Fished upper gasconade and tribs on saturday

[DainW]

So I picked up Chuck Tryon's book last summer at the advice of some OAF forum members, and ever since have been wanting to fish the gasconade. Finally made that happen on Saturday. 

My dad and I used mountain grove as a base of operations and jumped around to several different accesses on the upper gasconade as well as the Osage fork and some smaller tributaries. It made for a long day of driving around and exploring, but it was a good time and we caught a fair number of fish as well as a variety of fish. 

Since we don't have a boat and were fly fishing, we were confined to the first 15 miles or so of the gasconade around hartville. Caught our best fish, several 14-15 inch smallies in the evening on that river. The Osage fork was probably our favorite, as we caught the most fish and widest variety of fish. Caught smallies, a largemouth, suckers, and several healthy goggleeye on the Osage fork. Only saw the big white sign across the river letting us know that we were on private property after we waded back upstream to the low water bridge after a few hours of fishing. Apparently we were subject to prosecution by "order of the evergreen police dept." Oh well next time we know better. Fortunately nobody gave us any trouble. Had a great time and will definitely be back to see some more of these beautiful rivers. Only got pics of the smallmouth on the gasconade unfortunately. 

[Flysmallie]

17 minutes ago, DainW said:

Apparently we were subject to prosecution by "order of the evergreen police dept."

What a joke those asshats are. They should be prosecuted for threatening people. 

[DainW]

Seemed a little ridiculous at the time to me and my dad and I kind of laughed at it at the time. I went back and read some old posts though and I guess the land is owned by a prominent family from Lebanon and they've been known to shoot at people floating/wading that stretch of river? Probably won't be heading back to that particular access. I did really like the Osage Fork though. Clear, cold water and a beautiful surrounding area. Plus lots of fish. 

[fishinwrench]

I bet the "Evergreen Police" are a real team of winners.  😀

[Greasy B]

6 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

I bet the "Evergreen Police" are a real team of winners.  😀

Hahahaha, yep. 

Good for you DianW, you flirted with the militarized zone of the OF and survived. Legend says all who pass below the big sign shall perish. You could have been abducted and sent to a re-education center or perhaps harvested then ground into soylent green.

 

[DainW]

6 hours ago, Greasy B said:

Hahahaha, yep. 

Good for you DianW, you flirted with the militarized zone of the OF and survived. Legend says all who pass below the big sign shall perish. You could have been abducted and sent to a re-education center or perhaps harvested then ground into soylent green.

 

LOL...For what it's worth, when we got to the access, there was another guy and his wife who were just finishing up that had taken their kayaks upstream and fished back down to the bridge. Apparently they weren't harassed either, so don't know if the landowners were just taking the weekend off or out of town or what. 

Side note, from chuck's book, I've noticed it's hard to decipher much about any particular access on any particular river. He doesn't usually go into much detail about what the fishing is like there, what type of water to expect etc. Assuming that's by design. He usually just leaves that up to you to figure out, which is part of the fun. If he does go into any detail, I usually take that to mean "fish here." For example that particular access on the OF was chosen bc he said the middle OF was as beautiful as missouri smallmouth water gets and when he got to that access said something like "really pretty water here." He was right about that part lol. 

[Gavin]

There is no "Evergreen Police Department". It is  just Steve Plaster and his hired help.

 

 

 

 

[Flysmallie]

12 minutes ago, Gavin said:

There is no "Evergreen Police Department". It is  just Steve Plaster and his hired help.

 

They're called thugs. 

[fishinwrench]

Let them harrass you a bit and then have them busted for impersonating a police officer.  

[bfishn]