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Welcome home john!

Yeah shed water a little easier that way. I have refined the head to a more bulky head to move mpre water and combat how fast it sinks since it is so light. So far the smallies like it enough

I tie these and they are similar to the butt monkey but with maribou instead of rabbit

I usually go eight pound leader or six too. Bigger fly i may jump to ten

Ok thanks! I am designing a fly box to imitate the jerk baits you guys chuck and need a depth range to know if i need my sink tip or not. I am excited gor october and my annual trip down for night time browns . Hope for better luck this year

On the jerks are those fished very deep? Or jerk stop ?

There are some donkeys in the niangua. Not a lot but they are there. Tons of smaller to mid range fish and the beast goggleye live under every brush pile . Nice pics looks like you fella hada good time!

My now go to rod is an 8 wt as i fish a lot of farm ponds and heavy cover streams. I use it for Euro nymphing and streamers. Never have really worried about the fly line size more worried about leader and fly. I did invest in an intermediate sinking leader for bigger water and for our big ponds

For some reason, they seem to be concentrated here. Now that ive mastered what they like to eat, ill be exploring a littlebit more to see if there are any other pockets of them . This fish was first cast and thr fish the other day was second cast so it seems to me im probably the only person dialed in. There are some juicy spots above this one that will surely produce .

Hopefully several😆

Twenty inches of chromed out fury and smallie as the cherry on top !

Secret creek holds more secrets and a the largest trout i have ever caught by weight on the buggy whip!

Also how do you fish that hibernator?

Ill be down soon so hope the bite stays good.... like october lol

MiSecond drift lit up the bugger moved down stream and caight a fourteen incher moved down again and broke off a probably 22 incher. Im sure there are some donkeys in there. I only catch them in a hundred yard stretch though it is very strange. Two creeks run together above ,one spring fed the other warm water. Then there are some beautiful riffle runs but no fish. Then it dumps into a bucket run ans the action starts.

Seventeen inches and fat!

And now the report.... So started off on the lower end off grisham ford rd and walked down stream. Creek is loaded with small fish. They were super feisty ans eager to hit the bugger. Most fish were concentrated in small pockets of fast water. The usual big holes and slow pools were void of activity. The big fish were no where to be seen on the lower end. Managed twenty dinks though. About ten i moved to ball park for my walk down the tracks. Fished my way down from the trestle bridge to my first good hole. Caught several more small fish as walked. First holebuzzing with life but crystal clear and my offering was refused. Next hole yielded two small fish and so on until i got to the end of my walk. No real big ones caught but the far spot was full of fish. Caught another twenty or so at this access . A beautiful day

A micro for johnsfolly lol

So managed to wrangle a day off from the clutches of workdome ! Headed down to my favorite creek tomorrow for a look at the hopper situation ... crickets showing up all around my store so should be interesting! If anyone one would like to join i am goingto start around the swinging bridge access early then move up to middle access above park probably. Good dry fly spots here

Nice fish!

Wish i could be down there... Just itching to hit taney lately but life has other plans. Thanks for report and for new source of daydreaming!

Pile of regular chanterelles and a hand fu of cinnabars this afternoon!