Amy Has Many Rods

I had an exciting Saturday! I caught my first ever catfish at Lake Springfield. First cast of the day no less. He was about a two pound channel cat. I didn't catch a blessed thing the rest of the day, but didn't care I was so excited to have caught the cat. Caught him on worm bait, using my Zebco Pro Staff. I hope to do some canoe fishing on Lake Springfield before long.

quote name='asap52' date='19 June 2011 - 10:12 AM' timestamp='1308496343' post='197227'] Fishermen, Planning on heading to Roaring river sometime next week. Anyone have any updates on what the water is like and what they are hitting? Thanks in advance. Tight lines, Corky Went there this weekend. I believe we were too late in the day to get much of anything. We saw lots of sucker and caught a blue gill but no trout. I didn't have the best experience at the park store when I went to buy my tag ... the first gal I dealt with was REALLY rude. However we did stop in Tim's shop and he was just as nice as he could be!!

Howdy, I recently started fishing again for the first time since I was seven years old. My Grandad was quite the fisherman and he took me fishing several times ... then my family moved away from the Ozarks and I hardly ever got to see him much less get to go fishing. I moved back to the area about 5 years ago and decided to pick up the rod and reel again. As you can tell from my screen name, once I started I bought some rods. LOTS of rods. In a matter of less than two weeks I managed to get seven. I'm kind of a disaster. I mainly fish for pan fish, and I'm going on my first trout fishing trip tomorrow at Roaring River! I'm really excited! May even try to catch some catfish this evening. I live in the Springpatch (Springfield) area and there are lots of places to indulge my habit around my house. Anyway, just wanted to say hello and that I love all the info on this site! Hope they're biting where you are!