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My dad and I floated Crooked Creek above Kelley's slab on Friday and had a very nice day. Fishing was a little slow - maybe due in part to a front that was moving through most of the day - but just consistent enough to keep us focused. We took a few brownies on top water but did most of our damage with Crazy-dads and Clousers fished on a sink tip. Managed to land this 16+" bruiser on a tan and white Clouser. All in all it was a great day on the water. There's something about floating an Ozark...

As evidenced by these photos from recent guide trips with Forrest Smith, the smallmouth and high-water trout fishing has been superb lately! In spite of all the high water on our tailwaters, the dry fly fishing has been very good with big cicada patterns! The smallmouth rivers are in great shape, and the post-spawn fish have been hammering Clouser Minnows, Wiggle Minnows and various crawdad patterns! To see more big fish pics, check out Forrest’s Facebook Page or his website.

It's hot and the smallmouth fishing can be tough, but we figured out how to catch them... Wear a bigger hat! Well, that and fishing early morning or late evening. Also, concentrate your efforts in or near moving water. And use a Spey rod. Okay, that won't really help, but it sure is fun.

THE SMALLLMOUTH ARE IN FULL SPAWNING MODE ON THE ELK! Scott S.

Todd, thanks for the great info....The Kings fished great last Thursday morning. Matter of fact, the fishing was so great that I left the river to go get my eight-year-old son to come join me. An hour later I got him to the river and the fishing had shut down. It was a weird phenomena that I'm all too familiar with. "We never catch fish" my son said, but before I left the river to get him, I had some of the best numbers of quality fish I had ever caught. The picture is from Sunday morning and the River...