Greasy B

I heard that Alvin Lee passed away yesterday. Did anyone attend an Alvin Lee and Ten Years After concert at the Stages Night Club in Madison, IL? It was about 1983. As Alvin played his usual blistering fast Blues Rock fights would break out on the floor in front of the stage. With every fight and every drunken testosterone fueled blow Alvin would play harder and faster, seemingly feeding on the chaos and mayhem. What a great show by a rock original and one of the people who stole the show at Woodstock.

Question; when a segment of society lives in gated, walled communities, is it class warfare? When the gated, walled communities have armed guards is it class warfare?

Something tells me the sun will rise tomorrow regardless of what we think is right or wrong.

I've been a Missouri trout fisher for better part of a lifetime and I'm just as puzzled as jbtiwns30. If this is trout fishing I don't want any part of it. Fortunately jb we have a number of put grow and take fisheries. The Rivers are quite beautiful and if you go in really crummy weather somewhat deserted. A person can actually catch the occasional hold over that will give their wild cousins a run for the money in a beauty show.

Would one of the strains that thrive south of the equator spawn later in the winter when conditions are more favorable? FWIW many years ago I caught a tiny brown with parr marks on Current.

Wear your boats scars like a badge of honor.

Its all cool, just buy a boat you like and use the crap out of it. My boat is like lumbering scow compared to the jets most folks use but I love it.

Heck of a boat. Your not going to give up your paddle boats for small water are you?

I'm courious, is the practice of stocking fish species that would reproduce naturally is a reservoir the size of Beaver good use of wildlife funds? Wouldn't habitat improvement provide a greater economic return over time? Thanks for any comments,

I usually look at the USGS Gages before and after each trip to the river, doing so on a regular basses will allow you to get a pretty good feel for both the behavior of the various stream basins and for the conditions you’ll encounter. On Sunday the Little Piney Gage at Newburg was about 95 cfs. At Lane Spring it was probably a third less, maybe 60 cfs. From what I could see 60 cfs would be the minimum you would want to attempt a canoe float on the creek and a pretty good level for angling. Today the creek is bank full and more than likely the color of coffee with cream. I am indebted to Al Agnew for teaching me how to read and understand the USGS gages at a MSA banquet some years ago. Learning to read the gages was without a doubt the single most useful skill I acquired toward understanding hydrology and how it applies to everyday river conditions. I’m not sure If Al has a post on this forum about it but if he did it would be great if someone could dig it up.

Nice fish, I'd take quality over quantity any day.

90% of the time I fish with someone. I’m fortunate to have a ring of buddies who are foolish enough to go along with almost any plan I come up with. When I fished alone in the past I would often feel a little guilty knowing that I had left behind poor souls who would spend their weekends attending to ghastly task like yard work, shopping or god forbid providing company to a spouse. Maybe I’m on a mission to save who I can from a life of uninspired dullness.

It's way too easy to get a drivers license, you really don't have to demonstrate that you can control a vehicle. Probably a third of drivers should be taken off the road.

Recipe is on the blog. Great pattern, great blog too.

The best bet to acquire a live specimen would be to find someone knowledgeable, inquire as to the best time to catch one, humbly ask for assistance and offer a 12 pack and maybe a fine cigar to complete the task.

Gar would be considered bycatch. If it's not worth a couple of bucks don't know why a fishermen would haul it so shore. No?

It is, especially if it fits the criteria listed by Cold Water.

Niangua seems a little easier to fish, if for no other reason than the pools are shorter and the different habitats are closer. There are times on the Gasconade when only the heads and tails of pools are fishing well and they are often far apart.

The Cardiac trail meets the river at the head of the pool just up from that gravel bar. There was a good shoal with a deep eddy that was always the first spot to fish after walking down the hill. I have a lot of fond memories fishing that part of the river. A while back someone on this forum wrote a dear Jane letter about that river, something about a love lost because she was just a shell of her former self, it struck a chord with me.

20" about 20 years ago.

If you ever had the privilege of spending a summer weekend on a beautiful Smallmouth stream and see almost no other people and no other serious fishermen, It a magical thing. My time outdoors is priceless if I have to spend it surrounded by throngs of people such as what's found on the party rivers or reservoirs I'm done.

A fine example of land stewardship for a river know for it's flotsam of pig carcasses.

It broke my heart when MDC built a new boat ramp above Morris Mill on Big River. I lost another quiet spot. A tough situation for anglers who seek solitude and a way to the water.

I’m not talking about the high dams, I’m talking about what’s good and what’s bad about the many historic mill dams and not so historic lumps of concrete and the pestilent little mud holes that form behind them. As anglers I would presume most of us have a love\hate relationship with the low dams on the streams we fish, I know I do. Take Dawt Mill Dam in NFOW and Tunnel Dam on Niangua River, both have a fairly profound effect on the fisheries both above and below, no doubt many folks have opinions about them. I look forward to hearing those opinions as well as comments on other low dams in the Ozarks. The dams that come to my mind are those in the Meramec and Gasconade basins. The old mill dams on Bourbeuse and Big River seem relatively harmless and may have done some good. On the Meramec the low dam that really gets my goat is the bisecting little turd in the headwaters just upstream from Wesco. Who in the hell authorized this? Can any landowner dam up a floatable creek to create their own swimming pool? The last time I portaged a full size canoe and three days of gear over it the thing it just about kicked my butt. Between this and the perpetual log jam downstream I’m telling you it’s not hardly worth the effort to make this float, even when the creek has enough water. I like this dam. Of the two dams I can think of in the Gasconade basin, Big Piney has the water intake at Fort Leonard Wood. It helps boat traffic down, I’d rate it good. The other is one that gets me riled, it’s on the Woods Fork of the Gasconade south of Hartville, just upstream from the junction with Lick Fork and the beginning of the Gasconade proper. There had been a silted up mill pond, now that’s buried below another pond form by a new dam just downstream. I have to ask, is this good river management? I don’t know how long the original mill pond took to silt up but isn’t this new pond doomed to the same fate? Can lakes this small with such a large volume of water flowing through them be viable fisheries? What did the citizens of Hartville and Missouri get, a few decades of pastoral beauty, a marginal fishery followed by a gargantuan mud hole that will last into perpetuity?

Little Black Stonefly? Does it seem to have double wings?