Steve Smith

After the storms last night, the river is up about a foot or so. Both falls are running full, and the water is a bit off-color, but not milky. By the weekend, the color will probably clear up. I went down at lunch, and the fish were definitely midging at the end of Zone 2. As far as what to use... I saw some nice fish caught on olive zebra midge fished shallow. Stop by Tim's for the latest

We took shelter about 9:20 this morning, but luckly just got a downpour and some wind. Other than the streets in Cassville being soaked and some trash, everyone appears to have survived. I figured I would check Roaring River at lunch time. I hope it's running strong again

I'm with Tim on this one. I rarely ever keep a fish so an annual no-creel permit would be great. In my job, I'm on call 24X7. I fish quite a bit, but in short time spans. I pay my three bucks sometimes to fish less than an hour.

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Greg; Tim from Tim's fly shop and I have argued over furled leaders forever. In my opinion, it is not visability of the leader, but the depth difference between furled and mono that makes a difference in catch ratios. Especially in steady current, a non-furled leader will take a fly deeper than furled. If you are fishing a dry fly, this is not a factor because a furled leader can retain grease. And, in my opinion lays down a quieter cast on the water.

Terry; they are not hard to tie at all. One of our buddies here on the forum may know the link to Han's CDC and elk pattern video. Once you see him tie it, the hard part will be finding the long stemmed CDC feathers. I finally found some at Tim's Fly Shop. The CDC feather is tied by the tip, then wrapped forward dressing the long strands of CDC back. The hard part for me is the Elk wing. I tend to use too much and have a hard time getting it positioned just right. As far as fishing it, it does well at Roaring River when fresh. After a few hits, the CDC becomes really slimed up and hard to float high. Gink just makes it worse and you loose the action of the CDC.

Geez; I was asleep at the wheel. My #14 black foam beetles are heading your way this morning. Sorry about that

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Call Tim's Fly Shop. He drives by there everyday (417) 847-4956

Talk to Tim at his fly shop TimsFly@hotmail.com. He fishes Crane quite a bit.

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Hey Robert; before gas prices went through the roof, I fished Dardenille [sp] Lake in Russellville. I used to go in the fall and swim a jig and chunk across the weedbeds. The weeds would just explode with huge black bass. Welcome

MO; I doubt there are many muskie fishers here, but my guess is what you described would be a good start. I would probably add some bucktail clousers to the list. I've only caught one muskie in my life, and that was just pure luck. I'd say something big and flashy would be the ticket. Do let us know how you do.

Amen Skeeter

50 - 60 fish if you're targeting smallmouth is absolutely possible. Canada has some very strict limits on smallies and protects them during the spawn. That makes a huge difference in the numbers and quality of fish caught. Smallies are also not the fish of choice like walleye, so many are released. Prespawn you can only keep 2 under 13.8". Post spawn, you can keep 2 of any size. The majority of smallmouths I caught this year were 15 to 18 inches. I am still looking for that 20" five pounder

I got mine too. You folks make my CDC EHC look amatuer. Great job to all.

I don't think it will stain unless we have some heavy local downpours Terry. The water out of the spring is well filtered before it exits. Most of Roaring River's color would come from run off and overflow from Dry Hollow's drainage. In any case, it needs a good washing out

The water at Roaring River is fine Ronnie. We only got around a inch or so in southern Barry County this week. The heavy rains all stayed north of this area. The river is maybe up six inches or so, and nothing like the James or Finley. I fished last night and there are lots of fish in the river left from last weekends free fishing. The dry fly action is hot late in the afternoon up to the horn so bring your gnats.

Sounds like a plan to me

Mo... you might give Lilley's Landing a call. I fished the dam end Saturday, and everyone else who has posted so far did too. It was clean and clear in that stretch.

actually this year went to Taney [saturday] and scratched out. Running one gen all morning. All I saw was a fish caught on a little cleo and another on a SJ worm near the cable. Finally gave up and fished Roaring in the afternoon with the crowds. Fished again yesterday and did well on cracklebacks. A lot of people but plenty of fish to be caught. Meat hunters were out in droves.

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I just got back yesterday afternoon from fishing Miles Bay on Lake of the Woods from May 26th to June 2nd near Nester Falls Ontario. The weather was pretty rough with wind, rain, and cold nights. Air temps ranged for high 40s during the night to high 60s during the day. Water temps running pretty cool too in the high 50 degree range to low 60’s. Northerns, muskies, crappie, and smallmouth were mostly deep in the ten to twenty foot range and scattered. When the sun did come out, we could catch pike and smallmouth on the rocky points near deep water. Crappie were running deep too, but caught several 8 to 12 inch take-homes. Walleye were scattered from 7 foot deep all the way out to 28 feet with no distinct pattern at any depth, and most running 16” and smaller this year. Last year, we couldn’t catch a walleye under 18”. Our group of ten only caught four walleye over 20” all week long. I’m not complaining though because we caught hundreds of fish during the week and a wide variety of species all running together. Best bait were leeches and minnows tipped on gold plated or yellow painted jigs, with minnows edging a little ahead of the leeches. Of the notable catches last week; a seven pound 28” walleye caught and released on a leech and gold jig combo near Tolton’s Island on Miles Bay. A 38” 17 pound muskie caught and released on a Mepp’s #3 Black Fury spinner also near Tolton’s island. And, there were at least four 18 inch plus smallmouth and several slab crappie caught during the week. The smallies were all released. A great week as usual on LOTW.

Those are great pictures. My grandkids backed out at the last minute so I didn't make the Kid's day in the park. I think there is another one in August or so.

I've seen it done too. The guy I saw had fish pellets from the farm store. It is too bad, but it does happen