Question For The Creek Fishermen

[gotmuddy]

I just can't wait for things to get started. Of course I spend time on the real Ozark creeks (Blue Spring, Little Piney, Huzzah, etc) but I also enjoy the close to home stuff, which for me is Warren county. We're not really in the Ozarks here just north of the big muddy, but it looks and seems like the Ozarks in the river hills, and some of the creeks are nice spring-fed,clear streams, and can be really fun fly fishing for bass and bluegill...Access of course ain't easy with all the streams unnavigable and flowing through private property but luckily a few of the landowners are willing to let me fish, and that gives me some really nice close to home flowing water fly-fishing. I'm so excited thinking about it-it should be good here in just a couple weeks when we start to get a couple warm rains and I'll be either on the local ponds or the local creeks almost every evening until late October.

I am forcing things to get started, we are going down the buffalo.

[ozark trout fisher]

I am forcing things to get started, we are going down the buffalo.

I also forced things to get started today. I went down to one of the local ponds and managed to catch my first warm-water fish of the year- a pretty nice mess of bluegill. They were still in pretty deep water, but they were willing to bite. Just a few days ago, the pond was partially frozen, and today I was out there with a container of worms and an ultralight collecting the ingredients for a fish fry. Not a bad way to spend a late winter/early spring day.(water temp is still too cold for fly-fishing to be productive, so I'll make no apologies for the bait fishing )