Salvage Our Trip!

[Dad and Andrew]

Hello, Everyone

My son and I are coming down Monday. We have been coming the week after Easter for years.

I know when people are hurting with this kind of flooding this is sounds pretty petty, but it is snowing outside here and it has been a long winter.

We plan on going to church on Sunday eating dinner with the big family and getting a good night sleep and leaving about 4:00 am and getting there about 3:00 Monday if we can get through on 44.

We usually fish for Stripers and whites on Norfolk and then we fish the Norfolk below the dam. This is Andrew's last year to fish Dry Creek and I hope by the end of the week he can. We then fish the White below the dam, the white hole, wildcat and the mouth of the Buffalo. I can see where the Buffalo is out as well as Wildcat. We have a 17 foot bass boat and we put a 17 foot canoe on top of the truck.

We are open for anything and looking for you guys for suggestions. We fish for anything that swims but love to fish trout and whites. We are not fancy, we have slept in the back of the truck more than we care about. If we have to run (slip) up some creek arms to find clear water we are game. Tanyecomo sounds like it fishes when the water is high. I have fished at Forsythe but not with the kid. Greers is a thought, Beaver, or maybe norfork will drop but I doubt Bull Shoals or Norfolk are going down when you look at Calico and Baxter.

Just found this site and it sounds like folks are very helpful. I enjoyed the video and dug into my saving to buy the CO2 wearable vests (stopping at Basspro on the way down) for the kid and I. It sounds like the week to have them.

I am orginaly from Strawberry AR and I spoke with family and it is BAD!!! over there but everyone is safe.

Thanks

Dave (Dad) and the Kid ( Andrew)

[rainbow]

Come to Taney for the trout and stay at Lilley's. Taney fishes great on high water.

[rps]

Solid advice above. This weekend through Friday will be tough on self guided at TR, BS, and Norfolk ... even on the Norfolk below the dam. Taney won't muddy up until the TR and Beaver mess reaches there towards the end of the week, and it's less likely to be uncontrolled. I understand you wanting the boy to have a last shot at Dry Run, but if it were my father/son long distance trip, I would head for Taney.

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Hey D n A

I think Dry Run is flooded and likely to stay that way for a while. Looks like the water is up to the bottom of the walking bridge over Dry Run. Check out this site before you head there.

http://flyfishingarkansasandmissouri.yuku....ood-photos.html

Good luck but stay safe, SIO3

[twosets]

I am in St Louis and 44 is down to one lane as of right now (Friday 6:30 pm)

The river is supposed to crest tomorrow, so it ashould be back down by the time that you roll thru here.

Good Luck

[twosets]

Chech out the video of Bill & Phil fishing tany at Ozarkanglers.com

There have been some huge trout caught in the past on tany withthe flood gates open.

[bill kelley]

Looking at your driving time, I'd say your coming down from Northern Ill. 44 should be good by mon, if not, consider grabbing 100 before you go down into the valley and get back on at gray summit. I haven't been that way since I was a kid but it goes around all the lowlands. Have a good trip. I'm heading down there in 2 weeks.

[Gavin]

Upper Current below Montauk State Park is running 2.9 at the park and 3.7 down at Akers.....Its right at my upper level of fishability right know, but it should be down to a good fishing level by Monday. You can only use flies and artificials (no plastics) below the park, but you can do pretty well with rapalas and inlines when the water is up...Taney would be a good option but you will want a boat from Lilley's.

Not sure what the conditions on the White and Norfork are but you an always find a current report here.

http://flyfishingarkansasandmissouri.yuku.com/

Have a great trip!

[Dad and Andrew]

Hi Everyone,

What a great site!! Everyone is so helpful and no sniping , how refreshing. We have a duck forum sight up here that I follow and it just wears me out with all the whining.

I am retiring in a couple of years and I tell you this area has a definite nod. The Kid is looking at Missouri Science and Tech up at Rolla so it could work out well. I have three older daughters and the youngest is getting married in the fall, she just told me she and Clint are going to Big Cedar, Branson for their honeymoon, and could they take the Nitro. Now that is a marriage that is going to LAST!! Of course she is getting married on opening day of duck season so it's not a perfect marriage!

Well we are packing and here looks like the plan:

Stop at Lilley's landing and get the scoop and pick up some scud flies and egg flies. I have a few bead head scuds but I don't know the size or exactly the drop weight system for high water.

Start of at Tany drifting below the dam using the NItro which seems a little weird (wear our new life jacket).

Look at Swan and Beaver for any whites later in the week. Anyone think that is possible I don't know how quick those streams drop or clear

Try Table Rock for bass around Picnic tables and Trees

Try Beaver for Stripers if it clears at all maybe the upper arms? Do the stripers try to make a run to spawn like they do at Norfolk.

Any other ideas ( the kid is a perfect partner fish, eat, sleep a little is the perfect trip) when we get back I will give a report with pics.

If any of you guys see us ( green and silver Rick Clunn Nitro) Green Traiblazer stop by and say hi.

Thanks

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Good luck, I wish I was going fishing.

SIO3