The first two pics are George Cooper and Katie Eckman from TRCP with a couple pigs. The bottom photo...a pig in training?
September is a funky month on the Mo. When the weather is right, the fishing can be stupid good. What we have right now is hot and windy...that's not the right weather. The fishing was really good for a while and then as the temps started coming up, the fishing started slowing down. Last Thursday I took Wes from Bell Cross Ranch out and although we got a few good fish, it was tough. The last few days I took off to go chase elk and when I returned, the fishing reports were pretty abysmal.
I took a couple guys out yesterday booked through Pete Cardinal. They are long-timers out here and know the drill. We started out slow with the wind really messing things up in the Canyon. The problem is the seams get blown away from the bank and the fish move around. Plus you just can't get a drift. We wound up pushing through the Canyon and getting out in the flats where the wind was more consistent and actually did really well in the afternoon. We landed about a dozen good fish in the afternoon with a few browns in the 20 inch range. Not bad for the conditions.
The other factor, probably way more significant than wind and heat, is that there are absolutely no bugs. We didn't see a single pseudo yesterday and only a handful of caddis. So what do you do? Throw the big stuff again. Fish have to eat eventually so you might as well try to conjure up a few opportunistic fish on the big uglies. We didn't throw any terrestrials but we did go big and deep and we did get a few nice fish.
This weekend is suppose to cool off a lot and it might even rain. That should kick-start their appetites a bit and we should get bugs!
Keep 'em where they live...
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