Missouri Lakes Fishing Report

Lake - Stockton 06/07/05:

Main Lake: Top waters early and late are producing several good fish and a ton of shorts and whites; Lucky Craft G-splash, Pop-Rs or Spooks are all producing strikes on steeper banks around the state park area. As the sun comes up move out on pea gravel and chunk rock points near deep water and channel swings, concentrate on any ledges that drop from around 8' to 12' and fish Carolina rigged needle worms, baby brush hogs and french fries down these ledges.

Above the bridges: Still catching a few fish on a Lucky Craft R. C. 1.5 around laydowns and shallow brush, you need to throw the bait at the cover from just about every angle to get bit but the quality of the fish has been worth the effort. Also try an Eakins' flipping jig on cover further up the river, laydowns, log jams, stumps and rocks have all been holding fish in the shade of shallow cover. The best jig color continues to be black / blue flash with black / blue Chomper 5" jig trailer or a Zoom super chunk in flippin' blue.

Walleye can be caught on main lake points around suspended at around 20' deep, during the day troll crawler harnesses and in the evening switch to casting deep running crankbaits.

Crappie are being caught on live minnows and 2" squirts in timber around 15' - 25' deep.