Greasy B

I see many casters DHing with way too much line hand movement and bad timing. I think less haul but at just the right instant is far more efficient.

Sneaky Pete, Size 2. They come in three colors: Black, Chartreuse, Chartreuse/Red bar. You need all three colors but more often than not Chartreuse/Red bar will out fish the others.

The first river is low water before the end of the drought last winter: The second river is after the drought ended and the river came up and up.: The third river is the one I hear of, deviant and obnoxious. I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Hopefully the horror of seeing this great river reduced to a trickle without regard to the fishery is over. When the White River was dead low easy wading access came at the expense fish habitat, there’s no doubt the increased flow will have a benefit. We have all fished these flows before; the only difference is that now they are sustained rather than tailing out.

Thank you,

Thanks for the report. The drive out to Wyoming was never too bad, the drive back home is always brutal.

Great fish. Its amazing the Meramec holds up so well under pressure.

Once you have them no good cure I know of. Last time I had them really bad I wrapped up my ankles with duct tale to keep me from scratching the raw. It worked.

Let's hope the new owners are good stewards of the land.

Gosh I wish I would have seen him live. Makes me treasure all the great artist I have seen over the years. Just in the last couple of weeks I've read obits for Ray Manzarek and Bobby Blue Bland, our world is a little more empty every time one of the old school musicians pass.

Wide open trimmed, Ozark style.

Yep, I once found a twenty dollar bill wrapped around a twig on Courtois Creek.

In my single float fishing landowner confrontation in thirty plus years the landowner did have a gun in his hand but he kept it out of sight. My brother and I were only armed with fishing rods and civility. After a brief conversation we each understood the others plight and what started as a very tense situation ended with a mutual respect and a polite send off. There was no desire from either of us to out azz hole each other.

I hope most folks realize that only a fraction of our Ozark streams are infected with commercial party floaters, granted they and recreational power boaters contaminate most of the best watered and beautiful streams. We are fortunate to have many miles of rivers and creeks where quiet float fishing goes on with little or no conflicts. If my angling future holds nothing more than barbed wired, purple paint, and mean dogs I don’t want anything to do with it and frankly life as I know will cease to exist.

Great looking poppers, excellent workmanship.

I have been subtracting 20% from the length and quanity of whatever my brother catches for so long it's now second nature. It really doesn't matter to either of us who got the biggest or most. Regardless of the actual results every trip ends with one of us saying "this is the best day of fishing I ever had". Now we are very competitive when it come to the Man Points System, you know, loose a fish because of a bad knot 10 points off, break a rod 20 points off, run out of beer or forget the coffee on an overnighter 100 points off. Of course all this is in jest and quickly forgotten in time for the next trip.

Interesting point,

Yea, have picked up trash right in front of the slobs who threw it down, they never gave so much as a glance. Me having long ago gave up on fixing or setting people straight just loaded the garbage in my boat satisfied that more than likely I would never see their sorry selves again. Let me ask this, at what point are we just pissing in the wind? A couple of weeks ago I floated a stretch of a party river. Passing through at dawn I hardly seen any of the bums but holy cow, the river bottom had so many beer cans a team of scuba divers couldn't have picked all them up in month. It's depressing.

This comment begs to be repeated. Thanks Al,

I wish I could agree but I have very little faith in our current group of representatives. I think the Missouri Farm bureau would get their way and we would all be screwed.

Your killing me.

Please correct me if I’m wrong, my understanding is Elder vs Delcour does not address gravel bar camping. We camp on countless gravel beaches through generosity, because of inaccessibility, and a general tolerance by land owners who are simply too busy to concern themselves with fishermen, floaters who are mostly harmless. I believe this is the case on the majority of our float streams that are not destination rivers. Much to my delight and experience this goes on year after year with few encounters or conflicts.

You got that right!

Beautiful, you would never know the creek was so nice by looking at the trickle that flows through paradise valley.

Todays political climate is not good for testing the court case or passing legislation to favor public access. It may well go the other way and we end up with access laws akin to Wyoming or Colorado where our floating and camping tradition could never exist.