fishinwrench

I had forgotten until you just brought it up, but back when Springview fly shop was there by the Spring, a buddy and I had a blast one day catching some rather nice 'gills, on Renegades, in that "frogwater" above the spring. There were some fatties in there. 👍

Target tracking will be introduced fairly soon, it's all in the marketing strategy. So if that is something you're gonna be interested in I'd wait to buy a FFS unit. Since it bluetooths to your TM I doubt that the previous FFS units will be compatible.

Sweet. Looks like something they'd eat, for sure. . Thx

I sipped down 3 of those little shots, got a pleasant buzz...and didn't get a headache, so it gets a 👍 from me.

Not a bad day at all. 👍 Can we get a glimpse of those productive nymph? 🙂

Belt tensioner most likely. Hit the tensioner pulley with some silicone spray, and if that quiets the squeal for a bit....you've found it.

Ok, I had to go play with it......and it's impossible unless your fly is less than 15 feet from your rod tip. Plus, the weight required to make it happen is more than any dry fly, other than a big foam hopper, can float. So as cool as it looks in that little video, I'm calling BS on the whole thing. 🙄

This looks like a blast! I don't think it would take a full blown hatch to get bit doing this.

Huh? 🤔

I'm sure it comes in bigger bottles, this was just a sampler. Who wants to spend 20-30.00 on a bottle of booze that they might not like?

Well, I said I didn't care much for flavored whiskey, but this stuff, and Caramel Crown, is pretty yummy!

Nooo, that's baloney. NFOW fish, and even some from the Niangua have had the orange-tipped dorsal fin. I used to think it meant something, but I don't believe it does.

During late fall, years ago, I found some good sized bass in Duroc bay on the upper Osage. The lake dropped about 7" but I figured the fish were still in there. I knew I could shoot over the berm and get into the cove if I kept the boat on plane with the motor trimmed......but I wasn't sure how I was gonna get back out of there. So I devised a plan......I would go around in circles inside the cove to get the boat on plane, then trim the motor up and scream out of there. It's only silt and gravel, so the worst that could happen is that I would just get STUCK, right? So we did catch the fish, had a solid limit that weighed 18.3 in less than 4 hours.....but now it was time to make my escape. Started going in tight circles, crawling the boat up on plane, and had an instant BRIGHT IDEA......I would ride my wake over the berm! 💡 Not thinking that the boat would be going faster than the crest of the wake. So like an idiot I slowed down to try and stay on top of the crest, but misjudged it, buried the nose of the lower unit into the bottom, and the boat came to an immediate stop. Oops! 🤬. But wait......Here comes the backwash! 😁. As soon as the backwash lifted the transom of the boat I HAMMERED THE THROTTLE and shot out of there like a missile launch. We got our 2nd place and big-bass check, put the boat on the trailer, then I immediately hopped out to inspect the carnage that had haunted me all the way back to PB2.....just a couple of little nicks on the prop and some scuffed paint on the gearcase and skeg. 😁 👍

Smallies don't seem to be attracted to heavy spring water inflow except for during the coldest period of Winter. And really only then...if they simply have no place else to go. Another observation of mine is that I've never seen scads of little smallmouth make those runs into areas near spring inflow...... it's always the more mature ones (over 12-13") along with the more mature Goggle-eye. As for when they leave and move back to where they came from......They don't seem to remain in the spring area for very long at all. Possibly just during the coldest period (shortest days?). They probably evacuate during the next high water period, and by that I don't mean "a flood", just a decent rise. Rainwater runoff during late winter is about the same temperature as spring water, I would imagine.

Pfft! It wasn't ME standing in the shower house, repeatedly pushing the button on the hand dryer for 3 straight hours, drying the inside of his waders, his vest, and all of his 14 soggy wilted fly boxes..... ...and that's all I'm gonna say.....'bout THAT. 🙄

What was built first, Powersite dam, or Table Rock dam ?

Ah, yep, no info for Powersite on there I guess. Not being too familiar with it I assumed it was just a spillway. The Riverflows app gives current info (Gauge height & CFS) on the White River at Powersite. But not below.

In Oneshot defense.....I get it. When you've been the provider/fix-it person in the family for many years, then something happens and you just can't do it anymore, there's this thing inside you that makes you wanna push the issue......over.....and over again. My leg/hip injury shut me down for a solid 3 months last year, but yet all the things that I had always taken care of....still needed to be done! Asking, or even paying someone else to do those things is a blow that just doesn't sit well with a man. Hurts his sense of purpose and pushes him to keep trying, no matter what. Sure he knows that he SHOULDN'T....... But bygod he ain't gonna be able to sleep again until he at least TRYS. And no amount of reasoning can change that.

There's another "trout stream" that flows into a great smallmouth river.....that also loads up on better than average size Smallies during the winter. I won't name it for fear of outing someone's favorite winter/early spring spot......But on THAT ONE I'd say that the Smallies come from BOTH directions. That section of the bigger river would also be a great choice for an early spring float I bet. I never get real serious about chasing Smallies until late-May or June though, so my early season experience is kinda lacking.

There's this.... which is what I usually follow.. https://www.swpa.gov/generationschedules.aspx https://www.swpa.gov/gen/wed.htm

This last cold snap resulted in a sizable run of Niangua Smallies up into the spring branch, as happens every winter. What I've never been able to figure out though is whether they come from ABOVE or BELOW. My gut says that they come from above. Because there's plenty of other places for the lower Niangua bass to go. If I'm right, then Moon Valley to hwy.64 would be the best early spring float......and honestly I've never fished that stretch during the early spring (before memorial day).

Did some "worm farming" when I was a kid. Had 3 water bed frames full of dirt and moss, covered in newspaper and plywood. Me and my twisted BFF got a real kick out of lifting up the "breeding pen" and harassing the ones that were screwing. My lack of sexual performance nowadays is likely karma for all the deviate hanky-panky disturbance I caused as a child. 🙄 For all the work we put into that "farm" our profit margin probably didn't even cover the soap it took to keep our hands and fingernails clean. I'll never forget the day it all ended. Twas a hot summer day and a terrible smell was wafting up the basement stairs.......Dead Nightcrawlers! 🤢 I was immediately ordered to scoop and haul all that "soil" to the edge of our property, and disassemble and burn the frames. And not a single break was allowed until it was done. 😓

Yeah well......Look at how much gas it took to build that car, the batteries, and deliver the electricity to a port where you can charge it. 🙄 Subtract THAT and we'd be back down to .30/gal.

It fluctuates .10-.20 daily around here, with occasional jumps higher/lower. I gotta have it so I don't even pay attention to it anymore. 🙄 Until it gets back down below 2.00/gal. I'll not be satisfied with it.