Fishing Report 3/27

[Tailwater]

Put in at Hammond and floated down to some nice riffles around Rainbow Spring. It poured rain the night before, so the water was running well. I tied on an olive mohair leech, fished it deep, and caught seven nice fish, all over 12 inches and brightly colored. Biggest one was about 17 inches and had me dancing down the river just to keep up. I was really glad I was fishing a 4X leader, or he would have broken me off. Always heard this river had great fish, and am very thankful I decided to float even with the water up. I'm even more glad that my wife was patient and let me fish while she read a book in the canoe!

[Kyle Kosovich]

I agree it was a great day on the river!

I took a father and his two sons, 10yrs and 6yrs old, on the North Fork for a ecological fishing trip on Friday too. We caught all kinds of great bugs, saw many types of birds, and caught smallmouth, rainbows, and goggle eye all on the fly rod. It was a great time for everyone, except the crawdads

My North Fork Trout Fishing Report

I had a feeling it would be a great weekend to catch trout on the North Fork. The moon was a waxing crescent, the water was up from the spring rains, and a front was stalled on the Ozarks and getting ready to dump on us.

It seemed to turn out that way too, because the fish ate about anything you would soak in the water. Woolly buggers, caddis emergers, soft hackles, stoneflys, mohair leaches, and pheasant tails all caught fish. Riffles were yielding 8 or more fish each! It was great!

Got'a love spring!