RiverRunner

Thanks for the tip, I've been tying my soft hackles on dry fly hooks, but they still sink slowly. I am gonna try greasing the leader this weekend at the Little Red (if I can escape mosquitoland) and give it a shot.

Just settle on a date and I will try to make it. I've never even seen Taneycomo and this would be a good excuse to go! If you are planning a fish fry, let me know and I will volunteer to help cook. I think I'm better at cooking fish than catching them! I might even be able to bring some fish cooking related accessories.

Looks like I'm gonna miss sowbug too due to family member illness. Hopefully I will have reinforcements over here by Sunday so I can at least get away for an afternoon on the river. Maybe I can make it next yeat

Thanks for the advice from all of you. I am going to take a serious look at the Springfield area. I've always thought it was a nice area. The thought of getting away from the mosquitoes is a good one to say the least. Plus, the economy around here is not the greatest, and due to the college being here, there is a glut of teachers looking for jobs.

John (or anyone else who wants to chime in), When fishing a soft hackle in faster water like at Roundhouse, do you prefer to grease your leader and fish it in the film, or do you just fish it like a conventional nymph?

I'm very familiar with that part of the world, and it is rural, but that is really what I'm looking for. And if the area where I work has some good fishing, then that's a bonus!

I've seen a few other people on here use this forum for job prospecting, but I'm not sure Phil still approves of it, so if this is not proper, I don't mind if Phil deletes this post. Here is what I'm after. I'm certified to teach Social Studies in grades 7-12 (History, Civics, Geography, etc.) I graduated from ASU in 2002, but I've never taught outside of student teaching. I've been in the business world for 4 years and I'm sick of the rat race and I think I need to make a career out of what I'm good at and what I enjoy doing when I'm not fishing. I currently live in Jonesboro, AR but I am willing to move anywhere in North Arkansas or in Southern MO over to about Springfield or south of US 60. So if any of you know of any job openings, please PM me so that I can go after them. Thanks in advance!

The more teachers on here the better! Btw, if any of you teachers on here know of any job openings for 7-12 Social Studies teachers in Northern AR or Southern MO, PM me, I'm looking for a job!

That is a beautiful brown!!! Nice pics of McClellans as well.

I'll vouch for KT's, its the best bbq in North Arkansas. Be sure to try the peanut butter pie, its the best this side of Alabama. So what is so special about "yankee style bbq"?

Finally got to fish some low water on the LR. Put in at Lobo and fished up river. River and fish in good shape after high water this winter. Fished from about 9 to 2. Caught about 30 between us, best fish was 16" Brown that partner caught. Lots of caddis coming off with a good bit of surface activity. Best setup was a #16 red butt dropped under a #14 elk hair caddis. All fish came on the dropper. Also caught a few on sowbugs and another green soft hackle. Didn't get to fish our "best" water downriver due to a minor crisis at home. We now have a new rule: No cell phones are to be taken into the boat or on the water! I guess I'll have to make up for lost time later on. Good to be on the river though.

I've caught them (sauger) in the Eleven Point near the state line when smallmouth fishing. I've also been told by a biologist that most rivers in the ozarks have a breeding population of them, although small compared to walleye. Sauger tend to prefer larger, more turbid rivers than walleye. The same biologist told me that the Black River has the best population of Sauger in this area.

I'm hoping to be on the LR on Sunday if the water stays off, hopefully it will and this long cold winter of nonstop generation will be over!

1 1/2 Hours to the Spring 1 hour 45 mins to Lobo Landing (Little Red) 1 Hour 15 mins to Eleven Point 2 Hours to White River (Calico Rock) 2 hours 15 min to Norfork Dam 2 Hours 45 min to Wildcat or Cotter 3 1/2 Hours to Sauger at Pickwick 6 Hours to Spotted Bass in Alabama

My biggest fish from the Ozarks was a 13 lbs rainbow I caught at Dry Run Creek in 1991 (I was 12 at the time). My biggest fish period is a 20 lbs + blue catfish out of the Tennessee River below Guntersville Dam in Alabama. Other notables: Biggest largemouth: 12 lbs, pond in Blount County, AL (caught 3 times) Biggest Smallmouth: 3 lbs from Eleven Point River, Randolph County, AR Biggest Spotted Bass: 4 3/4 lbs, Lay Lake, AL Longest fish was a 14' gar caught out of Maddox Bay, AR

This question may have an obvioius answer to those who fish a lot of dries, but what is the ideal leader/tippet setup for fishing dries?

I saw the eclipse driving back from Springfield, was neat looking. I also saw a lot of meteors falling after the eclipse, it was really a site to see.

Welcome to the forum, you are right about the small lakes. If you want to catch a monster bass, I would do nothing but fish ponds or small watershed lakes. I caught a 12 lb largemouth from a 1 1/2 acre pond a few years back that proves my theory. Hope you get to see some spring time weather soon.

Good to have a teacher on the forum, I hope to be teaching school next year, hopefully in the Ozarks!

I'd like some membership info for the sucky fly tyers group. I think I'd be a good fit!

We got lucky here in Jonesboro, hardly any rain or wind. I was in the tornado last year in Caruthersville, MO and I do not care to repeat the experience. My friends in Alabama got hit pretty hard in yesterdays storm, so my thoughts are with them as well.

They ought to throw him in that prison in Calico Rock, that way he is forced to work on the chain gangs that I see cleaning up area parks and access areas along and near the river. That, along with his financial and personal ruin, would be a fitting punishment if you ask me!

This has happened to other people I know in small business. The people doing the emailing or calling are usually in sub-saharan Africa. So far, nobody I know has fallen for it. They all decided it was a scam when someone asked for them to wire money to so and so to get the product moving. They contacted the FBI and were told that this happens all day every day from people in Africa and Asia. Since it is out of the US, there is nothing that they can do. So beware of anything that "sounds fishy" coming from overseas.

I'm not sure that the stained water you are seeing in the North Fork River is a result of overlook, but is a result of water quality issues in Norfork Lake itself. As far as Mr. Doyle paying for this mess, I'm in full agreement that he should bear the financial responsibility for the clean-up of both the land and the river. However, it would take years in court to force him to pay, and even then, he may be able to file a chapter 11 bankruptcy to absolve himself of any judgement that he might have to pay. I think the prudent thing to do right now is to use taxpayer monies to clean up and possibly seize the site from Mr. Doyle. Once the site has been stabilized to the point that run-off does not occur, work can begin on removing silt from the river bed. I see no reason to begin that process while run-off continues to flow from the site. Once the site is secure and the siltation is removed from the river, that is the time to seek restitution from Doyle. I'm no lawyer, but I think that it will be extremely difficult to get any money from Doyle to repay the state for cleaning up the site. I think it will be a victory if the land is seized from him and he forced out of business due to this fiasco. I'd like to see all of his assets frozen, house and cars seized, IRS audits and all that stuff that would ruin him and put him out of business and run out of town, but as unfair as it is, I think that the taxpayers of Arkansas and anglers who enjoy the Norfork tailwater will be the ones who fit the bill for Benny's big mistake.

Thank goodness something substatial is finally being done. If they had started last year, it wouldn't have cost the taxpayers (us) nearly as much and the river would be in much better shape today. The only good thing I see coming from this is that the authorities will be forced to enact tougher standards for developments along or near the rivers.