Report 9/21/11

[Andrew324]

Managed to finally make it out to the stream today. This is my first semester of graduate school and I barely have time to do much, so I haven't fished the creek for several weeks.

I did my usual lower wire to city park tour, hitting favorite spots and trying areas that were unsuccessful during the summer. The water is low and clear but the fish seem do be doing fine. I brought the GoPro camera with me and got some fish shots. Probably post a video here.

Dry flies all day long! I ran out of my Frog's Fanny trying to keep them above the surface. The fish weren't picky, except they like something big, I was using size 10 elk hair and adams. Anything smaller than 16 seemed to not interest them.

The fish look really healthy except for one I caught which looked like it had been attacked by something. Kinda scarred like you see the trout park fish. Other than that I caught a wide range of sizes and saw some absolute pigs which refused midges drifted down to them.

Looking forward to seeing all the trees change color.

[Arofishing]

Fun video, nice beat!

Can't wait to get out to Crane for the first time at some point this fall.

If you ever want someone to tag along and show the ropes, just let me know!

[Wayne SW/MO]

Better hurry Arofishing, with all the publicity it's getting it will look like Taney before long. In fact It may all ready be getting close.

[Jason R.]

Dude, I liked that video.

[Danoinark]

Nice!!!

[Andrew324]

Fun video, nice beat!

Can't wait to get out to Crane for the first time at some point this fall.

If you ever want someone to tag along and show the ropes, just let me know!

No problamo Aro. Just PM me and we can figure out when might be a good time to go down there. I enjoy showing the creek to others and sharing my tricks. I'm going to be aiding some European trout geneticists here in a few months. They are really interested in how our Missouri rainbows are able to reproduce, as there are no wildly reproducing rainbows in Western Europe.

I don't think Crane will ever get like Taney. Sure I've seen at most two or three other fisherman on a beautiful fall day, like a Sunday, but 99.9% of the time I never see another soul, except for ol' Ray, the "mayor of crane creek".

[Trout Commander]

No problamo Aro. Just PM me and we can figure out when might be a good time to go down there. I enjoy showing the creek to others and sharing my tricks. I'm going to be aiding some European trout geneticists here in a few months. They are really interested in how our Missouri rainbows are able to reproduce, as there are no wildly reproducing rainbows in Western Europe.

I don't think Crane will ever get like Taney. Sure I've seen at most two or three other fisherman on a beautiful fall day, like a Sunday, but 99.9% of the time I never see another soul, except for ol' Ray, the "mayor of crane creek".

Thanks to threads like this one the douche bag hatch is getting pretty heavy. Last weekend I was on the water for 7 hours and saw 9 people. None of which knew what they were doing and I am sure it was their first trip. Anyway, thanks for what you are doing here.

[troutbum479]

How many first time anglers go and get skunked and never go back? One weekend there will be ten fisherman and the next there will be one. As soon as some pics of big browns being caught below Taney and the White the crowd at Crane will die down.

[Andrew324]

Sorry fellas. Like I said, I'm so busy with school I barely have time to go out there, so I wouldn't really know about the crowd situation. Just wanted to post because there wasn't much activity on the board and I happen to make the vid for work. I regret posting in the main forum I suppose now.

[Kayser]

I can attest to the "one and done" mentality of the newcomer to wild creeks. The crowds seem to be mixed on the "coming back asap" and "never again" mentalities as we cross paths in the afternoons, with the veterans coming back for more punishment, but the newbies still not wanting to get weened off of stocked rainbows and manicured walking paths. I wouldn't feel too bad about posting the vid- most of the generic fly-flingers don't understand the attraction of catching 6" fish on top, and probably never will.

Rob