Sunday, January 13, 2019

January, Mid Winter Report

Lake of the Ozarks water temperature 44-41 degree depending on the day and area of the lake. Water clarity is clear up the rivers where there is a decent smallmouth bite. The mid lake has some color to it right now, and the lower end is pretty clear. The jerkbait bite has been the best the last few times out. Berkley Cutter 110 has been good, it's got a great action for this time of the year. A new worm from Berkley called the Max Scent flat worm on a small jig head has been good on the sunny, more calm days. This is working great paired with light line like 6 pound test and it gets a lot of bites. The A rig bite has been hit and miss for me lately. Not to long ago I had one of those afternoons where it was on fire! It was catching good ones, one after another until it was time to go. Since then it's been off, don't know why. I imagine it won't be long until they start smacking it again. The crappie bite has been decent. So far they have been deep around brush and certain docks. Catching good numbers on the right day in the mid lake to Gravois arm. Last year in February we starting seeing a lot of big ones moving shallow on a cork/jig combination. I'll be checking to see if that happens again, cause it was amazing. Dock shooting is our primary pattern for the big blacks but for the occasional fishermen that hasn't been out in a while the spider rigging technique has been productive. It's a forward trolling technique where we are using 9-12 minnows on double rigs on really long 14 foot poles. I've got several days open in January (cause it's 28 degrees outside) but several days in the upper 40's coming up. Wintertime fishing can be challenging but also very rewarding.

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