Anyone know how to get to the falls?

I tried to find it via Google maps but ended up in someone's backyard!!

Thanks

http://www.americanwhitewater.org/content/River/detail/id/2610#tab-map
Hope this helps

Google Earth is your friend. you can see the entire river and spillway creek and a lot of secret places that would otherwise never be found.

denny

Denny, I WAS using Google Earth...lol.
I tried going in from the East side since it was the only street that seemed to reach the falls.
I heard there's a boat ramp close by but no luck.
Also, didn't see anything close on the West side of the river.

Thanks for the map...
I kinda know where it is but don't know exactly how to get there.
That's the rub.

take 70 east past the bridge. There is a little dirtish road (4750?) that turns north off of OK 70. Presby is just north of the cooper creek confluence. It is marked pretty well on Google Maps.

Thanks Jeff!

I may have just taken a wrong turn...when I say backyard, I mean I ran into someone's moonshine stash. =)

Yeah, I have heard banjos out there. Seriously though, check the water temperature before you bother to wet a line for trout. It always looks great, but does it fish great these days? I have seen plenty of very old photos from that area. And that is another area that is snot slippery as I recall.

If you are thinking of wading/walking, don't waste your time there. It's a decent place to fish from a canoe or kayak if you put in at regeneration dam and float down through Presbyterian falls and on down to some bridge where you take out. The Presbyterian falls section is really not fishable. It's more of a whitewater chute. Above and below is decent fishing. I've floated it a couple of times and not seen any trout. We did catch LMB, SMB, one walleye, on channel cat, a few drum, and some perch. The area between regeneration dam and Presbyterian falls is sort of a rock garden. Lots of rocks with pools and water flow in between. Don't get on the river if it is running high or if the whistle sounds from the dam to signal they will be releasing water.

Thanks YAKnIT. I have not made it back out there. I am planning daughter's bday, work, family, etc. I am planning on maybe Nov 1st. ALSO...planning a trip to Missouri. =)

I am headed up there this weekend. Not really fly fishing per se, but will probably float through that section in a canoe. Weather looks good, hopefully the water flow will cooperate as well!

I was told that the PF access had some great trout fishing in the past. I've been curious about it ever since. I was told a couple of other things as well. One is that you have to walk upstream to find the good spots, as another poster here said. The other, not so good thing, was, as you may have partly discovered, it's not supposed to be a "nice" neighborhood. In other words, it's in a remote area of McCurtain County that's not really patrolled, and, in the past, "moonshiners" or meth-cookers, or other quite unsavory characters, had set up shop there and looked in a quite unkindly way toward recreational folks wandering around. Stuff like setting folks camps on fire, etc. These are all rumors, mind you, that were told me by whom I can't even quite remember. I haven't verified any of this, just a word to the wise. Perhaps Jeff or Carey or another with a lot more years of experience fishing Beaver's Bend can say more.

Seriously, there are no trout down there anymore. Check the water temperature. I would love somebody to prove me wrong though! It's a pretty place. I always heard the monster browns were there, but all this is talk is in the past tense, and has been for years.

Presbyterian Falls used to hold lots of trout. And, to answer Jonbo's concerns, it used to harbor a community of unsavory folks.

This area is now more heavily patrolled by game wardens and area police than just about anywhere else on the river. The game warden is a young man, and you can often find him in a kayak on the water.

I have not personally fished the area in many years. I grew up in Paris, TX, and I have fished every corner of Beavers Bend, not always with a fly rod. i started fly fishing about twenty years ago. The water temperature in the lower stretches of the LMF have risen over the years, and the flood took its toll on trout populations below the Re-reg dam.

Zone 3, as it was referred to for as long as I remember, was home to a huge brown trout that set a state record. Of course, one must wonder if there is another lunker trout there that watches the tubers, canoers, and yakkers float by...

A couple of weeks ago, I was fishing with a buddy in Zone II, and got snapped off by a large fish. I was swinging a streamer, a Deena, on 4X fluorocarbon, and the fish wasn't about to even slow down. Water temperature was 67 degrees. I caught other trout in the same spot, and I also caught a nice-sized sand bass.

Back to the Presbyterian Falls, I was there this past summer just sight-seeing. That's when I talked to the game warder there. He is definitely working to make the place safer. He won't hesitate to write someone a ticket for glass or styrofoam containers. As with any remote location in that part of Oklahoma, use caution.

JR

It's horrible Presby Falls, no fish, criminals, trash everywhere....... Don't ever go there

I say that in jest. This section of the river is a gem. I have caught trout there year round however I have not fished it this summer so the higher water temp may have taken a toll. You can wade if. YOU MUST HAVE A STAFF. There are several holes you just have to know how to get to them. If they are generating with one generating thingadoody the water will be up but still wadable in most areas. If they have that generator cranking wide open it's really hard to cross. It's like any other body of water. Put your time in- reap your reward.