Fishing Report

[Sam Potter]

Fishing Report July 1

The upper river continues to run well and clear. The fishing has been very good with a variety of flies catching fish. The Trico spinner fall is starting a little after 6:00, but the pods are still spotty. If you can find a good pod you should be able to fish it for a couple of hours providing you don't wade into the middle of it and spook the fish. When you hook a feeder the rest of the pod will drop to the bottom for a few minutes, but they will return to their feeding if you don't spook them. The caddis are still popping sporadically throughout the day, with no major hatch occurring. The yellow stones are just about gone, but I see one every now and then. We caught some good fish this week, with a couple going 22+, but like I said before we used a variety of flies and really did not find a single pattern that was better than the others we used. We can catch the rainbows on just about anything, but we are after the browns, the larger ones, and that has been the challenge. I am starting to see some small hoppers, so I guess I will get out my #12s and begin to test them along the grassy banks. After this week, it can't hurt to try something else, to find a pattern that will out produce the ones we have been using.

It looks like a hot and crowded weekend. Share the water and respect the water someone else is fishing. Have a good weekend and enjoy the Great Ozark streams.

"A bad day fishing is still a Great Day"

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