Kayser Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 Where do you fish in the Niangua? I tried early morning along the Bennett Springs access with no luck. I then went back to the park and caught 30 "stupid" fish. I'm just curious about location and techniques for the browns. Rob WARNING!! Comments to be interpreted at own risk. Time spent fishing is never wasted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonefishin Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 McManus are you calling me a bigmouth? I don't understand why. BTW I caught the browns in the park. They are concentrated in Bennett Springs. Snagged. Snagged: I think he mistook the OA Designation "Bigmouth Quilback" for your screen name. I would rather be fishin'. "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snagged in outlet 3 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 Ohhh! Thanks Gone. I totally misunderstood. I'm sorry. I caught the browns, and for that matter all my fish, on dries in the middle of a scrorching hot day. When everyone left the stream in the heat of the afternoon the fish settled down and bit well. I caught the browns at the bottom of the spillway and down below the main bridge. Cracklebacks, renegades and hoppers. As soon as anybody would slosh around where I was fishing they would get put off the bite. I would have loved to have stayed around into the evening as I'm sure it would have been great. I dry fly fish almost exclusively at Bennett and the other parks as the fish are trained to look up for pellets. Before the stockings in the park I believe most browns were below the whistles because the water has been so low they couldn't get up the water fall there. Also, in last couple years in the fall the hatchery has left the pipe open on the hatchery runoff to let browns come into a couple raceways to spawn. I don't know if they do it on purpose or not but the pipe has been open and the browns head up there to spawn. The past 3 or 4 years the area just above the pipe but outside the raceway gates was filled with big spawning browns. If they closed the pipe they would be spawn raped in the little creek that comes out of the hatchery discharge pipe like they do at Taney in the fall at the outlets. I prefer Ho-Hum to the other acceses on the Niangua. Ho-Hum is a must see Missouri location in the fall, absolutely beautiful. But not in the summer the place is filled with drunks. Winter time at Ho-Hum is hit or miss. If the water cools too much the browns will move toward the park and then I like the bridge access below the Park. Last year during deer season I caught a bunch of browns at Barclay access. Snagged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonefishin Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 snagged: We should hook up sometime. I dont have a lot of luck catching browns at BS and would like to learn more about it. I would rather be fishin'. "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snagged in outlet 3 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 Gonefishin I'd be up for that. I do most of my fishing in the fall and winter. I'm always looking for new fishing buddies. Where do you live? I live in St. Louis and these gas prices are killing my trips. I used to take more trips and drive around, sleep in the truck and fish. At $2.89 a gallon my last trip through Bennett and on to Taney cost about $120.00 just for the gas. Let me know when you plan to go and I'll do the same. Snagged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonefishin Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 I live between Bennett and Springfield. It is about a 40 minute drive from my house to Bennett. I would rather be fishin'. "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snagged in outlet 3 Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 Man Gone I'm jealous. I Like to fish in a little town called Basalt CO. The Frying Pan and the Roaring Fork Rivers come together right in town. We stay at a Bed and Breakfast in town and at any time I could walk out the door with my flyrod and hit several different places to fish within a couple blocks. You have a great setup being so close to the places I like to fish. For me it's almost 3 hours just to get to Bennett. Not only the drive time (I can deal with that) but now the cost of gas is the killer. Anyway we'll hook up this fall. Snagged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne SW/MO Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 If you want to know where the Browns hide in the Niangua, hire Clifford Keith to float you down the river. He's west of Clydes on the South side of 64. Today's release is tomorrows gift to another fisherman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McManus Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 Snagged--Oopps, sorry! Don "Many go fishing all their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after." Henry David Thoreau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snagged in outlet 3 Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 No problem Don. My mistake also. Lucky that Ginefishin is here to figure things out for us. Snagged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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