Little Missouri Fly Fishing

Haven't posted lately because there has been nothing to post!!  River has been running steadily now for 2 weeks. They did slow the flow some about 2 days ago.☹️☹️. They were taking around .60 foot per day, now it's .33 foot per day. Just takes longer to reach their goal when they do that. I've still seen no sign of any work starting 🤔. The lake is at 539.3. If the target is 534, they only lack 5 feet.

On a bright side I did notice that the AGFC stocked here on high water sometime this past week.

Will keep you posted. Last time they cut the flow, they quit bungering a few days later??  We will see what happens this time.

Made a day trip to Albert Pike to try out a new fly, we tie in November to fish on the little Red,it work very well. It didn't disappoint us on Albert Pike.
We put 4 of 5 dozen in the net in 5 hours. If you have any time this next week you should make the trip to Albert Pike.
Ygly fly catch fish.

They weigh about twice as much as a graphite rod.  However, the "swing weight" is much heavier.  Mine is only 8' and it feels like a piece of lumber compared to my Helios. 

I find that when I fish my bamboo, I'm good for about an hour before I start to feel fatigued and after 2 hours, I'm done.  With my graphite rods, I can go 6-8 hours.

They're fun to fish, but I definitely can't fish as long with it.

Thats a good point - the longer bamboo rods can be heavy - but the shorter ones are usually pretty light in the hand - i just really enjoy fishing them and they are beautiful as well.
You do have to slow your cast down - but a fish on one is really fun. 

I have a Wright and McGill bamboo rod.  There is a nice feeling to bamboo, but honestly, the swing weight is really heavy and it's hard to fish with it more than an hour or two at a time.  It just wears you out.  There's no way I could do an all day fishing trip using bamboo. 

Any of you ever fish bamboo
If so - what kind of bamboo rods do you use , collect, etc ?

Just got home and the river is running full force, not able to Wade fish!!  It was opened up sometime between 8:00 am and 12:00 noon while I was gone. I'll assume we are in for two or three weeks of solid running. Robert knows what time it happened, he was here fishing when I left home?. 

At 4:30 am Sunday morning the bunger valve is still closed. 👍. The Ouachita at Camden is expected to crest at 32 feet on Wednesday, 6 feet above flood stage, will be interesting to see what the Corp does here Monday? Don't think they will dump this water on Camden even though the lake is steady rising and Langley is at 6 feet so lots of water coming down to the lake!!  They have a little dilemma of what to do in order to begin work on the dam and do flood control too.

Fishing has been good the past couple of days. Nice fat healthy fish!!🎣. If you get the chance better enjoy it because it may be another long generation period when they do start back. Looks like you will have to bundle up to fish next week 🥶🥶, yes Jeff it will be 2cold2fish for me!! That's IF they hold water beginning Monday, will try to post as soon as I know they opened up again.

Yep! That's usually what determines the unexpected shut offs. Downriver and even to the Ouachita gets too high and they'll shut it down!

Most unexpected shut down I ever saw was when a stolen vehicle was driven into the river down stream somewhere! They shut it down in a heartbeat!!! 😏

Today at approximately 3:00pm the Corp closed the bunger valve!  Don't know why or for how long but at this posting the river is wadeable. The lake is at 540.64 and Langley is running at about 5 1/2 feet. Only reason I can think of as to why they stopped is Camden hit flood stage on the Ouachita today and the Lil' Mo' was dumping a lot of water in there. Be careful, they might start back at any moment!!