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Trout on the Upper Mo. need a helping hand
If you ever float the Missouri River between Toston Dam and Townsend you'll surely enjoy a delightful float away from major roads and have the opportunity to observe the area's abundant wildlife. You'll probably see many species of birds, including the majestic bald eagle, and if you're lucky you may see an osprey plunging into the water after a fish. Muskrats and beaver are common along the banks, as are whitetail deer, and you might even see a family of otters. The one thing that probably won't distract you on your float is the quiet slurp of a brown trout rising to a grasshopper under the overhanging willows, or in late October the crash of a hook-jawed male brown during his spawning ritual.It wasn't always this way. If you talk to a trout fisher who frequented this beautiful stretch in the early 1980s you will hear stories of huge brown trout trying to leap the overflow of Toston Dam, or of landing an 8-pound brown hooked on a streamer stripped through a fast riffle.
Fishing the Carson River
Every fisherman will tell you that they have a special trick that works for them. We got up early this morning and met Johnson Lane resident David Small just north of Broken Dam to do a little fishing. David says his trick is a 4-pound test line with a Panther Martin lure that has a gold flasher. He worked with my daughter Jenee and showed her how to cast out and then immediately start reeling the lure back in. If you cast upstream, you reel in kind of fast. If you cast downstream you let the river provide the action and you reel in slower. What a wonderful fishing trip this was. My daughter caught and released three fish. I lost count after David caught and released 15. All the fish they caught were much too little for dinner.
We were fishing with several other fishermen today.
Fly-fishing helps patients recover
When a person is injured, and those injuries are severe, the road to recovery can be a very long, painful journey. Medical experts have come up with a variety of therapies over the years to help their patients get back on their feet, and now they have a new one -- fly-fishing. .
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