gotmuddy

What an awesome weekend. For sure it was hot. For sure my legs are on fire from all the darn steps.😗 Great food like always, amazing comradery. To be honest, I preferred it when we had no wifi or cell service, thursday/friday night everyone was sitting around BS'ing instead of watching screens, regardless it was still an awesome time. Thursday evening fishing was trash. friday morning Rob, Ray, and I went to the bottom of rim and I caught back to back fish my first two casts. fishing was fair until around 11 then we went to crooked creek to cool off and do some wading. Ray caught some nice smallies. Saturday fishing sucked until we took the boat down and Brandon caught that 21" brown

you can put in at kelly ford but its hard to find

thats alot of water to try to cover and fish, it would be a full day for sure depending on how high the water level is.

yah, that was the year @Daryk Campbell Sr and I fished with @Seth. We absolutely destroyed the fish.

yah, in fact we fished with them open at jigfest a few years ago.

all gates open .5ft

QB is right. Thats why Norfork is currently 1ft from the top of flood pool. water may go over the top of the gates if we get another big rain

the yellow is sunburst, and the lines kinda show how runoff from west planes funnels towards the ranch.

cloud 9 ranch is east of Gainesville, MO. As the crow flies, it is about 5 miles east of Sunburst ranch on the NFoW. Spring creek which comes into the NFoW .5miles below sunburst starts at cloud 9. The majority of the flooding is water from West Plains, which runs thru cloud 9 ranch.

Cloud 9 has been pummeled all spring. we had a flood that matched the 2017 flood already, and in the last two weeks had two more floods. This past weekend its been just as bad. It feels like the creek will never come back down.

awesome report, and thank you for sharing it with us. those are memories that you will carry for a lifetime

shoot, there arent enough trout in there to sustain stripers for more than a day or two. that river has more crawfish in it than any river I have ever seen though

they go up the lake to north fork of the white and decimate the crawfish

cloud 9 got hit pretty hard. the crossing accross the creek got pretty tore up

yeah.