Jerry Rapp

a 10 hour day equals 600 minutes. To catch 100 fish in a day that means you caught(cast, hook, reel in, un-hook, release) a fish on the average of every 6 minutes. Factor in pee breaks, getting hung up, retying lures, food/drink breaks, and that is almost an impossible task. If two guys are in the boat, then it is 12 minutes per fish(assuming each angler caught 50 each), which is still an incredible feat. Kudos to anyone that can accomplish it.

that sure looks like an American flag in the first photo.

that's o.k., this forum is full of people who are. And yes, myself included.

Wappapello(St. Francois River) and Clearwater(black River) are about 30 miles apart as the crow flies. Wappapello has plenty of drum, Clearwater has none that I know of.

This year has proven that there is a year round opportunity for professional bass tournaments to succeed. There is no need for overlapping events. BASS and MLF should work together on scheduling to avoid conflicting dates of their top tier events. It will never happen, but it would benefit everyone, from the owners on down to the "fans". It will never happen, because it makes common sense.

topwaters, cranks, spinnerbaits and jigs

name of magazine?

sort of neat

billfold from Mark Twain Lake south for 3 hours

does a jig/lizard count?

starting on my 2nd Clive Cussler book. Read Sahara the last couple of weeks. Pretty good. Just started Zero Hour.

also, how does a white bass know it is swimming in a school with other white bass? Same with crappie, etc. It is not like they have mirrors underwater and know what they look like.

just curious about Skiatooks fish history. What does it take to win one day bass tournaments? Crappie? White bass? Stripers? You never hear much about it nationally. I fished Keystone some way back in 1980 when I lived in Tulsa for a year. Then it was tough largemouth fishing but had a good population of stripers.

no interest in your stuff, but will look forward to the readings of your quest to figure out Skiatook.

that would be a good bet. I just went over the Big on the old road between Desloge and Bonne Terre and it was pure mud. Not way high, just very muddy.

better than a lot of them

maybe you can teach Marcus how to fish. Good luck in your new adventures.

hopefully a MDC biologist will chime in and explain the reasoning of this? Sounds like it would be a good project to spend years studying at taxpayers expense.

I think it is trolling season

what color is that Ned?

money well spent👇

and they are all on points.

ha ha. Put out a new pile once in a "secret" place that was going to be a killer spot. Sunk a bag of dog food in a potato sack 2 days before the tournament. First cast tournament day, 8 lb fish to the net. Flathead. Never caught a bass there, that day, or ever.

I was a pile builder for many years. And at least one of those guys is a pile builder, learned from the same person I learned from. First one I "built" was at Lake Killarney back in the mid 70's. It produced bass and crappie at least until 1980. Is it ethical? Good question, but then MDC builds piles every year and provides the public coordinates, which just encourages the public to build their own. Does it help the fish population. Maybe a little overall, but MDC thinks so. They do concentrate the fish, making them more accessible. Here's a question for you and the others. Almost all tournaments are held on public waters, built with our tax money. Is it ethical for people(tournament organizations) to make money off of them? A lot of the other users of the lakes don't like tournaments at all. NASCAR, etc don't hold their events on public roads. I've been thinking about this quite a bit especially since I got out of the tournament thing. I know a small permit fee is required, but is that sufficient, especially when several organizations make their "living" off of public waters that we paid for? I personally don't know if it is right or wrong, just wondering if any others have thought about this.