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ColdWaterFshr

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  1. Brother in-law who lives in Hollister sent me this picture of the Hilton on the landing.
  2. This past weekend the Current fished a lot like the Meramec. Had to work hard for very few fish. Didn't even see many fish.
  3. No -- you guys are actually in the wrong and are on the "wrong side of the Christian County line" as the song goes. I grew up in Springfield and that area really is all private property and has been for years. I used to trespass on foot above Linden, but I was sneaky about it. If you want to trespass, I say go for it, but know that you assume the risks. Its not navigable above Linden. It is, but not really in the broader sense. Its a seasonal creek up there.
  4. Excellent video. Takes me back to grade-school too, Ness, and the whir of the 8mm film projector. And the narrator -- is that the guy that narrated the Waltons as the voice of an older John Boy?
  5. That sign looks like it could be hungry for a high velocity tater.
  6. below the dam after all the gates have been wide open for about 3 days straight, its purty good I hear
  7. Al - I hear what you are saying, but I'd put habitat as a distant 2nd to the stringer fishermen. Floods constantly change habitat and create more logs in the water, change the river in many ways. Okay, I'll grant you land-use abuse/gravel-mining, riparian corridor abuse, etc.
  8. Enforcement is the key. Regulation changes don't amount to a hill of beans until there is adequate enforcement (and judges) to back it up. Those that don't pay attention to the existing regs are not just a problem with smallmouth, but also the much more "precious" and higher-angler valued and almighty missouri trout. The local meat-hunters and chronic catch and keepers don't really differentiate, and they sure don't care to read whatever the latest rules are. I'm convinced that THEY impact however many big fish are around in a given stretch of water 100 times more than any 1-fish 18" or 4-fish 15 inch, or slot idea you might throw out. Splitting hairs. The point I'm making -- if MDC can't effectively enforce 100 miles or so of trout water, how is any reg change going to adequately be enforced over 3-4,000 miles of Missouri smallmouth water? Its not. If smallmouth bass were to be made catch and release only effective tomorrow, on all bodies of water, I don't think we'd see any difference in 10 years whatsover unless enforcement were to be seriously stepped up right along with it.
  9. Sounds like it was pirates. I myself have had a few scrapes with pirates on ozark waters, but probably my most shocking memory was back in the early 60's when my dad, Paul Dallas, had just got out of prison and he rented a boat out of the Main Street Dock there in Branson. He wanted to take the family on a joy ride but his secondary motive was to retrieve some spanish gold coins that he had stashed inside a no wake buoy just downriver from Branson. We no more than got around the bend past Kan-a-Komo when here comes this gypsy boat haulingass up river and firing a CANNON at us. In fact one of the cannonballs skipped right off the water 20 yards in front of us and sprayed water all over me and my brother as it sailed over our heads, missing us by inches. Of course Dad was never one to lose his composure in a high speed chase, so he throttled it and ordered me to steer the boat directly into the oncoming pirate ship while he got out his 6-shooters, one in each hand, and blazed away. He screamed at the top of his lungs, "Fill Your Hands You Son Of a B", which then later became the inspiration for the book made into a movie, "True Grit" starring John Wayne.
  10. Lets pull the plug on this thread. Sorry for those I offended with my comments about wannabe heros or vigilantes. Lets go fishing sometime, SB.
  11. Let me just say I stopped playing "cops and robbers" when I was about 9.
  12. Sorry you went through that Smalliebigs. I remember that horrible night, though not quite as up close and personal as you. And I know a couple of the Kirkwood cops, one fairly well. For whatever it is worth, I'm pretty certain he doesn't carry when he is off duty, but . . . I forgot what my point was. I'm glad we have the right to bear arms. But for me, there is going to have to a whole lot more crazies around before I'd want to tote that kind of responsibility around. The Cookie Thortons of the world are random and few and far between fortunately . . . .and the overwhelming majority of the general public are genuinely good and compassionate . . . this isn't Somalia. I would probably have to pull up tent stakes on this country if it got to the point where I felt I needed 24/7 armament. I trust in our law enforcement and their responsiveness to get the job done. And on a trout stream or creek?? I guess I don't get it, but I don't begrudge you your rights. One of my good buddies has the CC permit and I've fished with him many times while he's had his 9mm tucked in his waders. I tease his Rambo vigilante butt about it every chance I get, but he's stuck on it, just like all you wannabe heros. Just remind him to check that safety often and stay off the sauce.
  13. Sounds like your oil mix is a bit rich, and no it cannot be adjusted without doing a lot of complicated calculations and having in your possession a suitcase full of expensive, proprietary tools. Here's what you do. Get a pair of really sharp scissors. Pull the pull-cord on that thing about halfway, then take your scissors and cut the pull cord. Remove the gas line from the can, remove all iginition wiring and steering rods. Then, with the help of a really good friend with a strong back, take the whole motor off the transom and ease it in to the water real gentle like and watch it sink to the bottom of a cove that you never caught any fish out of. Or you could send a PM to Fishinwrench.
  14. You're going to need at least hip waders if you want to cover any ground. In the summer, that place is a jungle into which I don't venture, but you could easily wet-wade if you don't mind chiggers, spider webs, thorns, and poison ivy. Long-flat pools, I really mean slow water, avoid the slow water, but that is generally the shallower water anyway. Focus on water where there is at least some depth and current. Its pretty common sense where the fish are in that creek. Getting a good cast to them in a way that doesn't spook them is the challenge.
  15. Moderately priced in fly fishing could mean anything from $70 rod to $500 rod. I've got a Cabela's 3-Forks, 3-pc, 3wt that I picked up for $29 and I like it as much or better than my St. Croix Legend Ultra 3-wt. Don't get caught up in price, cast a few and see what you like.
  16. I'll throw in, 1, 2 or 3 wt rod, 7'6 med soft action, or no longer than 8', I don't own anything lighter than a 3 weight, but I'd really think a 2 or 1 weight would be sweet for this creek. 7x will have you losing and retying a lot due to the brush and canopy, 5x is almost always as light as I go unless i want to fish some very tiny dries (not often). As Mic said, they'll hit bigger dries, 12-16 just fine. Stay out of the water as much as you can, and that includes your fly line. Don't waste time on long flat pools, and wade/travel upstream as you go, not the reverse or they will see you coming. As others have said, stealth is critical, especially if you want a chance at the bigger fish (12-16 inchers). The little ones will calm down and cooperate again within 30 seconds of you spooking them, but not the bigger fish.
  17. JD - you lost me on this one, and I'm generally a fan of yours, love all your work. Let me see if this is right --- You got out of your truck already holding a loaded gun, and THEN suddenly became aware that you were about to become a target of some thugs, but they saw you with a gun, and turned tail and ran? Is this correct? And you say "open carry" MAY be a deterrent??? I'd say it would almost be an absolute deterrent, but we'd all be characters living in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome I suppose. "Peel rubber, Vern, we're not mugging that grandma with a bag a groceries, she just gotta out of the Buick with a .44 in her free hand, lets go to Starbucks an slay some pacifists!"
  18. Good ole Michael Scott. He cracks me up everytime. Getting ready to start reading "The Man Eaters of Tsavo" - a true story that was recently adapted for a movie which I haven't seen yet. Its from the early 1900's and is about a pair of lions that got a taste for human blood and these british chaps were trying to build a railroad bridge in Africa, and these lions were apparently not having any of it, so they kept dragging off the workers (about 100 or so) and eating them one by one.
  19. We did manage to obliterate that pill-box, didn't we, Ness? I think it was the 3rd potato mortar that finally silenced it. We were way out of range for our AR-15s to have any effect.
  20. Only genuine Idaho russets were used, not some cheap Brazilian imported spuds.
  21. Furthermore, we cleared all fauna including mountain lions downrange and carefully cordoned off a 1/4 mile target field.
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