WEEKLY FISHING REPORT ON MISSOURI RIVERS

Statewide Weekly Fishing Report
4/15/2010 at 11:34:03

Attention Fishing Report Subscribers:

**PLEASE REMEMBER** IN MOST STREAMS SOUTH OF THE MISSOURI RIVER, BLACK BASS SEASON WILL OPEN MAY 22, 2010, 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.

RIVERS

Lamine:

52 degrees, high, muddy; all species fair on live baits. (Report made on 4/15/2010)

Missouri (Middle):

51 degrees, high, muddy; all species are fair on live baits and worms. (Report made on 4/15/2010)

Osage (lower, at Tuscumbia):

53 degrees, dingy; paddlefish fair; white bass slow on spinners; crappie fair on jigs and minnows; catfish good on shad; black bass closed. (Report made on 4/15/2010)

Missouri River (Kansas City):

high, catfish good using nightcrawlers. (Report made on 4/15/2010)

Mississippi (above St. Louis):

60 degrees, falling, muddy; channel catfish fair on shad guts, worms, stinkbaits and nightcrawlers; drum good on nightcrawlers; snagging for spoonbill fair; all other species slow. (Report made on 4/15/2010)

Salt (below Mark Twain):

56 degrees, high, muddy; smallmouth bass fair; drum good on worms; all other species slow. (Report made on 4/15/2010)

Grand:

59 degrees, falling, muddy; channel catfish and blue catfish fair; all other species fair. (Report made on 4/15/2010)

Missouri (below Iowa line):

high, muddy; all species slow. (Report made on 4/15/2010)

Big Piney (lower, Pulaski Co.):

63 degrees, falling, dingy; goggle-eye fair on jigs and soft plastics. (Report made on 4/14/2010)

Big Piney (Upper):

62 degrees, normal, clear; bluegill and goggle-eye fair on nightcrawlers; all other species slow. (Report made on 4/14/2010)

Bryant Creek:

61 degrees, normal, clear; all species slow. (Report made on 4/14/2010)

Current:

62 degrees, normal, dingy; black bass closed; all other species slow. (Report made on 4/15/2010)

Eleven Point:

60 degrees, high, dingy; all species slow. (Report made on 4/14/2010)

Gasconade (middle, Pulaski Co.):

64 degrees, falling, dingy; suckers and drums good on nightcrawlers; goggle-eye fair on jigs and soft plastics. (Report made on 4/14/2010)

Gasconade (upper):

68 degrees, normal, dingy; goggle-eye and sunfish good on small plastic grubs and nightcrawlers; all other species slow. (Report made on 4/14/2010)

Jack's Fork:

65 degrees, normal, clear; all species slow. (Report made on 4/14/2010)

North Fork:

59 degrees, normal, clear; all species slow. (Report made on 4/14/2010)

Black River (near Annapolis):

58 degrees, normal, clear; white bass fair on Road Runners and spinnerbaits; black bass closed; goggle-eye slow on plastics and minnows. (Report made on 4/15/2010)

Castor River (above Zalma):

normal, clear; all species fair. (Report made on 4/13/2010)

Mississippi (below Charleston):

falling, dingy; catfish fair on live baits and cut baits; all other species slow. (Report made on 4/14/2010)

Mississippi River (Cape Girardeau):

61 degrees, falling, muddy; all species fair. (Report made on 4/13/2010)

St. Francis (above Wappapello):

normal, dingy; all species slow. (Report made on 4/13/2010)

St. Francis (below Wappapello):

62 degrees, normal, dingy; catfish fair on chicken liver and stinkbaits; all other species slow. (Report made on 4/15/2010)

Big Niangua:

55 degrees, normal, clear; trout good on natural baits and Power Baits below Bennett Spring; black bass closed; goggle-eye fair on natural baits and jigs; all other species slow. (Report made on 4/15/2010)

James River (lower):

60 degrees, normal, clear; black bass closed; goggle-eye good on small brown and pumpkinseed soft plastics; all other species fair. (Report made on 4/15/2010)

Big River:

64 degrees, falling, dingy; channel catfish fair on worms and chicken livers; crappie fair on minnows; carp fair on doughbaits; all other species slow. (Report made on 4/14/2010)

Bourbeuse (middle, lower, Franklin Co.):

63 degrees, falling, clear; channel catfish fair on live baits and stinkbaits; all other species fair on live baits. (Report made on 4/15/2010)

Meramec (above Sullivan, Crawford Co.):

58 degrees, falling, dingy; all species slow. (Report made on 4/14/2010)

Meramec (below Eureka):

58 degrees, falling, dingy; all species slow. (Report made on 4/15/2010)

Missouri (below New Haven):

58 degrees, falling, muddy; channel catfish fair on natural baits; all other species slow on natural baits. (Report made on 4/14/2010)
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