Devan S.

Good report. I'm thinking I'm going to head out this weekend. Seeing several reports of a better striper bite the last couple days so figure I will give it a shot.

Columbia College in Rolla probably made a nice chunk of money on Rolla grads who couldn't pass any calculus among other classes. As for the Ammo and panic buying. I am not convinced we will ever see any amount of surplus ammo in the market place again. Demand is constantly increasing. Suppliers would be crazy to flood the market and kill their own prices. Its nearly a perfect storm for them.

No not for a living. More of a second job. Just run about 35 head of momma cows. The benefit is that I can sell out or cut down to get through winter and buy back in later if I want too. I cannot imagine having my entire livelihood hanging on the balance or rain or sunshine.

Yes sir. Growing days are about over. We need rain bad.....like 4-5 inches over a week or better. Already planning on selling calves early and culling old momma cows.

I'm not sure how but generally I would think a dead patient is the hardest one to collect on. Unless the gov. in this case is paying out to cover costs and then its likely going to mega hospitals with ICU capacity, ect. Local clinics likely aren't making much more than they would on a head cold. I know a couple people who have tested positive. In every case, their regular clinic/doctor said stay away, don't come here, go to health dept. or if serious go to ER. No script, nothing, just sit at home, rest, hydrate, and let your body do its thing until you cannot breath.

You know this is probably the best lesson for all of us. Earlier this year I took my boat over to Lake Leatherwood and fished. Came back to the ramp and 2 older gentlemen were struggling to put in a smaller bass boat on a unimproved ramp. I set and waited for what seemed like forever to me. It may have been 10 or 15 minutes after all was said and done they didn't even take off just pulled on bank and kept loading stuff in the boat. We took out in a jiffy and one of them stopped us, thanked us for being patient, and proceeded to tell us their minds and bodies didn't work like they use too. They come out to Leatherwood to enjoy themselves without the hustle and bustle of the bigger lakes. I honestly felt bad driving out of there. While I had been nice and patient on the outside, my mind wasn't. While I was never downright mean, I'd be a liar if I didn't say I had thoughts that they should have been doing something else or at a minimum let us pull out first. We all need to slow down a little bit. Life's to short to worry about things that don't matter in the grand scheme and you never know the struggles of someone else.

I seem to have much better luck with HP and GW than I do local deputys and city cops. They really do seem to be looking for something to do. I was at Beaver last year and fishing around Indian Creek when we heard talking in the brush. From the sound of it the game warden was watching boats load up and then getting them when they pulled up the hill out of sight of the ramp. Great ploy to not have to chase down a law breaker when you pull up to the ramp and they scatter.

The spro's work pretty good for me and the winter early spring walleyes. I throw some megabass in the +2 because I like the increased depth but I really feel I catch more fish on the spro. Been buying and paints a lot more knock offs and while they work I still think the spro is a better deal all in.

My one citation came from MN ice fishing. Was just stupid mistake buddies and I ran from hut to lodge to get burgers....left lines down and unattended. Came back and started punching holes away from the shack and fishing. Warden pulls up and checks us. One buddy has license in hut. Warden follows. Finds unattended lines. Counts them and as a group were 1 over number of lines we can have in the water. We admitted fault and negligence. No harm no foul. He says should be writing each of us a ticket for unattended and one of us for extra line. Offers to write 1 ticket and we work out who takes it. They both big game hunt out of state. In the interest of not hampering their draw results ect. I took the ticket and they paid. Nice reasonable guy that just realized we made a stupid mistake.

I'm with you. Plenty of fish. Only decline I have noticed is it doesn't seem to be as many large fish but that's to be somewhat expected considering the COVID free-for-all that happened this spring. I believe some of the trout are coming from a private hatchery. The couple of raceways that are open and holding fish had some golden trout in them. I assume none of the state run hatcheries raise Golden trout. Think they probably came/come from a private that may be serving as a backup.

A lot of truth in this.........my closest almost accident was about 1 a.m. and involved a swimmer in the middle of the lake without any means to give away his location.

I like to keep ya'll reminded of how quickly the tables can and do turn. Still in a drought in a significant portion of the White River Drainage basin and doesn't appear to be any relief in sight. Did a quick check of the NWS Springfield. YTD- 40.16" precipitation Normal value is 33.06 Already 2" rain behind for September. August was 2.5" short of normal. July was 1" short of normal. June was short too. We darn near got the entire years precipitation in the first 5 months of the year. I'd say the dam system did exactly what it was supposed to do. Beaver and TRL are steady at normal levels. BS dropping steady.

There's enough room in that area that 5+ boats wide could run both ways. If common sense were used. I wasn't there and I don't know any of the details. I always approach that area goings both ways just right of middle lake and I ALWAYS look behind me before I get there. I bet I've been passed by faster boats 20+ times on the left. They shave off the point going by there and then by the one straight across from Viney. Good news is I've never seen a boat shave the point going downstream across from Viney. As you've said its blind and there is a lot more boats launched there than you or I think. That being said I would think that the boat going downstream would have to be way right(nearly into the sticks if they weren't just fishing that bluff end) and the boat going upstream be WAY, WAY, WAY left.

It could be non-committal on the fishes part coupled with the way trout fight like SIO3 said. You get a bass to slap at or bump a crank and he gets stuck in his face you can still land them. I cannot count the number of bass and walleye I've caught with jerkbaits outside the mouth. Trout not so much.

So is your entire view of 9/11 a conspiracy or just the pentagon portion?

I wouldn't begin to trust an accredited engineer. At the end they were the final call in the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse. I certainly wouldn't trust one based on videos and pictures analysis. Anything can be edited in 2001. Of all the tin foil hat conspiracies....why this one?

The comments on the FB post had me cracking up. The fly fishing crowd that is out targeting these fish in lowish water quality conditions, playing these fish for as long as possible to actually wear them down to land them on light tackle, and then chastise someone when one dies is nearly as hypocritical as it comes.

I have no knowledge what any internal component is likely to be running. I assume they would be at least or couple or more times hotter than ambient air or lake water. However @fishinwrench brings up the best point in that a cars system is closed and uses the radiator to remove latent heat from the system. You effectively have multiple points of thermal transfer(hot component to water, water to radiator, radiator to ambient) Outboards are constantly pulling new water and therefore your coolant is effectively never building heat through multiple cycles. Once its through the entire system its pushed out into the lake fresh water at lake temperature is pull in.

Out of curiosity....I thought Jeff's catch of the Striper was below houseman? If so did it just get labeled Beaver Tailwater to avoid the perception of tons of striper in TRL. Anybody that fished Beaver TW will tell you there are striper there but unless you like headaches and heartbreaks, then I wouldn't base a single decision about where I live on that fishery alone. Sure a nice by catch but nothing to write home or make a special trip over. Honestly the same with the trout.

Its been awhile but leather wood is reasonably small and idle speed means fairly safe. Between HI and Housman there isn't much. @rps will trump anything I say by far. He lived and breathed that area for years. Going out of Holiday Island marina and toward Beaver....the first straight. I think there is some submerged timber on the right minimal at 918' but maybe at 911 or less could be an issue I'm not sure.....right down the middle should be fine. After that.....a big flat on the left side again going upstream. Google earth and roll back the image to 2006....this is a low water and will show you the flat....again little issue at 915 down the middle. Really for the most part after this the area behaves very much like a river.....deep side channel to outside and flat to inside. Google earth is your friend here too. To houseman there isn't much. A few flats but they are fairly obvious and at 918' certainly deep enough to run. Without generation I can make it past the old bridge piers with them running 3000 cfs at Beaver and without trimming up my motor. I did this last weekend so this is pretty fresh: To 62 @ 918 no biggie there is a big flat below but its obvious. At the old bridge piers its shallow and frankly without generation it would have been a tight squeeze. This area is circled fairly large flat....obviously idle speed. Above this we hugged the right bank going upstream. We stayed right at the island and was able to make it right to the top of the island marked across by red. I think I could have made it through at 918 and 3000 cfs release from Beaver but I don't know what it gains me. I may have made it to bertand but certain I could not make it to parker bottoms. I have an xpress bass boat so fairly shallow running but not jet boat/flat bottom extreme. this should get you started.

Dang never better an answer.....one thing I will add..... For those of us UNDER retirement age.....location to work is important...not so much location to our hobbies. I have no problem packing up on a Saturday and driving 3-4 hours one way to fish a crowded creek because my time and days are limited to the same as the bulk of the population. I don't like it but until I strike it rich or find a Saturday-Sunday gig that pays the same as Mon-Fri then that is what I'll do. For those of you at retirement ago....my philosophy is live where there are usable infrastructure for when you are no longer capable.....doctors, hospitals, shopping, airports if those are remotely important to you. If fishing is the only infrastructure then you wouldn't be asking the question, you would know Mtn. Home is the better location. You have the ability to take off Mon-Fri morning and drive to CC, BS, Norfolk, White River, Buffalo, and Kings from Rogers and fish all day without being in the flotilla or mob of fishermen like it will be on Saturday-Sunday.

We would expect nothing less from you.

about 15ish miles

As evidenced by my usage of your or you're, I am not that smart. I am is an engineer. I do know the difference just being quick didn't double check. Also I only "knew" the answer because I saw it on reddit last week.

government handouts are trashy if your poor.......government subsidies are acceptable if your well off.