Haris122

Happy New Year Everybody

Sweet.

I lost one on lake 22 today, that close to literally slipped out of my fingers. I was throwing a roostertail for a while, and finally this particular time I had a group of 6 or so of them follow it on the way back. I thought I was out of luck the moment they got close enough for me to spot them, but oddly enough, one of them decided to go for it at that moment and snatched it, and I got to reeling it in the remaining 4-5 yards to shore, didn't want to give it a chance to unhook. I lift the rod up to get it out of the water, and grab the line, and it gets off the hook and drops to the ground. I rush to grab it just slow enough not to slip down the incline into the water and it swims off the gravel into deeper water literally as I'm reaching around it.

I headed out late today, and hooked a normal size crappie on a roostertail. Nothing more than that but I didn't stay too long. Worked out better than trout fishing with them, and they're the ones supposed to be more active at these temps than crappie. Figure that out.

A bit off topic, but have you guys been inside the main office where they got that aquarium with that big Largemouth Bass in there. Man, I mean the other bass is there is also big, but that huge one in there is like a Bus. Getting one on the line that size would either lead to an amazing fight, or one bad smack from the fishing rod when the line breaks. I'm surprised the smaller normal sized 9" or so Bluegill in that Aquarium survive in there at all with that monster in the same tank.

Snap, I didn't see the advice before I headed out. It felt colder than the forecast suggested so I ended up badly rolling the dice with trout again. What do you guys think is a good normal minimal water temp to go try for native fish?

So lakes 21 and 28 are c&r while the other 4-5 they mention you can keep if you got a trout permit?

So you guys think it will be warm enough to fish for species other than trout tomorrow as well?

I snagged me a reel on the Meramec near Unger Park once. I think it got tossed by my parents months later. Never bothered to clean it and try it out.

If it's anything like in my family, most of the non-smokers just don't think the one smoker in the family will stop despite the increase, so might as well not add to the burden in a already stretched family budget by voting for it. I would hope being able to afford less smokes really does cut down on the amount you do smoke, as opposed to just use the money from other sections to compensate for the cost. I know my dad is so ingrained in it, that I sadly doubt he will ever significantly cut down on it. Then again I'm not one to talk seeing how I hammer down 3 coke's a day, and that's after cutting it down from 5 a day. I really have to get my stuff together on that.

I know it wasn't the right thing to do, but at the time it was instinctive. It was the first deer ever that I saw (and a legal one to take at that), and for all I know, with my luck, could've been the last one too. And technically speaking it was still a broadside shot, just one you had to lead very fast. Monday I saw another one, that could've easily been a clean easy shot. He had just emerged in a field and didn't see me, and slowly made his way across it to another chunk of forest, and I couldn't make out if he had the 4th antler point, so I gave him the benefit of the doubt after I got my first ever firing at one out of my system.

Sweet. I took 2 shots at one on the run, but I think both of mine missed. It's pretty childish to kick someone off just cause he got a deer before you. Kind of makes you wonder how they got convinced to let someone else to hunt to begin with, if they would act like that.

Gramps, what kind of fish did you catch? I only caught a decent gar there once while fishing from the shore, and then hooked another one in the main river section from the shore again and that was it. Though I saw a couple of dead carp, regular and asian, nearby too. What kind do people catch at GW in general?

I came across one today. Buck, at least 4 points and pretty tall. Could've been more, but he didn't give me the chance to find out. I saw him in full run while I was waiting at a spot. Sounded like a running horse at first, and next thing I know, I'm trying to lead on him as he's running like crazy in front of me. Didn't lead him enough, cause neither of my 2 shots showed to have any effects on him. Just to make sure I checked if there was any blood, and couldn't find any. I followed him up over the hill a bit to make sure he didn't get shot and just collapsed up the hill somewhere, and I didn't find him either. At least I finally saw one while actually out hunting for them.

I'm just glad to have something potentially biting at stuff I can actively cast and reel in, at Suson park. I don't see any bass in there, and the catfish, they tend to be more sit and wait type deal even in the summer.

Sweet, I need to head out later, try my luck.

Wondered seeing how it's the first day of november, if the MDC has started stocking the trout in the parks yet. Been thinking of going to Suson park or Tilles, to try my luck out there. So I wanted to see if any of you guys have seen any clear evidence suggesting they're in there yet.

In my experience, they have departments on campus that in theory can help you fix up/improve resumes, figure out how to write cover letters, and help you get a lead on a job, but a lot of that, especially the last part, depends a lot on what major you're in. For example, in the one I went to you're more likely to get an employer in the business field let this department know they're looking for people, than you are in say biology or something. It seems to vary as to what to extent you're on your own in finding something, in other words.

Maybe he wanted to make him feel worse by hyping the size of it up, haha.

It did take quite a quick trip down the wrong direction, didn't it. Obviously in places where there's only a few areas that allow for good casting from the bank you can see predict it, but when people got an entire lake or shore's worth to go someplace else, that's when it's really annoying. Even if I was planning on moving off, I tend to hunker down in those cases just to show that they won't crowd me out from there. I can't say in my experience this has been restricted just to younger generations though. I had my share of people older than me, pull the same thing younger ones did. Thankfully none of the times I recall at the moment did they have any more success catching anything than I did.

Ditto #2.

To date, I've seen some as far up as Pacific Palisades CA on the Meramec. Probably will see them further one of the days that i fish even further upstream than that.

I'll head out for deer once rifle season starts, but so far nothing.

Gramps, I can't help much from direct boating experience, and I might be wrong on this, but when I was checking it out from the boat ramp a few weeks ago, I got the impression the average depth, at least right there by the access and just upstream by the Meramec Caverns, is around 4-5 feet once you get into the main channel portions of it.

5 fish in 3 hours, especially with all the leaves falling, that would be the best day to date in my book. That was no small task. I tossed around a crankbait for an hour and a half and I can't recall retrieving it more than twice, without it catching on those leaves in the river.