Big Piney & Montauk Fishing Trip - 9/28/2015

Dan, Jim & I enjoyed a trip this week down to Montauk State trout Park south of Rolla, and also a day float / fishing trip on the Big Piney River. Dan & Jim also enjoyed an extra day of fishing on the Spring River in Arkansas. It was absolutely perfect weather the whole time. Fishing was a little slow but we caught multiple fish every day. Montauk (which is where we stayed) had water level that was down a little and most of the time not crowded, and we caught a mix of stocker size and a number of keepers (I kept a couple to bring home). It's interesting that there's absolutely no phone service down there except for some AT&T service; everyone else is up the creek. Food down there was a little better than in the past. Then going over to the Big Piney River was a really fun adventure. We rented a canoe for Jim and I and Dan used his kickboat. We caught a wide variety of fish, including a couple of largemouth bass (around 13 - 14 inch), some goggle eye (up to 9 inches), longear sunfish, suckers, and of course some smallmouth bass (our main target, up to about 15 inches). I only caught 2 of those but one was a nice one a little over 15 inches. Several others were caught  that were close to that size. We floated from 6X to Ross Bridge, about 7 miles. I managed to lose my fly rod over the side of the canoe in some rapids, but was lucky and retrieved it with no damage down stream a little bit. We were tired by the time it was over. And even my Plantar Fasciitis on my foot got better the more I fished and didn't hurt much (honest!).

Here are a couple of pictures below, and the rest are on this web site:

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Terry