Left for Broken Bow weds night. woke up about 10 am and headed to the river. caught 14 bows.
friday morning i didnt wake up due to barley soda. so when i finally got up it was 1pm. went to lost creek again and zone one, and ended up with 19 bows.
saturday started again about 11am.....freakin barley sodas got me hurtin on sat. but again i did well with 14. all bows, but i did hook a brown but the threw the hook.
sunday morning about 10 am we went to lost creek and it was kinda slow the whole day for me. ended up with only 6 for the day with one being a brown. hooked a big rainbow and had it on the line for about 15 mins, about 18-19 inches...
black and red midges and a fly that i tie were the ticket. it was 50/50 with them droping one from the other. so anyways, here are the pics..........













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I love that place!

Oh my gosh, how cool. The midges, were they solid black, and then others in red? Or were they a combination of black and red?
I just made a few Red A$$ Nymphs, and they have red, green, and light dun in them. I also made them with a ginger hen hackle as well.

guess it was to big- u can go to my photo bucket and see the rest. the link is below

red midges
black midges
my midges
hairs ear nymph
i took 2 trout home for dinner at the camp site. they all had size 14-16 black midges in there stomaches. a couple were almost size 18...... (they were real midges, im saying to match the hatch those would be the hook size.) hatches of flys and gnats start about 4 pm. hex start very late at night. didnt even try the hex hatch at nit.....just to dark for me. almost all the fish were 12-14 inchers on average

Alright, thanks for the tip. I guess they would like my Red A$$ Nymph then...will have to try them out. I don't have many midges in my arsenal.

Nice fish

the fly shops sell midges in broken bow...... use a pheasant tail and drop a red midge about a foot down, then drop a black midge about a foot down as well from that so you have 3 flys on the same line. i put my indicator about 1.5 foot up from the pheasant tail. that was working well in zone one above lost creek. lost creek had the most fish that i could tell. i think due to the 3 day weekend be for last, most of the bait fishermen took a lot out. but this weekend will be good after they stock again thursday.

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Well I cannot wait to go, I hope to go in a few days. Thanks for the extra pics, wow, just beautiful. I have never been there, and not sure what area would be best, but I am sure I will figure it out.

Well, if you go in a few days, that would be just in time for the stocking. By the end of this past weekend, the place was pretty much picked clean - as usual. Those black midges were the ticket for sure, and I had good luck drowning a dry just before sunset. It looks like all images are from Zone 1? If you get frustrated with Lost Creek, I had the most luck on Spillway Creek and closed out the days at the Evening Hole (I call it the fish farm).
I would love to know someone who catches fish regularly in Zone 2 or 3, or even see a recent photo of one of those illusive big Browns. The Brown you have a photo of is the first I've seen in a long, long time. Thus far, the only pictures I see of Browns from there are looking old and faded. shannon

i hooked a brown in lost creek but slipped off. that was the only brown i caught. my buddy caught about the same number as i did sat and sunday. i fished 50/50 in lost creek and cardiac hill areas. never tried anywhere else because i was happy catchin fish and i could see some big one everyonce and a while. i took the nature pics because i was leavin that day and was caught up with my eyes in the river... going next month or sooner to do it all over again

Thanks for giving me a clue where to start out. I have never been there before, so I have no idea where I would like to go. I would prefer to fish off the bank, and fairly shallow wading, like water not above my belly button at most. One reason is my son is coming, and I will probably have to help him out a bit, and I don't want to wade in, and out, risking slipping too. Can anyone tell me of a place there that is decent to stay overnight, with a decent price to go with it? I will basically just use the room for sleep, as I plan to fish just about the whole time there.
You can pm me if you prefer. I just plan to stay one or two nights, preferably two.
I know of a good place in Murfreesboro, but not at Broken Bow.