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Surely you mean HY 13 and not Point 13 - Point 13 would be like 3000 light years from Kimberling............

Well now, the answer to this one is almost too easy! You said that you had "tackle for 2 slung everywhere" and therein lies the rub. Fish gods are notoriously persnickety about neatness and organization and are extremely adverse to sloppiness. Line those deck rods up nice and straight and your success rate will immediately improve dramatically! Always keep in mind that "trying hard" includes attention to an extreme amount of detail and remember that if it was easy, everyone would do it!

Well, I would never say that you should quit but it wouldn't hurt to at least make it look like you're trying a little harder. The fish are always watching you know and I believe that the fish gods tend to recognize and reward what they perceive as maximum effort! As for my "league" you are probably right - I am indeed in a league of my own but primarily because no one else has ever shown even a remote interest in being a part of it. However, I don't see that as tarnishing the exclusiveness one bit!

And you STILL haven't learned to say your name when snapping the photo! It's not hard - CHEEEEEEEEEESE. My daddy used to make me do it all the time when I was getting my picture took! Dang pretty K though.

You dog!

Well, I'm sorry but I still don't think that that's much of an excuse. In my opinion, if you can turn completely around on the front deck without stepping on something you're grossly under armed! Now, you don't need to actually use all or any of that stuff - just have it up there to make you feel ultimately prepared in case of the fish holocaust!

Or McStinkets? That would cover most of the existing menu though.

Seven rods? What about the other thirty? Sounds like a lot of wasted deck space if you ask me!

If you do decide to go to Beardsley just be sure to watch out for all of the SNAKES! But there's so many fish in that cove that it's one of Stevie Wonder's favorite spots!

Oh, sure, you think you know so much! Well, OK, maybe you do, but....................

Wowzer. The night before we left Still Waters on our April trip (April 28th I think - it was a Friday night) we had some that averaged golf ball size up to about the size of a handball. It caused $8000 damage to the Tahoe so I can't even imagine what that stuff might have done. Gonna be some healthy insurance claims that's for sure.

Oh yes he will. Unlike the puppy, those fools can't be trained.

Kathy and I stopped by the same day that you were there. Eric said we missed you by about ten minutes. After the Walmart flyby I was afraid you'd start thinking we were stalking you. Not that we weren't, I just didn't want you to think it. Anyways, I completely agree about the new shop. While it was pretty obvious that inventory was incomplete and stuff was arriving literally by the hour, it was also very apparent that Eric was putting together a great line of stuff. Made a token purchase of a few packs of Zman's in Dirt and a couple of the rust/corrosion resistant Flambeau boxes (neither of which I might add were available at the Kansas City Cabela's so there's that.........) Enjoyed looking around and visiting with Eric as well as a couple of other guys that were there at the time. He even gave us a private demo of the indoor volcano like water feature that was pretty cool. Shouldn't be long before his place is one of the better BPS alternatives (thank you Lord) in the lake area and I think most would agree that that's a good thing. Highly recommend that everybody check it out at some time in the near future! Unfortunately, we were heading to the Steak Inn for dinner later on so we had to pass on the Dinky burger. Curses.

I sometimes think it's surprising that Table Rock fish ever eat at all. If you had your face yanked off every couple of times that you tried to grab a bite to eat you'd probably eventually just starve to death rather than keep subjecting yourself to the "experience". I guess the alternative in order to survive is to become extremely selective insofar as to what you choose to put in your mouth. Hence, highly finicky fish and tough fishing. And with 70 tournaments per month during prime time I doubt it's ever going to get anything but tougher.

A few rather unsuccessful "makeover" attempts have left the boy looking a little haggard. I doubt that that face would have made it as Tom Kazanski. More Elephant Man than Iceman.

Since most nightcrawler's give me the hee bee gee bees, you might have something there.

It's BUNNY RABBITS not KITTENS! Besides, I'll be at the bowling alley............

You, sir, should mind your own beeswax!

Boat for sale! Taking up bowling!

My hypocrisy only goes so far.............

Puppies and bunny rabbits, puppies and bunny rabbits, puppies and bunny rabbits.........................

C'mon Dave, get in the game! 3 irons are like so yesterday. Obviously, you meant to say, "3 hybrid". Be more careful next time - snakes aren't stupid after all.

OK - that about tears it for me. Time to lock this thing up and add "snakes" to the banned word list.

Indeed I did! Thank you so much for mentioning that and I hope you found it to be a good read. Unfortunately, it was somewhat overshadowed by the critically acclaimed followup "The Black Mamba, Golf and You - And How They Can Change Your Life (In the Ozarks) for Better or Worse Depending Upon Perspective". Dang near nabbed a Pulitzer with that baby!

You're everybody's problem.