Goggleye?

[buckeye]

As a kid we used to fish for Goggleye and catch quite a few but it has been a while. Is the early part of spring the best time to catch Goggleye or is later in spring, and what is the best method?

[sharps4590]

It's still too early on the Little Piney.....or it was Thursday the 25th. I'd say later in the spring.

Vic

[Hellbender]

We didn't catch any on the Niangua last weekend and its not because the Grandkids didn't try. I think Vic's right, the're probably still in their winter holes.

[gman]

I fished Spring River for a few hours today. I caught 1 small goggleye on a small grub. However I did manage to catch quiet a few smallmouth on swimmin minnow.

[Wolfman]

Used to wait untill the dogwoods were starting to bloom. Their usualy a pretty good indicator of the goggleyes being ready to rumble. I usualy had the best luck and best fish early in the spring fishing blakemores(crawdad colored) below the riffles where they like to nest.
Later on dropping a worm into brushpiles in deep holes works pretty good.

[buckeye]

Thanks to all, I belive we used yellow beetle spins and the small plastic worms with the spinners attached when we caught them on bed.