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Are there any decent boat ramps up river past Hurricane Deck?

It will be interesting to see if they can sustain in Grand. If so it might be worth a go on the White river chain of lakes.

I put in at Cedar Ridge too on Monday. Motored to Maze at full throttle with my 150 four stroke Mercury. Fished about 30 minutes. Fired up motor. Got up on plane and the motor shut down completely to idle speed. Maybe 3 mph. Took me about an hour to motor back to the Cedar Ridge Campgrounds. Started hiking to the public ramp and George the park attendant gave me a lift to the public launch at Cedar Ridge.

I for one think too many tournaments is primarily responsible for the poor quality of fish. I think I counted one time 89 in April alone. As Bill said, that won't change because of the money involved

BilletHead you don't know how funny that is. Right before I went to the seminar my buddy said he was hungry and he saw a hot dog vendor close by. I ordered us two hot dogs. They weren't taking cash so I handed him my debit card. He asked if I wanted a receipt texted. I said yes. As I was putting relish and mustard on the dog I looked at the receipt. Two hot dog with a $2 discount came to $19.46. I figured some how justice was served when I won the $500

I asked four or five employees where the seminar was and no one knew. So just for fun I got my picture with the Paw Patrol. I think the guy overseeing that was Charlie Evan's. Anyway I asked him. He led me to the outside tents and pointed out the seminar tent. I hightailed through the rain to that tent. KVD was MCing the forum with the Legends of fishing. Hank Parker, Jimmy Houston, Bill Dance, Roland Martin and Johnny Morris. The seminar was about half way through. It was hard to hear some of the comments. I had my raffle tickets with me. The instructions were to put them in the hopper at the seminar. Finally some guy caring a five gallon bucket hollered. "Last call for tickets" I waded my way through the crowd and got my ticket in the bucket with no time to spare. I was standing right by the stage and yes my number was called. $500 gift card.

It's the metal thingy hanging in every tree in the lake.

I'll be there. Not fishing, but will be there at the weigh in.

Great looking fish. Congratulations

The roads and ramps are fine

I plan to attend.

Happy Birthday

Not first hand, but I heard you can get a banded bird at Branson landing with a honey bun

The use of Falcons is permitted to hunt ducks. That Coopers Hawk if properly trained might bring you one.😊

Nothing like a fresh goose just off a sewage lagoon.

I usually get disinterested in Spot Lock and Live Scope after spending 30 minutes of reading the easy to use instruction manual.

I'd definitely buy as much property as I could and restore it to nature. I really miss my younger days in the 50s and 60s quail hunting.

Are you having to deflate the bladder on these deep fish. It seems I see a lot of reports about deep water fish on TR.

There are a lot of crappie being caught on Stockton in brushpiles in 20" depth.

I live on Stockton and there's not as much fishing pressure as TR. That said there are still too many tournaments on this lake. There is an occasional 7-8 lb fish, but that is rare. Probably by the time a bass has reached 3 lbs it's been for several boat rides. IMO stressed fish aren't going to reach any size before natural mortality. If there were any substantial numbers of 5 lb fish, then 25 lb limits would be weighed.

Your luck was better than the guys that got caught with a dozen 9 1/2 and 9 15/16" crappie

Got on the water at 10. Fished till 4. Caught bunches of sub legal fish and scratched out 10 keepers. All came over corp brushpiles in 15-20' of water. It was a mix of black and white crappie. The blacks were by far the thicker of the two, but size wise were nothing to brag about. Fish above 11" are a rarity for me. I'm sure there is a class of fish missing from 3 years ago.

I noticed there were not many fished weighed at Sterett creek during the Bash. The regatta permits for LofO was 1400 and Truman 300 which explains that desgrepency. However I was amazed that Truman still contributed only a very few lower weighted fish that cashed. Is the bass fishing on Truman on the decline?

Late viewing this. Real nice fish!! Is the lake currently producing any crappie?

How is the fishing at Big Hill and is Parsons lake fish able? Last I heard there was a red algae bloom at Parsons.