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Is there anywhere to fly fish in town? Of course there is. We have one of the countries largest river systems running right through the middle of our city. There is one of the states largest rainbow trout hatcheries by Giant Springs. We also have a number of ponds around town to learn on.

Some places to explore: Wadsworth Pond, The Missouri below Black Eagle Falls (lots of rainbows), The Missouri Below Morony Dam (big trout, lots of smallmouth bass and carp, golden eye, and northern pike), The kid's pond (located up the trail from Giant Springs Park with thousands of small trout) The Missouri above the country club (back eddies have lots of big carp, when you can see them they will eat). We have pictures in the shop of huge rainbows caught by customers on these stretches of the Missouri. Of course we usually like to go after the carp...ocassionally we get a small rainbow when practicing with the 9 weight spey rods...it's a little overkill.

These waters need to be explored. There are guys in town that know where the fish are in town...but they aren't sharing and honestly we havn't figured it out too well yet ourselves. Some of the stories we have heard have become fly shop urban legends. Some guy will come in and tell us a story about big brown trout by Applebees on buggers, or a 15 pound rainbow below the Black Eagle Falls nymphing (picture in the shop...totally hard to believe but there is witnesses). They are there...somewhere.