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Jason Daniels caught this out of the C&R area last week, nice brown, it was 24" long and was around 8lbs, nice fat crawdad eating brown. http://s171.photobucket.com/albums/u294/ti...eleasebrown.jpg Jason caught the fish on a ginger woolybugger, #10 size I think he said.

I tie a very sparse #24 for myself, and it works pretty good, a #26 is fine to but I cant't sell them very well people are afraid of the small flies like that. The pecker gnat is working as good as always, I use them a lot and in the evening they will catch a lot of fish for me here at the park, I do well with them at bennett also, anytime there are midges on the water they seem to work.

Yes every morning right now, from daylight to about 9:00 a.m. tie em small #22's and #24's seem best to me, but a 20 will catch some.

Sounds good, but it is not a creek where more than one can fish eaisly, we will have to fish each pool one to a person, if 3 people walk up to one of the pools the fish will shut off for a week and go to the bottom like a sucker, it is better fished one at a time, but one can sneak up on the pool and the other fisherman can stand back and watch, and you need drab clothing, nothing shiny. I will probably fish there again on tuesday or next friday early in the morning, those are the only times I get to fish crane except after work sometimes and in the winter I'll fish a few hrs at a time over there, I like this time of year best the hundred of snakes keep the weak of heart out of there, sometimes I'll see 30 or 40 snakes a trip, and big snakes two, they could be man eaters LOL I wish there were more snakes at taney, snakes that would eat herons.

Thanks, but I gave him Jeff's # first thing. Just looking for some more #'s incase Jeff is busy.

I need some #'s of Bass guides on this end of the lake, I have customer who wants to fish the white river end of table rock, send me those #'s and I'll pass them on to my customer, this is not for fly fishing, he wants a regular baitcasting trip. Thank you.

Yes crane creek can be tough, I fished there 11 times before I caught a nice trout, and I finally have them sort of figured out, but sometimes they are hard to catch, the water was up a bit this morning and that helps, I love to fish crane after a rain, you don't know what you might catch, I've seen fish on crane that would go 26" easy, but only twice have I seen fish that large, one was above town and the other below town, the area I fished this moning was the area below the dairy farm, the last conservation area, the third wire road access. This was public land I was on today, I have a few private areas I fish on crane also, but today it was there, I was about 300 yds from the truck, only about a 5 minute walk through the brush. caught the trout on a #8 possum leech and 5X tippet. The fish hit almost at my feet, he really fought well in that high water.

Crane was good this morning, I drive over crane nearly every day and I enjoy the little creek, so I had an hour to kill this morning, started fishing at 6:30, it was sure quite this morning, but I did manage to catch this nice trout about 14" and one smaller trout and missed two more, they were small ones, the ones you don't see are always small http://s171.photobucket.com/albums/u294/ti...nt=P6290017.jpg http://s171.photobucket.com/albums/u294/ti...nt=P6290015.jpg http://s171.photobucket.com/albums/u294/ti...nt=P6290019.jpg

Terry, I'm glad you are listening to good radio in the morning.

You should have a good time, I fished Bennett for about 4 hrs today, and it was great fishing, lots of fish in the water, I fished mainly from the hwy bridge by the hatchery down to the hatchery outlet, caught a bunch of fish on black beetles, size #12's and caught a bunch on apricot glo-balls they were small #18's I think, and I had tied them with tungsten heads, they sank fast, and did pretty well on a #14 black ant. I caught maybe 30 fish total, 5 of them were fat little browns, there are a lot of browns in that area. Water was clear, I could see about 7 feet down at the bridge, and I was sight fishing the glo-ball, so you should have a great day on fridsay.

Water is still a little below normal and clear. I took a new fisherman out today, 10 years old, and in less than an hour he had landed 4 rainbows by himself, we caught them on WD-40's (brown # 18's) and on small pheasant tails, #18's also, 6X tippet and we fished them about 18" under a palsa float, he hooked up about 12 times and managed to land those 4, he did very well for his first time out.

I have a 8'8" 3pc Scott Heliply fly rod for sale, it is in New condition with original unsigned warranty card, so the life time warranty is good for whom ever buys the rod. It has been fished only once. $300.00, this rod sold new for almost $600.00 This is a personal sale not a shop sale, I just don't need this rod any longer, it is one of my personal rods. It is not a guide rod.

Hotels, I wish we camped most of the time. These were big units used in campgrounds and some of the hike into huts had smaller units, the bigger units supplied to bathrooms, of about 8 stalls each (showers) mens, womens. The same unit was used in some of the public bath houses we visited, they are big into using that sort of stuff over there, lots of natural gas stoves, heater and the such. Most campground had these units, they worked well, have no idea what they would cost, and you didn't mention how big a heater you were talking about. We always had hot water, you had to let it run about 30 seconds and then you had all the hot water you needed.

We used those a lot when we were in New Zealand, they were very popular and could be used in areas where there was no electric. I thought they were great.

You are right people don't take the time to just enjoy anymore, I get a lot of enjoyment out of just sitting in the canoe or kayak and catching bluegill, and they taste better to me than trout.

I have a hobie cat, and My shorts and sandles are even cheaper than waders and that is what I use most, this time of year, so your waders are much more expesive I haven't used waders since april, except at taney to cold down there with out them.

You can get a tent site at Roaring river about anytime, but if you want electric you are right it is problably to late, call the Roaring River resort, they have the campground here behind the shop, their # is 417-847-3235 Mark should be able to help you if he has anything available, there are a few more, but I don't have their #'s handy.

My neighbors are mostly envious of my 10' canoe and my kayak. Their bass boats cost much more to run.

I drove over it today, it is clear and stil a bit high, should be good fishing.

Call Jerry at 417-847-2430, Jerry is the Hatchery mangager at Roaring river, and he lives at capps creek, he can tell you exactlty the water level, I'll guess it is still a bit high, they got a lot of water over that way, but call and ask for Jerry Dean.

Sorry about that, didn't see the part about you not tying, PM me your address and I'll send you a few to get you by till you start tying or find some up your way, I have a few zillion tied up.

I just tie my own, they are so easy and cheap to tie, buy some bodies and have at it, when you are down, later this month I have a few bodies in black I sell, but you can make your own out of about any closed cell foam, I have made some neat ones out of just old flip flops, they float well and are very hard to tear up. I also make them out of open cell foam, sponge will work, these sink slow and sometimes the gills just tear them up, I caught to green sunfish yesterday over 10" and one of them I caught on a sinking spider type of fly, tied with yellow sponge, and black legs.

Center city marine in Springfield has always treated me right. They are good people. Here is their link. http://www.centercitymarine.com/

We got us a black bear here at Roaring River this summer, it destroyed two of my neighbors bee hives last week. He put some electric fence up trying to save the last hive, so far the bear has not been back, or at least not past the fence

Yeh at taney I use the 10ft 3wt, and here at the river I use the smaller 5 and 6 ft rods, sometimes I'll use the long 7' rod I use the 10' 3 wt for bluegill also, it will throw a #8 bugger or a pretty big popper.