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mixermarkb

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  1. Maybe crops in white river bottoms and available water later in the summer just are flat worth more $$ than Branson properties and wrecked tourist dollar years for resort owners? Although the Corps isn't on the hook for any of those dollars either way... Could a class action suite make them have to compestate the folks they keep flooding?
  2. I'm confused. I thought Phil said they lose the motors that control the gates around 934- did they not have control over the gates for a while in 2011? And I'm wondering why they didn't go to 49-50cfs earlier this morning. I know they have a Book, and I get not going more than 20cfs last night, you don't want to flood more people in the middle of the night, but it just seems weird to wait, knowing what the inflow is doing.
  3. Has it been higher than 933?
  4. 933.5 is awfully close to the motors on the flood gates is it not? Like a good boat wake away? Wow. I'm fighting the morbid curiosity hard, knowing that so many folks like Phil and my best friend's Dad are suffering with the floods, but this is still amazing.
  5. The last one peaked at 72,000 cfs
  6. Yellow is 11" Blue 8"+ Purple 6"+
  7. yellow is 11" of rain! purple is 6"+, blue is 8"+ Not good.
  8. I agree Vernon. I put up concerts outside all summer long, and trust me, once you unload 3 or 4 semis worth of gear and set it all up, you really don't want to not do a show. Lightning isn't to play with though. Getting someone killed over a trivial thing like a concert or a fishing tourney would be a horrible, horrible thing. It really shows poor judgment on the FLW. Hopefully some of us losing some respect for the decision makers is the worst that will happen.
  9. This. Fishing doesn't mean a lot when it comes to lives or livelihoods being lost.
  10. He's in his mid 70's. He doesn't need the stress for sure. It's looking like the major rain may miss table rock, so we will see.
  11. Just down the street from Scotty's. It's for sale real cheap, price is dropping the more it rains... seriously, my friend and his dad just finshed the drywall and floors from the last go round. Here's praying the rain misses and the lake levels stay reasonable.
  12. +1 on a bass stocking program. The lakes, and places like the Meremac River in the St. Louis metro area would benefit from this!
  13. Sorry guys. Here's hoping the rain doesn't come as predicted
  14. That's awesome guys!
  15. Nice video. Thanks for the post!
  16. I do think the corps has subtly changed their water management plan in order to hold a little more water in the lakes for power, even though they say they haven't. We have always had big spring rains, and yet Bull going to full pool just wasn't a thing, now it seems like a regular deal. I don't doubt that climate change is having an impact, the scientists all say that weather events will get more and more extreme, so even though this tracks with what they say is happening, my gut still says lake level management has changed a little bit as well. I'm just glad the lakes were a little low this winter, wether by design or by Mother Nature. Had we been at full pools like in some winters in recent history, we would already be in a serious flood situation, without the extra rain that's forecast for this week.
  17. Power generation used to be a distant number 2. I don't think it's nearly so distant now that those electrons are worth a lot more money. Don't worry though, they will run it all through TR fast until they get Bull flooded and have to store some in Johnny's Pond.
  18. Bill is absolutely right. Guide or not, when someone steps into your boat, you literally have their life in your hands. I think about that pretty often fishing with the 10 year old, or even with a couple of older guys I take from time to time. It's a sobering thought as a normal guy, let alone as someone taking money for it. Same deal as when I'm setting up a concert. People could die from my lack of judgement in any number of ways, so it makes me check, and double check every move I make, no matter how routine.
  19. Cash on the side, by word of mouth, I don't have a real problem with. Trying to launch a business to compete with another established business, by undercutting price and childish behavior, I think is silly.
  20. Did you take down full time guide's business cards and replace them with yours?
  21. As long as you don't set out to undercut the guys that do it full time, and carry insurance to protect yourself and your clients, I don't see a problem with guiding on the side.
  22. Ham- I know there are great fishermen who don't fish derbies. Some of them would probably make great guides, but this particular situation stinks of who you know more than what you know, in my honest opinion. I believe Champ is dead on right. Guiding is an expensive seasonal business, with thin margins, if indeed you are providing the level of service that I would consider "professional". In that respect it's very similar to the concert staging and production industry I'm in. We see guys try to start companies all the time by underbidding to build a client base, and it simply can't work. 99.9999 percent of the time, those guys either go out of business, or raise their prices, because after they have been in it a short while, all the hidden costs crop up and they see WHY the rest of us charge what we do. The net effect is still there though, and that's downward pricing pressure in the market, which hurts everyone, because as soon as one newbie has learned the hidden costs and raised his price, the next poor dumb bastard who thinks it seems like a fun way to make a buck has already hung his shingle and tried to buy his way in by undercutting, keeping the vicious cycle going. Guiding is about people skills more than fishing. For a guy to just pop up, having laid no networking groundwork by talking to the other guides in the immediate area, by getting to know fishermen, working social media, (I'm putting derby fishing into this networking category) is suspect in my opinion. Doing it by pulling other local guides business cards off of area bulletin boards and replacing them with yours just seems amateurish and unprofessional. I'm not impressed so far. Time will tell I suppose.
  23. I'm not Quill, but I like the Lucky Craft gunfish, in (I think) the 95 size. It sits a little lower in the water than most walk the dog baits, and if you work it a little softer still walks and spits a little, but is more subtle.
  24. Ned just catches dinks, is what RPS was saying. He just wasn't gonna say it to your face, like me. (Kidding, the little guy will catch quality fish, if you are throwing it where quality fish live)
  25. I saw those too. Can't recall ever seeing that "guide" cash any checks in Bass-o-thon, or any of the other serious local derbies, or even heard his name before in the dock talk as being a good stick. I'm not at all convinced he knows anything worth paying money for. His advertised rate seems cheap too... Shame that folks feel like they have to buy their way into a business by undercutting the established guys. Not a fair deal, IMHO.
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