The Current River rising at Montauk Springs is the Ozarks' other trout story — not a deep cold dam tailwater but a spring-fed river bubbling up clear and constant from the Missouri karst, the headwaters running through Montauk State Park before the river turns wild and floatable downstream. It offers a different kind of Missouri trout water from the tailwaters: stocked rainbows in the park water on a daily-tag system, wild rainbows and some browns in the cooler reaches below, and a float-and-wade character through the bluffs and gravel. Missouri trout fishing is its own world of parks, permits, daily tags and blue-/red-ribbon zones, so this page is best treated as an overview of the spring system rather than a precise per-reach rulebook. A trout permit is needed to possess trout away from the park; inside the park it's a daily tag. Stable, pretty, and a complete change of pace from the generation rivers.
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