Little Missouri Fly Fishing

Looking to make a weekend trip to the Blue in southern OK.   Anyone ever been?  Got any suggestions?

Thanks for the update, Mike. 

As of 12 noon today the bunger valve is still closed. The lake is at 549.05, up 11 feet this past week!!  Langley is at 5 foot, it peaked at 13 feet last week, that's usually enough to blow the fish out of the park!!  The Ouachita river at Camden is at 36 feet, that's 10 foot above flood stage. In opinion that's why they are holding water here, and will continue to hold until the Ouachita peaks at Camden and starts dropping. Makes it scary fishing not knowing when they will open the bunger, especially since they don't blow a siren!!

Guess this will postpone any planed work on the dam. 

Needless to say we got a little rain here last week☂️☂️.

At around 8:00am this morning the Corp closed the bunger valve completely. Don't know for how long, don't know if they are worried about flooding Camden because of the rains coming, don't know if they are starting work on the dam, just don't know anything other than there is no flow on the LIL'MO' right at this moment 🥴🥴.

Still no sigh of any recent stocking.

This morning the Corp opened the bunger valve to 95%!!  River is currently un wadeable!!  I've heard rumors of them starting work on the dam🤣🤣🤣🤣. Just as I've heard for the past year!!  Anyway, no fishing until who knows when.

The lake is currently at 539.37, we will see how low they go. Also there is no sigh of any fish being stocked this past week.

Was advised that fish from the Jim Collin's net pens were stocked at Albert Pike last Wednesday the 19th of March. I would bet they were all dumped around the car wash bridge.

Here on the lower river they are still running at minimum flow. No sign of any stocking last week. Hope we get stocked next week, the river could use some fresh fish. Fishing is really slow down river past the couch hole at River Ridge.

As of 5:00am Thursday March 20Th the river is wadeable. They are still running the bunger at 7% or minimum flow. That makes the river a little deep in some of the normal fishing areas. The river is still cloudy, yes almost impossible to see the bottom in over 1 1/2 foot of water.  That makes for tough wading. The water temperature is: COLD!!  It's also 42 degrees air temperature at this time, putting my "50 degree" rule in play. I plan on fishing today at 51 degrees.🥶

Look for fish in places you haven't before. Those areas that were too shallow to hold fish before, are now 2 foot deep, perfect!!  The river needs stocked but there are fish to be had. Hope this answers some of you questions about fishing today!? 

Remember, you can never step in the same river twice.

Quote from: HEN on Mar 19, 2025, 09:10 AMWater clarity is still cloudy. It's coming off the bottom of the lake thru the bunger valve. You just have to Wade slowly!!!  When you're almost 80 years old like me there is no such thing as wading safety anyway!🤣. Ok Ugly Flies, why don't you post a picture of that ugly fly that's so good?? 

I see no reason that they should open the bunger past the current minimum flow of 7%. The lake is still at 539 and no significant rain in site. River should remain wadeable.

I'm interested to see this fly too!

Water clarity is still cloudy. It's coming off the bottom of the lake thru the bunger valve. You just have to Wade slowly!!!  When you're almost 80 years old like me there is no such thing as wading safety anyway!🤣. Ok Ugly Flies, why don't you post a picture of that ugly fly that's so good?? 

I see no reason that they should open the bunger past the current minimum flow of 7%. The lake is still at 539 and no significant rain in site. River should remain wadeable.

No.we start out at the low water crossing ie: car wash. Maybe fish there a hour or two with good luck and then decided to move down to the swimming area. And had good luck there also. All the came on a New  fly we tie last November to go fly fish the little Red. The pass February during the ALTO event in Murfreesboro we came down to the little Missouri River and war them on this new fly.