Let's see your river pics!

[Mitch f]

1 minute ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

There's a picnic table in the middle section that has to be 40 feet up in a tree. 

Wasn’t that a scene from Harry Potter? 😂😂

[top_dollar]

2 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Lower Meramec too!  crazy amount of stuff way up in trees put there by floods...

The lower Meremec from valley park to the Mississippi has got the be the ugliest stretch of river in the state.  Plenty of fish...but its gross!

[Haris122]

8 hours ago, top_dollar said:

The lower Meremec from valley park to the Mississippi has got the be the ugliest stretch of river in the state.  Plenty of fish...but its gross!

I think there’s still a few parts of it that are still kind of nice looking. Some of the area around Unger I think still looks nice for example. Not like some of the big floating stretches but still better than some of the rest. 

[drew03cmc]

I need to get on the Meramec more. It's a beautiful river and holds nice fish.

[Mitch f]

6 hours ago, drew03cmc said:

I need to get on the Meramec more. It's a beautiful river and holds nice fish.

The Gasconade is probably closer to you. And has the potential a longer fish and more Largemouth IMO

[drew03cmc]

14 minutes ago, Mitch f said:

The Gasconade is probably closer to you. And has the potential a longer fish and more Largemouth IMO

It is closer indeed. I'll be on it this year as well.

[Seth]

19 minutes ago, Mitch f said:

The Gasconade is probably closer to you. And has the potential a longer fish and more Largemouth IMO

There were a lot of nice smallmouth caught on the Nade last year, but the largemouth fishing sucked. As far as I know, there wasn't a single largemouth over 3lbs weighed in during a tournament last year between June and October. I'm not sure what the deal was with them because there were some nice ones caught that spring and this winter. There was a 6+ monster caught out of Rollins Ferry last month! Biggest largemouth I've ever heard of coming from the Gasconade. Maybe somebody finally caught one of those lake bass that people have been bringing back and dumping in there for years. 😁

[Mitch f]

1 hour ago, Seth said:

There were a lot of nice smallmouth caught on the Nade last year, but the largemouth fishing sucked. As far as I know, there wasn't a single largemouth over 3lbs weighed in during a tournament last year between June and October. I'm not sure what the deal was with them because there were some nice ones caught that spring and this winter. There was a 6+ monster caught out of Rollins Ferry last month! Biggest largemouth I've ever heard of coming from the Gasconade. Maybe somebody finally caught one of those lake bass that people have been bringing back and dumping in there for years. 😁

That whole 89 bridge area has made a great comeback IMO. It used to be THE spot and then it went through a 5 years suck period. I think the comeback in the last year or so may have been due to the flood.

[FishnDave]

On 1/13/2020 at 1:24 PM, Al Agnew said:

A couple of the islands have them, introduced of course.  On that river I caught one within sight of the ocean, about 200 yards from the mouth of the river.  I don't know anywhere else you can do that. The river also had largemouth and peacock bass, but it was the wrong time of year for peacocks...too cool.

I fished a small reservoir higher up that feeds that river quite a few years ago.  Caught Peacock Bass, Largemouth Bass & Tilapia there.  The river (and waterfall) looked great!

Wow, I was quite a bit younger here!

 

[Al Agnew]

More pictures, this time from Montana, where we live part of the year.  

Stillwater River

Madison River

Missouri River

Big Hole River

West Boulder River

Mill Creek

And a couple where I've chased smallmouth instead of trout in Montana...

Warm Springs Creek

Musselshell River