fishinwrench

As well as no-seatbelt in a 25mph area, and letting a person ride on the tailgate between the high bank hole and the park store at Bennett.....personal experience there (87.00 + 10.00) I'm still amazed that guys get away with having a beer there.

You've got a perfect boat for where you are. You NEED to bottom out a few times, just so you know where you can run, and where you need to pole-paddle- or hop out. Just take it easy at first and you won't tear anything up that can't be fixed with a hammer and a file. Explore and have fun, they'll bite all Winter long.

Now that ^^^THERE^^^ is as good of a job of polishing a turd as you'll ever see/hear. If you're not already a govt. employee then you should be!

Ness, LMAO !!! I guess it's nice to have as a SP, but man what a rotten underhanded way to score some land. Typical. Have they ever actually PAID for any state park tracts, or do they just sit and wait for opportunitys to sieze them. " Originally opening in 1929 as a youth camp,Camp Zoe provided opportunities for thousands of young people to connect with the outdoors. Missouri State Parks has looked to acquire the property for several years,recognizing its beauty and the potential to give visitors even more opportunities to enjoy the outdoors in this beautiful part of the State." So they admit to having their sights set on it for quite some time?

A WW is one of those "can't fish it wrong" patterns. Dead drift it, sight fish it, swing it, dangle it in the current, strip it fast, strip it slow, fish it dry, or let it slow fall on a tight line around a brushpile...... if there's fish around chances are something will take a swat at it.

Yeah in those Amish areas folks don't leave much land untilled..... and probably eat deer year round, like they are supposed to.

Dedication ! Some days I miss it......but yesterday wasn't one of them Nice work Y'all

Ha! Yep the honeymoon is over when that happens.

Several controlled studies have been done by Doug Hannon, Berkley, and Glen Lau that concluded the plastic worm was the #1 bait that bass had the hardest time being conditioned to avoid. Crankbaits, spinnerbaits, and action-tail jigs have an acoustic footprint (combined with other noises) that bass can easily recognize and be conditioned to avoid, Glen Lau even believed they could pass that trait down to their offspring. In contrast, baits like a zara spook, fluke, stingray grub on a darter head, ect. (IOW baits that "slice through the water") were taken repeatedly more often by the same fish. A struggling shiner on a hook below a balloon rig could probably condition some Florida bass, but I doubt it would prevent the same fish from eating a "free swimming" shiner that is NOT tied down and struggling. With that thought in mind.....How long before resident NFOW trout stop chasing/biting those big streamers that have become the vogue thing to throw? I've been noticing for quite awhile (when the water in the creeks are clear enough to easily see fish) that they are less spooked by a slowly idling outboard than they are a trolling motor. They will swim right along beside the boat when your idling along with the outboard, but they'll bolt when the trolling motor gets within 20 feet of them.

Yeah I can't help but think that the deer hunting culture has gone the way of anglers.....show up back at camp draggin' a doe and you'll be buying all the beer.

Until the day comes that I can travel the 8 miles into town without hitting one I won't be capable of getting too upset at deer poachers. Just sayin'. We need an extended season on them around here, badly. Nobody will waste a round on a doe or a small buck around here, everyone just wants to get their picture in the paper next to a gigantic rack I guess. Meanwhile there's probably 400 does per square mile.

If you hit one with a bullet.....he will die.

At least the scorpions weren't active Nov. 1962 ? Dang ol'timer! I hadn't even soiled my first cloth diaper at that time.

Hmmm, I put a center console in a 16' Sea Nymph jon......it STILL rode like a potato wagon on a railroad crossing. It'd be a bit awkward pitchin' behind docks from a Mako bay boat. LOL

I thought that was Johnny Borden's hump

The best crappie catches I've ever had were during the week of Thanksgiving, regardless of whether it was mild and calm or rainy and cold. Just something about this time of the year that put the LO crappie on a good feed.

Glad to see you here. Do you ever get into the White bass on the Mo. ?

All I see resulting from that is a terrible hangover, so let me just forfeit right now

That's kinda what I thought. It's gotta be a pretty fish, in a pretty place, and if there's any mud or anything else around that might get us dirty then it needs to be covered with concrete. Dirty water is scary business! If you can't see what's in there then your taking you life into your own hands by getting close to it. Crocodiles, Sharks.....WHO KNOWS! SHEEEZE! Trout purists are such pansies

So they could put carp in those pretty streams instead? Think of the savings!

^^This^^ The sensor/caps have a habit of cracking around the thread ring after a few years. Mercury should have updated that POS but choose to ignore it year after year. Typical. Get a fresh new one and sleep easy for a year or two.

Woah! Baby Tarpon

I think that once my whites vanish I'm gonna target a mess of KY's on the flyrod. I know a brushy channel bank real close that is always loaded with them during the fall/winter.

I can probably get a Teleflex kit at 40% off MSRP after Thanksgiving. Other than that I dunno (ebay?). Dont see many of them around here, and have only installed 1 in my whole working life.