Explosive August

An Explosive August:

Fishing the mid-south in August is a tough time.  Trout would be dead in most waters around here.  The few trout waters are packed with fishermen bank to bank.   The rest of the waters have become too hot for even bass, leaving carp and Drum fishing.  But if you are willing to search you can find you’re favorites.

I started the month off with brown trout.

After a solid hunt on the Current River in Missouri, I headed to some closer, more local Kansas Waters.  Here, it’s time to sight fish.  Drum are very under rated.

But the normal summer time heat broke.  Left with temperatures in the high eighties instead of low hundreds, I decided I need to try something a bit more multi species.  I went to the largest out-let river I knew of.  There I hopped for gar.  If you hunt Gar, you do it with big gear, flies either need to be treble hooks or rope. 

But of course they did not want to play.  Instead I encountered dozens of tiny bass, and a few white bass before I found a nice nest of wipers.

Say what now?  Maybe I need to find a new spot!

A day later I found my carp and drum spots slow on the local lake.  But a surprise was in there, the small mouth made my day.

Adapt, change, and add a bit of the Bizarre.  You never know what you’ll find.