This weekend was absolutely epic in beavers bend. cody (txpacker4) and I could only manage one walleye Friday night, but Saturday all heck broke loose, we caught smallies, spotted bass, trout, sandies, bluegill, and to top it off, a two man limit of both walleye and crappie. All were caught on the fly rod on neer deer flies. Mostly throwing it out 3' deep under an indicator and twitching it back to me.

That's awesome!! I've caught walleye before but not on a flyrod. Them walleye and crappie will be some good eating.

It was definitely a great weekend! A fish basically every cast. Like Nick said. Basically, if it swims in the river, we caught it this weekend. It was an absolute blast! Couldn't have asked for a better weekend. Caught lots of pretty fish in a GORGEOUS environment.

What a trip!

Above you said the fish were caught on "neer deer flies".

Would you share that pattern?

Don't have a picture handy. You can check them out and purchase some here.

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Nice Haul of Walleye. Were you fishing in Zone 3 below the re-reg?

Loooooonnnng walk down zone 2.

yup, wayyyy down the red zone

Whenever I've gone down there and looked this year, the water's up too high. For example, the island past the "lips" is under water. Is there a place down there a person can wade even when the water level's up some?

when water is being generated, you can pretty much count out fishing anywhere downstream of the powerhouse

The problem I've had this season is it remains high hours after generation has ceased. I've been told that that's due to some kind of pipes in the area of the Rereg Dam that are clogged. The funds to remedy the problem have not been found in the budget of the Corps or whoever is responsible. Anyway, that's what I've heard. In past seasons I've loved to go down there, but this one, especially with a lot of my favorite locations upstream having been wiped out and nothing like they used to be, I've been quite disappointed that I can never seem to find Zone II fishable.

Big news: I am now booking broken bow trips, these are NOT trout trips, these trips will be warm water species only, walleye, sandbass, crappie, and black bass will be the general target species but large bluegill, catfish, drum, striper, and trout have been and will be caught as a by-catch. Broken bow is a unique fishery but the warm water fishing is often overlooked in the lmfr.
Rates: $350 for 1-2 people, $125 each additional person.

My first guided trip to broken bow was a success, fishing was a tad slow but clients still managed to get some slab crappie, some big bluegill, a few black bass, some big gar on the fly, and some sandbass, after I left they took my flies to a secret location I directed them too and each of them landed 3 walleye. The crappie fishing may have been a tad slow on this day, but the fish were BIG.



Weekday rates $300 for 1-2 people, $75 each additional person
Weekend rates $350 for 1-2 people, $100 each additional person

hard to beat gar for the fight- looks like a fun outing.

Les

Broken Bow @ Beavers Bend State Park Fishing Guide Report: Lower Mountain Fork River



The fall colors are probably going to start popping out within the next week or two. I'm starting to see some of the trees turning red and orange splotches, getting ready to really pop. Should be a beautiful scenery in the next coming weeks. I think we're at the tail end of the monarch migration. That was a beautiful sight to see, with hundreds of monarchs all around you all day long.

We shared one of our spots with a bald eagle all morning long one morning, perched right above our heads in a tree. I was out scouting in a couple places I've never been before and noticed an eagle dive at a fish. I remembered an episode of one of those Alaskan reality shows where they live in the woods. One of the guys said he follows the bald eagles to the fish, like we follow the Seagulls to the fish. He was right, my new bird friend was definitely on fish that day as we slammed them. He even had some skeletons below his tree of some pretty spectacular fish. Mr. Eagle even made me jealous.

At this current moment the river is semi-full of 10 to 11 inch wild stocker rainbows. They are obviously stocking a couple bigger ones as I saw a couple 20+ inch bows in the Evening Hole and a couple other spots. The big girls get yanked out quick if stocked in a blue zone. Catching small fish is really just not my thing, so right now we are fishing for walleye, smallmouth bass, spotted bass, crappies, and monster bluegills.



My main target is the Walleye right now. I am pretty sure, there are actually more walleye in the river then there are trout now. There is one pocket that we know of that has over 100 baby walleye. 12 to 13 inches. They absolutely just everywhere in the river system. From Spillway Dam to the Red River. There are a bunch of deep pockets from the Spillway Dam to the Evening Hole, but be very careful going there. If you don't have polarized glasses you're pretty much wasting your time. Slick rocks can send you in a 12 ft hole. When your scouting, If you cannot see the bottom of the river in a pocket, there's probably a walleye in there!



~Anyways, we are flyfishing and using spinning tackle. For fly fishing, we are throwing clousers, streamers, and Sparkling Olive Near Deere's at the fish. Clouser colors vary from white and chartreuse, green, green and chartreuse, black, gray and white. Streamers very in all shapes forms and sizes and colors. I tend to do well on olive or black crawfish imitations or shad streamers in white or grey with flash. Most streamers and clousers are 2-4 inches long. On occasion we will hook up on the Game Changer pattern. It's a segmented fly. Very fun to tie and mostly to fish, but, the profile is to big for most of these fish. So weather it's fly fishing or spinning rod, I will get you on these fish. If you would like to learn to fly fish as well, after about two hours max, you will be doing everything on your own. All I will have to do is tell you where the fish are.

Spinning gear: we are using 4 pound mono with a 4 pound floro leader on 7-9 ft rods. We will use rooster tails, tiny flukes, curly grubs, and small jigs used for catching Crappie's like a Thump Buddy in glitter clear, and small cranks like Rapalas. If they just will not hit a lure/fly, we will switch over to live bait ( rarely do I use live bait) which includes earthworms, crickets, and live minnows. Sometimes they want very small minnows or they'll end up wanting 4 inch minnows. You just have to pay attention to the shad hatch and match the size of the bait swimming around. When the sun comes up, the fish move a bit deeper usually. But some days, even on a bright sunny day, they might be sitting in 1 ft of water and sometimes even in the rapids. Most of the time we are off the beaten path power fishing the deep pockets where most people don't venture.



The White Bass are very abundant in the river as well. Just Sunday morning, I landed well over 100 Sandies that were 15-18 inches long with only one small dink on a jig. The fish were ten feet in front of me and would school on the surface chasing my fly. About an hour after that they would not touch an artificial lure/ fly at all. I tried for about 20 minutes to no avail. I threw grubbs cranks rattletraps, rapalas, and all I got was just that one dink. Switched to minnows and casted to the same pocket and immediately hooked up. I caught sandy after sandy for 2 1/2 hours every cast 10 feet in front of me. Sometimes I would catch 2 to 3 Sandy's on the same minnow. But still, they wouldn't touch any lures after that time they quit hitting them. It was very very odd. Normally we don't have an issue catching them with lures and flies. They were just really zoned in on live bait this day ( not normal ) But still super fun with 4 lb mono.



As for the trout, same flies that usually work, work. Near Deere flies still whacking them. White midges and grey RS2's bumped on the bottom. No pics cause nothing was over 15 inches lately. Nothing has changed except for the size of the fish. A few monsters here and there but very rare at the moment. If you have a 3 weight, bring it. Walleye and Sandies I recommend a 5 weight.


For the bait fisherman for trout: bump a real salmon egg on the bottom. Find the Cold Hole and fish your way upstream less than a 1/4 mile and bump the eggs on the bottom with 4 lb line and a small split shot. After you get your limit, please put the bait up and switch to lures to prevent gut hooking every fish after your limit. You may only have one fish over 20 inches out of your six.

I would assume they will start stocking the wild hold overs soon, when it gets a bit colder. But again I've not looked into this, it's just an assumption.


( 17 plus inch fish are active at night mainly but we will still catch some monsters here and there during daylight hours. )

It's very hard for me to fish for trout right now, when the walleye are in the same waters- and they are bigger than most of the trout. If you hire me for trout, so be it then, we will go catch trout.

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