MaxDrown Posted March 15, 2011 Author Posted March 15, 2011 Ha! We'll for sure post a report. How is the water looking for floating and fishing? Should we be good-to-go for Sat? -- Max Drown
FishinCricket Posted March 15, 2011 Posted March 15, 2011 Ha! We'll for sure post a report. How is the water looking for floating and fishing? Should we be good-to-go for Sat? Erm... You would be good to go if we could just erase yesterday... Daggum gauge at Windyville went from 3ft to 11ft yesterday! Honestly I'm surprised there wasn't flash flood warnings... It's back down to 6 ft now, but I dunno if it'll be back down to 3 or less by Saturday... (optimal floating is between 2 and 3 ft) http://waterdata.usgs.gov/mo/nwis/uv?site_no=06923250 Bennett is still okay, but it's up and murky too.... I'll try and make it down tomorrow to look at it... cricket.c21.com
oneshot Posted March 16, 2011 Posted March 16, 2011 Erm... You would be good to go if we could just erase yesterday... Daggum gauge at Windyville went from 3ft to 11ft yesterday! Honestly I'm surprised there wasn't flash flood warnings... It's back down to 6 ft now, but I dunno if it'll be back down to 3 or less by Saturday... (optimal floating is between 2 and 3 ft) http://waterdata.usgs.gov/mo/nwis/uv?site_no=06923250 Bennett is still okay, but it's up and murky too.... I'll try and make it down tomorrow to look at it... Just went over 64HWY the water is high but not over the island.My Son says it takes good two days for any heavy rain South to get this way.I'm thinking not real good for the weekend. oneshot
MaxDrown Posted March 17, 2011 Author Posted March 17, 2011 If the Niangua turns out to be unfishable/floatable this Sat., can you all recommend another river in the area that might be good fishing this Sat.? We'd like to stay around 3 hours from Columbia if we can help it. -- Max Drown
Members MidgeMan Posted March 17, 2011 Members Posted March 17, 2011 I would go down to the Current and fish out side the park.. Should be able wade that part at least and from what i can tell they haven't had as much rain down there.
MaxDrown Posted March 18, 2011 Author Posted March 18, 2011 Niangua is showing about 3ft, closer to 4ft on USGS. What will that do to the floating, and, more importantly, the fishing? We had our hearts set on the Niangua ... -- Max Drown
FishinCricket Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 Under 3 ft is preferable if your planning on fly fishing.. And it looks like a lil more rains coming today... Dunno what to say, man.. It's the Ozarks... cricket.c21.com
HighPlainsFlyFisher Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 From my experience the Niangua will fish pretty well if it's dropping and not terribly muddy but with more rain coming it's a crapshoot for sure. The Current fishes much better on higher water and I actually prefer it when it's a little high and off-color , makes for some great streamer fishing. I'd probably watch the Current and try to hit that water instead of the Niangua. As far as floating , not sure what condition the river is in but there are plenty of walk-in areas on the upper Current that don't require floating to access them. Jeff http://highplainsflyfisher.blogspot.com/
oneshot Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 I just talked with someone down on the Niangua they said they didn't think anyone would put any Floaters in but they would recommend no one float it if they have never before because it is so high. oneshot
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