A big river and a little one

[WestCentralFisher]

Spent the day fishing one of the bigger Ozark rivers, and one of its little spring-fed tributaries. Fishing was real slow, but great way to spend a day

[jdmidwest]

Been there, done that.  Jerome and  some little unknown dolittle area.  We trolled up that one from that spot a few weeks ago, did not catch any of those little tiny spots.  We were waiting for our turn to pull out and bored.  Went to Uranus  for Kicks.

Did  see a shoal runner sunk to the rails just below that bridge.  That was interesting watching a tow truck driver trying to figure out how to drag it up the steep bank where it was docked.

[WestCentralFisher]

12 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

Been there, done that.  Jerome and  some little unknown dolittle area.  We trolled up that one from that spot a few weeks ago, did not catch any of those little tiny spots.  We were waiting for our turn to pull out and bored.  Went to Uranus  for Kicks.

Did  see a shoal runner sunk to the rails just below that bridge.  That was interesting watching a tow truck driver trying to figure out how to drag it up the steep bank where it was docked.

Was maybe on the water 90 minutes near Jerome and caught 2, one smallmouth and one largemouth, both around 10 inches. 

That said, I was on the water at the exact wrong time of day, and time-constrained. I have had some good days on that stretch, from a fish catching perspective this just wasn't one of them. That stretch of river is impressive. It reminds me more of the big water smallmouth streams I've fished in West Virginia and New York than anything in Missouri.

This was a trip born of being in the area and having some time to kill, so I only had my one little river smallmouth tackle box and the light action rod I always keep stowed away in the car for this exact reason. I was just  glad I had left a couple rooster tail spinners in there for the trout stream. They were really too big for a little creek like that, and I had a lot more follows than takes, but there is almost always one little guy with eyes bigger than his stomach.