Gavin

Very cool..is the Landing in North Fork Village or is it on the Dawt side of the river?

If you can catch fish between Akers and Round...youll like the upper part better..check the fishing regs. Pack light...you will drag a bit at this level, and you will have to portage the low water bridge at Cedargrove...Have fun.

Break a leg!

Congrats on your catch! It sounds like you did well. Smallies over 15" are always seem to be in short supply on pressured waters with a 6 over 12" limit...Heck I've been out three or four times in the last 6 weeks, and I havent caught anything over 14".

Jointed Jitterbug...with better hooks....Black Buzzbait.

Good for you! Go get another.

Sounds like allot of fun...There used to be some pretty good fishing around the Bluffs in its heyday...Have they cleaned out any of those burned out camper shells, or are they all still stitting there?

Silver bullets better eating? Sub-par table fare? Its obviouls that you've never eaten one.

Hatchery fish are curious...and they do key on top easilly...Thats were the pellets come from

The regs change at Turner...which is a couple miles below Mary Decker...The County Sheriff's do like to run up and down in their jet boat allot down there.

I wouldnt be in favor of barbless regulations because they are subjective...Arkansas's enforcement of barbless rules is notoriously silly. I know folks who have gotten tickets after they made an obvious effort to crush the barb. All it takes is a little bit left to snag while going through a piece of cloth and you get a high doller ticket. I think our trout regulations are pretty darn good as is....the one exception being the 4 brown trout over 15" limit in the trout parks. The annual brown trout slaughter down at Montauk needs to stop.

Ham is correct...the Bryant guage can be influenced by the lake level. The NFoW guage is above Dawt Mill dam so it is not subject to influence from the Lake...The Bryant is a smaller flow than the NFoW...Also...I'd probably avoid the stretch from Vera Cruz to 14...unless youd like to party with the Village People. Have fun.

Nice catches! I have a buddy in Illinois who chases em with the fly a bit...He likes to fish Clinton Lake Spillway...usually with a 9-10wt.

Call Justin over at Sunburst Ranch and ask him...775 cfs seams high considering the NFoW is reading 385 cfs.

Well nice to meet you. Small world.

I might have been us Blazer. We took out at Redhorse around 5:30pm. Were you the fellow that suggested I go right at the top of the island?

The biologists do use fin clips as an indicator of when a fish was stocked. Usually adiopose, and the left or right pectoral fins when they stock and it varies by year class.. or Tail fin clips when doing sampling. ...and they reclip previosly clipped fins when sampling.... Not sure how the Feds do it....my only experience with clipping fins is on the Current, and the fins definetly do grow back...unless you clip really short...the biologists like that...and they said I was good with the scissors ;>)!

Congrats to that young man..his first looked like an 18" and change...but the one in the picture is a quality fish. He's well within his legal limit if he took two in a week......and after you catch a few of those the need to take them usually subsides.

Not true...a hatchery trout will regrow its fins and look just like a streamborn fish if it survives long enough.

Think youll end up with squirrel jerky if you used whole squirrel...If I wanted to do it...I'd probably go with a squirrel stew. Mix up your stew then cook it in your smoker so it would braise and smoke at the same time. Good luck.

Open a nice bottle of California Zinfandel and let it breath. Cut the backstraps into 1.5" thick medalions, dry rub and let them sit at room temperature for 30-45 minutes., In the mean time...Prepare a hot fire using lump charcoal, melt a couple of sticks of butter, and prepare a board sauce of olive oil, chopped fresh thyme, rosemary, fresh chopped garlic, S&P to taste..When the fire is hot...hit it with the leaf blower to remove most of the ash, then coat the medalions with melted butter and seer directly on lump charcoal..No grill...baste in butter again when its time to turn em over...3-4 minutes a side maximum because rare to medium rare is what you want. Wrap in foil to rest for 5-10 minutes. .. Pour yourself a glass of Zinfandel while you wait. Open the foil and roll medalions in the board sauce to get rid of some of the charcoal bits and add more flavor. Plate em up, top with a touch of elk juice . Enjoy with your favorite side dishes. Bon Appetit.

Thats a chain pickeral...bought average sized. Target the weedy backwaters on the 11pt and Current..your bound to catch a few.

Yikes. Think we paddled through that chute yesterday... We didnt see a jet until we got a couple miles below there. Fish were biting in the AM, and it improved in the afternoon. All were smaller than 13". On the plus side...It was a nice day on the water, scenery was better than expected (till the end of the float), caught some on the fly rod, and some spotted bass died. Figure the better fish must have gorged at night under the full moon. Lots of 2-3' long carp shallow in the riffle heads...Tried for em with some flashy smallmouth patterns but they wouldnt go for it. Shoulda brought my nymph & leach box.

They have some interpretive nature programs occassionally down at Pulltite...and I think there is a playground. I'd contact the National Park Serice and ask them about the schedule for those programs. Swimming, Hiking, and Canoeing are the main attractions though..Best swimming hole is right across from Group Site two at the end of the CG...Pulltite spring dumps in just above...and fire hydrant spring is right across the river. Its worth the hike up the creek to see Pulltite Spring. Have fun.

Sorry Tom...you have defended the MDC's efforts vigorously, but I still dont see the value proposition relating to stocking elk in Missouri..They are neat to look at, but we have penned elk all over the state for folks to gawk at and snap photo's. I'll give the department major cred if they can grow enough elk to support a significant hunting season but that prospect seems highly unlikely considering that the target goal is 400 elk. Elk tags (if ever available) will be as scarce as honest men and gold tickets in Wonka Bars.