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Mo_coon-catcher:
Since I live so close to an easy access to the main river channel. I figured I may give it a shot. My buddy and I walked a bit of the bank yesterday and came across some good looking spots. But I’ve never fished a river this large. We don’t have a boat so plan to play from the bank.

Any tips on fishing the river from the bank?

Out plan it to set up down stream of some piled up logs where an eddy forms and see what happens. I still need to get some big water equipment and tackle as the largest I have is a medium bait caster with 12# line.

Just because I have so many and need to go through my extras. I plan to try some domestic rats for bait. 30 breeder females producing can quickly over fill a little freezer when 80% of my snakes go off feed for the breeding season. So might as well fish with the old ones to make room for fresh in the freezer. Any ideas of how these may work?

Thanks for any advice

Kyle

BowEd:
I've used dead birds,frogs,crawdads,and large chubs before.No reason a rat won't work.Let them get ripe a bit though.You never know what you'll get out of the big Mo.Just be sure you've got big enough equipment.
Maybe bow shooting in some back waters might work too.Sounds like a fun day to me.

Mo_coon-catcher:
There’s a great backwater channel on the upstream side of the boat ramp that looks like it’ll be great bow fishing when t he carp start spawning and the far move shallow.

I definitely need to get some big equipment for that big stuff that could bite.

Kyle

BowEd:
You within 10 miles of the Missuri river?

gifford:
Kyle, it's been awhile since I fished the Big MO but I've had some luck off the wingwalls and rock dikes. There usually is a calm area. Tossing a bait out into the main channel and swoosh it's half way to St. Charles. But here's what the MDC says about it:

The best sites for flathead catfish are off the tips of wing dikes or along cut or riprapped banks next to fast-moving water. Commercially prepared baits, live sunfish, chicken livers, shrimp, worms, and cut shad are the most popular and successful catfish baits. The best baits for large blue and flathead catfish are live goldfish or sunfish.

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