Greer To Turner 8/14 (take 2)

[hunter@heart]

My 12 yr son and myself are going to give the Eleven Point another try on Friday. Last trip got cancelled because of a big rain. I am looking forward to floating the river, catching some nice trout, watching my son catch alot of fish (hopefully), and getting to spend a great day on the river with my son by ourselves. This will be his first float flyfishing trip. He has gone flyfishing with me before, but we have never done the float trip before. He is very excited and so am I. Hope to have a report for you after Friday.

Matt

[Forsythian]

Way to go Matt... I'm anxious to hear about your experience.

I have a 14 year old son, and like yours he has flyfished at the parks and the tailwaters, but I've yet to take him on the 11pt. I hope to change that this October, when we plan to spend 2 days on the stretch from Greer to Turner.

Best of luck to you and your boy.

Ken

[ozark trout fisher]

My 12 yr son and myself are going to give the Eleven Point another try on Friday. Last trip got cancelled because of a big rain. I am looking forward to floating the river, catching some nice trout, watching my son catch alot of fish (hopefully), and getting to spend a great day on the river with my son by ourselves. This will be his first float flyfishing trip. He has gone flyfishing with me before, but we have never done the float trip before. He is very excited and so am I. Hope to have a report for you after Friday.

Matt

You'll have fun. I fished there this July, and we slayed 'em. Lots of good sized rainbows to be caught in both the fast and slow water. The bonus is that the scenery is truly world class.

[hunter@heart]

Well, we had a great trip. Didn't just wear the fish out, but Kalum got to catch plenty. Left at around 8 a.m. and got to Turner's around 6 pm. The weather was great and the river as beautiful. Kalum and I had a great day. He probably go to land a dozen or more nice trout. No monsters, but they were around 14 inches. We caught every fish on an egg pattern, though we were fishing with both stoneflies and crawdad patterns as well. We fished pretty hard. I spent the first half of the day just letting Kalum fish while I helped him work his casting and presentation. He really got a blast out of doing by himself the last half of the day with no help from Dad. Again, we got a canoe from Brian at Eleven Point Canoe Rental. He runs a great operation. Tito at the shop even gave me one of his crawdad patterns he had tied to try out. Brian and a guide trip on the river and we passed by him early in the day. Even with paying customers he gave us some tips on what to use and what to do when we went by. Brian is really a first class guy. I really appreciated the information since I wanted this to be a great day for my son.

Just couldn't ask for a better day.

Here are some photos from the trip.

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[Tito Degiosio]

Well, we had a great trip. Didn't just wear the fish out, but Kalum got to catch plenty. Left at around 8 a.m. and got to Turner's around 6 pm. The weather was great and the river as beautiful. Kalum and I had a great day. He probably go to land a dozen or more nice trout. No monsters, but they were around 14 inches. We caught every fish on an egg pattern, though we were fishing with both stoneflies and crawdad patterns as well. We fished pretty hard. I spent the first half of the day just letting Kalum fish while I helped him work his casting and presentation. He really got a blast out of doing by himself the last half of the day with no help from Dad. Again, we got a canoe from Brian at Eleven Point Canoe Rental. He runs a great operation. Tito at the shop even gave me one of his crawdad patterns he had tied to try out. Brian and a guide trip on the river and we passed by him early in the day. Even with paying customers he gave us some tips on what to use and what to do when we went by. Brian is really a first class guy. I really appreciated the information since I wanted this to be a great day for my son.

Just couldn't ask for a better day.

Here are some photos from the trip.

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pic 2

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pic 4

Good to hear that you and Kalum got to land some fish

having good father and son fish day can be a lifetime memory

I'm headed out this morning to do some fishing of my own

hoping to break my personal record but don't we all

I'll leave a report later on how my day goes

[ozark trout fisher]

Well, we had a great trip. Didn't just wear the fish out, but Kalum got to catch plenty. Left at around 8 a.m. and got to Turner's around 6 pm. The weather was great and the river as beautiful. Kalum and I had a great day. He probably go to land a dozen or more nice trout. No monsters, but they were around 14 inches. We caught every fish on an egg pattern, though we were fishing with both stoneflies and crawdad patterns as well. We fished pretty hard. I spent the first half of the day just letting Kalum fish while I helped him work his casting and presentation. He really got a blast out of doing by himself the last half of the day with no help from Dad. Again, we got a canoe from Brian at Eleven Point Canoe Rental. He runs a great operation. Tito at the shop even gave me one of his crawdad patterns he had tied to try out. Brian and a guide trip on the river and we passed by him early in the day. Even with paying customers he gave us some tips on what to use and what to do when we went by. Brian is really a first class guy. I really appreciated the information since I wanted this to be a great day for my son.

Just couldn't ask for a better day.

Here are some photos from the trip.

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pic 2

pic 3

pic 4

Sounds like a great trip... The Eleven Point is about the perfect river in my opinion. There are plenty of fish, and the scenery is the best you'll find in the midwest. By far.

[Brian Sloss]

Thanks for the kind words, glad you had a good time.

[Tito Degiosio]

Good to hear that you and Kalum got to land some fish

having good father and son fish day can be a lifetime memory

I'm headed out this morning to do some fishing of my own

hoping to break my personal record but don't we all

I'll leave a report later on how my day goes

part 2 @ eleven point

caught some nice fish this morning 6:00 am to 9:00 am NO records broken but some nice fish were caught

numbers were low but what lacked in numbers made up for in size and fight

headed off to the spring river for a afternoon get away caught a few there for a slippery two hours then back to the

homestead over all A great day.

stoneflies big and juicy for the eleven point and peacock stone on the spring is what I used but I recomend

stopping in the the local fly shop and talking with Mark and getting some of his flies He ties some great looking flies

by the way don't slap the bee on him IT"S NOT REAL ! haha