Hows the Water?

[Seth Clarkson]

Well, we are going tomorrow, so is there any section of that stretch of Moon Valley to Bennett to be aware of or know to go left or right to avoid trees or worse rocks or anything? I can definitely see some trees on google earth, but have no idea if it looks that way now. 

[fishinwrench]

There's an island below Fort Niangua, you can make it either way but I always go right. There's a bit of a drop (tiny waterfall) that can be tricky, I've almost dumped there, but it's not "dangerous" at all.

[FishermanTodd]

On 7/24/2019 at 3:16 PM, Seth Clarkson said:

Definitely will if it all works creek wader. 

Did you end up getting to go out? I fished my usually stretch around the access and did well on a wiggle wart despite the high murky water which surprised me. Found a guy at the ramp who was bleeding from his head pretty good. Said he got his kayak pinned in a root wad from the high water. He was out alone and said he was feeling lucky to be alive. 

[Seth Clarkson]

8 hours ago, FishermanTodd said:

Did you end up getting to go out? I fished my usually stretch around the access and did well on a wiggle wart despite the high murky water which surprised me. Found a guy at the ramp who was bleeding from his head pretty good. Said he got his kayak pinned in a root wad from the high water. He was out alone and said he was feeling lucky to be alive. 

We went I had never been there before but to me the water definitely look dirty and it seemed low and it was definitely slow. The fishing wasn't that great I'm not sure if that was because it was low and slow and dirty or not but we caught a few small bass and Sunfish and a rock bass using soft Plastics. I had a handful of fish that were hook but came off right at the boat the biggest one may have been 12 in. This was the first time I have ever been there and I was kind of disappointed. The only thing that we encounter that would have been dangerous was a tree across the water and someone in front of us had busted it up and open where we could get through. There was another stretch where there was some trees in the water that we probably could have got through but decided to pull off and dragged where we could readjust. 

[Seth Clarkson]

I did catch this pretty pumpkinseed (I think that's what it is anyway).