"Bill Kiene" wrote in message
om...
I fished the Missouri once about 15 years ago and I thought that was early
on? Wow.......you lucky dog.

Never made it to Clark Canyon but heard it had some hot fish?

--
Bill Kiene


It helped that I lived on the Missouri, but I didn't even know how good I
had it....

I started fishing the Missouri in the mid 70's, it was open year round, and
as long as you were fishing sometime other than the general stream season,
you literally had the river *all* *to* *yourself* - miles and miles of prime
flywater, heavy hatches, and *really large trout*...

Any local pressure was mostly bait flingers, going after the shark sized
Browns that lived at the base of Holter Lake, feeding on perch puree
(turbine sushi).

Even after the general opener, pressure was light, very light...and you
could have entire runs all to yourself no matter the hatch or season (not
one single drift boat all week end day).

Rightly or wrongly, I guess it was Gary Lafontaine that was most responsible
for shinning the spotlight on the upper 'Mo, it's true the river needed
friends, but somedays I think they are loving it to death.