Our Trips

Here is some information about our latest trips…

Trips: Finger Lakes State Park

Between 1964 and 1967, Peabody Coal extracted 1.2 million tons of coal from a site only about 10 miles north of Columbia, MO.  Of course, an intensive strip-mining operation on that scale drastically altered the landscape. Peabody made some effort to address the resulting scarred land and to stock the … Read More…

Trips: A Wet Wade Special

A short notice fishing trip to Montauk was able to attract six members this week. We started off with four of us meeting at the Eureka lot, Jim Craig, Scott Payne, Vern Preston, and Bob Hassett. Not the usual banter on the way down this time. We had some sleepers … Read More…

Trips: Floating the Eleven Point

July 11-12, 2022Three adventurous FATC members (AL Harper, Denny Garner and Dan Staggenborg) decided make the drive 4 hour from Chesterfield, MO to explore the Eleven Point River near Alton, Mo. in a 2 day fish and float.The first section selected was from the Hwy 19 bridge (just below Greer … Read More…

Trips: Colorado Smash Time

Here’s a Rocky Mountain Fishing report from Charlie Trankler who met up with our two Colorado FATC members, Greg Krochta and Tim Graham, in the Rockies. Looks like they did pretty good!! Over the 4th of July week I flew out to Denver to meet up with a couple of … Read More…