Little Missouri Fly Fishing

Thanks for the update Mike!

While I was fishing at Broken Bow today, at about 10:00 am they dropped the flow on the river to the 7% discharge rate.  That's what I'm calling minimum flow. The river is now wadeable. The lake is at 538.31 and there is no sign of any work starting on the dam???🤔. Langley is still at about 5 feet so there is a lot of water still to come down the river.

There should be some strong healthy fish in the river. I know they stocked at least once since this round of bungering started a few weeks ago.

Thanks Mike, appreciate you.

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?.