fishinwrench

You and Pat have eaten 50 squirrels since last February? Y'all are worse than the blasted Hawks around here ! 😂 If you land in this tree someday.... you're gonna get it ! 😊

There was no basis to the remainder of your post. It was just you winding down from admitting that your assessment was flawed. I omitted it out of courtesy. If you'd like to start over and try again, we can do that. Go!

That would be handy for pulling it up out of harms way while snaking through a stump flat.

Your folks must have been well off from the start! I wanna say that I was 7 years old (2nd grade) when we first got A/C and I HATED IT! All of a sudden we had to keep all the windows closed, and I'd get my butt chewed out for going in & out alot. "GOD------- GLEN, CLOSE THE DOOR!!!" 🙄 Sheese! 🙁 Gigantic 2-story house.....and one piddlyass window unit. I know darn well NOW that it couldn't have kept it more than 2 degrees cooler in there.

That's a pretty solid day for a crankbait tosser. Welcome back to the Ozarks 😊

So see. He was able to save the best jokes, and probably the sandwiches that take longer to eat....for his NEXT trip. 😊

Share with us, can you?,.....a single STRAIGHT ANSWER from a fisheries biologist, that wasn't already widely known before he/she came along.

Another? Who offered up the previous ones, and how much were they? T'was an honest quote. Take it or leave it. Oh, and don't forget to check your fire extinguisher before you head out. 👍

You sir, are an experienced fisherman. Life as a guide isn't as full of days sharing a boat with guys like you....as you might think. More often than not (at least here on this lake) you are babysitting.

Yep. It's ok. Appreciate you openly acknowledging that.

YOU started it !

5.5 would break the state record. I didn't weigh mine but I know it wasn't 5lbs. Low 4's maybe. I'd like to know the measurement on the 5.3 that is currently the Mo.state record. Oklahoma has a 4lb.9oz record WB that was 20.5" ..... but I suspect that fish was a mutt. And caught in the early spring....so obviously full of eggs. Mine was caught in October.

If a youngster is gonna make money fishing, he's gonna have to do some guiding. And not everyone has the personality for that. You've gotta be a good story teller, have some gut-buster jokes, and know how to build a killer sandwich. 👍

Good point. Beings as current is always present there, they may not move around in the same pattern. On the Truman and Bagnell tailwaters they know the difference between dam releases and sudden increased inflow from the creeks. Even though there's always some current in the main channel they will still shoot up the creeks after a good rain.

@FishinDave, just remember the time of year, and more importantly the conditions. Temperate bass aren't much of a slave to water temp. They'll run up the creeks after a high water event just about any time of the year (sometimes it doesn't take much of a rise at all). Usually just to the first couple of riffles. If they find food up there they'll stick around awhile. If not they'll retreat after a day or two. Seems like the clearer the water is... the less likely they are to wait around very long if the foodbelt isn't running full tilt. If you can manage to be there when they first start to show up, you can really load up on them. Timing is everything.

Well then, Alex, can you get a lens pointed up there and take a picture of it, photoshop the hell out of it, and then share? So we can more properly grasp the meaningness of it all.

Fish become lethargic when their basic survival needs aren't being met. Therefore requiring less....until conditions improve. The tolerances are pretty wide. Humans aren't so designed.

Now you're over my head. 😅 I'm only concerned over whether the fish can, and are most likely to survive, or not.

In a sense, yes they do. Besides, let's not ignore the fact that fish don't go belly up during the Fall turnover. They may cease to feed and travel great distances....but they adjust their consumption rate and ultimately survive.

Not at a rate that isn't being exceeded by the gentle breeze.

Immeasurable. The decaying leaves that are in all of our bodies of water currently....are NOT suffocating the fish, or causing their surface arteries to rupture.

Oh really, Bill Nye? Put a dozen toothpicks in a cup of water and allow them to become soggy. Prepare another cup of fresh water and place an oxygen sensor in it. Note the gradual decline of oxygen over a period of time. Now, move the soggy toothpicks into the cup of water with the oxygen sensor, and record your findings for a similar period of time. Did the toothpicks measurably alter the decline rate of oxygen? Let me know. Oh, and be careful sucking on those toothpicks.....You might asphyxiate yourself. 🙄

Plenty around our place at the lake. June 'til late August they sing every night.

Once the object, leaf, grass, piece of wood, ect. is dead and saturated with water....it does not continue to CONSUME oxygen or emit hazardous elements into the water that harm the fishery. If it did then every Fall would result in a massive fish kill.....and there'd be no fish left. And you'd definitely not find a fish in lakes like Truman, or Mark Twain. When an area, like a large bed of milfoil, begins dying.....the fish LEAVE the area. They don't just sit there and suffer from oxygen depletion until they croak. 🤣

Ya know, after my tornado experience I wished that I had lived in a trailer. It would have been SO MUCH EASIER to just bulldoze the wreckage into a hole.....and haul in a new "house". All of that clean-up and rebuilding was a freakin' nightmare!