eyes, I havent been tareting them much but will score 1 or 2 almost every trip out. The cat fishing front has me stumped though, there has to be some Flats in there some where but I cant find them, soaked a bully for 5 hours the other night only to score 2 decent channels, and have one H3LL of a run that ended as fast as it started. The main struggle has been finding place in the main channel that arnt flowing 3 to 5 mph 
AND the grass 
I have targeted feeder creek mouths and downed wood for the cats, any pointers would be great. Also when fishing wood do you lay your baits in front of it or behind it? Thanks much and tight lines to all 
July 3, 2011 at 2:14 pm
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