Osage
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That is a beautiful fish and sorry about your misfortune.
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Just got off the river at Cox myself a bit ago. Yes the water was dingy; not a light algae green, just dirty. I'd of thought it would be clearer than that the way the river is coming down. 805 at Galena gauge now. Nice looking fish.
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Sorry. What was I thinkin'? I put the answer in the quoted portion. I looked at the map and what you're calling Mud Bank is at 46.1 mile. Then I wrote the locals call that river access area, The Marble Ground. And then I wrote, the Highway V bridge over Golf Creek is out and you will have to pick an alternate route to get to Kerr's Landing.
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Ah, OK I guess. I live close; was more just getting out of the house than serious fishing. Motored my freighter canoe up past old Limberlost to the east bend and floated back down. Quite a few strikes and caught a 12" or so brownie on a ned rig. Wind was out of the NE and it was almost jacket cool after that front passed through. Lots of current. I got most of my strikes in pools close to a current seam, that seems to be where they're holding with the river cooking along like it is. Good luck!
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Just took out at Cox before dark. The river is up about a foot and not stained at all. Clear water in the shoals and the holes are that good opaque green color.
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Yep, just a bit over 5 miles. Real easy to find the river miles by using the 'distance function' on Google Maps
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I haven't been up that far in years. That's pretty skinny water. There use to be a bad place with ledges about a mile or so above Blue Springs. Kind of hard to get through. Lot's of folks are surprised when they catch crappie out of James River but they are native, just like the walleye. It's the smallmouth that are the newcomers. They've only been here in the Ozarks the last 100 years or so.
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All of James River goes down in mid summer unless it's an exceptionally wet year. What's your point?
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That's a tough walk. Plus a mudhole when it rains. Ya, you worked for those fish.
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Very good Jeff, that's a nice sized fish. I'm curious, where did you put in at? I'd of thought with the recent rain and the river up Blunks would be too nasty to put in a boat.
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A nice rain, some warmer weather. This ought to jump start James River and get the fish active.
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Just came back from Springfield over Nelson's Bridge. That's pitiful skinny water. Yaknar, I think you'd have been better off pedaling a bicycle through there than trying to float a kayak down. I feel bad for the fish that have to live in it.
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Maybe this little rain storm will give the fish a drink. Put a little oxygen in the water.
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Ahh, cool. I was thinking about the agrevation of pulling a canoe down down below Nelson's Bridge. Wouldn't be that bad with a kayak though. I use to run that area by Wilson's when I was a kid, hunting and what not. It was nasty back then. I don't want to wade Wilson's Creek, even now after they've cleaned it up some. You have about a mile from the low water bridge on the south edge of the battlegrounds on down to James. If James is low, Wilson's will be lower. Take some peroxide with you.
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Nice fish Yaknar. Curious, if you floated by the mouth of Wilson where did you put in at? Or did you put at Delaware, paddle up and then float back down?
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Oh OK. I'd read about rock snot in the Conservationist, guess I didn't pay enough attention when I read the article. So, what I'm looking at is the same ol' algea blooms I've been seeing for the last 40 years. Just worse this year with the heat and drought. I have to say James is SO MUCH cleaner than it use to be after all the bedroom towns of Springfield installed phosphate cleaners on their sewage treatment plants. The 70s and 80s were enough to make me fish in the lake for 20+ years. James was nasty back then.
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Anyone else noticed the green moss/algae growing in James River? Is that what they call Rock Snot? I was at Kerr's last night and it's everywhere. I don't rememeber it being that bad in previous years. Seems like there's always a bit of summer time moss at the banks when the river gets low in mid summer but then a little rise will take it right out.
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You could go to Hootentown I guess. That would be a lot better than Deleware. You could motor from the ramp/bridge area about 1/4 mile up. James is pretty well shot for most any kind of motor boat right now. I motored up from Galena last night and had to pull the shoal by Limberlost to get a mile above Galena. It's a dry year. Waders and canoe floaters are doing OK.
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The ramp itself is excellent. Not far above there is an old submerged mill dam or ford that is tough to get up over in low water. Shallow limestone bottom right in front of Deleware Town right below the ramp. That's very skinny water for a lake rig, even in good years. Years past in high water I've put my shallow draft rig in at Deleware and motored up past the mouth of Wilson to the old slab south of Battlefield. Wouldn't even attempt it now.
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Yup. I won't go on that stretch on a Saturday. Sunday evenings and through the week are tolerable. Starting to look like the Current. Too many people with too much alcohol in that little five mile stretch.
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http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?cb_00060=on&cb_00065=on&format=gif_default&period=1&site_no=07052250 Nice little rise coming down Jame River. Where'd that water come from?
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Three days on that stretch might be pretty good. Put in of an evening, float all the next day camp down somewhere around Kerr's and then float out the next morning. That would give you two camp outs on the river, two mornings and two evenings for fishing and an unhurried put in and take out.
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Yup. On the west bank looking north.
