3 Different Streams, 1 Super Sunday 2/5/12

[Buzz]

I've been reading all of the great posts about catching wild trout recently, thanks mic and Duane, and realized I haven't gone after any for quite some time. Well, today was the day.

The morning started off a cold 35 degrees with clouds, misty rain and a light wind. Perfect weather. Two of the streams I will talk about I will not name because they are very small and are not protected.

8:05 AM, I make it to the first stream, get my gear and head upstream. I tied on an olive beadhead scud and started working the fast water riffles. After only a few casts I hooked into a nice little wild bow about 6" long. Good start. I continued upstream fishing the same types of water and continued catching fish. 7 fish in a little over an hour.

Fat little wild rainbow.

About 9:30 I decided to make the trip over to Crane Creek. I first went to the CA at the dairy farm and walked the trail downstream and fished my way back up. I still had the same BH scud tied on so i just started fishing. It was very slow at this end today. I hooked one nice rainbow about 12" long, but he did a self release. No more takers. I thought that was kinda strange, but I wasn't going to let Crane skunk me. I got back to the truck and headed to the city park and walked the tracks to the railroad trestle. Before entering the creek I changed flies to a beadhead pheasant tail with a red hot spot that I tied up yesterday. Wow, what a difference a fly can make. I immmediately started catching fish. I fished through 2 different holes that were loaded with little fish measuring from 3" to 6 ". They would just attack that fly. A couple of nice deep holes had better fish and I managed a few in the range of about 12". The way they would hit that fly it reminded me of trout park fish, just hammer it and take off. I didn't even fish that whole stretch. I got out about half way up to the ball fields. It was tough leaving when they were biting so good, but I still had 1 more stream to hit before I headed home. 12 fish caught in about 2 1/5 hours

This is the prettiest trout from Crane today.

I got to the last stream at about 2:00 PM and walked downstream about 1000 yards too far. I never got a bite until I reached the last 1500 feet of the section I had time to fish. Fast shallow water is all there is in this part of the stream. I finally hooked up with a little rainbow of about 5". Whew, this was the stream I was most worried about catching a fish from. Still using the BHPT I worked my way upstream catching a couple here and there. These fish were the most colorful fish of the whole day. Some were very dark and most had a very bright orange belly. Beautiful fish. As I got to the last bit of the stream I could see a couple of small trout jump completely out of the water. I got to where I could make the longest cast possible and hooked up on the first cast. The fish were piled up in there. I caught 11 fish from that one narrow section. 15 trout in 1 hour.

At about 3:00PM I decided it was time to head home for dinner and watch the Super Bowl. It was a great day to be out fishing for Missouri's wild trout.

Very colorful bows.

[laker67]

You had quite the day there Buzz , with some good looking fish to boot. Thanks for a very interesting recount of your day's adventures.

[drew03cmc]

Dang.

[ozark trout fisher]

Very nice report. Thanks!

[duckydoty]

Awesome Buzz! I spent the whole day doing nothing but tying flies.after my last couple of trips, I realized I needed a few more flies to fish some of these places around here

[Justin Spencer]

What a great day!

[Trout Commander]

Nice report. I love fishing the one of the two unnamed stream that I know which one you were on. Thanks for not naming names.

[mic]

What a great report. Thanks for posting.

[Andrew324]

Nice report Buzz. Its cool to know we aren't the only folks who enjoy catching little wild trouts in un-named streams. Lower wire road has been slow. I spoke with Ray and he thinks it could be otters.

[drew03cmc]

I would think it could be low water levels due to a lack pf precipitation, spawning, or any number of other factors, including otters. Remain optimistic. Is the Upper Wire Road area holding water?