After checking today and seeing no evidence of a fresh stocking, I texted this to Melissa at the spring river hatchery: Merry Christmas Melissa, will we get our Christmas stockings put out this year?😂😂. Here is her exact reply: “Hi Mike, Merry Christmas to you as well. We’ve wrapped up all of our 2022 stockings for the year, so it will be 2023 before we head south again. Thanks” I texted back “Wow, seems like we always get the short end of the stick down here on the Little Missouri!!”
They stocked once in November and once in December on the 6th. No way we got the 5520 fish in November or the 5480 fish in December we were scheduled to get!!! (That’s my opinion) Kinda sad. Don’t know why the Arkansas Game and Fish are wasting our money doing a creel survey on the river when they don’t stock any fish?? If you have any clout with a state Senator or Representative or someone on the Arkansas Game Fish board I wish you would use it and make our case for this river!! I don’t or I would be calling.
Your up to date, guess good news is it’s too cold to fish here, (for me anyway!) it was 5 degrees here this morning. I’m not gonna bother giving you water temps, they are fine!!!🥶🥶🥶 They also have quite a bit of generation scheduled, next weeks schedule has been posted. There are some fish in the river, you just have to hunt them, it’s fishing not catching.
On another note, no one has come forward to claim the rod and reel that “Flyfish” found at Hinds Bluff. You can come by the house and get it if you want it FlyFish, you found it. To ease your minds, since I’m sure most of you went and checked your equipment for a missing rod, it’s not a fly rod!! Appears to be a $19.99 Walmart spinning reel combo special!! Not much rod or reel. Maybe they left it on purpose?😂😂.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 🎆🎊🎈 to all. Tight lines. Mike.
