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Thanks guys for the comments, regardless how many fish or how big, a bad day out there beats any day here at work. Gavin I am def going to try some terrestrials up on top, thinking with being so low and clear opposite bank with a terrestrial might be one of our best bets in certain areas. We shall see, I will let you guys know how it goes. Thanks as always!

Two buddies and I are heading down 2nd weekend in Oct, staying at reeds and fishing out side of the park. We are thinking about trying parker out for the first time, as we have fished baptist, tan vat, and from line down many many times. Hows the water down that way, is there a good amount of runs or holes to fish? We drove down once, but didn't get to fish it. Thanks guys any suggestions or other access that may be good this time of the year would be great. As always we C&R and just out for some time away.

Hey guys, its been awhile since my last post on here. I am looking for a few decent spots to put my little 14ft jon boat in. I dont mind eletric only lakes. I live in the st. Louis area, any suggestions would be great, my Dad has been wanting to spend some time with me on the ole job boat and looking for areas. I mainly practice c&r. Thanks in advance guys!

I have a 2 year old pair of cabelas waders I bought as a spare. They came with felt sole on the boots and I was wondering if anyone knows where I can purchase replacement rubber soles to put in place of the felt. I have google searched lightly and have found nothing really more than companies willing to charge to do it for you, around $80. Which is just under what I paid for the waders. Any info would be great, Thanks guys.

Heading down next week, anyone been on the river lately?

or reeds cabins right outside the park, they have a few cabins open during the winter, plus I dont know about countryside inn but I do know (correct me if I am wrong) that most of montauks cabins do not have a stove microwave fridge ect. in them and reeds has all of that.

no, the mac just sucks

saw two that size last year at the first boulder set below the wire, there were back in a drain ditch right off the stream.

I fished down from the park sat morning, even though there are no cicadas in the water they still were willing to strike.. I decided to tie on a cicada pattern around 10 while i was walking back up and I had 7 strikes, only managed to hook one though on it...which is my fault for getting to excited and trying to set hook to soon. but they will take em right now for sure.

Gavin do you have more info on this troutbust? where are u guys putting in at to float?

Wondering how crowded u guys think it will be with the troutbust going on, also anyone been there in the past day or two are the cicadas starting to take off witht his warm weather?

Gavin, have any of the trees in the boulder area up from tan vat been moved or completely washed out?

im pretty sure if we go back about 9 pages of nit picking this all started because a fat rainbow was caught and kept INSIDE OF THE PARK. Thats what they are there for. Anyway, I will be posting a report from last weekend in a day or two with pics and all, a little something for all you boys on here that appreciate em. If you dont appreciate em, please do me a favor and everyone else on here that looks forward to reports and pics, and dont even open my post, cant take all this nonsense.

camp grounds dont look to booked up at all...we are staying at reeds and are the onlys ones so far this weekend staying there..i know there is a rally car race in salem this weekend...hope that draws the crowds away from the stream. I plan on fishing outside the park most likely from the wire down to tan vat

heading down to fish this weekend....anybody seen the water since all this rain. I noticed the gage has shot up pretty nice...do you guys think it will be muddy? i hope not.

I am just wondering if fishing from the outside the park on down stream to any of the acceses will be a very busy

Thats what your supposed to do...nothing angry there just the number one rule with asian carp...catch and kill

I looked at the gage last night...looks like ill be heading down next weekend....think it will be a busy weekend with opeing day on tues?

I hear ya, my two buddies and i are still kicking ourselves for letting the ol ladies know about the tower at montauk. Used to just call them once a day from pay phone in park. now its free game and no escape.

Hudsons Corner? Iv never heard that before. What part of the stream are you talking about.

I do believe we saw a few. With the water so slow it was pretty easy to stay for the most part out of the water ( and out of the redds that we may or may not have noticed).

Two buddies and I had the fever and needed to get out. The weather was looking to be cold and it sure was. We tried something new and stayed at reeds cabins (which was great). We fished the two boulder sections below the park, a few of the wholes at baptist, and a little at tan vat. Fishing was slow all weekend, most fish caught were on size 16-20 zebra midges, nymphs, and brassies various colors of each. My best fish was a very nice male rainbow caught at the first deep log hole at the start of the second set of boulders. Caught him on a glo yarn streamer deal I tie, That always manages to catch a few when all else fails. All in all between fishing in the extreme cold and the down time throwing back a few beers and some dark honey it was a great trip. When I say extreme cold I mean it, any part of our waders that were not in the stream were frozen in seconds during the morning. We all had our reels freeze solid a few times, and frozen guides was a norm. heres a pic of my trips best. enjoy! Sorry if pic is large, try right clicking on it and selecting open link in new tab...internet explorer should resize it for ya.

lovin it Gavin....looks like you boys do it right....where do you get all the wood?..haul it with you? or harvest downed logs

Welcome aboard....you will end up loving this forum if you already don't. plenty of seasoned fishermen on here that are always willing to give advice. Post some questions you may have or just things your not a 100% about you will get the answers you looking for. ....were abouts are you in st.louis if you dont mind me asking

Just looking at tightline.biz and he said "Very few bugs on the cold days, but the possibility of some good hatches on the warm sunny days. The primary insect in the winter is the midge. Look for them in and around areas where the sun is shining on the water and along the banks"....anyone have any idea on water color these "midges" may be this time of year?.