Fishing Report

[Phil Lilley]

Fishing was very good today. Just ask one of 54 anglers who fished today- all day- in the 24th annual Elmer Boswell Memorial Trout Tourney. Mostly from the St Louis area, anglers held their private contest taking advantage of a beautiful day.

The winners used night crawlers and power bait, fishing between Short and Fall Creeks. Second place guys went artificial only- jigs- and fished down around the bridges and even as far down as Rockaway Beach. They finished 2/100 of an ounce apart.

Lots of beautiful rainbows- lots of dark males, more than I've ever seen at one time. I told the guys in a meeting last night that the male rainbow weighed more than the others and I guess I was right- the 2nd place team weighed 7 dark males and 1 silver trout.

Here's are the teams/weights/big trout (all rainbows)

1. Hampton/Lentz-----7.16----1.36

2. Hittler/Dietle--------7.14----1.10

3. Benz/Ochiltree------6.98----1.14

4. Boswell/Lucasek----6.76----1.50 (big trout caught by Tony Boswell)

5. Schuler/Spain-------6.40----1.24

6. Haller/Ndina---------6.24----1.24

7. Collins/Mazdra------6.14------.92

8. Manske/Myers-------6.10-----.86

9. Schmidt/Weaver----6.06-----

10. Gomos/Stinchcomb-6.00----1.36

27 total teams

8 trout were weighed per team