fishinwrench

I haven't threatened to go Kung Fu on you yet. Come show us how to catch'em. We'll hit Bandana's for some ribs and a beer afterwards.

Some sports are inherently dangerous. They don't have to be, but we accept it and allow them to be. In racing, your career should be over, at least for a lengthy period of time, if you crash. The fact that you lost control of your car/boat/motorcycle and destroyed it means that you FAILED and obviously don't have the skills and decision making ability to compete yet. Anybody can mash the throttle to the floor and go faster than their machinery and skills will allow. The first goal of racing is to finish the race. Winning or placing well is the secondary goal. The fact that all you need in order to to race professionally is a fast car and some money, is absurd. How many crashes are ya gonna cause before you're not a hazard on the track anymore ? Fishing has become the same way. The best bass fisherman in the world is likely too poor to participate, so we'll never know who he is.

In the mid-late '80's it was worth the drive for me. Moved to Ga. for awhile and when I came back 4 years later it just wasn't the same. Made 4-5 runs over there after I got back, and really fished it hard with next to nothing to show for it. I just kinda gave up and haven't been back since. Back before the internet you could go there anytime and not see a soul.

We'll have a limit. It'll be a roll of the dice whether it eclipses 20#, and it'll take that to win. Probably take 18+ to even get a check. I ain't even bothering with the weigh-in line unless I think we have a chance. I'll bring 12 of those fish back to the Gravi. 😀

I don't fish the main channel at all. The areas that I fish aren't pounded with waves and heavy boat traffic, ever. I can't fish good when my boat is being tossed around, and even if I could I wouldn't enjoy it. I do have to drive through the washing machine to get to the areas where I do fish though.

Glad to see someone giving tips on things other than how to catch fish, cuz there's alot more to fishing than just catching fish. Swindle gets to swap out outboards every year, and doesn't have to pick up the tab for a blown powerhead. Constant changes in RPM will take a considerable amount of life out of that motor. During acceleration and deceleration there is alot of steel on aluminum stress going on, and I don't need to tell you which one is gonna give first. The wrist pin (steel) or the piston (aluminum)? Those holes go from round to oval quick enough without taking hours away with a Hotfoot. But to each their own, the more blown powerheads there are in the world the better off my family lives. 😀

The only problem the Niangua area has is the same problem the Gravois arm has, in that every weekend (and several evenings during the week) it loses fish, and only very rarely are any fish brought back into it. But for the last 4-5 years the lower lake (from the dam to the 8mm) and the Glaize near PB2 has been getting the Lions share of the fishing pressure, so the Niangua's have had some time to rebound. The people that live up there are all about crappie, so the bass really don't have as much pressure on them as you might think.

Cool. Probably see ya there.

Thanks. Anywhere besides inside the PB2 bouys off limits ?

I'm on this big crusade to end the useless relocating of bass, but if 5 guys from this board are gonna be there then my daughter and I will do it. Are there some rules on the back of that flyer ? (A-rig ?).

Thank you ! 😀

My initial thoughts as well.

That would almost make it a worthwhile activity. What do y'all do with them, throw them up on the bank or bash their head in and kick them back in the river?

I don't even know when and how they spawn. What is the typical spawning behavior ?

Hey you obviously have more experience fishing for water balloons full of snot, so I won't discount what you say. I'm just saying that if I was to place a bet on it I'd bet that any caught were the result of a well placed (lucky) cast rather than a skilled retrieve and calculated fly choice.

Because you have an overactive imagination. You probably fished that color more than any other. They might possibly avoid certain color objects (like large bright orange, or flourecent pink things) but my money is on the odds that they won't turn to take, or specifically chase, anything, regardless of the action or what color it is. They just aren't programmed to feed that way. Where the Katy trail crosses the Loutre river you can stand on the bank and sight fish to them all day long from April to November. If you stand on the bridge above someone fishing you'll see that not a single one will move unless you spook it. They just set there and repeatedly gulp the water in front of them all day and all night. The ones below Bagnell do the same thing.

It's debatable whether they actually chase and eat the flys, or whether they just suck it in along with other bits of flotsam. I have sat and watched them on several occasions and I don't ever remember seeing one turn to specifically "take in" anything. They just sit in a current seam and continuously gulp in what drifts into their mouths.

So once you've had a slow couple of days on a particular stretch of river you never go back?

Yep, that makes you a Size 11 Pro-Staffer then. I'm a 10 1/2 Pro-Staffer for Ozark Trails, so I can't be seen wearing a pair of FiveTen shoes.

Considering the looks of those things I'm surprised that they even make them bigger than a 7 Slim.

So you're like a FiveTen pro-staffer now ?

I'd rather just NOT FISH than to mess around with those disgusting zombies. During "Eagle Days" below Bagnell you could watch the eagles swoop down like they were gonna scoop one up, then as soon as they realized what they were they'd change their mind.

Not sure whether the naked Twister or the stretching ritual helped the shooting part, but I'm quickly getting better at it.

Well as I posted earlier, it had gotten "uncomfortable" to shoot from a sitting or prone position because I had somehow gotten older and fatter than I realized, so I invented a stretching ritual to loosen myself up. My wife watches me and is like "What In The Hell Are you Doing?" Without even thinking I blurted out "I'm loosening up for a game of Naked Twister. You interested?" I'll spare you the play by play...but today I'm suffering from a wicked crick in my neck and my right arm is numb. The stretching excersize is helping alot though, I am once again able to get my elbows comfortably on my knees and shoot good from that position again. I won't be able to practice Prone until my neck muscles loosen up again.