MOPanfisher

I replaced my dead unit this summer, went all last summer without a working depthinder. I bought a cheap one,less than $100 for console mount and haven't yet bought one for front, although there have been times a GPS would have been handy for making crappie brushpiles not quite willing to go there yet. Also seems that when a company is sold or taken over and things change there will be a period where quality drops or seems to but then they get the new crew and equip up to speed and.quality gets better.

Odd for me.it was the opposite I quit the bait casters and switched completely to spinning. Still have them and occasionally use them but very seldom.

Strengthening exercises are always going to be the best solution if possible. Had back issues and thought things like sit ups would kill me, but they actually did the trick. I never found an exercise that helped the tendinitis though until the inflammation was gone.

If you have a boat in April they will stack up sometimes near the city harbor at Warsaw, just look for the pile of boats trolling the shallow depression just west of the park, catch whires, wallys, hybrids, and occasionally a flathead. Have to have some.release through truman though too much.is bad too. Quite a few caught off the bank on either side in Bledsoe Ferry areas when it's good, again need some flow but about dark when they blow the horn to generate more grab your stuff and be moving back or get your feet wet. 1/4 to 1/16 jig heads depending on flow and preference. Everybody has their special super secret lure, plain old 3 inch curly tail grubs or walleye sliders in a color of your choice, I like bright orange, chartreuse or yellow. Have seen many of the regulars leave with a limit of 4, I am lucky to catch one or two most times. Some days a nice hybrid or big buffalo is the best I could manage. We used to begin trying below Truman in late Feb depending on weather and water release schedules, but it's a 45 minute drive from work for me to get there so I don't go.much anymore, would rather try them in Truman, Stockton or Pomme from a boat a few weeks later. Or from the bank at stockton dam in march to april it's a lot closer to home for me. But ya never know if you don't try. Oh if fishing below truman bring plenty of jig heads.

Interesting I will have to look that up. Tennis elbow nearly took me out of fish a few years back. Picking up even a can of coke palm down would bring tears to my eyes, palm up no problem. Set a hook like you meant it and nearly drop the rod. Suffered for over a year and happened to mention it at an annual physical, Dr. took his thumb and pressed down, only time I ever tried to curse, cry and throw a punch at the same time. He put me on a regimen of prescription strength naproxen (an nsaid) and said rest, ice and if not better in 6 weeks come back. In six weeks it was gone after a long time of thinking I had to live with it. It is a maddening malady. So far it hasn't come.back.

Gotta admit for a topic on a gigging bust we.have made 9 pages and several topic adjustments.

Chief churches are like people, some will abuse priveledge others wont. Since I sit in the finance chair position at my small church I know that there are many who will take advantage of the system given a chance. Seems larger churches are worse, but that a whole different conversation that we will need a campfire and cold beer for.

I know guys who do the same thing with deer. I know guys who I wouldn't even venture a guess how many crappie they catch and seldom keep them, they as you mention essentially barter them for garden produce or whatever. I have given many a fillet away to ladies from church, friends who don't fish etc. we all have. I have a buddy in a.wheelchair right now if I take him fish and keep him supplied (like he did when I was down for a while)I wont lose any sleep over it wish i had the time and skills to supply him some right now honestly. However I know the type of person you are talking about limit a day (sometimes 2) and are willing to barter them like currency.

Check in with Everharts, they usually keep up on what's happening at Warsaw. Sometimes can be good in Jan. But when it's good usually you can tell by the number of people there. Have had some great days there and many with nothing to show for my efforts. I believe the COE starts making steady releases around March 15th or so for a few weeks and MDC will come in with a shock boat and gather eggs for their hatchery.

Old Plugwith my employer I fully understand the military outlook. However I know there is a vast difference in how laws are enforced on a military installation and the rest of the world. On say Ft. Leavenworth 20 mph means 20 mph not 25, in the real world that doesn't have an MP every 500 yards it simply doesn't work. I fully agree on changing the code to clear it up or allow it under certain circumstances, including adding armadillos to the "no closed season" listing with starlings and house sparrows. But that takes time to get through the various hoops, hopefully with the next round of changes it will happen, but I won't hold my breath. The code will never be perfect by any means but there are some things that could easily be refined.

AL I don't disagree with what you said either, I wish the Agents would make more personal contacts. Old Plug I don't agree with groups whether churches or a benefit for muscular dystrophy utilizing wild caught fish to raise money, our church bought a lot of catfish over the years for fundraising events. I fully realize that it happens a lot and that it simply isn't the hill MDC wants to make a stand on. I can just imagine the uproar even on this board that would arise if a couple of agents decended on a benefit fundraising for a family who lost their child in an accident and started checking to see where the fish came from and issued a few tickets. "Why the heck aren't they out busting giggers instead of harassing good folks trying to help a family". I also don't see it as undermining the whole code either. If someone wants to donate their legally posessed crappie, catfish, walleye etc. to the cause I have no issue with it personally. There are many things in the Wildlife Code for which warning whether verbal or written are given, its officer discretion on whether or not the offense deserves a ticket and I prefer it that way.

I have never been checked on LOZ either, or Truman, or Stockton, or any number of creeks and rivers. Of course I avoid weekends, and really busy locations. Have also talked to an agent and mentioned that I fished a certain area and didn't catch much, whereupon he agreed that neither I nor the other around me were catching much from what he could tell through his binoculars.

There are some who no matter what will point out that MDC sucks, others who will go an extra step maybe than deserved to support them (myself included), working for the government I have a better appreciation of what it takes to get say a work order acted upon, or if you write a ticket you get put down in the same resturant, sometime the same table for harassing good folks and for not writing tickets to all them other SOBs. As for church fish fries using wild caught fish, they can be done if a fee is not charged as in donation only as I understand it. But do you really want MDC enforcement personnel going to every church fish fry and writing tickets. I talk to people around Pomme and hear about never seeing an agent or being checked, yet I have been checked while fishing there a couple times, maybe I just look guilty. Take the number of people around and on Pomme and compare it to LOZ, what percentage of people can be checked, keeping in mind that if they don't send an agent ot to to the Niangua then they are gonna hear about that.

A beautiful moon rises signifying the end of my firearms deer season. I saw plenty of deer and fired not a shot, only raised the rifle only rwice, once was on a coyote. From warm and sunny to torrential rain and even snow. I am blessed to live in missouri and it's a good thing I have a wife that can shoot deer so I can just enjoy my time out amongst the critters. Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving.

It always seems to me that there only two kinds of giggers, those who scrupulously follow the laws and those who stick anything and everything. Novices in the first group quickly learn to identify fish types or they are not allowed to gig any more. Second group doesn't matter if it swims it's fair game. Another good reason for hitting them at takeout point, harder to get rid of illegal fish cut when boat is on the trailer in the parking lot.

It would be pretty hard to claim you mistook a blue jay for a squirrel. Gigging, it happens with novices eapecially, the experienced one rag on them and they learn. Pretty obvious difference between accidentally sticking one bass and.gigging like 8 of them. Outlawing gigging based on that makes as much sense as making gamefish legal during gigging season.

I know of no agent that would write a ticket for accidentally sticking a gamefish. It happens, rake it off, learn and go on, repeatedly doing it or trying to convince one that a crappie or catfish looked like a sucker should get a ticket.

The bust so to speak probably would have been within the lake boundary at the ramp. It's a ways upstream to the beginning of the river.

Yep you have figured it out that is all they do, oh and eat donuts while listening to the radio.

Man they were moving this morning weren't they. I didn't even leave till the snow stopped. Dropped my thermos in the blind and still had deer around within 5 minutes. Nice bucks, little bucks, one real nice buck, a spike I really wanted, unfortunately all but the big one were running hard chasing does, and the does were working hard to play hard to get. And to be honest I got to watching them and forgot I was supposed to shoot one. Could have tagged on at let's but wanted a lil one. Tomorrow is another day. Attached below is one I thought was gonna stick his head in and sniff.

It's also when "hunters" who didn't get a deer drive around after dark and shoot from the road, cut fences, trespass, drive vehicles onto public lands, take deer that never get checked, take bucks that don't meet the 4 pt requirement. Also when hunters who buy a permit at 6:00 p.m. and then check in a deer 6:30, etc. Also a good time to make contact with hunters as they return to their vehicles, obviously check permits etc., also to simply talk to the hunters. Have never been around a hunter who was completely legal who minded talking with an agent for a few minutes at their truck. Agents can on occasion get a little short but heck so do I.

Congratulations young man. Good shot, nice deer.

Some days it's good to be lucky.

The names will likely be in the bolivar paper eventually. False information would quickly fall through, but a legitimate bust will make a lasting impression, eight bass is a pretty cheap price for that sort exposure.

Which would be more effective in protecting the bass/crappie/catfish making an arrest that will stick and make the papers and Facebook etc. Or sacrificing the case so they don't kill another bass before they can be "caught". 8 bass, 3 crappie, and 2 channels certainly isnt going to depoplulate that section of river, i have seen several boats go out with that many legally caught and in a livewell. I certainly don't have a problem with making the punishment hurt, but that is up to the judge. Truthfully I don't know the judge even though I live in the same county, so not sure if he/she will make it hurt or not.