duckydoty

Welcome aboard. Frank! Looking forward to your reports

Awesome fish!

Welcome to the forum. You should do well at Taney on the upper end if there is some time with no generation. The sun is out, it will warm up nice, and some of the crowd will be at the trout parks today. Midges should work great!

Those are some spectacular fish for Crane. The mature males will start to get a hook on thier bottom jaw. It is called a kype. You have definately got to be a little on the sneaky side to get the bigger ones on Crane.

Many great rivers to choose from in this area. The Eleven Point, North Fork of the White, the Current River, Niangua River, Buffalo, the James River and the Elk River are all good ones with outfitters. I'm partial to the North Fork of the White, but the wife likes the Buffalo.

Lots of great bank fishing from the Empire Beach side. You might want to bring waders to expand your fishing area a little. Be careful wading down there, it is rough. Fishing for trout on the fly rod, I would throw midges, sow bugs, soft hackles, and pine squirrel sculpins. Spinning gear for walleyes, whites and bass, I would throw swimming minnows, Berkley Power Bait Gulp Alive 3 inch minnows, and Sliders on 1/8 oz. jig heads with 4 to 6 pound test. My favorite colors for these are pearl, smoke, purple, and smelt. I usually bite the first 1/2 inch off the sliders to shorten them just a little. Rooster Tails will also work. Same lures for spinning gear at Swan and Beaver. Swan is the little creek that you go over just heading East and down the hill from Forsythe. You can fish the confluence of Swan and Bull Shoals. You can also fish Bull Creek. It is the first creek you pass over on hwy F coming from Hwy 65 towards Forsythe. There is parking just behind the gas station where you can access the creek. There is some pretty good trout fishing there this time of year and it is a great alternative when they are generating water on Taney. Welcome to the area! Lots of great places for you to start exploring. Hope to see you on the water.

Try fishing right below the dam. Great place to fly fish or spin fish. I have caught rainbow trout and brown trout there on the fly rod along with walleye, small mouth, large mouth, spots, and white bass on spinning gear. Shadow Rock Park on Swan Creek is another good place to fish both fly rods and spinning gear. It wont be long and Shadow Rock will look like a trout park, just as soon as the whites move in there. If you drive a little further past Forsythe you can fish Beaver Creek at Slough Hollow. Another great place to fish both spinning gear and fly rods. I have caught trout in there this time of year and it is a great place to catch walleye. Lots of bass up there too.

You gonna throw a sinking line or sinking leader this time. Purple and pink, or grey and purple. Red eyes or yellow. Front of the boat or back. Beaver or Swan....or James. Should we wait untill the storm is over, or go ahead and just fish through the lightning. Why is everybody leaving? You shure there is a road under all that water? I wonder if my tires a gonna be flat when I get back to my truck....who cares, we're fishing right now! It's just a carp!

Peak rotary, and Renzetti Travelers are about the best bang for the buck.

Whats all that white stuff on the ground? Nice fish. What was it caught on?

Lakeside Resort located on Coney Island at the end of DD, between Kimberling City and Indian Point, is only 30 minutes from the dam. Just about all cabins are right on the lake, taking in consideration for Corps. land, of course. Nice dock that is swimmer friendly, general store with good food. Rick and Stephanie Kettells own it. Tell them I recommended it to you. www.Lakesideresort.net 417-338-2442

Dont forget your spot light and pistol. Watch out for them 100 pound raccoons and take a lightning rod!

River of Life-Brian Wise. Knows the river better than anyone else I've ever fished with over there.

Fear of not being able to ID the fish cant be the reason why the MDC does not keep the season open for them because the MDC is already assuming you can ID them by upping the limit on the spots to 12 in aggregate and only 6 LM. If you can ID them well enough to keep 12 spots in certain areas and only 6 LM, then you can ID them well enough to keep them during the spawn, without keeping LM or SM.

All of the above...Can't pick just one, and to me, it just wouldn't be fishing if I didn't have the option of all of them.

Should be able to catch some walleye and sauger (mostly sauger) below Alton Lock and Dam. Also below the old Chain of Rocks Bridge on the Illinois side. I don't know if they still allow you to fish for sauger there or not? You will also need an Illinois fishing license to fish there. Spoonbill season is getting ready to start on March 15th. Below Alton Lock and Dam is a good place for spoonbill also. The big head carp will move up below the dam so thick you can almost walk on them soon too. They are fun on light tackle and 1/8th oz jigs. White bass will be moving up the Cuiver River and into the back side of Howell Island in a couple of weeks. Howell Island is down by Gumbo Flats....Chesterfield Bottoms. In April, when the Missouri River comes way up, Howell Island is another good spot for spoonbill. The smaller ponds and lakes at Bush Wildlife have produced up to 8+ pound bass for me this time of year on the warmer days. Then there is always the cat fishing on the big rivers. Below locks and dams, again Howell island and anywhere you can get into the deeper holes. Also when the rivers come up into the trees on the levees is my favorite time to get in a canoe and run limb lines. I've caugh several 40-60 blues and flat heads doing that. Those big guys are fun to wrestle with every now and then. Good luck to you. Theres lots of fishing opportunities in your area.

I'd be willing to bet, if you compensate mic well enough he might not post reports on your favorite streams. Otherwise keep posting your reports mic from the waters you get the chance to fish and I will do the same.

Look at the post just above yours. The 1st picture is the incicator caddis....indy caddis

You can try a double surgeons knot like you are tying on an extra piece of tippet. Leave a short tag to tie your indicator dry fly on, the extra tippet section will be for your dropper.

You just posted a report on fishing Crane Friday. Another 40 minutes of driving and you could be at the Dewey Short Visitors Center. Make a day of it fishing Crane and then hit the meeting. The MDC is looking for everyones input on how to stop the "rock snot." This is everyones chance to be heard on wether this or that is not fair. Heck, let me know if your coming this way. I'll grill up some duck poppers for lunch!

There is only one way to find out and that is to show up at the meeting. No since in guessing what is going to happen.....Show up and lets hear your input there.

It is hard for me to pick just one. To me, they are all cool in thier own way, each stream producing it ownd unique personal experience. I use to think, when I was 10, that Montauk and the Current River was the coolest river on earth. I cut my trout teeth there in the early 80's. I've had a passion for Lake Taneycomo since about the age of 15 or 16 afer reading and article in one of those outdoor magazines. So much of a passion that I moved to this area to be closer to Lake Taneycomo. Growing up, and even in middle age, I found other wonderful streams in Missouri to fish that have all produced fond memories, such as the 5 pound small mouth I caught in Patty Creek as a boy scout, fishing on NFoW with Randy Hanner and Brian Wise was a spectacular day, stalking McClouds on Crane Creek, C&R season with friends at Roaring River. Then, I made my first trip to Alaska. Alaska is cool in it's own way. Not being the top of the food chain puts a new perspective on fishing. At first the bears were intimidating, but not so much anymore. There have been several times while fishing in the Bush of Alaska that I have come face to face with brown bears. I have a great love for the Naknek River in Alaska. I caught my first of several 30 inch rainbows on the Naknek River with the largest being 36 inches caught last year. There are several other streams and rivers in Alaska where the scenery is spectacular and the fishing is even better. The Kulik River is a small river only about 1 1/2 miles long in the mountains connecting two lakes and holding schools of rainbows unlike I have ever seen before. Each school will hold 200-300 fish that will be 25-30 inches long. The Ugashik Narrow is another wonderful place where you can catch Arctic Char up to 36 inches long all day one after another. Brooks Falls is, of course, a wonderful experience. Battle River, where I once counted 59 brown bears coming through a 1/2 mile section of the river in one day. I also caught a 22 inch greyling there along with all the 25-27 inch bow you could shake a stick at, along with dolley varden and even a Lake Trout. Like I said, it would be tough for me to pick one particular "coolest" stream.

The MDC will be hosting a series of "Open House Forums" during the months of March and Aprill 2011. The topic will be Didymo or "rock snot" and invasive alga that can form large thick mats on the bottom of streams smothering aquatic life vital to the food chain that supports fish. Didymo has been found just south of our border in the White River in Arkansas. Preventing the spread of this invasive species is critical to the health of Missoui's streams. Equipment such as kayaks, lifejackets, and felt soled waders are the most likely way for Didymo to spread. The Department of Conservation is considering potential regulation changes to prevent the spread of this invasive alga. Your input in this process is important. You are invited to attend one of the meetings to learn more about this threat and what you can do to help prevent it from spreading to Missouri streams. Montauk State Park Seacy Building Tuesday March 15 at 6 p.m. Bennett Spring State Park Bennet Spring Hatchery Building Monday March 21 at 6 p.m. Sheperd of the Hills Hatchery Lake Taneycomo Sheperd of the Hills Hatchery Saturday March 26 1 p.m. Roaring River State Park Emory Melton Inn and Conference Center Thursday April 7 6 p.m. Maramec Spring Park James Memeorial Library Meeting Rm. 300 w. Scioto, St. James Monday April 11 6 p.m.

Those are some nice fish. Sometimes I feel like Dick Tracy with the cell phones, computers, and 4G.

My wife and I were fishing on Taney one time just below the Rocking Chair on the North side. We were catching fish, but just not hammering them when this fella comes fishing through on the South side. Now, he in no way crowded us or invaded what we felt was our personal space, but he was absolutely slaying the fish on every single cast. As he came through I noticed he was fishing an indy rig just like we were. He paused in front of us and picked up a couple of fish then hollered over that he was catching them on a small olive jig. We immeadiately switched to micro jigs and started killing them! Thanks whoever you were. You made a great day into a spectacular day.