Just like other college sports, college bass fishing has it's rivalries. Over the past year or so since Mizzou University started up a bass club they have become one of Truman State's biggest rivals. At Truman State we are always looking to beat everyone but there is certain satisfaction that comes from being able to beat the kids from Mizzou. Over the past year or so I've gotten to know Mizzou's Scott Dooley but we've never fished together. On this April fool's day we both decided at the drop of the hat to skip class and head out on Thomas Hill Reservoir to try and load the boat with some big ol' bass. The weather was perfect, air temps in the 80's with plenty of sunshine and some wind. Things were just setting up to have an awesome day.
We got on the water about 1pm. Scott fired up his Evinrude outboard and we headed down towards the hot water arm. The water temps were in the high 60's to the low 70's when we got down. On the deck Scott had a couple of spinnerbaits, crankbaits, and jigs. I had a couple of different OMEGA jigs in the 5/16th to 7/16th oz size in black and blue, texas craw, and black and chartruese with a Paca Chunk trailer in green pumpkin or alablama craw with the tips died in Spike- It. I put a couple of Naked Bait Co rattles on my jig too to give it that extra sound to make it easier for the bass to find it. Since we just had a full moon, I knew that the bass would be keying in on the crayfish and was looking forward to be able to fish the way I like to fish. I love to fish a jig and I was just chomping at the bit to get to rip some bass from the bushes.
We had a game plan going into the day to stick to flipping shallow bushes and it turned out to be very productive. Scott was able to boat a couple of keepers with one of them going over 5lbs and another one in the 4lb class as well as a dozen shorts. Out of the back of the boat I didn't get as many because Scott was doing a good job of not missing much. The ones that I got were quality. I put one pushing 5lbs in the boat and another one about 4lbs on the jig and one about 2 and a half pounds with a handful of shorts. We were having so much fun that we ended up fishing till dark. Most of the fish we caught were probably spawning or guarding fry. All of our fish were caught on a jig. While it can happen on any lake the great thing about a power plant lake is that you can fish different areas of the lake to key in on fish in certain stages of the spawn. If you are looking for some fast action make a trip over to Thomas Hill just south of Macon, Missouri. Don't forget to tie on your OMEGA Jigs and you won't be disappointed! www.omegacustomtackle.com
Terminal Tackle:
7 Foot Medium Heavy AiRRUS Co-Matrix Casting Rod, Abu Garcia Revo Baitcast High Speed, with 20lb Fluorocarbon Line.
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