Bssp Nicknames

[mic]

I'm familiar with the park and stream, but not the nick names of all the holes. Can someone layout the nick names from the spring to the river? If yes, it will help me (and others) keep up with the jargon.

[fishinwrench]

Noway ! That's cheatin'

[snagged in outlet 3]

Big blue Pipe Hole!!!

Nuff said!

SIO3

[laker67]

I will start at the spring and work my way down to the whistle bridge.

Spring hole, guage tower, #1 wing dam, pipe hole, rock dam, blue hole, #2 wing dam, #3 wing dam, sycamore shoal, sycamore hole, dam hole, bridge hole, bridge shoal, big blue pipe hole formerly high bank hole, king fisher flat, rock hole, state record rock, bluff hole, hatchery outlet, Johnson county hole, and whistle bridge. SIO3 gets credit for renaming the high bank hole. I will let someone else map out zone 3.

[mic]

big blue pipe hole formerly high bank hole. LOL

Thanks, I was able to follow and visualize 90% of those. I'll walk the creek and figure the rest out later.

[Wayne SW/MO]

The hole below the dam is often known as the Apron hole and the hole between the hatchery outlet and the whistle, the Long hole.

[laker67]

The hole below the dam is often known as the Apron hole and the hole between the hatchery outlet and the whistle, the Long hole.

You're right. I haven't heard it called the apron in years.

[XP 590]

This hole....that hole.....I'm not touchin' this one with a ten foot pole!

[ozark trout fisher]

I understand what ya' mean mic. I don't know much of anything about Bennett, but at Montauk, I can honestly say that I've fished just about every square foot of water in the park. Yet I'm still constantly confused by the nicknames of the pools people throw around- I really only know the names of three pools there-the social hole (as made forever infamous in that Field and Stream article a year or two ago), the milldam hole and the White Oak Hole- even though I am familiar with the entire park.

Some very popular trout streams have maps that label the common nicknames of the more famous pools-I wonder if there is such a map of any of the trout parks.

[Newbie Fly]

What about "gut flats" just below the bridge , on the other bank across from the hole at least that what it looks like during the season. You know trout darting around like crazy with big white bloody streamers of entrails of their brothers and sisters hanging out of their mouths. Trout that could care less for anything that resembles a natural food source

I wish they would put a few Fish "gut" stations in ,and not let folks gut the fish in the water. Truely you have to match the food source and not the hatch.

Its amazing, the white thread jig, and those darn huge red and orange flourscent brassies outfish every other fly combined in Zone 2 during the year because of it.

Combine that with the IFP ( hatchery fly ) and the folks who fish the outlet down further Probably account for a good 70% of the catch in Zone 2. IFP= imitation food pellet

So our conversations go like this in the afternoon , Hey guys want to move and fish elsewhere.? Response, Yeah I guess so, which Bennet junk "should we go with "?

So we now have this routine during the season

1. Start day, out of the park, on the Niangua swinging woolies and hackles

2. go to park - work some areas in Zone 1

3. finish off the day Gut fishing with Bennet junk somewhere below the bridge

Now that its catch and release its a nice change to go to those areas and fish some other things and land fish

We were there the warm weekend two weeks ago or so and did pretty good with driftin midges , swingin yellow and black marabou jigs and upstream casts against the banks with olive scuds. adn justfor good measure throw in some some high stickin with the white thread jig and I think we all had 2 or 3 dozen fish..........