Geoff

bring a fork and be prepared to have a nice piece of humble pie, served up hot. They are very good at delivering that, but once you make contact and land your first one, they will eat away at your brain and drive you into an obsessive addict for catching them. i gave up on a smallmouth stream because i found a school of carp and completely 180* switched my focus

Good to see, im going to head down there mid week and give it a once over

Thanks. Only thing holding me back is the fact its a 26" fish. And if a reproduction is $10-17 an inch...yikes....it ads up quickly.

I did. Big ugly hen. Still thinking about having a reproduction made Big Rainbow by Geoff Anderson, on Flickr This one was from Kirkwood last year

I would agree with you thats a good way to spend a week off.I agree with SIO3, trout season starts in October

Walker Lake typically has some nice fish in it. They put in 3 that are considered lunkers. One of them is a dead, I saw it floating friday. Was probably about 20" and 4 pounds. It had been dead for a while, nice and rotty. I caught a 5lb fish out of there last winter, and my best one this winter yet has been about 3 lbs. Couple years ago I caught an 11lb out of one of the lakes at Busch.

All you catch at Busch is chiggers and ticks. Even in the winter

Awesome fish man!!! makes me happy to see them in there that size and in such good shape. Look into the Missouri muskie program, they will be interested in seeing what you caught it on and such

Great looking brown!! One day I hope to catch one like that ( maybe this weekend )

I know where that spot is actually!!

Estaz Grande!! https://www.feather-craft.com/wecs.php?store=feacraft&action=display&target=TD014

Are you using the regualr estaz or the large/mega stuff? they make a bigger version of it

I tagged Brain in it on bookface and told him it was just like his videos, without beer, good music and fun commentary. Music and beer would be easy, its just the time-lapse setting on my iphone camera. If I tied better flies I'd make some more but a size 10 foam hopper isnt as fun as a streamer video. haha

Um, lets try this

Tough is an understatement. Its not an easy stream to fish. My hunting property is across the road from it, and there arent the brightest of people around at times. This past Feb when I was down there, there was also some stray dogs running about freely.