FISHING REPORT

Baldwin: No report.

Busch Area: Lake 33: Water temperature is 78 degrees, low and clear. Bluegill good on worms; black bass fair using soft plastic baits; catfish slow. Lakes 3, 4, 5, 7 and 24: Water temperature is 78 degrees, low and dingy. Channel catfish slow.

Bull Shoals: East: Water temperature is 78 degrees, low and dingy. All species slow. West: Water is normal and clear. Dam area: Water temperature is 72 degrees. Black bass fair using jigs, soft plastics and nightcrawlers; walleye fair using nightcrawlers while trolling. Beaver Creek: Water temperature is 80 degrees. Bluegill good using crickets and worms; catfish good using nightcrawlers; black bass fair using soft plastics, jigs and nightcrawlers.

Carlyle: Catfish good in the lake drifting with shrimp or cut shad and using cheese baits and cut baits with pole and line and good in the spillway using cut bait, nightcrawlers and cheese baits; crappie fair in the lake using tube jigs or minnows or casting with Road Runners and fair in the spillway using minnows or tube jigs; white bass good to excellent in the lake along the clay and rock banks and on sandy shores and fair in the spillway using minnows or tube jigs; sauger fair in the lake trolling crankbaits by the island and silos and fair in the spillway vertical jigging off the bottom with curly tails tipped with a nightcrawler or minnow.

Clearwater: Water temperature is 79 degrees, normal and clear. All species slow.

Coffeen: Bluegill good using minnows and nightcrawlers; catfish good using stinkbait and worms; largemouth bass good using topwater lures; crappie spotty.

Council Bluff: Water temperature is 81 degrees, normal and clear. Channel catfish fair using liver and cut baits after dark; largemouth bass fair using dark-colored soft plastics during low light periods; all other species slow.

Hunnewell: Water temperature is 71 degrees, normal and dingy. Largemouth bass fair using spinnerbaits and Rebel lures; bluegill fair using Beetle Spins; channel catfish good using doughbaits and cheese baits; all other species slow.

Kinkaid: Bluegill fair using wax worms, crickets and red wigglers; crappie fair using minnows; channel catfish fair using nightcrawlers, chicken livers and cut bait early and late; largemouth bass good using topwater lures and spinnerbaits late; walleye fair using hook and worm; white bass spotty.

Lake of the Ozarks: Bagnell Tailwater section: Water temperature is 81 degrees, high and dingy. Catfish fair using worms, cut baits, stinkbaits and chicken livers; black bass, white bass and crappie slow. Glaize section: Water temperature is 81 degrees and dingy. Black bass good using worms on secondary points at night; catfish fair using cut bait; crappie slow. Gravois section: Water temperature is 81 degrees and dingy. All species slow. Niangua and Osage sections: Water temperature is 81 degrees and dingy. Black bass good using worms on secondary points at night; catfish fair using cut bait; crappie slow.

Lake Taneycomo: Water temperature is 50 degrees, normal and clear. Upper lake: Rainbow trout good using jigs, Rooster Tails, Rogues and flies. Lower lake: Rainbow trout good using orange, bubble gum or pink/white Power Baits, nightcrawlers and corn.

Long Branch: Water temperature is 73 degrees, normal and dingy. Channel catfish fair using stinkbaits, worms and cut bait; all other species slow.

Mark Twain: Water temperature is 82 degrees, normal and dingy. Crappie fair using minnows and jigs; channel catfish fair using minnows; all other species slow.

Mississippi River (Above St. Louis): Water temperature is 70 degrees, falling and dingy. Channel catfish fair using stinkbait; blue and flathead catfish fair using live baits; all other species slow.

Newton: Catfish good using stinkbait; largemouth bass good using crankbait; crappie spotty to fair.

Norfork: Water temperature is 76 degrees, low and dingy. All species slow.

Pomme de Terre: Water temperature is 78 degrees, normal and clear. Crappie good using minnows at 20 feet; black bass good using crankbaits at 10-15 feet; walleye good using crankbaits; catfish good using shad while drifting.

Rend Lake: Water temperature is 76 degrees and slightly above 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 6-8 feet, in the coves at 6 feet, around stumps at 1-3 feet and in the creeks; bluegill fair using crickets, worms and small jigs in the back 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. Shore fishing is also good at the Ina Boat Ramp area; 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 81 degrees, rising and clear. Catfish good using worms in upper arms of the lake; crappie fair using minnows in deeper water; largemouth bass fair using Texas-rigged worms and deep divers.

Table Rock: James River Arm: Water temperature is 80 degrees, normal and clear. Black bass fair using watermelon-colored soft plastic crayfish and soft plastic worms; all other species slow. Main Lake: Water temperature is 80 degrees, normal and muddy. Black bass fair using watermelon-colored soft plastic crayfish and soft plastic worms around deep water coves, boat docks and points; all other species slow.

Thomas Hill: Water temperature is 76 degrees, normal and dingy. Crappie fair using tube jigs; all other species slow.

Truman: Water temperature is 78 degrees, high and dingy. Catfish fair using live baits; black bass fair using spinnerbaits and crankbaits; crappie fair using minnows and jigs, white bass fair using jigs and spoons.

Wappapello: Water is normal. Black bass fair using plastic worms and crankbaits; bluegill fair using crickets and worms; crappie fair using minnows and jigs; all other species slow.

Information for this report was provided by the Missouri Department of Conservation and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.