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Missouri ’s Little Piney Creek is a little known stream, but it is one of the best wild trout streams in the state. Rising high in the Ozark Mountains , this creek starts as a small, ice cold trickle, and it gradually becomes a small river that holds hundreds of trout per mile. This stream is a wade-fisherman’s dream. Often too low to float, it provides a quiet area to target wild rainbows. In all, about 10 miles of stream holds trout, but the creek changes drastically along its course. Read more on this pretty stream at Little Piney

By: David Mann The littlest known trout fishery in the Ozark hills would definitely be the small wild trout streams that lace southern Missouri . These streams get very little pressure, and they provide excellent fishing. But they aren’t for everyone. It takes a lot of work, and a bit of skill to take these stream-bred trout. If you like easy fishing for hatchery raised trout, chances are you’ll only be frustrated. If you enjoy being on a quiet, natural stream, and catching trout on their own terms, you’ll really enjoy this type of fishing. Tactics are pretty universal for catching the wild rainbows that inhabit these small streams. In short, you want to imitate the natural food base. For that reason, if there’s a hatch, fly fisherman that are “matching the hatch”, will generally take more fish than others. When fish aren’t rising, spin fisherman, or fly anglers tossing streamers or nymphs will do quite well. In short, you have to know what the trout are feeding on at that part...