Members beamedik Posted January 15, 2013 Members Posted January 15, 2013 we are coming down in febuary to do some winter fishing and was wondering how conditions compare to this fall. we fish outside the park, and last trip was late october. i know it is colder and a lot of people say the water is down...is it down more than this fall, or about the same.
Gene K Posted January 15, 2013 Posted January 15, 2013 Tad above what it was in October. Check the Tan Vat gauge -
Gavin Posted January 15, 2013 Posted January 15, 2013 It was dead low earlier this week...came up about 6 inches on Sunday but it wont last long w/o more rain.
Gavin Posted January 16, 2013 Posted January 16, 2013 Good luck...didnt hear a report of anything over 19" this weekend...low water...slow fishing.
Members stlskyline Posted January 16, 2013 Members Posted January 16, 2013 Slow or not need to get out of StL for a few as I lost my job last week and the air and fly casting will do me good.
Gavin Posted January 16, 2013 Posted January 16, 2013 Sorry you lost your job....Go fish! We camped on the river between Baptist & Parker...Wednesday round 3pm till Sunday around noon......Water came up about 6" on Sunday after Saturday nights freezing rain....4-6 hours of steady drizzle...lots of frozen stuff to pack on Sunday...fishing was better up above Ashley..First time that nobody has caught & released a legit 20"+ brown trout on a 5 day trip in a long time. Some decent fish in the 16-19" range...a few toads rolled but no eat....Still fun..
Members LunkerB Posted January 16, 2013 Members Posted January 16, 2013 I fished outside the Park on Monday. IMO the fishing was nowhere near last winter. I doubt I spotted as many fish as I caught last winter around this time. I guess they have not began to stock the browns yet and not to many rainbows below baptist. I caught one two pound rainbow and a 14" brown and was satisfied. I just wonder if a lot of the fish died over the summer or if it has been over fished by worm chuckin rednecks.
Justin Spencer Posted January 16, 2013 Posted January 16, 2013 Doesn't seem like we have gotten a brown stocking on NFoW either, hope they didn't kill them all before getting them to the rivers! "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
laker67 Posted January 16, 2013 Posted January 16, 2013 I doubt that many fish died due to low water conditions. I am reasonably sure that several fish moved into the park boundries to seek cooler water and to be caught by some worm chuckin redneck.
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