Trout Fishing Report for Bennett Spring
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October 18, 2024

by Cory Bennett   

How's Fishing? I know! I know!, I haven't done the fishing report in a second but it's back again this week. It's probably not a good excuse but when I was supposed to be writing the report, I may or may not have been fishing.:-)  We have had some great weather the past couple weeks and the fishing has been good too.  We haven't seen rain in a while so the water is pretty low  and running very slow. With that being said, I would stick with a smaller line. I normally use 4 pound Vanish 100% fluorocarbon and it has worked but I've noted the bite has been a little slower so I've switched to 6x fluorocarbon tippet. On the drift, anglers have done well with RGN's and also the small white thread jigs. Orange mop fly has been a good drifter this week for some anglers. Brown and Olive roaches were also popular this week and worked well. Dry flies have been fun. Elk Hair Caddis, Renegades and Cahill have been working the best for me. I also have been throwing a simulator which is very similar to a caddis.

If you like stripping cracklebacks or woolys, The Bennett blue has been solid along with the pumpkin or red in the crackleback category. 

Pink Rooster Tails and White Rooster Tails have worked well for anglers. I watched a family limit out in about 10 minutes with a sparkle pink Rooster Tail near the whistle bridge 

In zone 3 Power Worms in orange and white were working great for a couple of angers I spoke with. Salmon Peach and the Rainbow are 2 PowerBaits that are working well. These two are usually a go for several anglers.

I hope everyone gets a chance to make it down one last time before the catch-and-keep season ends. Have a great weekend everyone, Good luck, be safe and I'll most likely see you on the stream.  

BENNETT SPRING gage height 1.62 feet https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/06923500/#parameterCode=00065&period=P7D

NIANGUA RIVER gage height 0.88 feet https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/06923250/#parameterCode=00065&period=P7D&showMedian=false

Recommendations 

Zone 1 or 2

RGN-Olive, Golden Olive, Olive
Mopflies- Cream, orange and olive

Dry Fly- Renegades, Klinkhammers, Griffiths Gnats, Quill Gordon

Crackleback- Bennett Blue, Olive, Pumpkin or Red

Mini Jigs

John Deere 

Angry Deere

Bed Spread

Bed Spead floss jig

white floss jig

White Mini Jig

white grub mini jig

Glo Balls-Apricot, orange, white, tri color original and Jimi Hendrix 
Marabou - black and yellow, Light Pink, Crawdad tricolor,-moss and orange
Rooster Tails -Glitter Orange, Glitter Pink, Tensile Brown Trout

Zone 2 

Super Duper- Gold, Silver or Rainbow 

Anything you fish in zone 1 you can also fishing in zone 2

Zone 3

worms
Cheese PowerBait 
Salmon Peach with or without glitter PowerBait

Pink Glitter PowerBait

FL Orange with glitter PowerBait

Events

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

I hope everyone has a great rest of the weekend. Thanks for reading, 

Cory Bennett

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