Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted November 30, 2005 Root Admin Share Posted November 30, 2005 Fished this afternoon with friends from StL - Jim, Jim, Dave & Dave- father/son teams. They come down every time this year and let the wives shop while they fish all week. Jim VanDerhaar Sr. is an avid bow hunter and hold several Missouri State Competition crowns in archery. Said his furthest kill is 65 yards... wow! Anyhow, we headed upstream in their Bennington pontoon for a 2 hr trip starting at 1 pm. Bill Babler had a trip this am and said the trout were "feeding like crazy" in the trophy area. The water ran fairly hard this am- he drifted olive micro jigs under an indicator. The water was off by 2 pm- we stopped the boat just below Fall Creek. The guys started with power eggs... a white and a pink ball and they had fish on immediately. Someone asked about browns and I said to tie on a medium rapala and bam.. they caught trout, no browns though. I tied on a 1/80th oz jig under a float and played around a bit but I kept busy netting trout and tying on hooks. When we got down to Short Creek (the wind had pushed us there by 3 pm), I got alittle more serious seeing rainbows midging like crazy around the bar. I tied on a jig for Jim Jr and then the others- Jim and I caught trout after trout for 15 minutes. Jig- orange head and either brown or sculpin marabou. The rainbows are dark cause the water is dark right now... but some were males coming into spawn. Caught quite a few 13-14 inch rainbows and all of them were fat-thick trout. Fought good and hard- the DO must be holding up good in the area which is good. Talked to some guys staying here who fished yesterday in the wind... said they had a real good day. I know they throw jigs under a float but didn't get any details. Braving that wind and cold is one thing but catching fish in it is another... good for them!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
97procraft Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 Phil, I am planning on coming down this weekend. How much water do you think they will be running. I am debating on bringing my boat or not. What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin Phil Lilley Posted November 30, 2005 Author Root Admin Share Posted November 30, 2005 If they run water is will be alittle bit in the mornings... but I doubt if they run any Saturday or Sunday. Chance of generation - 10% (my guess). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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