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8:05 am
January 31, 2010
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Flintchips
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Thought I should introduce myself since I've been reading this forum off and on for a while. Most of my fishing is in the spring creeks of Northeast Iowa, but I do get down into the Ozarks at least a couple times every year. I live in Southeast Iowa, just outside Fort Madison. This is no man's land for trout, but I can go about three hours North or South when I get a couple days off and get to good water. Only been trout fishing for a few years, but since I started I don't do much else. Mostly I like to wade the smaller streams, and carrying a flyrod and camera gives me a good excuse to go exploring. (I have some decent pictures, but haven't taken the time to learn how to post them yet.) I've fished the Current below Montauk several times, and spent a little time on both the Meramec and the Niangua. Not the trout parks – I've tried but just can't get into that experience. I'm hoping to get more familiar with some of the smaller Ozark streams this year. I'm sure no expert, but would try to help if anyone needs some information about a trip to Iowa.
Dan Mueller —- Flintchips
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8:56 am
February 4, 2010
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fiveweight
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Post edited 8:58 am – February 4, 2010 by fiveweight
If you're looking for small wadeable water, you're probably not going to be around more fish than you are on the Current just because of the presence of the trout park upstream which dumps a ton of fish into the stream along with regular stockings. But if you are looking more for the small water experience, read descriptions of the streams under "Where to go". This site has a very good – perhaps the best – resource for descriptions of every trout water. Also take a little bit of time to watch Matt and Brian's Missouri Trout Oddysey from last year and this year. The videos they made show a little bit of every trout stream in the state.
A lot of the streams are fairly close to each other. Your best bet would probably be to pick one or two and focus on them for a weekend though if you're looking for a sampler you could fish Mill, Spring Creek, and the Little Piney all in the same day without ever driving more than 45 minutes between them. Check the water levels on the USGS site, those spring creeks can get blown out bad after rain or snow meltoff, and tend to stay that way for a week or so.
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8:25 am
February 6, 2010
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Flintchips
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Thanks fiveweight.
I'd planned to swing thru MO this past week on Thur-Fri, but job issues required me to cancel that trip.
Spring Creek had been my plan. From some reading on this site and others it sounds like access can be touchy on that stream.
About how much public access, productive water is there on that stream?
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3:22 pm
February 8, 2010
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Gavin
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You can access Spring by the bridge, at the TU lot, or up off the Forest service road. Only the lower portion of the creek. Maybe a mile or two of it is open to public fishing, but its not easy to cover alot of ground due to some long deep holes, and nasty underbrush. The rest of the trout holding portion is owned by a very prominent Missouri family. I've heard its good up there but you better be invited.
Nearby Mill Creek has much better access and better fishing, IMO. Cheers.
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12:14 pm
March 5, 2010
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MattTucker
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Spring Creek can be pretty tough. Welcome to the forum. Sorry about the late Welcome. I will make a better effort to check in more from time to time. Check out the Little Piney and Mill Creek if you are going to make the effort to come down while you are here.
–Matt Tucker
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