fishinwrench

Yeah way above the lake. We were up there once and came across a little gas station that still had the bottle style gas pumps. Bought a bag of hot pork rinds and a 10oz. Coke. Slammed the Coke and then started eating pork rinds. Those things were so freakin' hot it was unbelievable and we had nothing else to drink. Ended up drinking straight out of the upper Hooch. Never even got a case of the runs.

Awesome, Good Job ! 👍

The lower Hooch was always weird, stocking schedule dependant. The upper headwaters of the Hooch were awesome, almost so good it was spooky... always made me wonder how and why we always seemed to have it all to ourselves.

Yeah A catalyst, that's exactly what they need.

Georgia is a wonderful state, I miss it. I had a place in Buford in the '80's Is all of the Georgia power land still open to the public ?

My wife was B&R Omaha. Those folks up there sure have invented plenty of creative ways to serve hamburger, and pie shells, haven't they? If I never eat another runza, cabbage roll, stuffed pepper, Dutch letter, or baklava, it'll be too soon. My wife does them all better than the authentic version, at least she cooks the grease out of the hamburger first. But still, I'm kinda burnt out on all that glorified hamburger helper crap. My favorite way to eat hamburger is to make it into a Patty and throw it on a grill.

You never paid your dues in full. Kinda hard to do unless you live on the creek, really pay attention, and keep notes for a number of years.

I was 7-8 years old when all that was going on, and all the "sightings" were happening where we camped and fished. Dad said it was all BS and told us kids to quit being scared, but I noticed that instead of carrying his Ruger .22 pistol like always....he had started packing the .30-.30

Who remembers MoMo ?

If it is a light colored rod you could color it with dip-n-dye, then a thin overcoat of clear rod varnish.

Winter Spring Summer Fall

Prettiest girl ever! When you croak I'm going after Pat. Just so ya know.

Steering cables are no prob. It's those livewell valves that I don't wanna touch until we have a warmer day. Those hoses get stiff and brittle when it's freezing cold out. I don't wanna have to replumb the whole dang boat. Regardless, yeah she'll be ready to go way before that. I'll take a hair dryer to it if I have to.

Me too! It is all water level dependant. Ameren hosed up the Fall white run by dropping the lake 2.5' almost overnight during the first week of October. No idea why they did that, but we never got any precip to bring it back up and the White's reverted back to their typical summertime haunts...and are apparently still there as evidenced by Walleye13's post. Once conditions are right this spring it will be water level dependant again, and I'll attempt to explain why.... When the lake is at normal full pool levels the silt and gravel that washes down the creeks settles and builds a hump on the flats, so when they suck the lake down it creates a 75-100 yard ankle deep hump that separates the lake from the tributary creeks. The Whites will not make that jump. A few might try but there are eagles and ospreys sitting there waiting for them to, so darn few actually make it. In the Gravois, Glaize, Little Niangua, and the Buffalo's the magic number is 657.7 Regardless of how perfect the conditions are this spring you will not find a good number of Whites up in the creeks until the lake level gets up to that level. What typically happens is the weather and water temperature will be absolutely perfect, but the lake will still be down around 657-657.2, so there won't be anything worthwhile moving up in the creeks except for maybe a few walleye. But then we'll get a big gully washer and the lake will jump up 6-10". That opens the gate and finally the fun can begin. If the rain event resulted in a full out flood, then as soon as things settle down enough that it is safe to get in the water you'll want to start at the 3rd riffle above the lake and work your way downstream. If it didn't really blow the creek out that bad then start just below the last riffle and work your way up. Evenings, for whatever reason, are always best. From 4:pm until almost dark. For the first week and a half to 2 weeks you'll catch mostly males, after that the girls will start showing up. When you start seeing alot of splashing around and fish waking just below the surface that is when the peak of the actual spawn is going on and you'll have several days when the fish are EVERYWHERE but you can't catch them worth a crap, and that'll drive you crazy. But that only lasts about 4-5 days, and after that little period they kinda spread out more, so instead of being able to stand in one spot and catch a limit in 30 minutes you'll have to move around and pick up 3-4 here and 2-3 there. They'll also start crushing topwater flys around that time. The only other tip I can think to share right now is to strip those flys FAST. Slower retrieves hardly ever work as well as stripping it almost as fast and erratic as you can with very short pauses. If your stripping arm doesn't require a periodic rest every 15 minutes or so, and your wrist isn't aching, then you are fishing too slow. I think that's all I got. Nothing to do now except tie fly's and wait.

My coffee maker shot craps this morning. I improvised Who can find the salt&pepper shakers ?

You post something good ! Set an example. Cuz my good might not be your good, and I wanna get zeroed in on the right kinda good.

I thought I trashed my scope but I did quite a bit of 40yd. practice in the wind today and it seemed to hold Zero just fine. I don't trust it though because of that BS it pulled on me the other day, so as soon as I recover from the X-mas/NY rediculous outlay of cash I'll be ordering a better one. I am surprised at what little effect a stiff breeze has on my pellets, they buck the wind alot better than I expected. Just had to lean into it about a crosshairs width at 40 yards and dinosaurs would fly.

Have you watched this cat? He's wicked! He has some cool pigeon killing vids, and a bunch of other brilliant stuff.

Pretty ! Torquemaster to boot. Good for you !

Is the new one a Skeeter by chance? 😀

You got it bro. All the respect in the world for ya.

How dare you call that a "bass boat". Of all the audacity! That is (was....I sold that one) a fly fishing flats boat. A spinning or casting rod never once crossed the gunnels. You're right about one thing though, fly rods and bass boats are a lousy combination. It don't work.

Yeah somebody should prolly break my fingers. My wife and daughters are already preparing for senility beyond all imagination.

Deer Cr. and the Buffalo's all get good runs. Wanna hook up and launch an attack ?

I went from cute to stud, then from stud to "handsome". Hate to say it, but I think I'm working my way back to cute again. You're pretty cute!