Members living_waters Posted November 14, 2012 Members Posted November 14, 2012 Ok this may seem like a really nieve or ignorant post to those that are aware of what I just learned. Let me give you some back ground to explain my revolation. From my house it is 115 miles to greer springs (eleven Point), 128 miles to Baptist Camp (current river) and a 158 miles to Patrick bridge. So I have always found it easier to make a day trip to one of the first two places to trout fish. This summer has been really unpredictable on the current and eleven point. The good days have been balanced out by the bad days this year. For the last 20 years I have made almost every deer and turkey season camping just above Hales crossing on the NFoW. And every year I have taken a fly rod and caught some good smallmouth with in a couple miles of where we have always camped. And every year I said I would make a trip down south to fish the trout stretch of the river but never did. So this deer season I took a couple extra days and made it a point to fish for trout. The first day I started about 10am just above Patrick bridge at 2:45 I made it to the corner just below the bridge. If I were to count the red horse in my totals, I caught over a hundred fish 31 of which were trout. I only caught 5 rainbows, but the browns I caught were amazing Biggest being just over 25". Next day was more of a sight seeing day, but every access spot produced some good fish, even had several dry fly bites, But swinging a bead headed prince was the ticket. I feel like I have missed so much now that I realize that for the past 20 years I could have been getting in on some amazing fishing. BUT now I have a new favorite destination. And what a nice surprise to spend the entire day on such a beautiful and productive fishery all alone. "To him, all good things, trout as well as eternal salvation, come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy." -Norman Maclean
fishinwrench Posted November 14, 2012 Posted November 14, 2012 Excellent! Kinda hard to sit in a tree waiting on a deer when the fishing is that good.
Justin Spencer Posted November 14, 2012 Posted November 14, 2012 Excellent! Kinda hard to sit in a tree waiting on a deer when the fishing is that good. Makes me wonder what I have ben doing! Wish I could say it was typical here to catch 100 fish per run with one being over 25", you managed to catch a bigger fish than I have in 9 years of being here, and it usually takes me a couple trips to catch that many fish. Congrats and by the way, do you guide? "The problem with a politician’s quote on Facebook is you don’t know whether or not they really said it." –Abraham Lincoln Tales of an Ozark Campground Proprietor Dead Drift Fly Shop
Members living_waters Posted November 15, 2012 Author Members Posted November 15, 2012 OOOOHH dont destroy my impression of the NFoW. I am still catching myself slipping off into these wonderful daydreams, it is helping ease the pain of not finding any deer. lol And I have to come clean on the big brown, I wish I could say it was all skill but that would not be totally true. I hit a hole where I caught probably 15 or twenty suckers in a row and was considering walking on to the truck to get a soda and sandwich. So I started making a few hap hazard casts as I was walking to the bank, Thats when i hooked him, dont know who was more surprised him or me. you managed to catch a bigger fish than I have in 9 years of being here, and it usually takes me a couple trips to catch that many fish. Congrats and by the way, do you guide? LOL my wife went with me on her first trout fly fishing trip the middle of October, took her about 30 miniutes and she caught her first rainbow, it was 23 inches. She looks at me and askes " is that a good fish". LOL Justin I dont think skill has anything to do with it, even a blind hog finds a kernal or corn every now and then. "To him, all good things, trout as well as eternal salvation, come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy." -Norman Maclean
Justin Spencer Posted November 15, 2012 Posted November 15, 2012 LOL my wife went with me on her first trout fly fishing trip the middle of October, took her about 30 miniutes and she caught her first rainbow, it was 23 inches. She looks at me and askes " is that a good fish". LOL Justin I dont think skill has anything to do with it, even a blind hog finds a kernal or corn every now and then. Crap, you really have to take me fishing, I've never even approached a 23" rainbow! "The problem with a politician’s quote on Facebook is you don’t know whether or not they really said it." –Abraham Lincoln Tales of an Ozark Campground Proprietor Dead Drift Fly Shop
Members living_waters Posted November 15, 2012 Author Members Posted November 15, 2012 Upper current, and what made it even worse was we seen it from the bank slipped in above it and she only made a few cast floating a egg in front of it, She thinks there is no real trick to this fly fishing lol. Came home the next week and told her I only caught 1 fish and she questioned if I even went fishing lol. "To him, all good things, trout as well as eternal salvation, come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy." -Norman Maclean
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