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We stayed in the bunk lodge at Riley's outfitters this weekend and absolutely loved it.

absolutely stellar writeup which really shows the important things...living in the moment, comradery, family...those are the important things. love the bit about Gavin, thats great

awesome report. I have never been, but have always thought about going.

bitsy tubes and grubs work about 100% of the time on CC.

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your best bet is to get a buddy from arkansas get a title for you 😎

Sorry, that was what the corps of engineers(not the state) told us years ago when we were looking at a project with the creek.

Unrelated to where your going but relevant because its in the same state....Spring creek starts on Cloud 9 ranch in ozark county, on private property, and flows into the NFoW. According to the state, the area below what we call the "tubes" is designated as a navigable waterway, and the section above it is not.

Thats wild...and could be very dangerous.

yah its a bit much. no issues holding in 5mph current. I gave $600 for it on FB marketplace

im a lefty

36v ulterra here, mounted to far to starboard on a 1648. no affect compared to being in the middle imo

same

I floated from blair to patrick friday, water is plenty high so you can cover distance easy. Above rainbow springs you should be able to catch quite a few warm water species. Mckee bridge is gone so no possible issues with portage. Also there is campsites at blair.

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