Terrierman

Hush your mouth. It will happen a few more times but who doesn't like April in February?

Great day to be out.

Heck of a day man. Shore lunch is the best. Nothing wrong with eating a few river fish now and then, they don't live forever no matter what we do,. We did a deal on a local small river last year and had a top drawer fish fry for supper. Smallish bass are fine to eat, mighty fine. I know how you feel about a fishery and we are in agreement. Great report.

I fish with a weedguard. No apologies for that and no popcorn needed unless I am missing something.

Good read. I wish there were something similar over here in the Southwest part of the state. They have some very nice activities planned!

I'll take your word for it. Never done it.

Hard for me to imagine ever leaving the red line in any fish that has one. Well, any freshwater fish anyway. No need on Snapper for example. I've lived for a long time by the credo that fish meat needs to be snow white. You won't go wrong that way with catfish, striper, hybrid or white bass. But I have a very sophisticated palate.

You win.

I'm thinking we've got Dave patterned.....

Remodel and expansion. Currently closed. It will still be good I betcha.

The new,improved, bigger and even better Ma's Place I presume?

As long as we are talking about casting distance, the line and reel you use make a lot of difference there too. Balancing rod length, weight (UL, L, ML etc) and action (slow, medium, medium fast, fast, extra fast) right sizing the reel, and line you choose is the trick. I like 2000 or 2500 size reels on 6'6" LF or MLF rods and tend to use lighter line than a lot of others. 4 or 6 lb mono (big fan of Maxima and have been for years) and recently due to Ham's influence, 8 lb nanofil with 4 or 6 lb leader work really well for me. A decent reel with a good drag is a must. and so is a properly filled spool. I've used Shimano Sahara's, Daiwa Exceller, Lew's Speed Spin and Pflueger President lately and like them all. The Shimano's get a little picky if you get them wet so I don't buy them personally anymore. Recently bought an Okuma Trio and a closeout Daiwa Ballistic but haven't got to fish with either of those. With the stuff I have used it's no problem to cast a 1/8 Marabou Jig 60 feet or so. 1/16 naturally is going to be a little less distance.

Exact same experience here. Plus the jigs really are very nice.

Me too!

I would get the light/fast action rod. I too like the St. Croix premier rods, can't go wrong there if you ask me. Two others in that same price range I can recommend from personal experience are Temple Fork Outfitter's rods and if you can find one (they're now out of production but some are still around) a Shimano Clarus. I found one of those at the Branson Bass Pro Shop on sale for $72.00.

Nice!

Cant find a picture of the one from the Missouri River. This one was only 26. And I completely forgot about spoonbill. Don't have any pictures of those. Had some good days on the Spring River in the Twin Bridges area though. Good times!

Uh sir, the question posed was specifically about jig fishing on the White at Buffalo City. Everybody knows you fished big jerk baits. You caught a couple of really nice fish lately. Congratulations, again.

Ok, last time I ever mention Buffalo City. From now on out, it will be our little secret.

Can't possibly say enough nice things about that river and Justin's deal. Just go.

Jig fishing at Buffalo City is the way to do it. 1/16 at lower flows, 1/8 at higher flows. Ham hates the gold and silver head Zig Jigs, I really like them. My two current favorite colors are gold head olive/ginger and chrome head white/gray with red wrap. Tri olive is another stand by. So is olive/ginger with green head along with brown/orange. Zig jigs really are the deal. Ask anybody. I like to run up the shoal as far as I can and drift back. Be prepared to hit a rock or few. Quality fish there. Good luck.

Yeah, that's probably it.

That's a bad mamma jamma set of posts Justin. Keep them coming!

whoa mister, you had best just stop that right there.

Please explain what you feel I need to be enlightened about. I pretty much know it all already. Just ask my wife.