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hello to all im new to the site. i live on Clearwater lake and do a lot of slab slayin in the lower and upper black river and clearwater along with wappapello and bismarck lake. anyone doing any good yet at any of these locations? what about council bluff lake? or taum sauk? went to bismarck a week ago and caught 2 water is still 45 degrees and fish arent very active.
Welcome to the board. I fish Wapp and Clearwater quiet a bit. Wapp"s been slow for me so far this spring. You have to fight through a bunch of dinks for every keeper but they are there. Haven't hit Clearwater yet but I'm planning a day trip there real soon. Thinking about longling some jigs on Cleawater as soon as they start coming up in the water column.
Can't help on the lakes? but welcome to the board!
thanks for the warm welcomes, only thing is i dont know if this rain this coming week will hurt or help us. should make it interesting. always have done good at both wapp and clearwater in muddy spring flood water! sad thing is im working out of state will be in south carolina, then alabama, then california and wont be able to sling any jigs till maybe the 1st of april :banghead
at least i get to have off 1st week of turkey season, gotta catch up on my morrell hunting, turkey chasin, spoonbill snaggin, and of course slab slayin! lol
If there is any month during the year to hit crappie hard, it is April.Quote:
Originally Posted by slabdaddy1017
Welcome aboard.
Welcome to the site.
Thats for sure! gonna get 1st week of april and last week of april off!Quote:
Originally Posted by TwainGang
Welcome slabdaddy1017, I live in Bonne Terre and frequently fish Clearwater and Wappappello also. I fish from a Nitro Z6, stop and say hi if you get a chance.
With the rain that's coming probably gonna get muddy. I lived 2.5 years on the Black below Clearwater dam. One year it came an 11" rain up around Lesterville in April and Clearwater was so high for six months couldn't hardly do nothing on it. And what was it four /five years ago? Wapp topped the spillway and Clearwater was right there. That's the problem with these flood control Lakes.
Hopefully it won't be too bad and spring fishing will be okay. April is good anyway you go. Right where you are Clearwater,Wapp, or about it besides the river fishing. The current river is sure a pretty place to catch some smallmouth. If you make a drive and work at learning it some fish can be caught at Duck Creek. I would plan a trip or two a year to Tablerock,LOZ,Truman, or Bull shoals from there.
Welcome to the forum. Great bunch of folks here🤗
where below the spillway did you live? my parents own a piece of property they have a few campers on right across from the bait shop hillbilly pro, next to larry barfield if you have any clue who that is lol. hes an old timer outdoorsman. anyway yes, some of my best crappie plunders have been above bluff view in the river when you find em staged up in a pothole somewhere. i have a 17 foot xterminator river boat made by ernies boat sales in ellington, 40 hp jet i can run the shallows and find the fish normally.
Between the Clearwater store and Beaver Springs campground. It was 94-95 or so I would have to look up something to remember the exact years.I had a mobile home on the old trout springs site by the old bait house.I remember the Larry Barfield name,I probably met him at sometime.I fished everything around there when I had the time but I worked a lot. I caught fish out of the Black,the Current,the St. Francis,Wapp,Clearwater,ponds,the spring. I actually fished Clearwater the least. I sorta got into float fishing the rivers those years.I liked to float from Sam Baker. I fished in the spillway quite a bit,snagged some paddlefish,caught some big flathead,caught a few walleye. But most of crappie fishing I did in Wapp. My Dad's Mother's family were from Lodi.
oh ok got ya. im the same i run trotlines and limblines and gig the lake but maybe truly fish it with a rod and reel a total of 15 or 20 times a year max, where i spend most of my time is on the upper and lower black below the dam snagging for spoonies, bass and crappie fishing, and catfishing. cant beat the smallmouth bite below the dam... also got a few honey holes for white bass and walleye.