Closing out the season

[WestCentralFisher]

I'd originally planned to go camping and fishing on the Current River today and tomorrow, but life just kept getting progressively more in the way, and by this morning, my timeline had been compressed to the point where it was pretty much going to be a quick trip to Maramec Springs or nothing.

I'll admit, I was originally quite disappointed...but then I got there and remembered how gorgeous this place was and how nice it could be if you didn't take the fishing too seriously. With the fall colors pretty much at their peak and the weather perfect, you just could not ask for a prettier backdrop. 

And yes, I did manage to catch a couple fish too. What started off as something I had expected to be a disappointing outing ended up being a great few hours. 

[ness]

We drove through Meramec Springs Park a couple weekends ago. It had been a long time since Id been there -- close to 20 years I think. Some of it looked very familiar, but some not. Of course I remembered the iron works. I also fished the river some when I was cutting my teeth learning fly fishing. Good memories there, for sure. 

[Foghorn]

It was the closest to our home in Desloge so we spent more time there in our early trout fishing adventures. Had some really good days fishing there at a time when it was well stocked .

[JUNGLE JIM 1]

Where are the other fishermen? Looks like you had the park to yourself. My favorite trout park, it's the closest to me.

[WestCentralFisher]

14 minutes ago, JUNGLE JIM 1 said:

Where a are the other fishermen? Looks like you had the park to yourself. My favorite trout park, it's the closest to me.

There were several large groups of people, but they were mostly pretty bunched up together, so it left some pretty decent stretches of open water. A lot of them were from a couple touring vans, and they all just kind of fished in a giant bunch up near the parking lot. 

That and careful camera angling makes the stream look much more secluded than it probably was in reality. But I never had to look hard for a spot, and a couple times had a whole pool to myself. That's pretty good by trout park standards.