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Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast

Streamer Season in the Ozarks with Chad Johnson (CJ's Reel Southern Podcast #10)

Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast

Dave Stewart

Leisure, Hobbies, Sports, Wilderness

4.7530 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/875B

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Streamer season is officially here in the Ozarks, and this one is all about slowing things down and fishing with intention. January kicks off the most aggressive window of the year, especially for big browns and smallmouth, and today Chad Johnson is digging deep into how they approach it.

He walks us through why post-spawn is such a key window for them, how aggression bites drive streamer eats, and why presentation matters more than fly choice.  

If you fish the Ozarks (or any tailwater with changing flows) this is one you'll want to bookmark.

Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/875B

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to CJ's Real Southern podcast. I'm your host, Chad Johnson, Flyfishing Guide, Storyteller, and Southern Soul through and through.

0:13.9

From the front porch to the river banks, this podcast is going to be about connection, friends, and maybe learning a trick or two about trophy fishing.

0:24.7

So grab a sweet tea, tie on your favorite fly, and let's go fishing.

0:31.4

Hey, all you flyheads, welcome back to CJ's Real Southern podcast.

0:35.8

I know, I know, wait a minute,'t chad uh chad left us to go

0:40.6

red fishing for a little bit so uh oh and he's pretending that he doesn't have cell service so

0:45.5

that's another another good one of course just bales ghost fishing leaves us to do all the work

0:51.6

absolutely i'm michael i help him out with this tech stuff.

0:54.8

And today we got Morgan Gus with us today.

0:57.6

And he's going to go over your January fly report.

1:01.6

What you got going on there, Morgan?

1:03.4

What's up, guys?

1:04.2

So January, we are starting to kick off really kind of streamer season.

1:10.0

We should start seeing some higher water.

1:11.9

We already have kind of been seeing higher water come through in spurts.

1:17.3

And with that, the streamer fishing has been really good.

1:20.2

So throwing big streamers in that big water has been really productive on heavy sinking

1:25.4

lines.

1:27.2

As you get into that lower water, throwing

1:29.2

some smaller stuff, three to four inch flies is fishing pretty good as well. We are seeing

1:34.3

periods of minimum flow, so throwing small sculpins on like an intermediate line has been

1:42.1

a lot of fun as well. If the streamer thing really isn't for you in that high water throwing mop flies up along

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