Winter to Spring Fishing

 Fishing Winter to Spring 

The fishing is phenomenal here at Lake of the Ozarks with big bass transitioning to their springtime areas while hungry suspended crappie actively biting over deep water. We have been catching lots of numbers of keeper bass with some real nice 3-4 lb fish ranging in there. Primarily we are throwing jerkbaits, shakey head worms, alabama rigs and some crankbaits. The bigger keeper bass seem to be staging on the deeper main lake areas, still relatively close to shallow rock. While lots of our loaded up male bass are still staging deep on points in creeks. I only will throw an Alabama rig when the wind is constantly blowing or a large gust. If the lake is dead calm you're better off throwing a jerkbait or medium diving crankbait all day long. 

Crappie have been slowly working towards the spawning areas. The crappie seem to be  suspended in and over deep brush in condo docks. Also have found large schools of crappie suspended in the middle of creeks. They're some techniques that work well for deeper suspended crappie that is pingalum swinging the bait back to the boat along the big condo docks. While using that method for crappie I like using a ⅛ ounce jig head and a bobby garland plastic.  They are biting very well, just find an active school and we limit them quickly. 

Nothing more fun than a fast limit of delicious crappie, then feeling that pull we all crave from a big largemouth bass.