Home Waters

[Dan Pemby]

Other:

Big River and DiSalvo Lake (Bismarck lake)Both are realtivly new to me.

[FishinHogFan]

One of my very favorite spots is War Eagle. Pretty good smallmouth fishing.

[Flyfisher for men]

I grew up in the Flint Hills of Kansas near Council Grove reservoir and city lake. I learned to fish there and think of them as home waters. I live in Atchison, Kansas now and fish some watersheds in town and a nearby state fishing lake.

[POKAT]

I'd have to say Montauk is where my heart is. Caught my first trout on spinning rod there when I was about 6 yrs old. Learned to use flyrod there. Also learned a lot about conservation and respecting nature from the naturalist there. Still remember her name almost 30 yrs later. Great memories. Since I'm from Illinois, fish mostly Cardiac Hill now for day trips but I take my wife and daughter to Montauk when they would like to stay a day or two.

[flyfshn]

Meramec is closest.....but Taney is my favorite!!

[Ralph]

Grew up in Missouri but now live in Raleigh, NC so my home waters are....the Smith River below Philpott Lake in Bassett, VA, a tailwater fishery that's about 2 hours from the house. Having the time though, I head to the South Holston and the Watagua rivers in E. Tenn. Can't get enough of the South Holston and there are some buisers to be had on the river!

Ralph

[Phil Lilley]

Ralph- are there fishing sites you visit that detail the Smith and Watagua Rivers? Would be interesting to take a look at them.

[Trav]

As a kid my Gramps bought us kids a 12 foot seaking with an old sears 6-horse aand let us loose. My brothers and I spent every minute of daylight as far up bull creek we could get. Not just fishing but swimming and building rock dams in the creek. We thought we owned the place.

Back in those days you could let your kids do that kind of stuff. I never let my kids lose like that till they were 13 or 14. Aahh... the good old days.

[Bman]

where my heart is? Tanney!

For now the upper Meramec/Springs is closest for Trout.I live a couple miles from a boat ramp on the meramac which is within eye shot of where the Big River joins,caught a 5# smallie there earlier in the year.

Hope to retire to Tanney in a few years.

[OzarkKid07]

Well, I live so doggone far from all that water except the Meramec which I still haven't been to. But when I'm in the Ozarks, I spend most of my time at the Little Sac and Table Rock. I'd say that the Little Sac is where my heart is at, but only for lack of experience. I plan on spending a lot of time at the Meramec, Gasconade, Current, Black and Beaver Creek and maybe the Huzzah this year so I'll be able to answer much more definitively in 12 months. And that's the SHORT answer.