Update from the Master...

Someday I will take a trip like my father is on right now--fishing his way across the midwest. I'll be meeting up with him in a few days to fish the San Juan River in NM, then make our way into CO and revisit the Dream Stream as it flows out of the Spinney Mtn. Resevoir.

I guess you could say...I'm a little excited.

The following was taken (without permission) from a recent message during my father's adventure...

Who would have thunk it....Oklahoma has trout....

Spent 7 hours fishing the Lower Mountain Fork of the Beaver's Bend State Park near Broken Bow (as in Choctaw nation) Oklahoma.

My oh my... could a day be so much fun.

Stopped at the fly shop near the river at 9:00 looking for a little guidance ... (in exchange for the customary 8 fly purchase, even though I have the flies already). Got a map from Sid Ingram, former navy Sonar Technican ... we chatted a little dots and dashes .... proceeded to the river formed by the spillway from the Beaver's Bend lake.

This spillway has lower flows than the power generating station which dumps it's water downstream from the Spillway creek portion. so the Spillway creates about 3 miles of very fishable water. I saw about 3 of it today.

Weather was pleasant, about 45 degrees, water was also 45 degrees when I measured at 2:00 PM. The stream below the spillway is a pretty steep grade, sort of like the Gallatin I think. But has the look of the North Branch of the Whitewater. Trees forming canopy over the stream in many places....

Used my 7 foot stowaway from cabela's . 4 wt with 4WF line and three different rigs. Dry Fly dropper worked early in the morning. Then fished a White BH wooly bugger like a streamer in the deep pools... and then in the afternoon a dry fly -- Griffith's Gnat and also a very tiny grey thing #22 with a small gray post. (ala Parachute adams)

I wish I was naming fish today... I started counting at about 10 and caught 40 more fish ... most were in the 9 - 12 inch range. But very fiesty....

Hooked two 15 inch football shaped rainbows on the White Wooly Bugger. They were really sweet. Also, caught a 17 inch Brown Trout .. very plump on a tiny Griffith's Gnat... you can imagine the delight of playing that one in the 4o yard pool. He went north and south a couple times. About 5 minutes of play in him. very nice fish.

Could I top it tomorrow? Well, I'll just have to see.