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Ok thanks.

How's the food at the lodge? I been hundreds of times but never eaten at the lodge.

Brings back memories. Good job and nice pics.

Its about darn time. The river could really use it

A 15" brown had taken the minnow while I was bringing it in! Does that count as live bait fishing??? I don't know-it was certainly not intentional. I was kind of relieved when the brown got off before I brought him to net. [/quote Thats interesting last time i was down on the upper current i was nymphing big hares ears.. for some reason catch a good amount of browns on this set up. I hooked a nice 15 to 16 inch brown but the crazy part was he still had a sculpin lodged in his throat. I will have to post some pics. would any of you consider sculpin patterns the best way to take browns on the current. I allways see lots of them down there.

i agree with that. On my last trip it seemed as soon as the sun hit the water i was getting fish on brassies and the like.

please elaborate

its going to be packed every week until catch and release season

thanks i appreciate that

nice pics ..and how do you edit them to look like that.im trying to learn to take better pics. i took all of the pics in trizkids last post but i bet i could edit them and make them look better

That one brown has got a real nice red belly on it. On a side note last time I was down on the current I caught a small wild rainbow wich still had par marks and white fin tips. I had heard that the rainbows could reproduce naturally but it was cool to catch one and see it with my own eyes i have a pic an ill post it when i find time...

i tried tellin my wife the same thing but she just wasnt havin it

another cool fishing show to check out, is seasons on the fly they show new ones on versus mondays at noon.

sweet report im very interested about learning more about missouri's wild trout streams. is blue springs the closest to st.louis?

i grew up playing soccer in st.louis and as far as i can remember soccer has been pretty big here. allot of good players have come out of st.louis. I mean every grade school, middle school, high school, and college has a team not to mention all of the select teams, recreational teams, summer leages, indoor leages, and camps. The USA has amazing potential to produce great players especiially now that popularity in the sport is growing. The USA national team has been looking very good considering we had two perfectly good goals taken back. I think we can beat england but we have to beat Ghana first.Altidore,Donovan,and Tim Howard are beasts .just my 2cents. U. S. A.!! U. S. A.!! U. S. A.!!

GOOD LORD THAT IS HOOOOK JAAWWW

Dont forget to bring the large Y2K unweighted.. ive heard huge fish feeding out there at night that sounded like rocks getting thrown into the water. the full moon might play a nice role in some night fishing.

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woops just noticed im a little late since youve allready went

was down sunday and monday. there was a big caddis hatch sunday when the sun came out late in the afternonn around 3. I would say I had a bunch of rises but only one fish in the net( you know how that goes).Did well on peach and orange egg patterns not deep but ON THE BOTTOM. also we did well on streamers stripped fast through the deeper runs. as for the water it was up a little and visability was probly about 3 feet or so didnt know where they were holding until u hooked one. lots of tricos all over but the fish never really keyed in to that they were taking the caddis's on sunday they were going crazy it was cool to watch

I was down on sunday and monday i didnt do very well but my buddy hooked into more fish fish. There were some caddis coming off and i was able to get one to rise and and take my caddis on a long drift. most fish were holding deep i mean almost all of the fish we caught came right off the bottom they were taking egg patterns and we hooked a couple stripping big streamers a couple on scuds. As for that first dead fall holding fish i caught the biggest rainbow of my life last summer out of there on a size 18 zebra midge and my two buddies caught fish out of there also. That day i saw at least three fish that were over 18 inches swimming just below the surface on the opposite bank along that log i got one of them. Also yes i did release the fish, i got a quick picture and revived her and she swam off to fight another day.