Baldwin: Bluegill fair using wax worms and crickets; channel catfish fair using cut baits and nightcrawlers; largemouth bass fair using spinnerbaits; crappie spotty.
Busch Area: Lake 33: Water temperature is 82 degrees, high, dingy; black bass fair on soft plastics and minnows; carp fair on doughbait; catfish good on chicken liver and stinkbaits. Lakes 3, 4, 5, 7 and 24: Water temperature is 82 degrees, high, dingy; channel catfish fair on chicken livers and stinkbait.
Bull Shoals: East: Water temperature is 86 degrees, high, dingy; catfish fair on trotlines; all other species slow. West: Water is normal and clear. Dam area: Water temperature is 77-80. Walleye fair on jerkbaits and nightcrawlers; black bass fair on jigs, soft plastics and nightcrawlers; striped bass fair on 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: Catfish good using minnows and nightcrawlers; largemouth bass good; bluegill and crappie spotty.
Council Bluff: Water temperature is 87 degrees, normal and clear. Largemouth bass fair during low light periods on dark colored soft plastics; all other species slow.
Hunnewell: Water temperature is 77 degrees, high and dingy. Channel catfish fair on chicken liver; bluegill fair on earthworms; largemouth bass fair on crankbaits; all other species slow.
Kinkaid: Bluegill good using wax worms, meal worms, crickets and red wigglers in the early morning and late evening; crappie good using minnows and jigs at 12-15 feet; channel catfish good using nightcrawlers and cut bait in the evening along the rocks; largemouth bass fair in the early morning and late evening; white bass fair; walleye spotty to fair by the dam; muskie poor.
Lake of the Ozarks: Bagnell Tailwater section: Water temperature is 83 degrees, high and dingy. Crappie slow on minnows and crappie jigs; black bass slow using worms and dark colored soft plastic worms; white bass slow on light colored soft plastics; catfish fair using stinkbaits, worms and cut shad. Glaize and Gravios sections: Water temperature is 88 degrees and dingy. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs; black bass fair using dark colored soft plastics off points; white bass slow on light colored soft plastics and light colored Rooster Tails; catfish fair using stinkbaits, worms and chicken livers. Niangua and Osage sections: Water temperature is 88 degrees and dingy. Black bass fair on jigs, go a little deeper than you think and get to the brush; crappie fair on minnows; catfish fair with cut bait on jug lines at 15 feet deep.
Lake Taneycomo: Water temperature is 48 degrees, high and clear. Upper lake: Rainbow trout good on marabou jigs and crankbaits. Lower lake: Rainbow trout good on Power Baits, nightcrawlers, and corn.
Long Branch: Water temperature is 82 degrees, rising, muddy. All species slow.
Mark Twain: Water temperature is 85 degrees, high and clear. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs; all other species slow.
Mississippi River (Above St. Louis): Water temperature is 73 degrees, 3 feet above flood stage. Channel catfish good on stinkbaits and fair on worms and shad; drum good on worms; carp good on doughbait and corn; all other species slow.
Newton: Catfish fair using stink bait, chicken liver and shad; largemouth fair using spinners and topwater lures early in the morning and late in the evening; crappie spotty.
Norfork: Water temperature is 87 degrees, high and dingy. Catfish good using trotlines.
Pomme de Terre: Water temperature is 84 degrees, falling and clear. Crappie good on minnows in 25 feet of water around structure; black bass good on plastics in 20 feet of water around structure; catfish fair on cut bait and live bait; 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 85 degrees, normal and clear. Black bass fair in early morning on topwater lures with large crankbaits or plastic worms; crappie fair on jigs in 20-25-feet of water; bluegill fair on crickets and nightcrawlers; catfish fair on shad sides and nightcrawlers.
Table Rock: James River Arm: Water temperature is 80 degrees, normal and dingy. Black bass good on deep diving crankbaits or soft plastic crayfish around bridge piers and docks; walleye good on spinnerbaits in early morning or late evening. Main Lake: Water temperature is 80 degrees, high and dingy. Black bass good using deep-diving crankbaits or soft plastic crayfish around bridge piers or dock at 25 feet.
Thomas Hill: Water temperature is 86 degrees, high and dingy. Channel catfish fair using setlines; crappie fair in deeper water using minnows; all other species slow..
Truman: Water temperature is 81 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 normal. 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.





