Missouri with the Family

I just got back from a trip to Missouri to visit some friends. While this was mostly a family vacation, we did get some fishing in. The first trip was to Bennett Springs. This was my first time fishing a real spring creek. It was amazing to see a stream about the size of the Roach just erupt out of the ground. 52 degree water on a 95 degree day was nice too! The water was crystal clear and full of trout. it was totally sight fishing and you need a totally drag free drift. Any movement at all and they wouldn't even look at it. We did manage to land some bows, my daughter even caught one!













A couple days later we rented a pontoon boat and went fishing on Lake Taneycomo. This "lake" is really just a damned up section of the White River. The fish were running real deep, and I didn't bring a sinking line, so I ended up fishing lead head marabou jigs on a spinning rod. When we were at the marina we found out the Missouri record brown trout was caught here earlier this spring (29 pounds). We didn't find any browns, but we all got into some bows here.







That afternoon the girls wanted to go to the Butterfly Palace, so they dropped Kevin and I up on the White River. We meet several great people who helped us with flies, and we got into our biggest fish of the trip here! This was just below a true bottom release dam, and again the water was in the 50's even though it was in the mid 90's outside.