Nice Trout On The Spring River

[Brian Wise]

WOW.....what??

I do not fish for or guide for fish on redds....at all. It is as easy as saying "ok, see those redds...don't cast to them"

[KATroutman13]

TC,

Predictable. No, I am not under that impression. But why don't you just roll through the blogs, watch the videos and look at the pictures posted, where they went, where they were fishing, et. cetera.

[Brian Wise]

If you are talking about the Missouri Trout Odyssey's here are the links to Matt's site with the report, video, and photos for every day......

Missouri Trout Odyssey Day One:

http://ozarkchronicles.com/archives/786

Missouri Trout Odyssey Day Two:

http://ozarkchronicles.com/archives/812

Missouri Trout Odyssey Day Three:

http://ozarkchronicles.com/archives/876

Missouri Trout Odyssey Day Four:

http://ozarkchronicles.com/archives/884

Missouri Trout Odyssey Day Five:

http://ozarkchronicles.com/archives/941

Ok, so there are a TON of photos there...maybe 30 minutes of video. Show me a redd.

[Brian Wise]

Wait Wait Wait.....I "did" do something that may be questionable to PETA in this photo.....I was casting to deer in the field going into Meramec SP

[KATroutman13]

Okay, Brian. I will give you that you do not have specific pictures of you casting to spawning fish or videos of you saying -- There's a nice fish on a redd, let's get him -- but circumstantial evidence is good enough for me.

Look at your fall 2010 video, there's a dude eating trout roe at the end of the video. Looking at just your 2010 winter and fall videos, you can see numerous occassions where you catch fish that certainly appear to be spawning fish and are clearly fishing in areas where there would be beds on a river that has a population of wild reproducing trout during the time period in which they would be spawning.

I find it very hard to believe that you have completely passed on every single big spawning bow or brown on the NFOW. Considering the amount of time you've spent on that river I am sure you've had that encounter about 100 times and I just don't buy that you've said, meh, let's move on every time.

[Brian Wise]

darn pretty fish isn't it? That section of the river is a flat shelf of limestone by the way.

Ok, so in other words just becuase I have been on the river SO MUCH I HAVE to HAVE caught a fish off of a redd? I will be the first to say that I have never seen a big, big rainbow on a redd. A couple of weeks ago, I sat and watched fish on redds for probably 30 minutes, it's really cool to see how they interact. I have GREAT video of a couple fish in the moment on one of my fall videos....that is just really good footage, are you meaning that as soon as I shot that video I casted to them?

I also live in Ozark County Missouri....one of the biggest counties for meth busts...am I a meth head just because it is around my county so much?

By the way, the guy eating the roe is Rusty....one heck of a guy. One of his clients caught a brown that dropped eggs in his boat....he was the new guide at that moment so he took one for the team and we got some funny video.

Assumption is the mother of all mess ups.

Listen, I don't know if I have ever met you or not but I will stand behind MY actions, every person I have ever guided will stand behind my actions. I will also personally stand behind the actions of the guides who guide under me as well.

[Brian Wise]

I guess the only way to find out is for you to book me for next fall without me knowing who you are.....I will beg you to throw BIG NASTY streamers because that is what is awesome, teach you a TON about casting, fishing, streamers, and nymphing if you want, and will politely ask you to take a breather when we get to the heads of riffles and point out the reason why.

[ness]

KA -- tossing out accusations without backing them up is bad form, brother. Brian's one of the good guys.

[Justin Spencer]

am I a meth head just because it is around my county so much?

I would argue you are a meth head because you like meth, not because you are from Ozark county!

[ness]

I would argue you are a meth head because you like meth, not because you are from Ozark county!

That's obvious if you've ever seen one of his fly-tying videos.