Gavin

Call Justin & Amy and get a boat. To long of a drive for dicey wade fishing.

Dunno if you can rent a boat on the L. Niangua but a float is the way to do it. Thinking Riverside CG on the Niangua or Gasconade Hills or a CG on the Elk if you are driving from KC. Ned rigs for the kids, my 5 & 7 catch a bunch on it.

My wife wants to visit GSMNP with our girls (5 & 7). Started looking this evening and there are no electric hookups in the park. Can anyone recommend a decent looking RV park around Gatlinburg? Preferably with water access. Fishing tips OK too.

Looks like he caught it while reeling in for another cast...but I usually fish frogs like walker to toss in the cabbage patches. Fast retrieve most often, but not that fast.

If it's just one or two nights it's easier to haul your water v. Buying an expensive filter. I have a nice pump filter but it rarely gets used unless we have a big group and a pile of dishes to rinse. Works great for that.

They are all about the same. Pick the one closest to where you want to go.

Awesome!

And the concision is...keep your candy in the water fish will eat it;).

Thinking...pull stakes...shake snake out of tent......long stick..instead of try to grab snake, get bit....Sorry for his family's loss.

I cant see the dark colored braids very well at all...black, green, even the red.. With yellow I can easily visualize were my candy is when I cannot see it...Look for activity where you think it is...or the line might move oddly. It doesn't seem to put fish off in gin clear water if you are using an appropriate leader. Spin rod strike indicator and braid lasts for a season or three. Wish my guitar strings had that much life in them. Still use mono on my casters...Might try that yo-zuri next time I spool up a couple rigs. Have not tried the nanofil...To many choices most work pretty well.

Glad you had a nice day. Creeks always peak & valley. Good some years, not the next. Depends on rain, and lots of other things. Mostly land use and pressure.

I'm partial to high vis yellow braid with a leader . Works for bass and trout. Have not tried the the yo-zuri. Sunline sucks. It is thin, but a leader of Seaguar flouro fly tippet is a lot stronger and more abrasion resistant, IMO.

4.0 on the Akers gauge is the one you can check online. Other rules apply at different access points. It's listed in the Park website. Ozark National Scenic Riverways Park Compedium look under Management.

Sweet! Good for you guys.

Your fine wading till it's up a foot or several, 1.1 is dead low on the Akers gauge.

Similar to a slow roll, imotion, the Ned...basically old school Charlie Brewer slider fishing with new baits.

The smallmouth wont come back w/o dam removal. They can live there, but they prefer warmer water than you find below those dams. They will go were they are comfy...not were they are not. The White & Norfork tailwaters could support a wild trout fishery, but it would require a huge cultural shift and regulation change. The tourism industry would take a big haircut, that is for sure.... Plus, the potential to grow toad beast brown trout would not be there if abundant stocked trout were removed as a food source (live & entrails). Think there could be a pretty decent wild trout fishery there but it would be very different from what exists today. Would that be better or worse? I'm not concerned either way....Fish Hatcheries have to be pretty low on the list of discretional government spending. We might have to do without, and that is fine with me.

I'd probably float the Courtois from Butt's down to Scotia on the Huzz..or go another mile or two down to Onandaga on the Meramec. The scenery is a bit better than the Hwy 8 to Scotia stretch on the other side of the mountain (Huzzah).

My wife has a fair idea of what I have. Never complains when I haul it in or out our when a box of new unnecessary tackle arrives. She likes to fish and knows its my hobby. She gets her pick whenever she wants it, I outfit her and rig her gear when she wants to float or go fishing with her gal pals. Never have a complaint as long as the cash is in the bank and the honey doo'z are done.

There are fish there and it's close. Bank fished it a bunch in my teens. No cash due to hot rod car parts, gf, & trying to live like a rock star working 20 @ a buck or two above minimum. Guys back east would probably move to have that within an hour and it's a 15 minute drive. Want to explore it, but.....driving another hour or two to clearer water....guess I need to man up and go fish it again.

Good for you. That's an awesome bluegill! I've never fished that bug in a pond before, but glad you are puttng them use. Look they were slurping hard.

Thought that was in Arkansas? One of the arky fly fishing clubs used to do an annual float there. Guessing its good for some fish catching.

Thought that was in Arkansas? One of the arky fly fishing clubs used to do an annual float there. Guessing its good for numbers.

You can cut a couple v-notches in a cardboard box and make a wrapping stand..use a book for thread tension, toss the spool in a bowl. A friend with a metal lathe might allow you to spin your own grips, but you will need a jig or two to keep the tip from flying around and breaking off. Go with a premade grip for your first several. A friend has an old Clemens powered rod wrapper that he allows me to use to spin grips.

Try north fork composites or Batson blanks. I've been happy with the ones I've assembled.