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Livescope Footage from a crappie trip with Richard Bowling’s Guide Service

admin — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 01:10:52 +0000

Come along for some awesome livescope footage from a crappie trip with Richard Bowling’s Guide Service in late February on Truman Lake! We showcase the Bink’s Spoons in action on the Livescope screen!

Get your Bink’s spoons at this link: https://binksspoons.com

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Fishing fundraiser: An angler battling cancer needs our help!

admin — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 21:57:51 +0000

Nathan Itao, 24 years old, is an avid outdoorsman and fisherman from Platte City, Missouri. In July of 2021, Nathan was diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma with a CIC-DUC4 fusion, otherwise known as an aggressive/rare form of soft tissue cancer. In just a few short months, prior to his diagnosis, his tumor grew from the size of a golf ball to the size of a football along his rib cage. The tumor has reproduced and has left small nodes on his lungs.

Nathan started an intense 5 months of 9 different rounds of chemo. After the first five rounds he had a PT Scan and everything was looking better, his tumor activity was shrinking, and his lung nodes reduced in size by half and were not very active. After the ninth round of chemo his body struggled to recover, and after a month off chemo the tumor began to grow again. A PT scan revealed the tumor had grown, showed more cancerous cells than from the start, and became immune to the chemo.

Nathan made the courageous decision to move forward with removing the tumor from his body. Nathan, along with his parents, drove to Minnesota to have the operation completed at the Mayo Clinic. On January 24th, the tumor was removed from his side, along with six of his ribs. He has a long rode of recovery from this operation, along with continuing chemo after his recovery to ensure the lung nodes do not grow.

Nathan will be without insurance in a short few weeks, this leaving him and his family with extensive medical bills. We are going to be holding a silent auction for Nathan the weekend of March 5th and are seeking donations to be auctioned off. The event details are forthcoming. If you, or someone you know, is willing to donate and help raise money for Nathan and his family, please reach out to Tyler Shaffer or Andrew Nordbye.

Update: Link to Auction and Donate Page CLICK HERE

A word from Nathan – “This whole process has really humbled me. I went from lifting 450lbs to only being able to lift a frying pan. Fishing for 14 hours a day standing up to barely being able to stand for 30 seconds. Sleeping like an absolute rock to being scared to fall asleep. And from shedding a tear once a year to everyday. I will fight the fight till there is no need to fight. I’d like to thank my parents, family, and friends for the absolute amazing support. Without them this would have been over a while ago.”

Thank you and God’s blessings!

Please reach out to either of the two following contacts to make a donation or learn more!

Tyler Shaffer
(816)217-2249 | ShafferTyler92@gmail.com

Andrew Nordbye

anordbye@live.com

Thank you and God’s blessings!

Please reach out to either of the two following contacts to make a donation or learn more!

Tyler Shaffer
(816)217-2249 | ShafferTyler92@gmail.com

Andrew Nordbye

anordbye@live.com

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Visit Angler’s Port Marine for your next Caymas, Phoenix, or Lowe boat!

admin — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 23:24:29 +0000

In 2021, Angler’s Port Marine was voted Missouri’s Best Boat Service Dealer Award by Missouri Magazine.

In 2021, Angler’s Port Marine also earned Marine Industry Certified Dealership Certification.

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Strong commitment to integrity and exceptional customer service has led Angler’s Port Marine to be a top performer in the marine industry.

Get Paid to Fish – The Port pays Bass Angler’s More to Win! – Whether you are a pro or amateur, you can earn cash as long as your are fishing out of your Phoenix, Caymas, or Lowe bass boat. Just fish any qualifying bass tournament with 60 Plus boats, and when you win, Angler’s Port Marine Payout pays you $5000 cash! Visit Angler’s Port Marine dot com for details and rules.

Consistently ranked as one of Lowe Boats’ top-performing dealers, Angler’s Port Marine has been recognized the past 3 years as one of Lowe’s top two performing dealers in terms of overall sales.

Anglers Port Marine has a professional ProStaff representing their brands and The Port including Andy Newcomb, Bradley Jelinek, Jack and Holly Linton, Richard Bowling, Matthew Rogers, David McCormick, Charlie Bunting, David Townsend, and Kevin Smith.

We believe buying a boat should be as enjoyable as floating on one.

That’s why we’ll never let a new boat owner leave the lot without having:

✓ Square Throw Cushion (Rescue life preserver)

✓ Motor & Trailer Included in the Price of the Boat.

✓ 4 Life Jackets

✓ Fire Extinguisher

✓ Boat Registration Number Decals

✓ Full Tank of Gas

✓ The Correctly Paired Propeller

✓ Brake Light Check

✓ All Required Batteries

✓ Trailer Hitch Adapter Plug

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13979 HIGHWAY 7, WARSAW, MO 65355

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Truman Lake Fishing – Fall Forecast 2021

admin — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 15:58:57 +0000

The 2021 Truman Lake fall fishing forecast is looking pretty good as we near October. The lake has been at roughly normal pool for the better part of a few weeks. Rain has been sparse and the weather is finally dipping into the cooler overnight temperatures. It’s starting to feel like fall even though the leaves haven’t quite started turning. Regardless, Truman Lake fishing is looking to be top notch in the coming months.

The experts at Truman Lake Fishing Intel expect good things in the coming months and have a few pointers if you plan to get on the water.

Water temperatures are lingering in the mid to upper 70s, but this week should kick off a fairly rapid decline into the low 70s lakewide. Water quality is looking good on the lower ends of the lake including the dam, Sterett Creek, KK Island, and lower ends of all the arms.

The Grand has been especially clean this summer up to about G8-G9 where it starts getting dingy in a hurry. Above Bucksaw you can expect less than 2 inches of visibility. The Osage and Tebo have some color to them as well the further up you go.

Bass

Expectations are high for certain species this fall while other species may be hit or miss. Bass may be one of those hit or miss.

Based on angler observation, the largemouth bass appear to have gotten off a strong spawn this past spring. Many wolf packs of adolescent bass have been reported over the summertime sharking behind topwater baits. However, this summer was a challenging one on the bass fishing, leading many to hope the fall feed up will produce the best action all year.

Most of the challenge this year was a result of the lake level being 10 feet high or more for an extended period of time early on. This allows largemouth bass to scatter out significantly where it can be hard to find them. As a result of the high water, it also appears there are millions of shad present in the lake after a successful spawn in the bushes. It’s hard to compete with your artificial baits when there is so much abundance of the real thing.

A 20-pound tournament bag has been hard to come by this year. Many tournaments have taken anywhere from 14-18 pounds to win. That trend may continue through the fall as anglers try to compete throwing their artificial baits in amongst millions of live shad.

In the coming weeks, you need to be spending your time in the creeks and secondary pockets. The shad are already moving in there and the bass aren’t far behind. Folks are reporting finding the bass shallow already all over the lake, but not necessarily all the way into the creeks yet.

You’ll want to have several rods rigged up and ready to go including a topwater rod with a whopper plopper, spook, or PopR, a squarebill crankbait, a spinnerbait, and your choice of a bottom bait be it a jig or big worm. The big worm bite has gotten better, but not on the trees. If you’re working points and not getting bites on a jig, try the worm and see what that does for you. Also, don’t forget about a spinnerbait. A big double willow leaf spinnerbait in any white/chartreuse combination should be deadly on windy flats and points where you can see active bait in the area.

Crappie

Crappie fishing on Truman continues to be exceptional, and the fall months are a great time to target them.

Many of the guides are focusing in the Grand arm, where you can find an abundance of fish, along with some of the best quality you’re going to find on the lake. You’ll find crappie all over the lake, but the lower end of the lake, including the lower Grand, Tebo, Pomme, and Osage, has a big population of black crappie that are much smaller overall. You may have to work through 5-7 short fish for every one keeper.

Minnows have been a staple all summer long, but the jig bite is rapidly picking up. You’ll likely want to use smaller profile jigs on a 1/16th or 1/32nd oz jig head through end of October. At that time, the fish should start hitting your bigger 2.5-3 inch baits. When you rig up with those smaller jig heads, use an 1/8th oz split shot or egg sinker about 6 or so inches above the jig. That will help get your bait down in the water and help you keep it in the strike zone.

Captain Jeff Faulkenberry loves fall crappie fishing and always looks forward to the water temperature drop. It helps the fish key in on specific structure like dark black stumps, which are your old hardwoods. They hold warmth a little better than other types of structure and the fish will congregate around those.

Hybrids/White Bass

If you want action this fall, the white bass and hybrids are where it’s at. You can find them all over the lake, but the most popular areas to target them are on the lower end within 5 miles of the dam. When that water temperature reaches 70 degrees, it will be like a light switch.

You’re going to want to look for any windy ban whether it’s chunk rock, gravel, or otherwise and they’ll be there in 1-4 feet of water feeding up on shad. You’ll find a lot of white bass and the hybrids won’t be far behind.

Common baits to try are rooster tails, PopRs, spoons, and small crankbaits. If you find a period of time where there are several days of consistent weather, the hybrids will be more inclined to get up shallow with the white bass.

Your electronics will help you find the bait and the predator fish, but keep an eye out for nature’s fish finders – seagulls. If you see seagulls dive bombing the water or congregating near a windy point, that’s an area you’ll want to go check out.

Catfish

The catfishing has been very consistent all summer long, and big ones are being found in the upper Grand arm in shallow water. Captain Jeff Faulkenberry has fished windy flats in the upper Grand in 2-5 feet of water and absolutely hammered on slot fish and big overs as well.

You can catch good eaters up there as well, but if you’re wanting a lot more eaters to take home, you may take your efforts to the lower end of the Grand or Osage and focus in 15-25 feet of water. The upper Osage has been a consistent producer of good keeper cats as well near Talley Bend.

As the fall progresses, the shad will move into the warmer waters in the backs of creeks and you’ll be able to find the catfish right behind them. The shallow bite for catfish will last all fall and winter long. Don’t be surprised to find catfish in 5 feet or less in those creeks for months to come.

Regardless of what species you’re looking for, Truman Lake fishing is going to be good this fall. The bass population is in good shape, catfish are plentiful, white bass and hybrids are already being caught in numbers, and the crappie fishing continues to prove why Truman is one of the best crappie lakes in the country.

Become a member at trumanlakefishingintel.com to stay up-to-date on the daily/weekly fishing reports, articles, and videos from the experts who are on the lake every day.

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Endless Season Outdoors Podcast Episode 7 – Part 2 with Truman Lake biologist

admin — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 02:23:08 +0000

Come along for our in-depth conversation with the Truman Lake Fisheries Biologist, Chris Brooke! In this episode, we dive into some viewer questions and discuss hybrids, walleye, and spoonbill. If you missed the first episode where we talked about crappie, bass, and catfish, you can watch that video at trumanlakefishingintel.com! You can also listen to the audio version wherever you get your podcasts! Leave us a comment or a question if you have any!

We are super excited to shoot this every month this year and hope you enjoy it! Let us know what topics you want to see more of and what you like the most. For now, the video podcast will be available at all Mahoney Outdoors Brand outlets including Truman Lake Fishing Intel, and on the Endless Season Guide Service Facebook page.