Current River

[brownieman]

Fishinwrench and myself finally hooked up and frothed the water for a couple of days.

The water is back down to about normal flow, up just a tad but still a little off color. Wrench fits in fine, guess I'm the 'Freak' when it comes to traditional trout fishing...think he will verify that my unorthidox method does produce fish though.

We hit Parkers Tues. morn, the weather was desirable by my standards, overcast and spitting rain, myself not being much for the bluebird days. We did good as I was trying to locate a big one for wrench. I used my typical big rapalas and he used his fly rod. Thanks to wrench I learned more by watching and listening to his knowledge of fly fishing, bug hatches, etc. than I've ever known. I fished ahead of him trying to jerk my bait away from the fish and watch him catch em...worked fairly well just some of the fish were quicker than me. We each caught probably 15 fish or so, nothing big but several nice 12 to 16 inchers.

I gotta hand it to wrench, in my book a grand slam for him on the Current, he caught browns, bows, smallies and last but not least the infamous chub, lol. We fished to a hole where I know there are several big ones but none of them showed themselves...maybe another day.

Wed. morn we got up and hit the Tan-Vat strech. Trying to avoid the crowds we were pleased to see only one vehicle there. The weather didn't look to be as good as the previous day with the exception of warmer weather and a caddis hatch beginning. We fished for a while then the fish started surfacing taking advantage of the hatch. I only caught a few fish, stung one nice 20" plus fish but wrench had a good morning.

On one of my favorite streches at Tan-Vat he got into quite a few fish. The fish wanted nothing to do with my big minnows, they did want caddis flies so advantage to wrench.

He caught numerous fish and landed one chunk of a bow, a 21 inch football, that made his day. He took a couple of pics of the fish after a lengthy fight and turned her loose...sure was a pretty fish and I was glad to see him catch a nice one.

Any day on the river is a good day and we both enjoyed ourselves very much...was a fly fishing lesson for me and I think wrench got a kick out of watching my freak of a method of trout fishing. I believe he thought it was pretty cool the way the browns bust the larger plugs...if they don't bite it I'll piss em off till they fight it, lol.

Good luck to all this week-end and be safe on the water.

later on

[fishinwrench]

"The Odd Couple" LOL that's good ! Pretty cool what two totally different approaches can pull off when they work as a team. I seriously doubt I would have gotten half the bites I did that first day if Brownieman and his jerkbait hadn't woke them up first and caused them to give up their location. Thanks to you I now have this vision embedded in my brain of that HUGE Rapala dancing spastically in my periphial vision, and getting slammed by nice Browns It played out enough times that there's no real need to journal the trip....cuz I couldn't forget it if I tried. Thanks Man!

Here's BM winding up for the double-handed sling (the spinning rod version of a Double-Haul)...

An average Current river Brown, we had quite a few bigger ones the first day but it looked like it was gonna pour so I left the camera in the truck...

This was my best fish, taken during the caddis hatch on a #14 tan and chocolate hairwing dun (a 16-18 would have been better I think, but all caddis on the Niangua (where I usually fish dry's) are 14's and I was without a smaller one)...

And the release....

Huge thanks once again to my buddy BM for putting me up and being a super guide. Keep an eye on those Cattle

[Danoinark]

Excellent fellows. Thanks for the report and pictures. I know a bunch of us here would have loved to have been along.

Dano

[laker67]

Great report and great pics! Makes me wish I were there also. Glad you two had a good outing.

[troutfitter77]

Thanks for the Pics and report guys. Its is some much needed distraction from sitting in a hospital room with my wife today!

[flyfishmaster]

The ODD COUPLE ROCKS!!!!