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Fishing Reports
Missouri's Current and Meramac Rivers
September 02, 2006
Posted by Norm Crisp
Email: streamsideff@yahoo.com
Current Report
Gday,
What a great time of the
year! Perfect temperatures,
far fewer people on the
river, and trout looking for
a big meal. Take advantage
of the days.
Fished the middle section of
the Current on the 30th. To
us the middle section is
below where most people walk
down from Baptist and above
where most people stop when
they start a Parker. Trudge
in unless you have access to
a private road. Id give
the day a B, but I dont
believe in grade inflation.
Slow until about 11. Part
of that is due to not
fishing the best habitat.
One the habitat improved the
fishing did as well. As
always the most productive
spots were the bluffs, areas
where chunk rock has
fallen in low ledges and
even out in the middle if
there was good overhead
cover. The MadamCrick was
the fly of choice. Fished
until about 5:30. Fifteen
fish touched and about half
that many missed. Most of
the fish were in the 12 to
14 inch range. All were
very healthy. One fish was
about 16. Two Oh shit
swirls but nothing to show
for them.
Thursday morning hit the
area below Baptist for the
log jam below the high bluff
up to the first riffle above
the high bluff. Go on the
water early hoping to
perhaps get some trico
action but really nothing
happening that way.
Reverted to type and went
with the MadamCrick. Only
on the water for about an
hour and a half. Action was
good 7 fish touched but
fish were not a nice as
Wednesdays. Left early to
drive over to the Meramac.
The Meramac has been fishing
well for us the last couple
of trips. It is now much
more of a rainbow fishery
than a brown fishery. It is
not stocked with Rainbows so
all the fish are coming down
from the park. Habitat is
rather limiting. The
substrate is mostly chert.
It moves every time the
river comes up at all.
There are a couple of areas
of chunk rock. One is
downstream of Suicide Hill,
one is right below Cardiac,
and the next is in front of
the cabin. These areas
produced the most fish with
a few from the occasional
scour hole. The fly choice
was a MadamCrick with a Hare
and Copper dropped about 3
feet below it. For those
who may not be familiar with
it, it is a New Zealand fly
and is just a dubbed body of
hares mask ribbed with a
fine copper wire. Hell,
more often than not I leave
out off the copper wire. I
do use a tungsten bead. In
the chunk rock areas the
dropper took most of the
fish and over the scourer
holes the MadamCrick took
fish. In just over 4 hours
about a dozen fish were
touched, only three of which
were browns. The rainbows
were 13 to 15 inches and the
browns were in the 11 to 12
inch range. No Oh shit
fish to report.
Norm Crisp
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