Golf Course Pond Bass Flyfishing = Super A #1 Fun Time With Cool Pix 4 U

[Guest]

I've fished clear creek at the blessing when it was a new course. Never had any problems. How can they say its trespassing when you park in the hwy right of way under the bridge? Then wade upstream. It's totally legal at my place on clear creek. The sheriff deputies always side with the fishermen stating its a navigable waterway. So why the discrimination by the blessings?

[Forsythian]

Hmmm... I think I might know where that is, based on the reflection in the water on one of your pics ;-)

[Jason R.]

I fished the blessings all the time when I was in school up there- never had a problem. I have been kicked off of The Creeks by a guy who said he was the owner. He was not a particularly nice guy- at least not to me.

[cpriest]

Hate to steal the thread but wanted to share couple recent pics from an un-named golf course in fayetteville. 6wt rod and some big streamers really got these guys fired up

[Brian K. Shaffer]

cpriest - NICE! Your spot look awesome too... very fishy.. err.. bassy. (BTW, its never a threat to hijack a thread in my opinion when you include the same content) - Tell the others where that is .. uhh.. privately so you can protect your spot from non-ozarkanglers forum members.

Forsythian - if you guess it right.. I will tell you. You wanna go sometime ?

Thanks for all of you pitching in on the idea of " golf course bassin' " -- but do be logical about it. No one in handcuffs off my suggestion, please.

Here a few new pics from the same place this past Sun morning :

Most of mine are all dinks ! more fun though, on a limp 8ft 6in 6wt (i got one bass 4 inches long )

[cpriest]

You guys are talking about my home waters! I will say clear creek is my favorite smallie stream. As long as you are prepared to walk a lot and keep an eye out for snakes it can be rewarding. Also my inlaws live right by it so it is very convenient. This guy was landed last weekend, but not at 112 bridge, go further downstream, hint hint.

[shedhunter]

wow. wanna try this in missouri

[hoglaw]

I know the bridge you're talking about (I think), as does Trophy. He lives on the creek and I live about a mile up the hill from the bridge I think you're talking about. I also believe I know exactly where your golf course pond is too. I've never ventured all the way down to that one. I've only fished the one closest to the clubhouse with minimal success.

Trophy, handcuffs is an exaggeration, but I know folks that have been run off from the blessings rather sternly. It's back into that whole navigable/non-navigable issue that has been beat to death. But no bigger than it is, I'd venture that if a landowner owns both sides of clear creek, they can run you off wading in it. Don't see how it's any different from "wading" up to lokomotion, climbing over the dam, and belly boating around it for a while. That won't work out very well for you either.

[Guest]

I know the bridge you're talking about (I think), as does Trophy. He lives on the creek and I live about a mile up the hill from the bridge I think you're talking about. I also believe I know exactly where your golf course pond is too. I've never ventured all the way down to that one. I've only fished the one closest to the clubhouse with minimal success.

Trophy, handcuffs is an exaggeration, but I know folks that have been run off from the blessings rather sternly. It's back into that whole navigable/non-navigable issue that has been beat to death. But no bigger than it is, I'd venture that if a landowner owns both sides of clear creek, they can run you off wading in it. Don't see how it's any different from "wading" up to lokomotion, climbing over the dam, and belly boating around it for a while. That won't work out very well for you either.

I now own both sides. All the flooding in the past 5 years has shifted my property 20-30ft in places.

Its crazy how much the channel has moved in a relatively short time.

I've heard of giant flatheads in Lokomotion. Anything's possible

[Guest]

You guys are talking about my home waters! I will say clear creek is my favorite smallie stream. As long as you are prepared to walk a lot and keep an eye out for snakes it can be rewarding. Also my inlaws live right by it so it is very convenient. This guy was landed last weekend, but not at 112 bridge, go further downstream, hint hint.

That's a real good stretch.

A few years back, I had a group of pet smallmouth for a month in June.

One afternoon, I waded out under the bridge and began skip casting under the electric fence.

I always started out this way, bc there were so many nice smallies under that fence.

I fished along for 30 min and nothing.

So, I decided to wade around that electric fence and found my pet smallies dead.

All had fallen victim to the fillet knife.

Their carcasses flapped in the current.

To make things worse, a dead bloated sow hog was pushed up in a logjam.

I was downwind of that atrocity.

That pretty much did it for that access.

Ive been back once since then.