Are There Any Conservation Personnel On The Forum?

[ozark trout fisher]

OTF- I was bored with brown trout, so I went with Dr. Teeth

Hey, whatever floats your boat........

[Gavin]

They have done some work on Mill & Barren Fork..and they did some work on Spring Creek years ago...The Little Piney is pretty ripped up...you can really tell where the FS owns the land v. most private holdings...lots of gravel mining damage & cattle in the creek in several places. Not sure if lunker structures would work on that creek though...its got a long narrow drainage and experiences some extreme flash floods...I'd imagine that anything they put in would wash away during an extreme high water event. Cheers.

[ozark trout fisher]

I'd imagine that anything they put in would wash away during an extreme high water event. Cheers.

That's what I meant in the end of my post when I said it wouldn't last a year. That stream floods worse than any other I've ever come across. One minute it will be running at 90 CFS and the next half hour it can be at 50,000. That knowledge always makes me a bit nervous when I camp at Lane Spring.

You're right about it being ripped up. It's amazing that the Little Piney is as productive as it is given the way it's been abused over the years, both by cattle and by gravel mining. Given the fact it's a decent trout stream now, imagine what it could be if the landowners along it hadn't trashed it. It could be as good as the Current River and possibly better.

A little off-topic, but that is why I am so unsympathetic to the landowners along the creek in the Vida Slab area trying to keep fisherman out. They trash the creek allowing their cattle to wallow in it wherever they please, eroding the channel and causing there to be a bunch of high mud banks, and tell responsible fisherman to go away. All legalities aside, that's BS.