Report 9/6 & 9/8/07

[Brian Sloss]

On Thursday and Sat I took out a couple of guide trips through the blue ribbon water. Both groups were affliated with the Ozark Fly fishers who had their first small but proud group outing at the Eleven Point. All four gentlemen were 1st rate and a pleasure to spend the day with.

With the threat of rain (80%) on Thurs, Al and Bob showed up ready to hit the river regardless. Aside from 2 brief showers, the rain held off and the fishing was red hot. They fished Stoneflies with Don's Crawdad droppers deep all day. They also fished a squirel nymph with rubber legs that Tim at Feathercraft set them up with. All caught fish but the crawdad far out-prodused everything. The number of fish caught is hard to say, but lots is fair.

On Sat Ted and Jack took a turn in the drift boat with much the same forcast. This time the weather was not forgiving. I bailed the boat the better part of the morning. Fortunately fish were being caught at the same time. The numbers caught were much the same as the Thursday group, though Ted did land a couple of real nice fish in the 18-19inch range. We used the same flies, fished the same way and all produced. Tim had set them up with his nymph as well and it probably just produced a little better than the rest (a nice meaty fly for the Eleven Point Tim).

All and all a nice couple of days with good company. I'm going on a three day fishing trip to the White river and will post a couple of Ted's nice fish when I get back, don't have the time now.