fullmoon

All the info u need is already here just try reading the posts. Good Luck

laugh out loud

your the first i,ve ever talked to that has seen them too. Cool uhh

SKMO- i hope to move up the marine food chain myself. Sorry SKMO but they were not bryozoans if u ever see them you will know. Check this site http://www.jellyfish.iup.edu/US.html and click distribution then click Missouri. They were dime size and almost clear. When I saw them there was a group of maybe 50. The site i listed does say they have been sited in T. R. in 2005 and 2006 which makes me feel better that they haven't wiped out by pollution. One story while i'm here. A July night in 1975 Mulich and McCarty had just started fishing at dark onthe south point of campbell cove. They were a ways out from shore in about 30 feet of water when another boat starts idling out of the cove. The boat goes by only about 60 ft. away which doesn't thrill Frank at all. It gets even better a few seconds later when something hits the boat and a hellbender jumps in the boat and snags one of his rods. Frank does manage to catch the rod before it goes in the lake which probably saved the guys life. The guy stops and Frank is on the trolling telling him what he thinks of him, gender and birth right, and trying to get in his boat and kick his ***. Luckly McCarty holds him back and the guy takes off. I still laugh because Mulich is such a banty rooster (like when Donald Duck would get mad).

Here's an interesting fact about TB in '64 and '65 I used to see freshwater jellyfish back in the west branch of Mill Creek (near campbell point). Also back in the east branch there was a tree 50 or 60 feet out in the lake that had a flying squirrel living in a hole in it and early in the morning you would go by and it would come out and go to the top of the tree and glide to the bank. I guess my best two days of catching keepers either '92 or '93 (not sure of the year). It was 2 days before Thanksgiving and the lake was up in the grass and so were the bass. A friend from Cassville met me at Campbell P. and i asked if he had a fishing report. He said a few were being caught on spinnerbaits but it was slow. We fished the right hand bank of the first cove past White Oak for about an hour and caught 1 keeper. We fired up and headed for Big Creek and as we're passinng 20 point i see all this grass in the water on the flat. Well I can't go by without giving it a shot and they were there. I love waking a spinnerbait with colorado blades and having it disappear in a boil. We caught abot 40 bass between 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 lbs with 1 that went 4 1/2 and about a dozen shorts. Thats was a very good day but i liked the next day better. I fished alone in the rain and had 11 keepers by 1 pm with 2 5s and a 6 1/2. But the really amazing part was i never saw another boat the whole time.

Hi Guys -This is my first post but have been reading the site for a few months. I'm one of the old timers Bill was wondering about. Started fishing "The Rock" while in high school in 1964. One thing I wanted to say about Campbell Point and the Lunker Club was that alot of those fish were released as best you could without livewells and alot more weren't weighted in in the early years because of the the long slow boat rides. The coves were so full of timber it was hard to get a boat (16' richline) back into them. After a day of fishing the bottom of the boat would be full of twigs. Most the time we released our fish because dragging a stringer that was getting caught on tress was a pain. I know and have fished with Frank Mulich, a great fiherman, and a wizard with an Agitator. Gary McCarty and I have been fishing "The Rock" since 1971. If you check 1975 Mulich had 22 lunkers and McCarty had 16 thats because I got married in Oct. of 1974 and Gary fished with Frank in 1975 and weighted-in most of his big fish. I haven't heard from Frank M. in several years and wonder what happened to Chuck Marshal and John Todd. I could talk for hours about"The Rock" earily years. I will say this that SKMO is letting the cat out of the bag. If you want to catch a big fish in the fall throw a spinnerbait an hour before daylight thats the only time they eat. Thanks Ron Field