Spring Outing - WindRush Farms Trout Stream

April 18 - 19, 2008

April 18 - 19, 2008, is the Heart of America Fly Fishers Spring Outing to WindRush Farms Trout Stream. WindRush offers 2 miles of a private spring branch tributary of the Upper Meramec River. There is a wide variety of pools, runs, and riffles. It is stocked daily with trout that average twelve to fourteen inches in length. The biggest anybody has caught so far weighed nine pounds but they see lots of three to four pounders.

The catch & release rod fee is $50 per day. On side lodging offers The Cabins, 8 units in 2 refurbished 1840’s log cabins. Each unit has 2 double beds plus a furnished kitchen and bath. Cabin rents for $100 per night. Solitude is a cabin that sits in a mature oak woods and with a large deck that overlooks a two acre spring-fed lake stocked with trout. The cabin has a dining room, kitchen, large living room with a fireplace and two bedrooms that sleeps 6 comfortably. Solitude rents for $175 per night.

There are plenty of other activities in the area, antiques in St. James, Steelville and Salem. They have cut hiking trails along the creek and up the ridges.

For more info checkout their website at www.windrushfarms.com.