Gavin

Missouri Department of Conversation maybe? All talk, no action.

Back yard is 100' x 200', your welcome to pitch a tent back there anytime Rick.

I'm buying my wife a box cutter for Christmas!

Looks like fun, thanks for sharing your blog. Grayling are hard to come by in the lower 48!

There are plenty of country ghetto's in the rural North. My customers in Nebraska and Iowa arent so bad, and my NYC and NJ customers are great from a billing perspective. I bill them NY rates, and that is allot more than you can get here. Indians (dot not feather), and the Chinese are the worst. I wont take them unless they agree upon a fixed fee (one pmt up front or monthly payments). If you bill them after the fact, they will take forever to short pay you and demand that you discount the rest. I don't put up with clients like that.

4.5" 110mm seems to be the optimum size. Sometimes 4" 98mm, or 5" 130mm. A 7" Rapala will work if the water is muddy, but the smaller sizes generally draw more strikes in clear and stained water. Ripping them fast with very short pauses seems to work best for trout. Bass will watch it for 5-30 seconds then hammer it when you twitch it....Not so with trout usually. Trout will usually lose interest if you pause it for more than an instant. If you pause too long and see the trout start to drift off course, rip quick with no pauses to trigger the strike. Everything within 50' will see the flash of a jerkbait, so don't waste your time making repetitive casts to the same location. One, maybe 3 casts, then move. You will be wasting your time after that.

And that's a winner!

Its just Oriental culture. They are older than you, so they think they rule the roost. Buy them a house and get them out of your hair.

A 30' head is a pain to manage. Will have to try some shorter heads....Most of the ones I have were bought for salmon on the Kenai.300 grains and up.

Sounds like a good time! I miss fishing with my Dad, enjoy it while you can.

Would be interesting to see a streamer v jerkbait showdown. The person casting a sink tip and streamer will wear themselves out in about 2 hours. Sure you can fish a sinking line, but its just not much fun. Floating down the river with a floating line and a bass bug or streamer is a hoot. Will get 2-3 cast, to a bait caster's one in that situation. Not so with most sinking fly lines, definitely not with my 30' fast sink head, and running line set up. It will cast 140' but you will have to strip in 110' of running line, roll cast pickup, shoot 30' of running line on your back cast, and the rest on your forward cast.

Gotta have someone to row if you are gonna fish a streamer. And you will be to close to the trout.

It’s only an hour from the Upper Current. Have camped at Lane, floated the Current in the AM, fished Mill, Spring, and the LP in one day.

Buffalo can live over 50 years and they are native...Probably need some protection. Common Carp are invasive, kill all you want.

4-5” baits and Medium Spin Tackle. 8# test minimum, with 12lb flouro leaders. It can be expensive, Japanese Suspenders are not cheap. $20+ per plug.

That’s a dandy!

Nice spot, have camped there often. Think they have 8 electric sites...pretty quiet spot.

No different than snagging fish at Cow Shoals on the Little Red.

Fly rods on 3 occassions, coffee cups, tools...Buddy of mine left his wallet up there and got really lucky. Somehow it caught the pillar of the roof rack and he got it back 30-40 miles later.

Crying Native American Last time we put in at 63 there were a bunch of kids smoking weed and drinking beer. They were not making a mess...Different story at W bridge...Adult junkies & drunks with the MOHP running them off. Needles on the gravel bar. Sad really.

Would join the Misssouri Smallmouth Alliance and Gateway TU after the Covid panic lifts. Get to meet some folks face to face, then go floating with them. I'll give you a float invite after this Covid lifts. Until then, I'm just floating with family and a few friends.

Whatever gets through the leaves and stays clean this time of year, Find the bait fish this time of year. Bass will be nearby eating them.

I enjoy the company of the people I go fishing/ hunting with, folk I meet, and the scenery more than the activity mostly. Traveling to fish/hunt out of state, or out of country is a real treat. Enjoy it if you can do it. Your days are short, fill your bucket list! Make it shorter Al, and dump the Thoreau reference. Nobody is gonna get that old fag. Thanks for the read.

Site looks legit...but $75-100 a night is very pricey for an RV site even with a full hook up. Mary can you fit a 32" RV and an F-250 in the fire pit spot? How many spots do you have? Site lists 2. Room for distanced tent camping? Might be great for my daughters girl scout troop or for a family get away. Elbow Inn still in business? Haven't been there in 3-4 years.

Ok floated through there more than a few times. Andy at Route 66 Canoe has done a great job for me in that area.