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Fishing Boundary Waters Canoe area next week, first full week of June! Taking a fly rod as I am hoping to get into the Smallmouth and pike on the fly, anyone have any experience up there and any suggestions as far as flies go. Ill be fishing with either an 8wt or 7wt with floating and sinking line The majority of what i will be casting will be large streamers, articulated Zoo Cougars, Sex Dungeons and Clouser along with mouse flies, top water and an assortment of other meaty flies I will also be spin fishing and hopefully gorging on Walleye all week, but ill more likely be frying up night-crawlers and leeches with some Tony C's and oil! LOL Id love to hear anyones stories and suggestions, dos and do nots, and anything else anyone can think of!

Anyone know a place near Galena, MO to camp before James river outfitters opens in May?

Literally shad guts.. get a cast net and all your problems will be solved

Your hand??? Thats illegal in missouri

Thats why you need a throw net.. theres tons of shad up around blunks right now spawning

Somehow a set of keys ended up on my boat at blunks, found them when i got home yesterday... If you or someone yo know is missing a set from sunday 4/19 Let me know Ive got a little duck boat normally out with my German short hair if that helps Bryan

Any knowledge of spoonbill making it up near the dam yet?

First time out for me this year: Went to walnut springs tonight, bumped a few, broke a reel... overall successful night (insert sarcasm) may try again later this week. Really wanting to get a couple for the smoker

Im gonna try the blue hole for gar on the fly this summer its always full of them

What about the blue hole below Delaware town? Anybody have luck there for cats? Ive always thought it looked good but never tried...

Billethead, Im incredibly jealous you have access to such a wonderfully maintained pond.. Im planning to try my luck at carving these bad boys, im sure it will take some trial and error. Guess im gonna have to start drinking more wine!

Dont ever use this fly on NFOW this is a terrible fly pattern..

Thanks slayer, whats your outlook on them making it further up to nixa or even to the dam?

Where did you go to?

Thinkin taylor shoal tomorrow afternoon

Is that a cork head/body? Are you tying them?

With all this high water they have got to be moving only thing i could see holding them back would be water temp.. may be the year theu make it up to spfld dam.. id like to get them around nixa in my kayak, that'd be a ride!

The only reason its running so hard is the rain from weds and thurs.. its blown out a lot of streams in the ozarks ground was saturated and then we get a good rain the water has nowhere else to go.. probably gonna be like this for a while, we are supposed to get rain again mid week this week, which will cause the exact same rise.. check out the USGS site for the james at galena and look at it for 30 days it will continue follow the same pattern until we get a dry spell for longer than a week.. may be good for a paddlefosh float in mid April though

That par mark looks nice and healthy, great to see! Thanks for report

Hows water looking today? Anyone been down tjis morning? Went amd took a look yesterday afternoon still looked pretty high and fast for canoe, yak or small craft

Are you saying by "hot spot" the extension of flash? ive considered that when im tying but 10x out of 10 I end up trimming in the end

Anyone have any insight as to paddlefish moving up the river, towards blunk and beyond? If i took a guess id bet they are moving up with this high water..

A good place I've always found a plethora of the 1" - 2" shad is out front of the walnuts springs boat ramp on table rock james river arm. You could walk on water.. i mean shad backs

If you have a vessel to make it out there, the dead lilly pad field on the other side of the grass beds across from the closed boat ramp was full of them yesterday. 3" -5"gizzards

Any news if any temperate species have made it above Dawt Mill yet?