Hey John !
I'm a 5th generation native from Lookout. I got cousins all over that country.....kinda spooky, actually. To answer your question, fishin' makes anywhere on the way. However, I am easier to convince than my wife on that score. I haven't fished that end of the Pit all that much, but we used to get channel cat up there, and Big Sage reservoir was a great place for bass, as I remember. There's a fella who posts on here, time to time who has shown pictures of some real nice channel cat he catches on flies.
...................Happy travelin'...........................ModocDan

By the way, I had a fella PM me a year or so ago who works for the Missouri Department of Corrections..... They go by MODOC............He thought I might have been an inmate................I got him on the right track straightaway about ModocDan