Trout Fishing Report for Bennett Spring
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June 21, 2025

by Cory Bennett   

How's Fishing?

So yes it has been a while, but I am back with another fishing report. The weather has not been very exciting the last couple of weeks but the water levels are looking much better, Fishing has been good even with some of the high water. Several anglers have been catching but the trick has been getting the fly or jig as deep as you can go. The water is murky but it's not chocolate milk like it has been. The summer is officially here and families are starting to pile into Bennett for vacation. The good news is that the forecast looks to be dry for the next several days-hot-but dry.


So what's working?   

Marabou Jigs, In (black and yellow), (green and black), (red and black) and (green and yellow). A couple of anglers were doing well with the John Deere Mini jig running it deep. A few other jigs that got mentioned this week several times was the peach fur bug. Olive and also brown roaches have been very useful. Stripping flies has been pretty good with a crackleback or wooly. I even did well with a size 12 Griffiths Gnat. Dry flies has been hit or miss but the anglers that have been drying say that elk hair caddis and smaller Light Cahill have been working for them. As far as Rooster Tails- Every customer that comes in says a different color that is working but greens, oranges and pink have been the most popular up here. Also brown has been working well too. In zone three, worms, Salmon Peach PowerBait, Orange PowerBait and Sherbet PowerBait have been working awesome.

I hope everything is getting a great start to their summer and hope to see all of you soon. Good luck, be safe and as always, I'll see you on the stream.






Stream conditions


BENNETT SPRING - gage height 2.45 feet
https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/06923500/#parameterCode=00065&period=P7D

NIANGUA RIVER - gage height 2.54 feet
https://waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-location/06923250/#parameterCode=00065&period=P7D




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





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 Bennett Spring Events and dates



Have fun, stay safe and tight lines!

Thanks for reading,

Cory

The Guy from Weaver’s




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