February 2022 Ozark Anglers Crane Creek trip

[ColdWaterFshr]

Wait a minute.  Is Gavin's avatar Ernest T. Bass?  I thought I had declared Wrench as Ernest T. Bass a long time ago.  No?

[snagged in outlet 3]

There’s probably a guy or two left at OFF that have some information on it.  

[ColdWaterFshr]

If I lived closer to Crane, i'd be up for joining.  Only have fished it once.  

I believe those are definitely weakened strains from the original McClouds and yes, they survived the dust bowl period, because they weren't IN the dust bowl.  Wrench, that epic calamity was much further west -- panhandle of Oklahoma and on down to Lubbock Texas, which at the time was much better farming land than rocky SW Missouri.  The west Texas high plains natural grasslands were ignorantly plowed to oblivion following the depression, at the encouragement of government incentives, combined with mechanized farmland implements coming to the fore, AND in an area that already is extremely arid, with no fence rows and thus no wind-breaks, setting the table for the catastrophic dynamics that LED to the consequences of the wind-storms and blight of the dust bowl.  

Get your geo-agri-history facts straight!

[fishinwrench]

3 hours ago, ColdWaterFshr said:

If I lived closer to Crane, i'd be up for joining.  Only have fished it once.  

I believe those are definitely weakened strains from the original McClouds and yes, they survived the dust bowl period, because they weren't IN the dust bowl.  Wrench, that epic calamity was much further west -- panhandle of Oklahoma and on down to Lubbock Texas, which at the time was much better farming land than rocky SW Missouri.  The west Texas high plains natural grasslands were ignorantly plowed to oblivion following the depression, at the encouragement of government incentives, combined with mechanized farmland implements coming to the fore, AND in an area that already is extremely arid, with no fence rows and thus no wind-breaks, setting the table for the catastrophic dynamics that LED to the consequences of the wind-storms and blight of the dust bowl.  

Get your geo-agri-history facts straight!

I can't argue any of that, except the claim that I (in my relatively short life) have seen the WORST drought in the Missouri Ozarks past.     

Hell, I specifically remember it being so dry, for so long, that a set of keys or a 12ga. Shotgun shell could be lost forever simply by dropping them in the yard.    

And if you were listening.....I visited Crane and the creek around Hurley when they were practically dry as a bone.    If there was any water downstream then it would have been far too warm and stagnant for any transplanted California trout to survive in.      But hey, I'm sure that you probably believe with all your heart in far more outrageous things than the Crane creek story.   So whatever floats your boat. 👍  

 

[Phil Lilley]

All Brian wanted to do is get some guys together and fish a day. No tournament. 

Me and Brian will go fishing and we’ll have a great day. 

[fishinwrench]

I hope y'all have a quality outing.  👍 

Looking forward to the pics 🙂

[Brian K. Shaffer]

The walking is tough at Crane - be prepared to walk from spot to spot.

It's about as wild as we see here in Missouri.

The Springfield NewsLeader link from the first post has a video of Tim fishing. 

I miss driving past this old Bass Pro shop that was on the way... think that was in Reeds Spring.

 

[Dutch]

I thought all of you guys went to Wire Road.  Are you guys going to the public access down by Hooton's place or start from the bridge in Crane?  You can also gain access at Grisom's ford bridge.

[Brian K. Shaffer]

 

Hello Dutch - as Wire Road is one of the main access locations... we are definitely going to stop there.

Thank you for the tip about the bridge spot. I may be standing on it in the photo below :

 

[Brian K. Shaffer]

Opposite side of bridge :