Decent Saturday afternoon.

[worley76]

The wife and I took the mad river canoe down to the Niangua river Saturday and all in all had a pretty good trip.  Didn't catch any monsters but got on to a few on a 3 inch craw colored tube.  Picked up most of the fish around some large boulders that lined the eddy we were in.  The river is pretty low so the flow didn't amount to much, but anywhere we could find a little moving water around those boulders we found the better fish.   Love those river smallies!!!!!!  Anyone else catching any decent river smallmouth?

 

 

Ya......... I know, I need some sun!!!!!!  HA!!!!!

[GloryDaze]

Nice fish!

I'm thinking about heading down there this weekend as well. Do you mind me asking what general section you floated? We're gonna probably take 2.5 days and head from Barclay down to Lead Mine. 

[worley76]

We were between Williams ford and Windyville bridge. (K&P bridge)   That should be a great float from Barcley to Leadmine. (Very few people due to inaccessibility.) There are some good smallmouth in that stretch as well as some real nice largemouth. There should still be some great trout fishing in those waters as well.  I'm not much on trout myself but after Bennett got flooded out in December its hard to fish anywhere from Bennett to Leadmine and not catch a few rainbows.  Good luck and let me know how you do.  The Niangua is my home water and I always like to hear how folks do.