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I fished Roaring River yesterday, the water is in much better shape, it is clearing well and should be in even better shape by friday, I only caught 12 trout yesterday and all were in good shape, one was a nice 17" rainbow that was a little over 3lbs, caught it on a Mikes' Mohair leech, in olive. Caught the rest on eggs, and chamois worms. I started out at the muncy bridge, fished about 1 mile above the bridge, and then drove to the Curry bridge and fished around there for a bit, caught the big bow down there, about 1/4 mile above the bridge.

Those little feather lights only come in two sizes, 6 1/2 and a 7', both are great and cheap, under 20.00 anywhere, I sell several hundred of them every year, great little fiberglass rods, a little heavy but well worth the $ amount.

That is a good day on Crane, were you driving the yellow toyota ?

Don't know if I'm going to be there or not, may be gone this weekend, but Duane or Jeff will be in the shop, stop by and say hi to them. Steve will be in the park, he is almost always down on sat. he usually starts in the upper area of the river.

I was in the shop tonight, the new location looks great, and is eaiser to get in and out of. When Mr. Kyle steps out the sales start so go check the place out.

Great looking kid, glad all is well, bring him down and we'll fit him with the tradional possum headress his brother made so popular

Ya gotta double strain to get the small particals out of the good stuff. It is his age, I think Maybe it will clear a lot before next monday. Hope to see ya on the river.

I catch more fish on crane using san juan worms and woolybuggers. In the faster runs I use a lot of #10-#14 tungsten headed nymphs, the squirrel nymph is good, but a hares ear or a prince will work just as well most days, I tie my own kind for Crane, it is a #10 or #12 tungsten headed possum nymph, it is tied completely of possum, like the squirrel nymph is all squirrel. Really any good sized nymph will work, when the water gets low again you can use smaller nymphs, and you can use 5X most of the time when the water is up like it is now. Let us know how you do.

Nope the brownish colored scotch gives the cheese that dk. roe look.

He does get eaisly confused, but he is fun to watch, especially when it is real cold out The biggest fish are now in the upper area of the river, most are from the F hwy upstream, there are still a few nice fish in the lower part of the stream, but not many since the river has come up. The river is nice and brown right now, should clear up in a couple of weeks, I've seen it clear up in a week, and I've seen it take a month to clear after heavy rains, so we'll just have to wait and see. Fishing was good today, cold this morning and real nice this afternoon. I caught most of mine on egg patterns today, some on buggers and a few on pheasant tail(flash backs) #16's. Steve uses cheddar most of the time, mixed with scotch of some sort for a binder I guess.

The last day to fish C&R at roaring river is the 11th of febuary, and then we will just have to wait till march 1st, or fish taney and all the other nice water we have here in the ozarks.

Yeh I guess that is the best answer, to deepen that pool, and slow the water up to control erosion. This little dam should make that pool twice as deep when the water is low and it should really help when there is high water, the bank on the far side was starting to show some real signs of erosion, so this should help with this also, the conservation dept. has cut a lot of big trees down to this winter, trying to keep them from falling on campers and cars.

Stopped and checked crane out today, it looks good, it is in fishable condton now, it should fish good, it usually does after high water, good luck.

Fishing has been good all weekend at the park, the water was clear and looked great fri, and sat., but this morning the water was muddy and dark, during the night it clouded up, this happens sometimes after heavy rains in the area, and we sure had heavy rains this past week, so the water is nasty, but the trout didn't seem to care, I still had people come in and tell me they were catching trout on dry flies, caddis and cracklebacks seemed the most popular, but I had a few people tell me they were catching fish on midges. I talked to a few people that were doing well on small tungsten headed nymphs, fishing two of them at a time, the one fellow I saw that was doing the best was fishing a black #16 zebra midge with a #16 red zebra midge as his trailing fly, he was catching several fish, he had two #4 shot on and was fishing the faster water, the fish were hooking themselves most of the time. I did best today on woolybuggers, black, olive and brown. I also caught my best fish today on a glo-ball, orange/egg combo, tied on a jig hook. Here are a few pics and a video of the small dam built down by dry hollow. http://s171.photobucket.com/albums/u294/ti...ammovie2008.flv http://s171.photobucket.com/albums/u294/ti...nt=P1120006.jpg http://s171.photobucket.com/albums/u294/ti...nt=P1120007.jpg http://s171.photobucket.com/albums/u294/ti...nt=P1120015.jpg

Crane got blown out, it was the highest I've ever seen, some of the locals there told me it was as high as they had ever seen also, it looked better this evening, but it is still high, in a couple of weeks, it will be good, it will probably be good before that, it usually drops and clears pretty quick.

The dam is up, and it looks good, the extra water right now makes it look even better, the water is in great shape, fishing was easy this morning, just fished a bit, but managed a 18" rainbow, and a few smaller trout. I'll put a video on later today(youtube) for everybody to see, my computer at the shop here doen't do the upload to youtube very good. Water is clear(where they are not working) and the flow is great, the river came up about 2 feet.

Water did come up some, but we did not flood. We had 1.5" of rain and the water is still looking good. Fishing should be good tomorrow. The workers are still working on the baffles on the mid section of the river so the water may be dirty tomorrow on the mid and lower end.

Still plenty of snakes at Roaring River, there were several sunning last week when the temps were in the 70's, I've never seen snakes out in january before, but there were several times this winter when I've seen snakes sunning on the rocks in front of the lodge.

Don't know how much they got there, my shop is about 3 miles from the farm and I only got 1.5" of rain there. Areas around there did get 5+ inches. I haven't heard of any flooding on Roaring river this go around. Flat creek around Jenkins was at least 15' above normal, it was at the bottom of the old steel bridge there in town.

There were several place just a few miles of the park that more than 5" of rain fell last night, flat creek, it runs thru cassville, is over 15' higher than normal just 15 miles east of cassville, I haven't seen it that high in years. Around Monett, and purdy over 5" of rain fell, and lots of hail, so we lucked out for now.

We missed the heavy rains, I had 1.5" at the shop, the river is up a bit and a little green in color, but that is good, we could have really flooded. So we should still be in fine shape next friday, unless it gets bad the next few days. Hope everybody stayed safe.

I think we will head to the cellar a few more times tonight the way the weather looks.

There are some nice fish in the C&R area right now, a lot of them are going thru the spawning motions. It looked nasty after they started putting rock in the river this morning. The big brown last time I saw it was down near the F- hwy bridge. I have posted a video on youtube for the dam work. I'll take more pics this week when I'm in the park. Sorry the video isn't better but I'm not sure about the settings, so what you see is what you get. I don't know how high they are building the dam. I'll find out in a day or two. I'm hiding in the storm shelter right now, hope everybody else is also, sounds nasty out there. My mom and dad have been out of power for a few hrs now.

They started putting chunk rock in right below the hadicap access at the mouth of dry hollow, they said that they would be done with that today if all went well, don't know how high they will make the rock dam, but anything would help there. They will start working higher up tomorrow. fishing was really good this morning, i caught both of these out of the C&R area below dry hollow, one was 6 1/2 and one was 3 1/2, I missed several others, when I left the water was a nice dk. brown. http://s171.photobucket.com/albums/u294/ti...hollowtrout.jpg http://s171.photobucket.com/albums/u294/ti...hollowtrout.jpg Caught them both on a #16 apricot egg, with a red spot.

C&R season ends the second fri, sat, sun, and monday of febuary 2008