Gavin

I've always wanted to attend the trout park opener in a gorilla suit, splash around, and generally make a nuisance of myself. Not this year, but one of you can go!

Bass, meh...I'll spend on Tarpon or Snook.

March is a little early for good smallmouth fishing. We tow a 32'. There are plenty of spots to visit. If your are looking for full hookups with sewer....Thinking HVO down by Bennett or Pinecrest on the Current. Avoid Echo Bluff. It has full hookups but the fishing stinks and CG is ugly. You might try Sunburst Ranch on the NFoW or Taney. Think there was an RV CG on the west side of the dam, but I have not been there in 30 years. Quarry Park on the Norfork down in Arkansas is a good RV CG. Depends on how you tow. I bumper tow so I can put my boats on my ladder racks. If you have a 5th wheel that is not an option.

It will be chaos, but rest assured! Everything is temporary until your dead.

That's a good deal for $200, but I've already got one. Weight distribution IS the way to go if your bumper towing v 5th wheel.

That's a long slow float. Glad you had fun and thanks for the report!

Tonight is gonna be Offal. Linguini with shrooms in a cream sauce with fried duck & goose livers and gizzards.

That kinda reminds me of my old spawn sack fly pattern. I tied 8-10 peach glowballs on short individual monofilament strands and lashed all the strands to a single wooly bugger hook wrapped with ice sparkle chenille. I was a novelty, but it did catch some stocked trout in muddy county park lakes. The could SEE if for sure.

OnX hunt is allot more useful than 200 Missouri Smallmouth Adventures. You can do plenty of wading on the Niangua, just hit the road crossings upstream from Bennett. Other places, you will have to look. Moon Valley to Bennet isn't a bad weekday float and you can wade in front of Riverfront or HVO if you are staying there.

March & Early April are usuallly slow, and high water is probable. May & June are usually ideal. Check out canoemisouri.org for canoe rentals and campgrounds. Have fun!

Well Al, put some skin in the game and push your river tourney friends to go to catch, photo, release. You know them all. You fish with them.

I’m done. Boys in AR & LA may get some late ducks. I really could not care less about field hunting for Canada geese or snows.

Nope, I don’t know that guy but I can tell you where he is standing. He’s about 75 yards from an access.

My friends have been down camping and sore lipping those fish for two days now. Gonna join them in the AM. I’m not bringing my light gear. Thinking a medium spin rod, and a 6wt. Extra reel for each. It sucks when your reel freezes solid.

I’ve got a basement full of short fly rods 8’ 5wt & under. Everything I usually fish with is 9’ 5wt and up. I do like to dink around with a short wimpy rod and a dry fly when that opportunity exists, but not so much on the Current R. The place is a mess right now. Sand & sweepers everywhere. 3x minimum to keep them out of all the snags.