Pre Hurricane Float...8/30/12

[Gavin]

Good float with Stoneroller yesterday. Covered quite a few miles in the new boat...and caught smallmouth on walkers & poppers all day long. They wanted nothing else and the bottom was too mossy to mess with plastic. Several nice fish in the 15" range. Finally got on the board for the Missouri Smallmouth Challenge...16.5" on a reliable measuring device. Other than a brutal headwind...no complaints. Coupla pics...

[Mitch f]

Well, the spots that are usually good on that stretch may not have been good now. 28 bridge hole (cottonmouth eddy)? Pin Piney confluence, Boiling spring hole. Theres a 1/2 mile riffle below the spring and before Countryview acres (Cardens) that should have been the ticket if you needed swift water. Great pics!

[Gavin]

Mitch, you dont need a roadmap ;>)!...Lots of aluminum on the tops of rocks...and all the unattended and unlabeled limb lines in the area....were a problem...the Conservation Officer in that county needs to start taking care of business down there. River needs a good flush...would love to fish it when its up and the bottom is clean. Really scummy yesterday...might be fun on Wednesday or Thursday are if your back in town.