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Don't have pictures but it was great. Guinness Meatloaf, Garlic Mash potatoes and fried cabbage. Here is what it did. 1 onion chopped 1/2 cup shredded carrots 1/2 diced celery 2 Tbsp minced garlic 1/4 cup diced portabella mushrooms, about 2 oz. 1 lb. lean ground beef 1 lb. ground venison 1/2 cup shredded cheese 2 eggs 1 Tbsp worcestershire sauce 1/2 bottle Guinness Extra Stout, save the other have for gravy salt and pepper to taste 2 1/2 cups of torn bread 1 cup milk Bacon Cook onions, celery, mushrooms and garlic until tinder and then add half bottle of the beer and simmer until about half the liquid is gone. Sit aside and let it cool. In a large bowl add bread and milk for a few minutes. Add eggs, meat, cheese, salt and pepper, worcestershire sauce and the veggies. Mix well and place into a sprayed pyrex dish and form into a loaf. Cover with bacon, over lapping to cover the whole thing. Bake at 350 degrees for and hour. If the bacon needs a little more, broil it for about 5 minutes. Gravy 1/2 cup diced onions 6 oz diced mushrooms 1/2 bottle Guinness Extra Stout 3 cups beef stock 1 Tbsp minced garlic 1/4 cup heavy cream 2 Tbsp Butter Salt and Pepper Cook onions, mushrooms and garlic until tender. Add Beer and cook until almost all liquid is gone. Add beef stock, heavy cream, and butter. Thicken with corn starch. Served with Garlic Mashed potatoes and fried cabbage and some bread.

Several years ago I bought a 9 foot Eagle Claw Steelhead rod. Says Granger GRX, IM7 on the shaft. Says 2-8 lb. Line Weight and 1/16-1/4 oz. lure weight. Never used it, bought it because it was last one they had and closing out for $20, what could go wrong. I am mounting a Quantum 10 reel with 2 pound line and going to try and use it to throw some jigs trout fishing next week below Bull Shoals. I have never thrown jigs for trout, only flies. Anyone ever tried one of these or something like it. Feels like a fly rod with a longer grip above and below the reel. Going to test it out in the yard tomorrow to see how it cast different jigs. Will it work?

We did the Lower Buffalo, Dillards to the White, 33+ miles in 4 days/3 nights during early Oct. and only saw two other people until we got to the White. The only two people were getting out at Rush, so we had the last 24 miles to ourselves. Lots of great spots to camp and we caught plenty of fish and saw plenty of wildlife. Our trip report and another are on the Buffalo River topic under trip report Rush to Shipps. You could float from farther up river, Maybe Gilbert to Shipps for a 6 day trip at that time of the year and not really see anybody if you go Monday - Sat. With Saturday being in the wilderness section where there are no roads or access past Rush. It is best to float down the White to Shipps, about 5.3 miles, it only takes about another hour. It is better than trying to paddle upstream for a half mile if they are flowing much water. The store at gilbert does a shuttle and your truck get dropped off the day you plan to finish, Not sure on their price. We used Buffalo River Float service when we put in at Dillards, $80 I think.

Several years ago on a stop over in London I tried to get tickets to a Premier League game and there were none to be found, without paying way too much money. Found tickets for a Championship team, Millwall Lions FC. While trying to get directions to the stadium someone said are you sure you want to go there and the other guy said they will be OK but don't wear that camera outside your jacket. Our tickets were at will call and while standing in line several young guys came walking up with blood on there face and clothes. Once we got to our seats the other people around us made us feel welcome and wondered why we came from the US to South London to see the Lions. They screamed and cussed at their own players and no drinking was allowed in the stands. We noticed that a small section, end zone seats, had a 8 foot fence with razor wire around the top. I ask what this area was for, thinking maybe for prisoners or something, and was told it was where the visiting teams fan sat. About 10 minutes before the end of the match I noticed 4 large buses pull up and police officers started getting off. As we walked out they were everywhere and ended up breaking up several fights. Sure glad we bought a team jersey to wear and no one thought we were from the other side. It was a memory I won't forget.

https://arkielures.com/collections/plastic-lures/products/salty-craw?variant=25181302685796 I fish these on the Buffalo, Crooked Creed and a few clear streams in Oklahoma and they work great. Work well on small jig heads and I find them at Walmart.

I guess no one has been drinking lately? Found a Boulevard Bourbon Barrel Quad at the local store. Love Sixth Glass but I think this is better. Nice rice flavor and darker color and it has 12.2 % alc. but doesn't really taste like it. A guy could hurt himself on these things. They were $12.99 for a four pack so it probably won't become my everyday drink but I will be getting some more before they run out, seasonal.

None of the fish picture came out sharp but here is a couple more of the trip.

We got back from our trip from Dillard's to Shipps. The weather was great, water was super clean which made the fishing a little tough. Camped three nights, at Gage Bluff upstream from Rush, Smith Bluff/Fish Trap Shoal then across from Brush Creek at Shield's Chute. All were nice flat spot with small rock gravel bars. The fish would head for part unknown if you got within 30 feet of them so we didn't catch much the first day. Starting the second day I started casting as far in front of me as possible and reeling in as slow as possible and this seemed to be the best method. Caught most everything on a 3 inch soft craw in dark olive. Largest one was a little over 14 inches but most in the 10 inch range. Only caught a few on my fly rod and they were all in the 6-8 inch range and don't think I caught more than one on anything I tried. There were two other guys putting in at Dillards when we started and they were stopping at Rush so we had the river to ourselves until the last morning when several boat motored up from the White. We did pass the AGFC crew on the second day doing a mussel study somewhere above Middle Creek. The nights were clear and cool so we could see the Milkyway and the sleeping weather was great. We saw lots of eagles and a couple owls, there we lots of deer along the river with a couple out in the water grazing on the algae, three flocks of turkeys and lots of Turkey Vultures and we even say a couple otters. We usually try to go light and eat backpack meal for dinner and sandwiches for lunch but this year we took some nice steaks, mashed potatoes and purple hull peas for the first night. Think we started a new tradition. Always love the lower Buffalo for the isolation. Water at Dillards when we started on Monday was 145 CFS and went down to 129 CFS by the time we got off on Friday so we had to get out drag about 6-7 times and the long pools were slow but we had no wind so the paddling was easy. The White was flowing above 16000 CFS so it was backing up the Buffalo and with the only head wind we had the whole trip made the last couple mile a little tough but the 5.5 miles down to Shipps took less than an hour.

We are using Buffalo River Float Service. I think $80 to shuttle truck to Shipps on the last day of our trip. A lot cheaper than driving two trucks from Tulsa and a lot less time spent doing a self shuttle.

Leaving Monday to do Dillards to Shipps for 4 days. Hope to have the same conditions as you had. Looking forward to getting away with a couple friends and fish and relax. Will get a report out when we get home. We have done it a couple of time and have a good idea where we need to stop each night to make the trip and still be able to fish a lot. I agree about the last couple of miles on the Buffalo being slow, more so when the White is flowing a lot of water and backing up the Buffalo.

Going to Float this section from Oct. 6-9. I haven't done this trip is several years and have missed it. Looking forward to getting out and away from everything but the river and wilderness. Going to used Buffalo River Float Service to shuttle our truck. We have taken out at Riley's but with higher generation I don't what to even think about it. I was just wondering if anyone has made this trip lately and fishing advice you would be willing to share. Also are there any shorter hikes to interesting sites we might take on this section.

I have two Wilderness Ride 115 and they are great. I have had one for 8 years and loved it and you can stand in them on calmer water. I bought one for my wife who had never been in a kayak and we took it on a 3 day Buffalo river trip and she only turned over once, first day. They are very stable and easy to paddle. A little heavy buy you can carry a ton of stuff for multi day trips, I think it say 500 pound capacity. I saw one on facebook market place the other day for $850 and it had the good airpro seat, a $439 option. It was in Springdale, AR. They are really tough also, my fell off the trailer at 60 mph and only got a few extra scratches. Besides all the room to carry you stuff you can remove the seat easily and have it for a camp chair for lunch or to use at night on multi-day trips. Here is a picture of what I was able to carry on the first three day trip I took on it. I have since found out I only need about half that stuff but added a ice chest for cold beer.

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Now that they are not running water 24/7 and it looks like they are generating some only in the afternoons has anyone been fishing. I know ODWC website says they have been stocking but it always says that, even when they are not, and it always says fishing is fair with inline spinners, nymphs and power bait below the dam. Need to get out of the house and was just trying to find out before just driving down.

Wily I use a couple of old Cattle panels and they work great. Been using the same ones for at least 15 years. But going to have to put some fencing around my garden this year because the deer found my purple hull peas last year. They don't eat the plants just the pods, and only the ones about ready to be picked.

Anyone ever camped at the Brooksher Preserve. Looked on Google maps and don't see anything there. Wondering if there is enough space to sit up 3-4 backpacking size tents. Also is it marked. Haven't floated by that section in several years.

In light of all that is going on with this covid 19 virus. From War Games, I'd piss on a spark plug right now if I thought it would help.

Going to float on the Buffalo, three days, two nights and going to do some gravel bar camping. The only places I can see that have enough water is from Saint Joe down stream. Checking the Pruitt gauge shows 31 CFS, too low to float. At carver there is only a height gauge and it is showing 6.27 feet. That doesn't tell me much. I know that the little buffalo and Big Creek are between Pruitt and Carver, so the flow has to be above the 31 CFS at Pruitt but below the 201 CFS at Saint Joe. Any idea if the river would have enough water to float from Carver to Bakers Ford or Tyler Bend?

Glad to see you got the flies. Hope they get some use soon. Hope you get more to fill several more boxes. Share any pictures that you can of you students while they learn to fish. Hope you can get someone local to teach them how to tie some of their own. Makes fishing and catching fish more satisfying.

Got your address and I am making up several different one and will send them your way soon. Enjoy.

Give me an address and I will send a bunch. Glad to see you are introducing, training and encouraging a new generation to a great sport.

You can also get a bag of cooked/frozen shrimp from walmart and throw a few in a baggie, leave the rest in your freezer for the next trip, and hit a local pond. The cooked ones stay on the hook better and my 8 year old granddaughter has learned to bait her own hook.

I like the yellow dot on the back. Makes them a lot easier to see. I tied some up for a Colorado trip a couple year ago and found that once they were on the water the totally vanished. When I got home I added a white dot to the back and it makes them easier to see floating on the water.