Trout Fishing Report for Bennett Spring
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May 10, 2025

by Cory Bennett   

Good morning from Bennett Spring. We have had a great week with several nice lunkers brought up this week. I went down this morning and did a live stream of Bennett. The water level is at 2.12 at the gage house which is great and the discharge is near 220 cubic feet per second. This is much better than the past couple of weeks. The water is slightly stained but you can see fish.


The flies and lures this week has been a toss up between several different flies. Of course, our number one fly this week was the cream mop fly run deep with an indicator. White thread, John Deere mini jig, Tri color glo ball and cream fur bug were also working great for anglers. Marabou was also a great jig for anglers in the black and yellow, black and red, and the shell and white. Rooster Tails also worked great, in Chrome, White, brown trout tinsel or orange. In zone three, Salmon Peach PowerBait and Rainbow PowerBait were anglers choice. I also spoke with a couple of anglers that were experimenting with new techniques in zone 3. They were running a straight hook with the Berkley Power floating eggs with a split shot. This worked well for them and was something for them to add to their arsenal of tricks for Bennett Spring.


Last week was kids free fishing and it turned out great. Several kids looked like they had some nice stringers. I made it down with my little Ellie and she did great with a chrome rooster tail. Thank you to Ben Havens and his team Bennett Spring Concessioners, the Bennett Spring Tying Group and the Ozark fly fishers for everything they do for these events. A lot goes into these events and the hard work shouldn't go unnoticed.




BENNETT SPRING gage height 2.12feet
https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/06923500/#parameterCode=00065&period=P7D

NIANGUA RIVER gage height 2.41 feet
https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/06923250/#parameterCode=00065&period=P7D&showMedian=false



Recommendations


Zone 1 and Zone 2- Marabou-black and yellow marabou jig, orange, white, white & red and shell & white Mopfly- Cream, orange and Chartreus

White Mega worm, Pink Mega worm

zebra Midge-black, olive

Grey Scud or orange scud

Mini jigs-orange, Peach or cream Fur Bug John Deere mini jig and Bedspread mini jig- white thread jig and the peacock mini jig with tail

Glow balls orange, Jimi Hendrix, white, peach and the tri colored original

Zone 3-Orange Spark PowerBait and Salmon Peach PowerBait- White PowerBait, Rainbow PowerBait
Pautzke’s Red label Salmon Eggs




Bennett Spring Events
Bennett Spring Fly Tying Group- Every Wednesday @ 9 at the Bennett Spring

See https://mostateparks.com/events/park/bennett-spring-state-park for more Bennet Spring Events and dates



Have fun, stay safe and tight lines!

Thanks for reading,

Cory

The Guy from Weaver’s



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