Niangua River Tr

[HighPlainsFlyFisher]

Got the opportunity to float the Niangua on Monday with another buddy from KC. Great weather and an uncrowded stream made for a very enjoyable day on the water. It didn't hurt that the fish were very cooperative either , we caught lots of average sized bows and quite a few small browns as well. Fly selection didn't seem to matter much , beadhead nymphs..buggers..sculpin patterns , they all produced. Just glad to have our river back from "the other crowd" for six months or so.

Full TR on my blog...Jeff

http://highplainsflyfisher.blogspot.com/

[laker67]

Got the opportunity to float the Niangua on Monday with another buddy from KC. Great weather and an uncrowded stream made for a very enjoyable day on the water. It didn't hurt that the fish were very cooperative either , we caught lots of average sized bows and quite a few small browns as well. Fly selection didn't seem to matter much , beadhead nymphs..buggers..sculpin patterns , they all produced. Just glad to have our river back from "the other crowd" for six months or so.

Full TR on my blog...Jeff

http://highplainsflyfisher.blogspot.com/

Man, what a great picture. Glad you guys had a good trip. Thx for the report.

[Wayne SW/MO]

Nice write up on your blog. I agree with your rants, but as long as the MO DNR has a profit interest in the rape it will continue. As long as the police are invested in the gangbang nothing will change.

[mic]

Nice write up on your blog. I agree with your rants, but as long as the MO DNR has a profit interest in the rape it will continue. As long as the police are invested in the gangbang nothing will change.

I agree with your blog statement about the browns. I don't know why they simply don't make browns catch and release state wide, and let the folks eat the rainbows. Image how much more off season business the outfitters on the Meramec and Niangua would get if people where continually catching large browns and catching rainbows to eat. I just don’t get it.

[Arofishing]

Good read, glad fishing was a success.

[Wayne SW/MO]

It goes beyond that Mic, the DNR has let anyone and everyone treat the Niangua like a temporary water way. They keep running bulldozers to its edge, clearing vegetation and dumping more gravel in it. They really don't care as long as it has enough water to float a canoe full of beer and it will take a lot of gravel to turn those people away. They'll be floating long after its too shallow and too hot to support healthy game fish.

[ozark trout fisher]

I enjoyed your blog post and I'm glad you had a good time. It does truly sadden me the way our rivers like the Niangua and the Current are treated through the summer months. Just as a place to act like an idiot, yell and scream, and dump trash. I've always wondered why they need to drive all the way to an Ozark river to accomplish any of those things. As sad as it is I just stay off the Current, Niangua, Meramec, and really and other river with a canoe rental servicing it from Memorial Day through about this time in September...and just wade the smaller streams or float the rivers that for whatever reason don't draw the party crowd. There just isn't any point in going to the river to relax and catch fish when the first part of that equation isn't possible.

At least we have our rivers back for a few months now, so let the fun begin!

[oneshot]

Having Children depending on Floaters for a Living I'm not going to say anything on that.But far as the Browns I've found very Small ones Stocked and people Bait Fishing Hook them deep,instead of just cutting the Line they pull the Hook and the fish goes Belly up.And might sound stupid but some can't tell the difference in a Rainbow and Brown they just see Trout.

oneshot

[Aaron J Scott]

I had never caught a brown on the Niangua until the cicada hatch this year, and I caught three within about fifteen minutes.

I would love to spend some good time on the river and throw some big streamers to specifically target browns and see what sort of monsters are in there.

[Gavin]

How does MODNR profit off the Niangua? other than Bennett....seems to be a free for all down there.