North Fork issue

[fishinwrench]

8 minutes ago, Chief Grey Bear said:

Well that’s certainly not the direction I thought you were going to go!

🤣🤣🤣

Cut longways, rippled....and battered thick. 👍 

Best fried pickles ever !   

[Al Agnew]

22 hours ago, Ham said:

I think Dawt Mill is the lake. Spots are in the upper lake for sure, but largiesxare more numerous. 

At normal lake pool there are about 2.5 miles of flowing water below Dawt.  If there is a really significant spotted bass population in that short stretch when it is flowing, it would make it seem more likely that spots could do well above the dam.  When the dam was intact, it backed water up for about a quarter mile, maybe a half mile, which was probably not enough to really warm the river up a lot more than what it was above the dam pool.  But it would have been nice to do water temperature studies above and below the dam, and what water temps did once the dam was first breached and then removed.

[snagged in outlet 3]

I’ve caught them above shoal creek.  Little ones.  

[gotmuddy]

My (worthless) opinion is there are two things missing from this discussion.

1. no one has mentioned that stocked trout from cloud 9 ranch(on spring creek) surely enter the river every year and affect genetics.
2. The dam was removed because young people have died, but when removed they displaced the largest population of ozark hellbenders in the river

Personally I think they should not stock the river, the beauty of the NFoW is that the trout are not stocked.  If the fish cannot survive natively then they should die off, I would never support damming the river.

 

As a drunken summer floater I am appalled but not surprised by some of the responses here, but I highly doubt I am going to stop too🤣

[Flyfisher for men]

The Cumberland River in Tennessee shows that the trout and stripers together can still make for an excellent fishery.  It might be possible for the NFOW.

[ness]

I thought the otters ate all the MO trout  

[snagged in outlet 3]

47 minutes ago, ness said:

I thought the otters ate all the MO trout  

I doubt it they taste like crap...

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

I doubt it they taste like crap...

You ain't fixing them right.  😅

[snagged in outlet 3]

Just now, fishinwrench said:

You ain't fixing them right.  😅

Tell that to the otters....😂

[jdmidwest]

1 hour ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Tell that to the otters....😂

Crap or Carp???