fishinwrench

Last Saturday it was kinda crowded, but they all cleared out before noon on Sunday. When the whistle blew there was only about 5 cars in the park. It was nice. Monday probably would have been the ideal day to spend there.

There are some hella good bait makers on here. slothman and fishndoug are among those I'd highly recommend. If the order was big enough to make it worth their while I'm sure they could take care of a custom order, and you'd be pleased.

So is it the hook, the head shape, or the sparse skirt that turns you on ? Jigs are extremely easy to modify, so I'm at a loss as to why guys are gladly paying 5-6 bucks apiece for them.

If the window is April you'll want options in all directions, because the weather will undoubtedly interfere with any chosen location.

When C&R first started it was Sat.& Sun. only. Then they added Friday and Monday after Larry Peace requested it. They were kissing his butt and doing everything he requested for awhile because they wanted him to sign off on some property by the spring that they wanted.

The only purpose it serves is to incourage the mishandling of fish. Nobody can wade there, so kids, women, and guys with no fishing skill stand there and catch fish after fish, drag them up on the dry slab rock to unhook them....and then kick them back into the water. It's the overflow from the egg holding tank in the new lower hatchery building. They could have more easily just let that water dump into the nearest raceway and go out the main chute with the rest of the exhaust water....but it is likely contaminated with "something", or of low oxygen content so I guess they felt it was best to keep it out of the raceways. Either way, yeah, it would have been less trouble to cut a ditch alongside the raceways than to bore the road and push a pipe. 🙄

I desperately want to shove something into that pipe at the highbank so those fish will get back in the riffle where they belong. Putting that thing there was the worst decision ever.

It was a blast. Made a pass through the high bank hole and we both caught 8-10 apiece on various nymphs, then went up to Z1 and put on a genuine dry fly clinic. The ol' 9mm Wrench coaxed a bunch of risers, several of which nosed up to the fly, studied it for what seemed like an eternity....then slurped it in. Amber had a solid 20+ incher that got out of her hands while I was digging out my phone to snap a pic. It was her biggest dry fly fish to date. We were getting a lot of steady risers when the whistle blew. I wish they'd blow that sucker an hour later, 4:00 is right in the middle of prime dry fly time. Tons of little celery flys in the air.

See if the shift cable end is moving. Might be the shift detent in the control box, or a broken cable.

We need to fire up the restaurant review thread again A new pizza place just opened up in Versailles less than a month ago, and on Thursday they allegedly provided poor service to a First Responder. Now, thanks to Facebook, the whole town is boycotting the place because...."how dare them not kiss the butt of a FIREMAN". The wife went by there Saturday about dinnertime and sure enough not a single car in front of the place. 😅

If didymo or zebra mussels have decimated a fishery I haven't heard about it yet. I bet a million+ was spent on propaganda about each, signs, stickers, magazines ect., and probably 3x that spent studying each. All quiet now, and ready for the next big scare.

Went down today and started at the river access, up a bit and pretty cloudy, I swung a few streamers and hit some pocket water with a leech....no takers. Headed up to zone 3 and worked a 100 yard stretch, caught 2 little Smallies and one really pretty rainbow down there, but the bite was reaaaally slow so I headed up to zone 2. It was on up there, plenty of decent sized rainbows with most of their tail gone.....but it kept me busy until the whistle blew. Caught 20 or so. Ran back down to the river for the last hour of daylight and managed to catch 2 pretty nice ones in the high fast water swinging a muddler. That's all I have to report. The kid and I are gonna hit the park again tomorrow I think. Lot's of leaves.... but seems to be a good amount of slightly better than average fish with ratchet tails.

This year, weather permitting, it just might be deer sausage, cheese & crackers on a gravel bar. ☺️

MDC pays them? Or does MDC run that operation?

Cuz a group of scientists, the ones everybody wanted to hear from, jumped to a conclusion....and then stopped further research. There's no going back now! The funding for THAT ONE has ended.

Absolutely. A lot of the stuff my ex-wife did was awesome. I've been done buying her gifts and singing about how much I love her for quite awhile now though.

It's cuz they are out of their 5 county area. Severe culture shock.

Have y'all noticed how all the Roaring river guys are being all quiet? 🤔 I bet they've got all the pigs!

That just sucks. They usually dump a load of Browns in the river right around the beginning of firearms deer season. I wonder if we'll get them this year? Browns were totally non-existent in the spring Branch this last year I think. I only fished in the park 3 times but I don't recall seeing any brown trout at all either time.

I really should, cuz truth is I'm not a very good county boy. Scared of spiders, scared of horses, can't walk across gravel with bare feet, ect. 😕

Oh bull$#!t, they get all kinds of cool bass and bluegill ponds, shooting ranges, sweet bike trails and hiking trails, places to jump on beautifully groomed horses and play cowboy, zoo's, hookers, street sweepers.....hell they got it all ! We get Dollar Generals on every corner, some Walmarts, and a few bleached out dink Rainbows with 1/2 a tail... that's it ! 😅

Thanks for reminding me, I need to get windshield washer fluid for all our vehicles. I run straight water in them during the warmer months.

That's what I've been trying to tell y'all....It used to be like that at Bennett, the Niangua, and on the Meramec, before they got all smart and got brand new high tech equipment. No tax increase was required either. One of the main hatchery guys then was a high school dropout who chain-smoked, drank like a fish, and was even better at raising coon hounds. It's a slap in the face that today with all their studying and awesome equipment.... they can't equal what that ol'boy could do.

I don't believe many falsify their genuine findings, but I believe plenty avoid trying certain things, and/or keep trying certain OTHER things, repeatedly, until FINALLY they get a certain (hoped for) result.....then run with it. Again, it isn't the scientist himself that truly upsets me, because they aren't the ones deciding what is or isn't going to happen, or be allowed. It's the ones making things happen BECAUSE of what a scientist has reported to him. Didymo is a fine example. Scientists were NOT the ones who banned felt sole boots. But because of them it got done.....and for no good reason. Scientists were also NOT the ones who put hybrid stripers into a fishery with native white bass either....but they DID say that doing so would cause no genetic alterations of the native whites.....and that was an oopsie that can't be reversed. Maybe it's ok, and maybe it isn't, but that's a pretty bold move to make with a native species just because you think you did something cool. It ain't cool. Playing genetic stewpot with species that have been doing just fine on their own since the beginning of time is playing with fire. They phucked around and ruined marijuana too. The strains of yesteryear are gone forever, so now I can't take a few hits and go fishing....or do ANYTHING for that matter because I might as well have dropped a hit of acid. Studying things and learning all you can about them, that's great, but once you have learned all you think you need to know... then STOP. Quit going all hot-rodder and genetically altering things. Because it becomes permanent and you can never go back. Scientists are smart, but they aren't smart enough to know when to stop. Therefore they are as dangerous as they are helpful. (Consider AI and where that's headed, are you perfectly comfortable with that?)

What test results? There you go assuming that I've ever had a biopsy. I think you might need a nap. If anybody ever tells me I have cancer, my response will be "no $#!t Sherlock, who doesn't?"