Flatbottom Boy

We used one of the camping "toasters". Looks very similar and you can get them pretty much anywhere to include Walmart I believe. I used it a bunch grilling salmon in AK!

Took my daughters out to the Glaize to catfish today. Made a couole throws with the castnet and we were set. They cooperated pretty well, each one caught two in a matter if a couple hours. It was an awesome day to get out!

Good to see you getting out Duane....and busy seems like an understatement! Awesome shooting. Hope we can get after the ducks this year. It will be my last MO season for a while.

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You had an awesome teal season thanks for sharing. I have one more morning tomorrow and we have to call it quits till goose opens next weekend. I usually dont entertain tye teal season much, not since I was 16. After all the fun we have had this year I think its going to become a ritual!

True story...and all expecting to whip out their credit cards!

Or pre register and pay online.

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I have a 20' Javelin boat with a very good running 200 hp Evinrude. I have only had this boat for several months and love it just going a different route that can accommodate a large family. I added a Minn Kota Power Drive V2 trolling motor to this boat. It has the Ipilot feature and works pretty awesome if you need hands free operation. The anchor feature is great and if you like fishing long stretches of bank you can record a track up to two miles and the motor will take you back on that same track at whatever speed you choose. You can operate the motor from anywhere in the boat with the remote, and I also have a foot control for a backup or fishing where a foot control is more useful, like around docks. The boat has two graphs. The one on the console is a Humminbird 899 with side imaging and GPS the one up front is a Humminbird 859 with down imaging with GPS. They are both linked with an Ethernet connection. The trailer is in good shape and had new tires put on a month ago, to include the spare. The boat is in overall good shape with the normal wear for a 17 year old boat. I live 45 min from LOZ and will be happy to test run for serious buyers only. Please don't waste my time driving all the way up there for joy rides.The boat is located at my house in Waynesville, PM me for contact info. Thanks for looking $10500

Kayser, I'll try to get you on track but I'm going to PM you.

Well these arent bigger by any means but hopefully I get one down before duck season rolls around...I "hate" having to do both at the same time! Oh and pay no never mind to the dates and times in a couple of those...I cant figure that camera out.

I will give the doves a try. Honestly they werent very picky the last two days. Pretty typical of the opener I think. The first morning we were late and the manority of our limits were shot while I was still tossing decoys out. Today we were cooking breakfast right out in the open...10 ft from the bank and had two very large groups dump in within 5 minutes of one another. It was hard explaining to the first timers that its not normally like that!

I learn something new every day here!

Is that a dove mojo? Awesome dog work!

Very nice!

Managed 16 more this morning! Nice crisp 52 degrees felt good to be out. We took 3 out that had never hunted ducks, 2 of them had never hunted anything (father and 13 year old son) Im pretty sure they are hooked! I hate tailgate pics but its all I got between retrieving birds and cooking breakfast.

Thanks guys it was a great day. Wish all the kids could have gotten out with us. Tomorrow we will have two teens and another guy that hasnt hunted ducks before. I just hope its as good of a morning.

We had a three man limit by 1000....and it truly shouldn't have took that long! We will blame it on opening morning jitters!

Well like you said one time..some of us "live for the thump"!

Are you glueing the bodies of the slab busters onto the jig head? It seems like I get several shots on a dock and Im fixing the body every cast. I switched to a hollow tube with the jig head inserted and that seems to work very well.

The state park/upper glaize isnt anything like main lake traffic. Still annoying but most days tolerable. Go way up and some days it can be rather quiet...just take your time there are some "tricky" spots!

I was out early Saturday morning fishing the Glaize. I worked shallow in the backs of coves for quite a while with buzz baits and some WTD lures. Nothing. I moved out more toward the middle/fronts and casted one of these, watermellon/red, on a finesse head. I picked up fish but most were short. I didnt measure any but a few might have pushed the 15". I fished no docks at all, mostly up the glaize past McCubbins. Kept me entertained until the pleasure boat army invaded.

I look forward to his book. As I transition, against my will, out of Missouri I can really relate to his story about how he got started. Im going to really miss this place. Good thing Im only going one state over to Kansas so I can still get my Ozark fix now and again. Thanks for sharing Phil.

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Haha yeah I had to do the same thing....only with 2 doz decoys strapped to my back. I almost went in the drink! We had misplaced the key