Headed South of North to the Clearfork River.

Old barn most lilkely from the early 1800's

The wrong message for locking us all up! lol

Seeing my past is not as bad as ignoring it.

Headed south to a place where I cut my teeth on trout. The Clearfork River is a catch and kill fishery, but it does and has some amazing trout opportunities. There are muskies, smallies, and brown trout. What more can an angler wish for? I waded an upper section and sound peace and solitude. The Dam on the upper section was running at 158 cf/s and it was blue green with 2-3 feet of visibility. The rocks have some type of algae growing on them and its awful. If you wade this river at this level know full well your footing will be treacherous. I used an indicator rig with a size 12 nymph on an indicator rig for deep nymphing about 12 feet in total length. I set two split shot small BB size 12”-14” up from the fly. The rock snot was horrible this is the algae I'm talking about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didymosphenia_geminata I picked up one nice 12”-14” buck with the set up that I spoke of before.   

I went below Pleasantville Lake and the water weeds where horrific and the rock snot was worse.  I dont know if the ODNR even knows how bad it really is.  No one can fish it  unless you use a dry fly.  The pools are filled with this weed thats 12"-18" long and swinging flies is darn near impossible.