Headed through Crane on 5/19

[avillesmuggler]

Taking a road trip from Chicago through KC to pick up my Dad and then headed to Bull Shoals tailwater.  Would love to stop at Crane along the way.  Has all the rain impacted the creek, or was it not hit as bad as southeastern MO?

[trythisonemv]

It should be fishable by then. It runs down pretty quick. A stain in the water makes foe some fine fishing down there anyway. Good luck

[avillesmuggler]

Fished Crane on 5/18 from about 11:30 to 6:00, with a long lunch break. Hard work but caught three. Biggest one (not too big) on a weighted San Juan variant, a small one on a black wooly bugger with two split shot, and another small one on some nymph I forgot the name of. When I caught the fish on the bugger, I was targeting two larger fish (probably about 14") that I had probably spooked anyways. 

Drove by again on 5/21(Sunday) but it looked a little more crowded, and was muddy.  I was tired from Arkansas trip, so we passed  

 

[Dkman]

Nice pics. Glad you had some luck. Was the water very high?

[avillesmuggler]

hard for me to tell without fishing it very often.  It felt "just right" on 5/18, but water was definitely much higher 5/21, still looked fishable though on 5/21.

[trythisonemv]

Down today and it is still moving quick and deep. It has changed a lot. Much deeper and faster than normal. Think it'll be a great year for some bigguns.