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Bill B.

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  1. Bill B.
    Last time I was in there, the KCK Cabela's had very little. Neither did the Independence BPS. Tombstone in Columbia doesn't carry much. I checked the Mondo Tackle website. Nothing there that I want to see. Neither Everhart's nor Rogers had anything listed online that I want to see. I'll keep looking.
  2. Bill B.
    The Bass Pro Shop in Columbia no longer carries NRX rods, or any other upper-end rods, for that matter. Is there anyplace in KC or mid-Missouri that carries the full line-up of NRX models? I'd also like to check out Kistler rods and some others.
  3. Bill B.
    I spoke with him on the phone a few times. He seemed to be a decent fellow. When I was a kid and Table Rock was new, Harold Ensley did a lot of shows from out of Devil's Dive Resort.
  4. Bill B.
    You can fish for bass in Missouri's Ozark streams during the closed season. You just can't keep them. The MDC fishing reports that begin in April will include information on catching bass in Ozark streams. Here's an example from last April: http://www.newstribune.com/news/2013/apr/19/missouri-fishing-report-april-20/
  5. Bill B.
    Ah. I'm looking at it now in the spring catalog. About $20K plus prep with a Merc 115.
  6. Bill B.
    F&F's Tracker-- Which Tracker is that?
  7. Bill B.

    Ice Fishing

    Bill B. replied to inshore's topic in Stockton Lake

    We ususally get plenty of ice in north Missouri for at least a couple of weeks of ice fishing. Ponds and small lakes around Columbia are safe right now, but they may not be safe after tomorrow's predicted rainfall.
  8. Bill B.
    I remember when, one summer evening in the late '70s or early '80s, my fishing buddy claimed he had seen a musky in the deep hole underneath the main bridge. Don't think I believed him. But sometime after that, I heard or read in the news that someone had CAUGHT a musky from that hole. The MDC people said it had been released in there after a hatchery truck had developed problems, or something like that. It had been seen fairly often, and some people had begun deliberately fishing for it with heavier tackle.
  9. Bill B.
    I pretty much agree with Walcrabass. There are plenty of people in mid-Missouri who are able and willing to work for our local home builders--but they expect a living wage in return. I know a few of them. But the home builders pocket more cash for themselves if they hire their labor from south of the border, and they do. I'd love to see WPA-type projects that require hard work but pay well. I don't think the government would have any trouble filling the jobs.
  10. Bill B.
    You'll find the most consistent crappie reports in the Missouri forum at www.Crappie.com. The Truman guys there have been quiet as of late. The few who are catching fish are fishing in the lower lake, I think. There's been lots of ice above Bucksaw.
  11. Bill B.
    Don't forget the dreaded aluminum itch. That's what you get after sitting on an aluminum seat all day while wearing wet jeans or cut-offs. At least, I used to get it.
  12. Bill B.
    I have a relative who won't eat white bass. But he cuts the red meat out of crappie.
  13. Bill B.
    I read that the power company was going to open the flood gates at Bagnell this morning (Aug. 7).
  14. Bill B.
    Water moccasins are bad around Barclay...timber rattlers, too. Big snakes, 6 feet long and longer. Cold-eyed, deadly reptiles that slither up behind people without making a sound. Don't go to Barclay if serpents bother you.
  15. Bill B.
    There is GOOD physical evidence that a large object struck the Earth 65 million years ago--at the exact point in history when the dinosaurs disappeared. No one is just pulling an explanation out of nothing.
  16. Bill B.
    Reread this quote from the story: "They occur in oceans all over the place, but the one in that consumes vast swaths of the Gulf of Mexico is especially huge. Here's how huge: this year, NOAA expects that dead zone will be between 7,286 and 8,561 miles wide." The entire PLANET is only 24,000 miles in circumference at the equator. The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico cannot be 7,000 or 8,000 miles wide. Perhaps the writer meant the DZ will cover that many square miles? That would make more sense.
  17. Bill B.
    Kissee Mills. It is also the original location of the town, I think.
  18. Bill B.
    I wish River Monsters would do a show about looking for mermaids in Party Cove.
  19. Bill B.
    And it still should be. Check this out: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/11/atmospheric_carbon_dioxide_levels_at_all_time_high_for_past_several_million.html
  20. Bill B.
    I almost always carry a metal stringer in my gear for just that purpose. In 50 years, I've recovered half a dozen rods that way.
  21. Bill B.
    Fellows Lake, upstream from Stockton, has tiger muskie. The occasional fish undoubtedly gets out and makes its way to Stockton. There are probably a few tiger muskie (and hybrid stripers, yellow perch, etc.) in every major lake in the state, now. I say that because tigers are fairly popular for stocking in farm ponds. Commercial fish hatcheries in Missouri sell them in the fall every year. When heavy rains come, out of the ponds they go. Whatever lies downstream gets stocked with exotics. I'll bet a lot of exotics washed downstream this last week in north Missouri.
  22. Bill B.
    I found this story interesting. It's from the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/us/lahontan-cutthroat-trout-make-a-comeback.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130424&_r=0
  23. Bill B.
    I just read that Doug Hannon died on March 28. He was 66. http://www.startribune.com/sports/blogs/201242681.html
  24. Bill B.
    Within a few feet of the bank in the backs of coves.
  25. Bill B.
    The KC Star report said around the 22-mile marker.
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