Luke Routh's Secrets to Missouri Fishing Success | The Omnia Report

(upbeat music) - Hey, what's up everybody? Thank you for joining us today on this episode of the Omnia Report. We've got a very special guest with us today, Mr. Luke Ruth. He's one of the hottest anglers in the state of Missouri right now. I'm very excited to have you on day Luke. - Hey, thanks for having me on Ricky. It's good to be on. - Absolutely man. So before we get started in here talking a little bit about some of these lakes in central Missouri that you fish all the time, just give us a little background about yourself. Okay, what do you have going on right now? You don't let everyone know where to go find some of your content. - Yeah, man, I'm just, you know, we got, just had new kids so fishing's kind of slowed down. A little, we're still fishing a lot though, compared to most, you know, I've been fishing tournaments for 10 years now. We got a lot of experience here in the central Missouri area. My main priority right now is like the solo series, top 100, it's one of the bigger solo series tournaments here in the state of Missouri. So that's been my main focus this year. If anybody wants to follow me on social media, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, it's Luke Grootfishing and my Facebook's just Luke Groot. So. - Well, without further ado, Luke, let's get into it, man. I'm really excited to talk about this. You know, I'm from central Kentucky. You know, we have a lot of Highland Reservoirs similar to, you know, what lot of the lakes you have out there in Missouri, but there are some, definitely some key differences. So I'm really excited to kind of pick your brain today. But one of the first things I want to do is just kind of tell everybody, you know, kind of where we're looking at around here. You know, this is really kind of almost right in the center part of the state. You know, one of your bigger lakes here is obviously the Lake of the Ozarks. It's a huge destination, not just for fishing, but for boating of really all kinds. And then, you know, just in that, we've got Harry S. Truman Reservoir, Palm D'Taire, and Stockton. We're kind of going to talk about it a little bit today. But the first thing I want to do, Luke, is just look at some of the fishing reports that we have, you know, in this area specifically. You know, there's quite a few fishing reports that we have and I just kind of want to get your thoughts on some of these products and techniques. And, you know, is this some of the things that kind of lines up with what you like to do this time of year. You know, so just kind of looking through some of the reports here, there's really kind of a mix. Luke, we've got, you know, obviously a couple of jigs here. Looks like, you know, they're one of structured jigs, but one is finesse jigs. I know jig fishing's a huge thing out. You know, where you're from, from the finesse jigs to, you know, structure jigs. Jigs, you guys have a ton of boat docks as well. You know, skipping and things like that. So, you know, just looking through here, there's, you know, the Berkeley Maxxant Powerbait Flatworm. You know, there's some finesse stuff. I'm seeing some power fishing stuff. So just kind of walk us through Luke, you know, this time of year, especially in the summer, you know, we're kind of in the hottest part of the summer now. You know, some of these Missouri lakes are these some of the same techniques that you'd be using or are there other things that you really like to, you know, employ this time of year. - Yeah, and a Stockton Lake, you know, the very diverse fishery. It allows, you know, clear, deep water out on the dam. And then, you know, you got muddy, stained water, shallow water way up the river. So lots of diverse fishing on Stockton Lake when you're going there. That's why you see the finesse techniques. You can go out by the dam and catch small mouth on your drop shots, your minnows, your Nico rigs, that kind of thing. And a few large mouth, but mainly small mouth up by the dam this time of year on that kind of finesse stuff. And then, you know, I'm usually, I'm usually trying to concentrate on a jig or a big worm by something along that, you know, I like a 10 inch, 10 inch power worm and, you know, motion fishing football jig. That's the kind of stuff I like to throw this time of year. We're kind of getting out of the, like the flipping jig season Stockton doesn't have many docks. So it's usually for me this time of year, it's a football jig, efficient off shore. - Yeah, and that's of the interesting two. You mentioned docks, which I'm showing the satellite view here at Omni-Appro. You can really see that Stockton is, you know, there's not many docks. You can see just kind of a couple here, but. - No, there's two, three marinas and two other coves that have like four docks in them. So no, the lake's pretty barren of docks. - Yeah. It's one thing I wanted to call that too. You know, obviously you go up to Lake of the Ozarks and this is, you know, just probably the most boat docks I have ever seen on one lake. - It's nothing but boat docks. - Yeah. You know, so does that have any effect in your mind loop when you're, you know, just kind of planning a trip? Do you know, do you like to get into the dock fishing, you know, in the summertime? You know, there's obviously places they'll hold off shore, you know, that has no docks, but, you know, when there's, there's so many boat docks like this, just looking on the screen here, you know, you've got some great big long, you know, they have multiple slips in the dock and then you've got a lot of smaller, you know, private stuff here too. So is there, are there anything that you really try to kind of key in on when, you know, you're looking at some of these lakes that have a ton of docks like this? - Sure, no, you know, those big long docks like out on the main lake points, they can be real good because they're giving the fish the best of both worlds. They're giving them cayden cover and they're around deep water out around that main lake where they want to be. But my favorite bite to get on is, as the summer goes on here, it's usually the shallowest dock in the back of a pocket. So that's a pretty well known bite at Lake of the Ozarks that, you know, you get in a big creek like that and you go to the back of the pocket and you've split the last three or four or five docks and then go to the next one and do the same thing. That's a pretty well known bite, you know, like August, I would say end of July through August, that's a pretty well known bite. It's just always a fish catcher. There's always some fish doing that. - Yeah, that's really interesting. You wouldn't think that there would be, you know, a population of fish that, you know, stayed up shallow even when, you know, it's hot like that. But, you know, getting that shade from those docks and, you know, brush piles and things are a big thing too, right? You think that probably has as much of an effect as anything is what's actually underneath the dock itself? - Yeah, no, there's a lot of brush on docks at the Ozarks. You know, if you get up, you can tell a good fishing dock when you go by it. You're like, well, that guy, you know, any dock that you think of the fishing dock and has a fishing boat or fishing raw holders usually has a brush spot underneath of it. So not, they're not lacking any cover at Lake of the Ozarks when it comes to fishing boat docks. So, I mean, there's boat docks from one end of that lake all the way to the other end. So, kind of picking area of the lake, usually, you know, for me, the down there, about where you're, I'm trying to look at your clicker, about where all the rivers split down below your clicker there. That's kind of normally the best area to start and then work your way from there up the river back down towards the dam. They call that the four corners right there where everything kind of splits, so. - Yeah. - That's super interesting. - But like, Lake's always super rough. If you guys are gonna go fish Lake of the Ozarks, please be careful, lots of big boats. And it's one of the most dangerous times you're gonna be out fishing like the Ozarks. - Yeah, absolutely. That's something you gotta take into consideration. That's, you know, it's, I feel like it's a national destination for pleasure boating and stuff like that. So that's a big part of fishing in the summertime. And I know that's a big reason why a run run from two is there's a lot of night fishing that goes on. I know it's the same way out that way. There's a lot of local night tournaments throughout the week and, you know, even on the weekends as well. So it's a good time to get a break from a lot of those pleasure boaters and things like that. - Yeah, no, it's long night tournaments this time of year. There's actually daytime tournaments that fizzle down to about nothing. So yeah, if you wanna go fish right here now, night time's kind of the time to go. - Yeah. - Yeah, looking at, you know, just talking about all these lakes kind of in general here, look, I did notice that there was a hollow body frog reported there. You know, do you see any grass on any of these lakes here in central Missouri? - There's no grass on any of the lakes that I know of. I do still catch them on a hollow belly frog at Lake of the Ozarks, you know, I did really good in the summer sizzle return them it over a couple years ago and I was skipping the back floats of those docks with a hollow belly frog and I caught, you know, 30 over five and two days. So definitely a good bite, you know, and around here where I'm living, the water's still been in the bushes. So the great time when the bluegill get up around the bushes, you go through the hollow belly frog and try to imitate some of them bluegill. So yeah, hollow belly frog, I'd stay still working here. It's not just a grass thing. For me, it's more of a shade thing. I liked some shade. If I were to shade, I'll throw a frog. - Absolutely, that makes perfect sense. And that's talked with some of the other anglers before on the show with, you know, frogs, it becomes such a versatile tool now that, you know, so many guys are using them throwing in bushes, you know, throwing around docks, different things like that that, you know, it almost seems like grass fishing, just a small portion of what, what guys are using hollow body frogs for these days. One of the things you mentioned too, I thought was interesting, Luke, is I was looking at the difference between large mouth bass reports and then small mouth reports. And it seems like, you know, it echoes exactly what you're saying about small mouth bass is really all kind of finesse, you know, stuff reported. You've got a couple drop shots in a Nadrig, whereas you have the large mouth fishing, it seems like there's, you know, a little bit more pitching flipping going on, I mean, I seen some brush hogs and some bigger creatures. And then, you know, like I said, we're seeing spinner baits here and things like that. You know, do you really ever find, you know, small mouth being really active or being able to catch them, you know, any kind of power fishing techniques and things like that, or is it really just seem like it's more, more of kind of the large mouth deal? - No, in the fall, they get real active and you can catch some good, you used to be able to catch a bunch of small mouth power fishing in the fall. You go out to those same areas out by the dam, but just fish shallower and throw, you know, a spinner bait, a square bill and a top water and you can catch a small mouth a day. The lakes on a little bit of a downturn right now, so that's kind of not the case, but I feel like when these days it'll come back, it used to be one of the most fun lakes to fish in the fall ever. Like you were catching good fish and you were catching them in power fish and I had some days over there, some real windy days on a spinner bait that I could just pull off to any main lake point and catch two and a half pound small mouth at will. And that was just fun, you know, I could do that a lot for fun, so, but that's just not, doesn't seem to be that way anymore. - Yeah. Absolutely, we've talked about some of the baits and things a little bit. I wanna look at some of the actual, more stuff about the water body itself here, just to kind of give anglers an old bit. You know, looking at the heat map here, you know, this is like the Ozarks, we've got, you know, obviously all the others as well. You know, kinda what I'm seeing here for the most part is it's pretty consistent across the board as far as temperatures go. You know, it seems like there may be just a slight little bit of variance in some of the creeks, you know, it looks like it may be just a tad bit cooler, but you know, really in this time of year, when it's just, you know, it's hot, man, it's hot, you know, that the water temperature is gonna be higher than ideal in almost any scenario. You know, is there any times, Luke, that on some of these lakes in Central Missouri, that you can find some cooler water? You know, we have some natural springs around here that can create some, you know, areas that are cooler or, you know, can it really fluctuate or change that much if you have a big rain or something like that, or is it, you know, pretty much gonna have the same thing across the board? - You're pretty much gonna have the same thing across the board here until you get some cool nights. - I think Ozarks, it has a natural spring at Pahaha Tonka. So it's probably got some cooler water way up the big Nangua. But as far as I'm thinking besides that, you're not gonna find much cooler water. I've actually found a lot of success going up the river and fishing in the hottest water, you know, this time of year, sometimes, sometimes you want that one of the better days I ever had fishing the water temp was 96 and they were just, they had to eat, you know, when the water gets that warm, those fish can't lay dormant, they have to feed that metabolism to eat, need, need. So one of the better days, don't be, I mean, certain point like hot water, you know, if you're staying around that upper 80s, low 90s, but if you ever get in that mid to upper 90s, which I've only seen twice in my life, they really do eat really well for me. - Yeah, that's really interesting. That's a, those are some really hot temperatures. Yeah, I was looking here could potentially be an indicator here, look, you know, I'm seeing some, a little bit of like lighter color red just in some of these, just smaller areas here, so that could be, you know, indication of some of those springs and things, you know, because there's almost a six degree difference, you know, here just on this main lake section compared to in the backs of the creeks and on the mouth surrounding it. So, yeah, this could be a really good point to potentially find some of those areas. We, you know, one of the things with, with temperature obviously and depending on how deep fish will stay, we'll look at our C-Map Contours here, just to see some of the ones, and just to kind of give everybody a, at least a general idea of how, you know, some of these lakes are set up, you know, they're pretty deep for, you know, the most part all the way throughout. You know, you have some shallower stuff like these creeks and rivers, but really out here on the main part of the lake, you know, there's a lot of, you know, 20 to, you know, it seems like 40, even 50 feet. You know, what, is there a certain depth range loop that you're targeting in the summertime or does it really just kind of depend on, you know, what, what techniques you're going to do, you know, you talked about going up and in the backs of those creeks and flipping and things like that and some of the last docks, but, you know, how does that factor into your thought process? - Yeah, I mean, I'm not, I'm always, the bass to live as deep as the thermoclinolentum in my opinion. So, I'm never scared to fish out 30, you know, you have 35, I've caught bass, I was stocked in on 35 foot of water. I'm not saying it's something I do all the time, but I've done it. Ozarks, palm detail, yeah, I mean, any of them, you can fish 30 plus, like as long as, whatever the thermoclinolentum set up at, just try fishing above that. I don't have a set rule like I like to fish this deep or that deep. - Yeah, I think that's, it's a really interesting point. You know, you can kind of apply that to any lake regardless of the depth and kind of, you know, take that factor out, you know, 'cause it can be overwhelming sometimes, you know, when you have so much water to try to cover, you know, really trying to figure out what was on the target, but you know, looking at that thermoclin, I think is, you hear somebody pro-English talk about that and how important that is, especially in the summertime. - Yeah, I got, I got some humps and stuff, I don't stop them that they won't even get on until the thermoclinolent starts to set up. And then once it's pushed them up, that's kind of a place they gotta move to. So. - Yeah. - Yeah, I just talked with the water clarity on here too. And that's, you know, another thing about these lakes is, you know, it's looking at me like, you know, Stockton Lake those, it looks like they've kind of got some color to them now, but they're, you know, pretty clear lakes for the most part. You know, what would you say to kind of average visibility is, you know, normal circumstances there in central Missouri? - Normal circumstances on Stockton out by the dam, you're gonna have six to 10 foot of clarity and then up the river, you're gonna have, you know, a foot to five foot, kind of a foot to four foot, somewhere around in there. So that's a good general rule of thumb. Pawnee Terrier usually stays dirtier. So we'll say the main lake usually have four foot, five foot and then up the river, you have a foot and a half, two foot. And Ozarks, Ozarks is such a big lake, it varies a ton. Way up the river, you can have six inches and out by the dam, you can have six foot. So that's what makes all these lakes very vastly different and really allows anglers to fish, how they feel comfortable. - Yeah, you can see here just on the map, you know, you can actually see some areas that look pretty clear, but like you said, you start getting them some of these rivers and it's, it's brown, you know. - Right. - You know, is that have a big factor too, you think in, like you were talking about going to the back of some of those pockets and fishing some of those docks? You're still able to do that when it's just, you know, super clear, you know, that six to 10 feet of visibility or are you looking for a little bit of stain? - I mean, typically you want some stain, I've done it when it's really clear, but it's really more of a true fall deal then. Like it's like we're in October, November, you know, not, not typically now, if you're trying to hunt those fish in the summertime like this, you typically want that dirtier water. - Yeah. Yeah, and this, you know, just looking at this map too, this could be a really helpful tool just for identifying some of those areas that could potentially get that. You know, you can see here on the satellite view that, you know, there's obviously water anytime it rains, you know, it seems like this little arm here is going to be producing, you know, some inflow whereas, you know, some of these little shorter ones and things like this that kind of just back up into a, you know, kind of a holler here more or less. It's, you know, you're not going to see that. - Yeah, I know the map, I mean, on the map is great. You know, you can put together all the pieces. You can put together courses. I don't use the temperature a lot right now because we just know the water is pretty hot. Like we go out there, the water's going to be pretty warm. But the clarity, you know, if you want to go get on that back of the creek by, like you can put together, okay. You know, there's some dirty water in the back of this creek and then you can go look at the, you know, the satellite overlay like this, you're like, okay, it's got some good docks back there. Like that's a good place to go start, you know, if you're fresh to a lake. - Yeah. - Yeah, absolutely. We're just kind of going to showcase this wind layer a little bit here too, 'cause this is something that I probably utilize, you know, myself here on some of these Highland Reservoirs, I fish, just as much as anything is this wind layer. We actually have, you know, a forecast. You can actually look at the forecast up to seven days, but, you know, just looking at what the wind's doing right now, you know, it's not blowing too hard for the most part. And, you know, wind doesn't really seem like on, you know, some of these lakes, it would be a huge factor unless it really starts, you know, you get like 25, 30 mile an hour winds before it kind of become difficult to navigate, but, you know, guys talk so much about the spring and in the fall, especially, you know, cranking and stuff like that, you know, looking for the wind, seeing exactly where this winds hitting. And, you know, this map gives you a really good interpretation of not only what direction the wind's going, but the speed as well, you know, which you can, you see these pins just kind of moving across the screen like this. So I can tell that, you know, there's going to be a good portion of wind coming up through this section here and hitting against some of these banks. And is that something, you know, even this time of year in the summer that you're really, you know, trying to key in on when you're looking at, you know, certain places, this, you'll pull it up here. So they'll actually tell me the exact direction and the miles per hour. Then I was kind of playing that forecast so everyone can see there how it, you know, changes over time. It's really, really interesting. You know, if you're planning for a trip, you know, say you have a tournament on Saturday, but you only go out and practice on Tuesday. Well, you know, you can see what the wind was on Tuesday and then see what it's going to be upcoming Saturday to know if, you know, there's likelihood there's going to be some fish on that spot still. Or if, you know, you maybe need to change and pivot and go somewhere else. But it kind of talks through how that wind plays in effect here in the summertime. - Yeah, no, it plays a huge effect. I liked it. I liked to try to use it, you know, for my top water fishing a lot, like if I want to get on a good buzz bait bite or something, I try to see where there's some wind blowing into. I also use it to, you know, when I go, I like the wind to be blowing whichever way the current's rolling. Now we don't always get what we want, but if we get what we want, you want the wind to be blowing with the current here because we don't, a lot of these smaller lakes don't pull a ton of current so that wind blowing with the current helps make more current, if that makes sense. As a turn where like I know out like Tennessee, they always don't like when the wind blows against the current because it kind of stalls it out. So here, you know, you want, you want the same thing, you want the wind to be blowing with the current. That leaves you a good day of fishing. I'm also going to be checking to see like what kind of main lake, well, there are butterfly in my face, what kind of main lake points and stuff that, you know, getting the wind. If you got slack current, because we don't have current all, we don't have current all summer here, usually about now when they get the lakes pulled down, they'll just start running it for power generation. So when they start running it for power generation, they only run it about four hours of an evening. So the rest of the day to keep that water stirred up, like you're using wind as you're kind of current to keep those fish active on some of those places. - Yeah. - Yeah, I've said it makes perfect sense. And that's a good call out there. You know, there's a lot of these lakes that don't have that, you know, current generation constantly that you can see those guys on like the Tennessee River and things, you know, though it'll be a blue bird day with no wind, it seems like, though you hope you catch them really well, 'cause that currents, you know, essentially doing what the wind would do, you know, on some of these lakes just underneath the surface. - Sure. - Yeah, that's super interesting. So. - Yeah, if your lake, if your lake doesn't have current, you know, the wind is your current. So you kind of think of the wind as the current and fish accordingly to how you think the fish are setting up. - So what I want to ask you now, Luke, is we kind of talked about these lakes a little bit and how they, they're setting up. You know, walk us through, this time of year, especially if you had to pick one technique and, you know, one bait specifically, what would that be if you're, you know, or I guess a two-part question here, would that vary between, you know, Truman's docked in the Ozarks, or would it be the same technique? - If I had to have one to go fish them all on, I'm definitely gonna throw a football jig a lot. I mean, that's probably where my confidence lies, I mean, three quarter ounce football jig. I'm gonna go look for some deeper fish. I mean, it's July, it's hot, they're out there deep. It's just taking the time to find them on each of these lakes. If you had to have a shallow tactic, you know, you can't go wrong with like your quarter ounce Texas rig brush hog, you know, go picture around some docks, go picture around some laydowns, that kind of thing. You go anything like that, it's always gonna catch some fish. That's, if I had to choose, that's what I would do this time of year. - Yeah, you get into the forward facing some of our, and things like that. I know that's become such a popular technique, especially in the, really, really all your, you know, if you're watching professional, you know, fishing tour with the exception of the MPFL. But, you know, is that something that you're seeing, you know, kind of taking over in your area as well, or, you know, you're still seeing a lot of guys winning tournaments on things like football jigs, and, you know, more, I'd say traditional techniques, if you will. - I mean, I think guys around here use it a little more to the hybrid. Some guys, it's hard, there's so many fish in these lakes here. It's hard to target a bass. I mean, a bass, until the wintertime, when they've kind of moved away from it, but like right now you can pull up on a point and there'll be catfish, walleye, white bass, and bass all mixed in together. And it's hard to determine what's a bass out of all that. So, yes, I can forward face. I do do some forward facing, but the way I use my forward facing the most is time of years. Okay, I pull up on a point or a way point, and I look for, you know, okay, there's the juiciest spot, and I see a couple sitting there, though the old football jig out there, catch me one, you know, that's how I'm, that's how I'm kind of utilizing it in the summertime, more than I am just straight up trying to catch them with scope. - Yeah, and it's super interesting. I just want to ask that, because I'm looking through all these products mentioned here, and you know, I'm not seeing any jig heads or minnows. You know, it's cool to see one of the boogie on moon talkers. You know, the big spinner bait, is that, did you ever do any night fishing yourself up there in Missouri? - Yeah, I do. I do some night fishing. I don't enjoy it the most, but heck, when you guys got a chance to go fishing, sometimes you got to take it. So, if I go fishing tonight, I got three lures tied on. I got a big thumping single call around spinner bait. I got a chatter bait, half ounce, and then I got a black and blue jig tied on. That's how simple I keep it after dark, so. - Yeah, absolutely. That's, you know, most guys I talk to is, you know, pretty simple. There's not a lot of, you know, a lot of different techniques, which obviously, it's hard to do anything, you know, as well as I do, that you can make a lot of mistakes quick at night with reels and just, you know, trying to perform techniques properly. So that's, you know, a jig and you know, a big spinner bait like that seems to be the common denominator. - Big worm. - Let's you go. It'll seem to be some of the favorites. - I've tried to, I've tried to give them to bite some of the, you know, the Maggraphs, swim baits, minnow. I've tried some stuff after dark. I just never give them to bite it. - Yeah. - I kind of give up on it. - Yeah. - One thing I want to look at here too is this, I've got the boat landings layer turned on here. So this has got all the boat landings that are available on all these different lakes. And, you know, just looking at some of these, look, there's, you know, quite a few boat landings on, really most of all these lakes is, you know, is that something that is an important view to have an actual ramp there in some of these marinas where you're fishing, you know, you know, fishing the deeper ends of some of these ramps and stuff can be a good technique around here this time of year with like you said, like a football jig or something like that or even a, you know, big deep diving crank bait if you can get it down there to it. So you're looking for, you know, road beds or, you know, boat ramps like that. Yeah, I know, definitely looking for that kind of stuff. I look for it a little more when the lakes start to fall, like when we start going towards winter pool. That pools allow those fish out of that in the main cover out to what's still available and left. And a lot of times that's still what's available and left some of the road beds and into the boat ramps and stuff. So yes, I definitely do utilize it, but it's definitely a water level thing for me when I start to utilize it. Yeah. It's interesting. I was going to say real fast that the boat landing features, one of my favorite features on the app, not only. If I travel to South Carolina to go to Hartwell, which I've done several times, I get there. I can click on a boat ramp and it'll give me directions directly to the boat ramp. That is a major feature for a tournament angle where this traveling a lot going across the country and has no idea where he's going a lot of times. That's, that's very, very helpful. Yeah. Yeah. Well, nothing I want to call it to is you'll see some of these different ramps are blue and then some of them are orange. You need the ones that are orange. We know that are either semi-private or completely private. So it's another thing to keep in mind as I know, I don't know if you've experienced this poorly, but I've pulled up to several boat ramps in my life that I saw from the water and thought, oh, man, I'll put in there tomorrow. This is a lot closer to where I want to fish and then you get there. There's a gate or, you know, you got a keypad or something you need and that can be really frustrating. So it's, I don't run into a lot of that around here, but I can see we're having those differentiates. It would be very helpful. Yeah. Cool. We, you know, we've covered quite a bit of stuff here. Luke, is there anything, you know, in particular that you want to call out just about, you know, central Missouri fishing in general? What's that? I feel like you, you know, done a really good job. I didn't really appreciate you, you know, walking us through that. But is there, you know, I guess the, all the question I like to ask you is we talked about, you know, just summer a little bit, but, you know, what, you know, central Missouri, what, what's your favorite time of your fish and what, you know, what do you do in the spring and the fall if it's, you know, the, where the ideal, you know, conditions and scenario for you? I'm a real big fan of fishing like October through May. I don't really, you know, once we get made, June, June can be really fun. July, August, September, pretty brutal around here, you know, for average person to go out and get any big bites or a lot of bites. So if you want to fish up here, the best time to fish in middle Missouri is, you know, you're going to be that October to May timeframe, but that's a lot of the year. All these lakes fish a little bit differently, but kind of all the same all at once. You know, I would say as a whole like Truman and L.O.Z. fish shallower than Pommity Terrence Stockton. Stockton and Pommity Terrence fish a little deeper. But no, my ideal, my ideal day of fish is either, you know, in the fall of the spring and, you know, I'm catching a bunch. You know, I'm not worried about size. I'm just out there fun fishing, sitting the hook a bunch. So I like to do that top water buzz bait. That's probably my favorite thing to do in the fall when you get it just right. Yeah, absolutely. Pretty hard to beat. That's awesome. Well, listen, look again, I really appreciate it, man. We'll wrap up the show here. But again, I love getting your insights here in Missouri. And, you know, it rewinds watching go follow Luke on social. He's doing some really, really cool content and, you know, just follow with him. He's, you know, one of the, one of the hot ones that I'm in the state of Missouri right now, you know, tournament fishing and things like that. So it was one of you guys definitely want to keep an eye on. But for all of us here at the Omni-efficient and the Omni-report, we thank you guys for watching. And if you have any questions or anything, leave them down in the comments below. And if you like this and like some more of the content that we're doing, you know, subscribe to our YouTube channel. We've got not just the Omni-report, but a ton of really cool content about all things fishing. So, um, I'm going to show you a little bit of a little bit of the video about all things fishing. So thanks again, Luke. We really appreciate it. And we'll see you guys later. Thank you. Thank you. (upbeat music) you