Beaver Creek Trip 2/9-2/11

[cullinby9]

And by the way...I don't think you have to name the stream you were fishing to give a good, informative fishing report. The techniques that work on one Ozark stream will work on any other stream of fairly similar size under fairly similar water conditions. When I write a fishing report, I tell what I was catching fish on, what the conditions were, what size the stream is, and anything I saw, experienced, or did that I found interesting or surprising. The guy that is living over on the other side of the state and probably won't fish where I was fishing could still find something interesting or useful in the report. I don't post fishing reports to brag, I post them to inform. If it's a mediocre day that was perfectly predictable as to how I would catch fish, I don't usually post. If it was a poor day that I thought should have been good, I post what I did anyway, which might have been wrong...and sometimes what you do wrong teaches you more than what you do right.

That was my original intention to inform about adverse conditions. I know my bodies of water pretty well and I expected people translate it to they're home water. This creek isn't just outside St.louis. I grew up by the Daniel Boone home on hwy f and used to have a small creek where I could catch bass. This isn't the same thing its a big feeder creek that runs into a huge lake. It would have to be a much better trip than what it was to brag about it.

[Al Agnew]

That was my original intention to inform about adverse conditions. I know my bodies of water pretty well and I expected people translate it to they're home water. This creek isn't just outside St.louis. I grew up by the Daniel Boone home on hwy f and used to have a small creek where I could catch bass. This isn't the same thing its a big feeder creek that runs into a huge lake. It would have to be a much better trip than what it was to brag about it.

Yeah, don't get me wrong...I don't think it's necessarily a bad idea to name a stream the size of Beaver Creek. I usually name the stream if it's large enough to be floatable most of the year and is already well-known, though I may not name the exact stretch I was on.

I floated Beaver Creek once, and had an experience slightly similar to yours. It was a three day trip down to Kissee Mills, and the fishing was fairly good, but the last day, when we had about eight miles to go, a huge storm built up to the south, downstream. When it hit us, the rain was by far the heaviest I've ever experienced. You literally couldn't see more that a short cast length away. There wasn't much lightning, so we just fished through it, but you'd cast and you couldn't really see where the lure hit. But we actually caught quite a few fish in that heavy rain. And it lasted for a good two hours. Every little ravine was gushing water into the creek, and it rapidly got muddy, but at first it didn't come up much. We made it to Kissee Mills and the creek had come up about 18 inches. I don't know how it is now, but at that time, the parking lot was about 100 yards away from the boat ramp. We pulled the canoes up onto the ramp, bringing them up to where about half the canoe was still in the water, and I hiked up to get the vehicle. By the time I'd walked the 100 yards, gotten into the vehicle, and driven it to the ramp, if my partner hadn't stayed at the canoes, they would have floated away! The creek came up a good 4 feet in a matter of minutes.

[Smalliebigs]

That was my original intention to inform about adverse conditions. I know my bodies of water pretty well and I expected people translate it to they're home water. This creek isn't just outside St.louis. I grew up by the Daniel Boone home on hwy f and used to have a small creek where I could catch bass. This isn't the same thing its a big feeder creek that runs into a huge lake. It would have to be a much better trip than what it was to brag about it.

The Femme Osage has been rendered useless because of over use and bigtime housing developement on the upper end of the creek........pretty much the crap we are talking about.....tons of creeks are getting brutalized nowadays

[Wayne SW/MO]

There aren't many accesses after the Forest Service access and that coupled with it's connection to the lake keeps it in good shape fish wise. The lower end gets hit pretty hard by people keeping fish, but it's also virtually an arm of the lake.