Bennett Spring State Park, Missouri

I will have a coouple of evenings to fish Bennett Springs week after
next. Has anyone had any experience there they would share with me?
Thanks,
Guy

On Jun 27, 7:34*am, Guy wrote:
I will have a coouple of evenings to fish Bennett Springs week after
next. Has anyone had any experience there they would share with me?
Thanks,
Guy

Unless you are intending to take the kids to soak salmon eggs for soft-
bodied hatchery trout, don't waste your time.

1. In Missouri, small lead-head jigs are considered "flies", so there
will be spinning-bubble folks plunking the water beside you.
2. At the state trout parks they encourage -- ENCOURAGE -- folks to
clean their fish and throw the skin, etc, back in the stream !
3. You will be harassed by barking dogs, yelling children who throw
stuff in the water, and the ever-present boombox drivers.

In sum, find a lovely little stream down some dirt road and wade it
for some of the finest smallmouth bass fishing on the continent. Take
streamers you would use for New England brookies and some muddlers.

But don't waste your time at a MO trout park.

cheers (anyway)

oz, who loves the Ozarks

Guy wrote:
I will have a coouple of evenings to fish Bennett Springs week after
next. Has anyone had any experience there they would share with me?

I have plenty of experiences to share about Bennett Springs but I'll
bite my tongue and share instead a bit of advice. Look for the wet
spots on the streamside asphalt first thing in the morning. That's
where the truck dumped all the "fish".

--
Ken Fortenberry

On Jun 27, 7:34*am, Guy wrote:
I will have a coouple of evenings to fish Bennett Springs week after
next. Has anyone had any experience there they would share with me?


Head 150 miles south east and fish the 11-Point-River at Alton, Mo.
More better.
Frank Reid

On Jun 27, 10:23*pm, Frank Reid wrote:
On Jun 27, 7:34*am, Guy wrote:

I will have a coouple of evenings to fish Bennett Springs week after
next. Has anyone had any experience there they would share with me?

Head 150 miles south east and fish the 11-Point-River at Alton, Mo.
More better.
Frank Reid

Yeah...on one of those 2 evenings he has available? I will be on the
11 pt in 2 weeks and won't go unless I have 3 full days minimum.

Yeah...on one of those 2 evenings he has available? *I will be on the
11 pt in 2 weeks and won't go unless I have 3 full days minimum.

Haven't we all done those "evenings" at one point or another?
Frank Reid

On Jun 27, 10:45*pm, Frank Reid wrote:
Yeah...on one of those 2 evenings he has available? *I will be on the
11 pt in 2 weeks and won't go unless I have 3 full days minimum.

Haven't we all done those "evenings" at one point or another?
Frank Reid

Maybe so...
We left at 2:30 am to head out - my youngest son and I - to be able to
have a full day on a stream recently. Met my oldest son on the road
just coming home. I told him he was the saner one of the bunch. It
was a great day of fishing as they almost always are.

Hell, when my wife dragged me to this state I didn't even know a trout
existed within its borders. Having lived my whole life up until now in
places where I never lived more than a mile from a great trout stream
(Yampa in Colorado and Tonsina, Gulkana, and Klutina in
Alaska...tributaries of the Copper), I have had to adjust my
standards. So I get ****y when people get righteous about what
qualifies as a "fish" or what good fishing is. As soon as I stopped
bitching about being here and started figuring out what opportunities
existed, it's been good.

Thank you Gentleman.....hm.hm.
I apprecaite the info. Yes, I have had to lower my expectations due to
the location I live now. 3 1/2 hours to the closest stockers - 14 or
15 hours to SE Colorado. I will check out the small mouth while in MO.
I'm just a trout/steelie type of guy.
Guy

Thank you Gentleman.....hm.hm.
I apprecaite the info. Yes, I have had to lower my expectations due to
the location I live now. 3 1/2 hours to the closest stockers - 14 or
15 hours to SE Colorado. I will check out the small mouth while in MO.
I'm just a trout/steelie type of guy.

If you're in the black hole formed by Kansas, Nebraska and SW Iowa,
then you have my sympathies. Otherwise, I can probably find you
something just as fun as trout/steelies.
Frank Reid

On Jun 27, 8:34*am, Guy wrote:

I will have a coouple of evenings to fish Bennett Springs week after
next. Has anyone had any experience there they would share with me?

Like the others, I personally say stay away but after 3+ years in SW
Kansas I can emphasize with you. However not far from Bennett Springs
is a small spring creek with McCloud Rainbows that has not been
stocked in a generation.

Even though it's not secret and published in at least three guide
books it is a little fragile, email me and I will share it with you.