My Dad won a fishing contest at a large Northern Iowa lake. One prize was a Henry Ibbotson split bamboo fly rod with a Shakespeare auto take up reel. He did lots of opening mornings on trout in some MO spring fed streams.
I learned how to fly fish with that setup and it is in my gun safe.
When young our farm was almost at the juncture of where a large spring fed river met a larger river that had lots of spring input.
I would go across the highway and trout fish to where they both met, I then fished for a few miles down stream and below the shoals it was smallmouth heaven. I loved to catch them, fighters they are. I then could walk home by cutting a few farms between us and the river.
Be there at daylight or feed the mosquitos at dusk, this was prime small mouth time.
I too wondered where you were at. The frist few pictures look like southern MO or Northern AR where there are many rivers that are spring fed. The trees and ridges look right.
The beards also match local boys.
Then you threw in the Muskie, HMM, there are some connifers in the back ground.
So are these in 2 different locations, or one.
Not to fish your favorite hole but what are the GPS coordinates.
