fishinwrench

There you have it then.... Drum eyes killed the birds.

Why are all the dead Drum missing their eyes ?

I smashed the living hell out of my right thumb... I'm usually a pretty fast healer but if anyone wants to take my place please feel free to jump on it. Otherwise...When is the deadline again ?

I know when I was a young male I didn't hang around anywhere very long...unless there was some booger to be had.

Maybe they were playing with HAARP, possibly trying to bust up that storm front that was moving through.

Nice work ! That stocking cap is becoming down right famous. It keeps some pretty good company if nothing else

It's a conspiracy. The Zebra's read in the "Lake Sun Leader" about how the Drum were going to eat them all.... So they TCOB As for the birds, I'm hearing different things... were they blackbirds, red-winged blackbirds, or starlings ? I've read all three, depending on the source. I'm not buying the "scared to death from fireworks" theory, or the "high altitude invisable hail that radar couldn't detect" theory. This has reportedly happened before numerous times at scattered locations across the globe... so someone somewhere obviously knows what TRULY was the most likely cause.

Zebra Mussels

But yet we have a "Mountain Lion Task Force" WTF for ? And what is it costing us ? Those fatboys gotta be lonelier than the Maytag man.

I think it's a cool handle too. Matter of fact...if you don't want it I'll take it.

I don't think it's a hellgrammite unless it is a freshly hatched/or slightly deformed one. The appendages further down the abdomen that look like meaty legs, are what throw me off. He just layed there, even when I touched him. Hellgrammites normally scurry all over the place when you uncover them and they don't like to be messed with.

Jeremi, The yellow stones ranged from a size 12 upward to about a size 8, the larger they are the lighter (more yellow, less brown) they tend to be. Not sure it matters though, because nearly every fish I've ever gutted from the Niangua (no matter how "wild looking" and colorful), will have nothing in its stomach but moss and snails. Then again I never kill the bigger ones, so who knows. How long do you suppose the average stocker has to be in the river before it learns how to eat right ?

Do you mean what color the adult midges are ? They are either Black, Gray, or creamy White.

Psych ! buncha sicko's

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Sadly all I hear from my St.Louis area customers is that "they are ALL crooked and strictly out to sell new ones up there". While I'm sure that is not entirely true I'd be afraid to recommend any specific shop unless I've worked with them personally...which I haven't. Your best bet is probably to rely on the dealer that you bought the rig from for routine maintanance and tune-up's.

Fish porn... I love it when they are big enough to get on top. or Fish porn... it'll make you wet.

Gator, When you drain the block always take a piece of wire or something and keep the hole clear while it's draining. Rust and scale sometimes blocks the pitcocks entirely.

Hookups with Drum seem to happen all the time when I'm bass fishing or chasing whites, but I bet if I went out specifically targeting Drum I'd get skunked more times than not. The L.O. area biologist reported to the local newspaper that Drum have been feeding heavily on Zebra mussels and alot of people around here are now thinking that "Drum will solve the ZM problem". I did some quick research on that and learned that because of the slow digestion of such a diet a fish could literally starve to death with a consisent belly full of them. The biologist failed to mention that in the published report, I guess he just wanted to say something to cheer up the folks that are all stressed out about the Zebras. Then again, the ommision of that tidbit might have been at the discretion of the editor... who happens to own property here and typically avoids printing anything that could be percieved as "bad news" regarding the lake area. Nevertheless, whenever someone mentions the Zebra mussels now, there's always someone within earshot that says "oh but they'll be gone soon... Drum are eating all of them"

Nice ! Boy you stuck her perfect too. Let's talk about that streamer Fur strip or marabou ?

Larry's is open Fridays-Mondays during the Winter.

Noway ! That's cheatin'

J.N. is a super cool guy and definately knows his business here on L.O., as well as all the other ponds. It's like pulling teeth to get him on a stream though

Bill, pull your prop and thrust washer, I bet you picked up some fishing line and cut the prop shaft seal, either that or whoever lubed it forgot to replace the drain screw gasket(s). Way too early for a seal to fail on its own. Your lucky you caught it before it busted the housing.

I give mine a bath in Dawn dish soap and wipe it dry...that's it. Then when they start to get old and close to retirement age I wipe it with a piece of felt moistened with Silicote reel lube (white silicone grease), that adds new life to an old line for 4-5 more trips (even if they are starting to show cracks).