Baldwin: Bluegill fair using wax worms; channel catfish fair to good using cut baits, nightcrawlers and dip baits; crappie spotty; largemouth bass slow.
Busch Area: Lake 33: Water temperature is 82 degrees, normal and dingy. Catfish good using chicken livers and stinkbaits. Lakes 3, 4, 5, 7 and 24: Water temperature is 82 degrees, normal and dingy. Black bass fair using jerkbaits; channel catfish fair using chicken livers and stinkbait; crappie slow.
Bull Shoals: East: Water temperature is 87 degrees, high and dingy. Catfish fair using trotlines. West: Water is normal and dingy. Dam area: Water temperature is 77-80. Walleye fair using jerkbaits and nightcrawlers; black bass fair using jigs, soft plastics and nightcrawlers; striped bass fair using large jerkbaits and crankbaits. Beaver Creek: Water temperature is 86-89 degrees. Black bass fair using soft plastics, jigs and nightcrawlers; bluegill fair using crickets and worms; catfish fair using nightcrawlers.
Carlyle: Catfish excellent in the lake using crickets, nightcrawlers, cut bait, shad guts and Sonny's stinkbait as well as leeches and cut bait on trotlines. Many anglers are drifting with bait shrimp and good to excellent in the river using shad guts, cut bait, nightcrawlers and cheese baits; crappie fair in the lake using minnows and tube jigs at 6 feet or deeper and fair in the river using minnows or tube jigs; white bass excellent in the lake using slab spoons or Little Georges by the islands and silos and humps and flats and good in the river using Rooster Tails combined with curly-tailed jigs, tube jigs or minnows; sauger good in the lake using crankbaits around the islands and silos and fair in the river on overcast days using a vertical jig tipped with a nightcrawler or minnow off the bottom.
Clearwater: Water temperature is 90 degrees, normal and clear. All species slow.
Coffeen: Largemouth bass fair using crankbaits, plastics and some topwater lures; bluegill fair to good, but small; catfish fair using nightcrawlers, big minnows and dip baits; crappie spotty.
Council Bluff: Water temperature is 86 degrees, normal and clear. All species slow.
Hunnewell: Water temperature is 82 degrees, normal and clear. Largemouth bass good using Rapalas; channel catfish good using cheese baits; bluegill good using Beetle Spins; all other species slow.
Kinkaid: Bluegill good using wax worms, meal worms, crickets and red wigglers in deeper waters; crappie fair using minnows and jigs at 8-12 feet; channel catfish good using nightcrawlers and cut bait in the evening and good using crickets on jugs; walleye spotty to fair at 10-12 feet along the dam; largemouth bass good in the morning and evening; white bass spotty; muskie poor.
Lake of the Ozarks: Bagnell Tailwater section: Water temperature is 83 degrees, high and dingy. Catfish fair using stinkbaits, worms and cut shad; crappie, black bass and white bass slow. Glaize and Gravois sections: Water temperature is 88 degrees and dingy. Crappie fair using minnows and crappie jigs; black bass fair using dark-colored soft plastics off points; catfish fair using stinkbaits, worms and chicken livers; white bass slow. Niangua and Osage sections: Water temperature is 88 degrees and dingy. Black bass fair using jigs deep in the brush; crappie fair using minnows; catfish fair using cut bait on jug lines at 15 feet.
Lake Taneycomo: Water temperature is 48 degrees, high and clear. Upper lake: Rainbow trout good using crankbaits and black, olive and white marabou jigs, Rooster Tails and crankbaits. Lower lake: Rainbow trout good using orange and chartreuse Power Baits.
Long Branch: Water temperature is 79 degrees, high and clear. All species slow.
Mark Twain: Water temperature is 85 degrees, high and dingy. Crappie good using minnows and jigs; channel catfish fair using cut bait and nightcrawlers on trotlines; all other species slow.
Mississippi River (Above St. Louis): Water temperature is 80 degrees, high and muddy. Channel catfish fair using live bait; all other species slow.
Newton: Largemouth fair using deep crankbaits at 12-16 feet; bluegill slow to fair using wax worms and red worms; catfish fair using shad, big minnows, shrimp and dip baits; crappie spotty.
Norfork: Water temperature is 86 degrees, high and dingy. Catfish good using trotlines.
Pomme de Terre: Water temperature is 84 degrees, normal and clear. Crappie good using minnows at 25 feet around structure; black bass good using plastics at 20 feet around structure; catfish good using cut and live baits; all other species slow.
Rend Lake: Water temperature is 81 degrees and normal. Largemouth bass good using worms, rattle traps, crankbaits and jig & trailer around the Highway 154 bridge, in the bushes, around laydowns, riprap, weed beds and dropoffs; crappie good using jigs and minnows in the brush at 6-14 feet; bluegill good using crickets, worms and small jigs in the backs of necks, flat shallow banks and near the rocks; channel catfish excellent using cut shad and worms, large minnows, Sonny's stinkbait and drift fishing with leeches and nightcrawlers on the rocks, mouths of creeks, shallow necks and drifting flats; white bass good using jig and curly-tailed grubs and Vibrax spinner No. 3 under bridges and on the main-lake humps and busting shad in the early morning.
Stockton: Water temperature is 79 degrees, normal and clear. Crappie good using minnows; black bass good using soft plastics; walleye fair using jigs tipped with nightcrawlers; catfish fair using nightcrawlers while drifting.
Table Rock: James River Arm: Water temperature is 81 degrees, normal and dingy. Black bass good using deep-diving crankbaits or soft plastic crayfish. Main Lake: Water temperature is 82 degrees, high and dingy. Black bass good using deep-diving crankbaits or soft plastic crayfish around bridge piers or docks at 25 feet.
Thomas Hill: Water temperature is 84 degrees, high and dingy. All species slow.
Truman: Water temperature is 87 degrees, high and dingy. Catfish good using live and cut baits; crappie good using minnows and jigs; largemouth bass good using plastic worms; white bass and hybrid bass good using crankbaits and Sassy Shad or drifting with live bait.
Wappapello: Water is rising. Black bass fair using spinnerbaits and plastic worms early and late; bluegill fair using crickets and worms; channel catfish fair using live bait and worms at night; all other species slow.
Information for this report was provided by the Missouri Department of Conservation and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
