Lake of the Ozarks: Dam Generation Bites, Crappie Going Deeper

About this episode

This episode provides a detailed fishing report for Lake of the Ozarks, focusing on current conditions and fishing techniques.

This is Artificial Lure with your Lake of the Ozarks fishing report. We don’t have tides here, but the dam is running water on and off, and that generation is your “tide.” When they pull water, the bite picks up, especially around main-lake points and the first couple docks inside coves. Weather around the lake is stable and warm, light south breeze, with a mix of sun and clouds. Sunrise is right around 6 a.m., sunset close to 8:20 p.m., giving you a long, workable day. The most consistent action has been first light to about 9 a.m., and again from late afternoon into dusk once the sun gets off the water. Largemouth and spots are in a late post-spawn to early summer pattern. A lot of fish have slid out to secondary and main-lake points, brush piles, and shaded dock stalls. Local bait shops and marina talk say plenty of 2–3 pound bass being caught, with a few 4–5 pounders mixed in, especially by folks fishing deeper brush in 12–18 feet. Best bass lures: – Topwater early: walking baits and poppers in shad colors over points and around dock corners. – Soft plastics: green pumpkin or watermelon red finesse worms, stickbaits, and creature baits Texas-rigged or on a shaky head around…

People in this episode

Host: Inception Point Ai

Topics covered

• fishing report
• Lake of the Ozarks
• crappie fishing
• bass fishing
• weather conditions

Keywords

• fishing report
• Lake of the Ozarks
• crappie
• bass
• dam generation

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Artificial Lure

Places: Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri

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