Weekend Report

[ozark trout fisher]

I got down to Montauk around 1 PM on Saturday- campground was full, so I had to spend the first hour or so finding a place down in the Riverways to set up camp. I saw on the way down there things looked pretty tough- the river was muddy, not just off color. I finally finished setting up camp and then headed down to Baptist Camp. As I said, the water was muddy, but after looking at it closely, I saw there was about 1 foot of visibility and the wading wasn't all that difficult. I rigged up with an orange glo-bug and a strike indicator about 6 feet up. I noticed that I was the only one fishing.

I fished long and hard, but it was pretty slow. Just as I was about to bag it though, I managed to get a pretty 14" bow, which is more than I had honestly expected given the water conditions.

After the slow fishing yesterday, I decided to head up to the park this morning. So I woke up for the buzzer and headed for the fly area above the old mill dam. The water was still quite off-color, but noticeably more clear than the day before-that may have been due to location of the river dropping overnight-probably a combination of both. I once again tied on an orange egg pattern under and indicator, and managed to catch and release five rainbows before noon. It was very slow by trout park standards, but you're happy with anything you get when the water is flowing like that. Finally, it just got too hot to be standing there in waders, so I headed back. In all, not a bad weekend at all-the fishing was slow, but that'll happen.

[Predator1]

Sounds like you had a great time. Its about that time for our annual float. We usually put in at Akers Ferry.

[ozark trout fisher]

Sounds like you had a great time. Its about that time for our annual float. We usually put in at Akers Ferry.

It was certainly a good time.

Good luck on your float.