In most streams south of the Missouri River, black bass season will open May 28, 2011, until that date all black bass in those streams must be returned to the water unharmed immediately after being caught. For details see Chapter 6 of the Wildlife Code.
PLEASE CHECK REGULATIONS CAREFULLY: Special regulations may apply to designated portions of water bodies; some baits and lures may not be legal for all portions.
CENTRAL REGION (573) 882-8388
LAKES
Binder: 62 degrees, normal, clear; largemouth bass good on spinnerbaits and plastic worms; bluegill good on river worms and crickets; crappie good on minnows and jigs; channel catfish fair on nightcrawlers and stinkbaits; all other species slow.
(Report made on 5/12/2011)
Blind Pony Lake: 69 degrees, normal, dingy; fishing pressure is very low this year; channel catfish and sunfish fair on nightcrawlers; largemouth bass fair; all other species slow; the lake is closed to private boats, and bait held or transported in containers with water is prohibited. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
Lake of the Ozarks (Bagnell Tailwater): 59 degrees, normal, dingy; black bass season closed; crappie fair on minnows and crappie jigs; catfish slow, try worms, cut shad and chicken livers; white bass fair on light colored soft plastics and Rooster Tails.
(Report made on 5/11/2011)
Lake of the Ozarks (Glaize): 67 degrees, dingy; black bass good on dark colored plastic worms and buzzbaits; crappie good using minnows and crappie jigs; catfish slow, try worms, stinkbaits and cut shad; white bass slow, try light colored soft plastic lures.
(Report made on 5/11/2011)
Lake of the Ozarks (Gravois): 67 degrees, dingy; crappie fair; black bass fair; white bass slow; catfish good.
(Report made on 5/11/2011)
Lake of the Ozarks (Niangua): 67 degrees, dingy; crappie good on minnows and jigs; white bass good on spinners;
black bass good on topwater lures; catfish good on perch and cut shad.
(Report made on 5/11/2011)
Lake of the Ozarks (Osage): 67 degrees, dingy; black bass good on dark colored plastic worms and buzzbaits; crappie good using minnows and crappie jigs; catfish slow, try worms, stinkbaits and cut shad; white bass slow, try light colored soft plastic lures.
(Report made on 5/11/2011)
Little Dixie: 59 degrees, normal, clear; crappie good on minnows and jigs; largemouth bass good on plastic worms; channel catfish fair on chicken liver and stinkbait; all other species slow. Area closed to all activity between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 4:00 a.m. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
RIVERS
Lamine: normal, muddy; channel catfish and blue catfish good on worms and cut bait; all other species fair.
(Report made on 5/12/2011)
Missouri (Middle): normal, muddy; channel catfish and blue catfish good on worms and cut bait; all other species fair.
(Report made on 5/11/2011)
Osage (lower, at Tuscumbia): 55 degrees, normal, muddy; black bass season closed; crappie fair on minnows and crappie jigs; catfish slow, try worms, cut shad and chicken livers; white bass fair on light colored soft plastics and Rooster Tails.
(Report made on 5/11/2011)
KANSAS CITY REGION (816) 655-6254
LAKES
James A. Reed Area: 72 degrees, high, clear; bluegill good; largemouth bass, crappie and redear sunfish good; channel catfish fair; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Montrose: 73 degrees, dingy; black bass good; catfish fair; crappie slow; fishing pressure light. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
Schell-Osage (Atkinson Lake): 78 degrees, dingy; crappie good, catfish good; all other species fair. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
Schell-Osage (Schell Lake): 80 degrees, high, dingy; crappie good; catfish good; all other species fair. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
Truman: 66 degrees, high, dingy; crappie good using jigs; black bass good using spinnerbaits and jigs; catfish fair using cut bait or sunfish; white bass and hybrid bass fair using jigs. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Truman Tailwaters: 66 degrees, dingy; releasing 22,500 cfs; crappie good; white bass and catfish fair. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
RIVERS
Missouri River: high, muddy; flathead catfish fair in tributaries on live bait; all other species slow in the main river.
(Report made on 5/12/2011)
NORTHEAST REGION (660) 785-2420
LAKES
Hunnewell: 74 degrees, normal, dingy; largemouth bass good on flukes; channel catfish fair on cheese bait; bluegill fair on earthworms; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Long Branch: 66 degrees, high, dingy; flathead catfish good on live baits; crappie fair on jigs and minnows; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Mark Twain: 62 degrees, normal, dingy; crappie good on jigs of assorted colors and minnows; channel catfish good on cut bait and nightcrawlers; white bass fair on assorted lures; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Sever: 68 degrees, normal, dingy; crappie good on minnows; largemouth bass good on Carolina rigged lizard; bluegill fair on jigs; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Thomas Hill: 67 degrees, high, dingy; small channel catfish good on worms; hybrid stripers fair on shad lures; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
RIVERS
Mississippi (above St. Louis): 61 degrees, falling, dingy; channel catfish good on live baits; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Salt (below Mark Twain): 68 degrees, high, muddy; drum fair on worms; channel catfish fair on prepared baits; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
NORTHWEST REGION (816) 271-3100
LAKES
Bilby Ranch Lake: 60 degrees, normal, dingy; black bass good; channel catfish good; bluegill and crappie good but small, walleye fair on dam; all other species fair. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
Mozingo: 60 degrees, normal, clear; crappie good on bank on jigs; black bass good, starting to move into shallows; channel catfish good on cut bait; bluegill good on worms; walleye fair on main lake structure. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
Paho: 66 degrees, high, clear; largemouth bass improving, with several 15-20" fish being taken on soft plastic artificials in shallow water; channel catfish good on nightcrawlers and cut bait. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Pony Express: 62 degrees, normal, clear; crappie good on jigs close to banks; largemouth bass good on artificial worms; catfish good on chicken livers; all other species fair. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
Smithville: 63 degrees, rising, dingy; crappie fair in shallow water on dark chartreuse combo jigs and minnows; largemouth bass fair in shallow water on a wide variety of lures; channel catfish slow on nightcrawlers and shad sides; white bass fair in creek arms of lake on jigs and minnows; walleye slow on jigs, worms or rattle lures at lake points. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
RIVERS
Grand: 56 degrees, falling, dingy; channel catfish and blue catfish good; flathead catfish fair; all other species good. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
Missouri (below Iowa line): 57 degrees, high, muddy; channel catfish and carp fair on worms; all other species fair. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
OZARK REGION (417) 255-9561
LAKES
Bull Shoals (East): 71 degrees, high, dingy; all species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Norfork: 69 degrees, high, dingy; all species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
RIVERS
Big Piney (lower, Pulaski Co.): 63 degrees, falling, muddy; all species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Big Piney (Upper): 66 degrees, falling, dingy; all species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Bryant Creek: 65 degrees, high, dingy; all species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Current: 64 degrees, normal, clear; smallmouth bass good on plastic grubs; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Eleven Point: 60 degrees, high, dingy; all species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Gasconade (middle, Pulaski Co.): 63 degrees, falling, muddy; all species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Gasconade (upper): 65 degrees, high, dingy; smallmouth bass, goggle-eye, and sunfish fair on live bait; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Jacks Fork: 65 degrees, normal, clear; smallmouth bass fair on soft plastics. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
North Fork: 62 degrees, high, dingy; striped bass good on minnows, stickbaits, and soft plastics; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
SOUTHEAST REGION (573) 290-5858
LAKES
Clearwater Lake: 71 degrees, high, dingy; all species slow. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
Council Bluff: 64 degrees, high, clear; channel catfish fair on nightcrawlers and liver; crappie fair on live minnows; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
Cypress Lake: high, channel catfish good on nightcrawlers and stinkbait; bluegill good on crickets and small jigs; crappie good on jigs and minnows; black bass good on jig & pig. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
Duck Creek: 74 degrees, high, clear; largemouth bass fair on spinnerbaits and minnows; bluegill fair on crickets and jigs; redear sunfish fair on crickets and jigs.
Area is open, but roads are rough due to flood waters washing in a few locations. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
Lake Girardeau: 64 degrees, normal, clear; all species slow. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
Perry County Lake: 74 degrees, normal, clear; crappie good on jigs; largemouth bass fair on spinnerbaits; channel catfish fair on nightcrawlers; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/10/2011)
Robert DeLaney Lake: high, dingy; bluegill fair on crickets, waxworms, and jigs; crappie fair on jigs and minnows; catfish fair on worms; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/10/2011)
Wappapello: high, muddy; channel catfish good on nightcrawlers; all other species slow. Wappapello Lake is experiencing historic level flooding. Almost all of the access points around the lake are closed. Highway T just below the emergency spillway was destroyed when the water topped the spillway. Several other roads around the lake are also flooded, including Highway D. Call the Wappapello Lake Recreation Hotline for updates at 573-222-8139. (Report made on 5/10/2011)
RIVERS
Black River (near Annapolis): 63 degrees, high, muddy; smallmouth bass and goggle-eye slow on artificial bait. Black bass season closed until May 28, 2011. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Castor River (above Zalma): normal; dingy; all species fair. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Lower Black River (Clearwater Dam): high, dingy; catfish fair on worms and live bait; black bass fair on minnows and jigs (prohibited from harvest until the fourth Saturday in May); crappie fair on minnows; all other species slow. The US Army Corps of Engineers reopened the recreation area just below the dam late last week. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Mississippi (below Charleston): falling, muddy; catfish and drum fair on worms; catfish are also being caught in the river using trotlines with cut baits and chicken gizzards; snaggers and bow fishermen are taking advantage of water conditions and are catching quite a few Asian carp, drum, common carp, and gar; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Mississippi River (Cape Girardeau): high, muddy; all species slow. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
St. Francis (above Wappapello): high, muddy; all species slow. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
St. Francis (below Wappapello): dingy; water levels are high; all species slow due to extreme flooding. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
SOUTHWEST REGION (417) 895-6881
LAKES
Bull Shoals (West): 60 degrees, high, dingy; white bass fair on soft plastics; bluegill fair on worms; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
Lake Taneycomo: 50 degrees, high, clear; trout good on white marabou jigs and blue/chrome or black/chrome crankbaits. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
Pomme de Terre: 68 degrees, high, water level is 9' above normal; upper portion of lake dingy with lower portion clear; crappie good on jig or minnow in 5' to 15' of water close to bank next to submerged bushes or over established fish attractors in deeper water; catfish good on limb lines in upper arms of lake on hotdogs, worms or cut shad; black bass fair on spinning baits and plastic baits over submerged cover and points; all other species fair. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
Stockton: 63 degrees, high, dingy; catfish good on liver and nightcrawlers; crappie good on minnows and tube jigs in 10' to 15' of water near brush piles; walleye good while jigging on bottom off of lake points; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
Table Rock (James River arm): 71 degrees, high, dingy; catfish good using either pole and line or trotlines, use live bait such as small sunfish and goldfish for flathead and cut bait or nightcrawlers for channel catfish; black bass fair in 5' to 10' of water on white or white/chartreuse spin baits, also try gray or white grubs on 1/2 oz. jigs, Carolina rigging plastic worms is also producing bites, try using plum, purple, motor oil or watermelon colored baits; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Table Rock (main lake): 71 degrees, high, dingy; catfish good using either pole and line or trotlines, use live bait such as small sunfish and goldfish for flathead and cut bait or nightcrawlers for channel catfish; black bass fair in 5' to 10' of water on white or white/chartreuse spin baits, also try gray or white grubs on 1/2 oz. jigs, Carolina rigging plastic worms is also producing bites, try using plum, purple, motor oil or watermelon colored baits; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
RIVERS
Big Niangua: 55 degrees, high, dingy; black bass slow, catch and release only until May 28, best on soft plastics; goggle-eye slow, best on soft plastics and jigs; trout slow, best on natural baits and Power Baits below Bennett Spring; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
James River (lower): 63 degrees, normal, clear; black bass good on nightcrawlers and plastic worms at morning and dusk, catch and release only until May 28; channel catfish good on liver, cut bait and nightcrawlers; goggle-eye good on spinnerbaits and minnows; crappie fair on chartreuse tube jigs near brush piles; bluegill fair on earthworms and crickets. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
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ST. LOUIS REGION (636) 300-1953
LAKES
Busch Memorial Conservation Area Lake 33: 58 degrees, high, dingy; bluegill fair on worms; black bass fair on spinnerbaits and crankbaits; catfish fair on stinkbaits and chicken liver; limit 4; crappie good on tube & curly tail jigs and minnows; please remove litter. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Busch Memorial Conservation Area Lakes 3, 4, 5, 7, and 23: 70 degrees, high, dingy; channel catfish good on stinkbaits and chicken liver due to recent stocking; limit 4; bluegill fair on worms; black bass fair on spinnerbaits and crankbaits; limit 4; please remove litter.
RIVERS
Big River: 51 degrees, rising, dingy; channel catfish fair on liver, prepared baits and worms; black bass slow on minnows, catch and release only until May 28; drum slow on minnows; bluegill fair on worms; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Bourbeuse (middle, lower, Franklin Co.): 64 degrees, falling, dingy; channel catfish fair on live bait; catch and release black bass fair on spinnerbaits; all other species fair on natural baits. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Meramec (above Sullivan, Crawford Co.): 64 degrees, falling, dingy; catch and release black bass slow on Gitzit, and plastic worms; goggle-eye slow on nightcrawlers; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Meramec (below Eureka): 60 degrees, high, muddy; catch and release black bass fair on crankbaits; channel catfish good on worms; crappie good on jigs and minnows; carp good on doughbait and corn; all other species good on worms. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
Missouri (below New Haven): 60 degrees, falling, muddy; channel catfish good on worms and prepared bait; all other species slow. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
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TROUT PARKS
Bennett Spring State Park: 54 degrees, the spring level is about 2 inches above normal and beginning to clear; Zone 1 and 2 best lures: bead head Cracklebacks, gingersnap with 8 oz. gold head colored, pink and white colored and black and yellow colored marabou jigs, orange flake colored and black and yellow colored Rooster Tails, tri-colored and white, and white and red colored glo balls; Zone 3 best lures: fluorescent orange colored and pink Power Baits, fluorescent pink plastic worms and salmon eggs. Fishing hours for May are 6:30 a.m. to 8:15 p.m.
(Report made on 5/12/2011)
Maramec Spring Park: 56 degrees, falling, dingy; fishing is good; the water is slowly clearing up; there is good flow due to the recent rains and large spring output; fishing hours for the month of May are 6:30 a.m to 8:15 p.m. Kid's Free Fishing Day will be held rain or shine on Saturday, May 14th, 2011. (Report made on 5/11/2011)
Montauk State Park: 56 degrees, the river level is still slightly higher than normal, but slowly dropping. The water is stained. Fishing is good on most baits with bright colors, and scented baits are working the best. The best fishing is during the morning and evening hours. May fishing hours are 6:30 a.m. to 8:15 p.m.
For up-to-date stream conditions check http://waterdata.usgs.gov/
Roaring River State Park: 57 degrees, falling, the stream is dingy and a little above normal; the river is very fishable; water is clearing up more every day; spoons, plastic worms and power eggs are working very well; use scented baits in zones allowed. Kid's Fishing Day is May 14th. Upper holes will be reserved for kids 15 and under; holes will remain reserved all day. (Report made on 5/12/2011)
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