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Cool! I've caught 'em like that, only from a boat or the bank. Can't imagine from a kayak in current. I'd be proud too!

Today's bit of taxonomy trivia... Webster's finally recognizes that 'other' name correctly now; bream, noun ˈbrim ˈbrēm pluralbream or breams 1: a bronze-colored European freshwater cyprinid fish (Abramis brama) broadly : any of various related fishes 2a: any of various marine fish (family Sparidae) related to the porgy called also sea bream 2b: any of various freshwater sunfishes (Lepomis and related genera) especially : BLUEGILL

It's all good. I've watched it at friends' places, they even said, "oh yeah, that's your disc", but still didn't give it back. Probably give a few as Christmas gifts this year.

I'm on my third one. Loaned the first two out and they never came back.

When I was a trout farmer, we did some catering too. Brined, cured, and smoked (~5hrs) was the only way I'd serve them. Done right, the flesh and bone separate like oil and water, and you can pack it w/o refrigeration for a couple days if needed. Whatever's left you make dip out of.

That's from The Last Waltz, IMO the best concert before or since, in movie form. Get that DVD or download it somewhere, you'll thank me.

Robbie Robertson just moved on.

Careful Daryk, you'll be branded a bait fisher and scorned appropriately. 😉

Did'ja hear what the hypochondriac put on his grave stone? I told you I was sick!

Spent the last couple days with about 25 old (literally) schoolmates. Stories were told and confessions were made. There's no doubt some of the stuff we pulled and skated with would land a kid in jail today. And if this were a poll, put me down for liking boobies.

What are the water temps like on that stretch this time of year?

I'm going to take the rare perceived-safe opportunity to speak for everyone here... I wanna be at that fish fry!

Seems like only yesterday when grandma couldn't run her VCR.

The grass should die before the trees. Problem solved.

Pretty much all former Disney people; "Led by Executive Producer Steve Hedrick, the design team of American Heartland Theme Park is made up of the world’s best theme park designers including 20+ former Disney Parks builders and Walt Disney Imagineers. Design firms include THG, FORREC and Cuningham, whose portfolios feature the world’s foremost theme park brands including Six Flags, Disney Parks and Universal Studios. American Heartland Theme Park’s creative team is comprised of over 500 years of Disney and Entertainment experience. This award winning team spans generations of production, live entertainment, studio work, television, and theme park development. Steve Hedrick – WDE Disney Executive 22 yrs (TP Industry 40 yrs) John Sorenson – Walt Disney Imagineering Land Planner 30 yrs Tom Turley – DLI Ops Planning & Development 45 yrs Don Hilsen – Walt Disney Imagineering Ride Engineer – 30 yrs John Polk – Walt Disney Imagineering Special Effects 20 yrs Tim Kirk – Walt Disney Imagineering Concept Artist 35 yrs Annette Crump – Walt Disney Imagineering Planner/Scheduler 11 yrs Andy Burden – WDE/DLI Technical Design 12 yrs Rick Allen – WDW Operations 24 yrs Craig Hodges – WDW Operations – 42 yrs Dave Vermeulen – Disneyland International 40 yrs Ted Carlsson – Disneyland/WDI VP of Technical Design – 35 yrs Scott Sinclair – Disneyland & WDI Theme Park Designer – 20 yrs Ronnie Rodriquez – Disney Creative Entertainment – 35 yrs Reggie Jarrett – Disney Entertainment – 35 yrs"

If it'll fit in a bilge drain hole, you've got bigger problems than a sinking boat...

That's so cool. Reminds me of the 'golden eye' (gold eye?) we occasionally caught from the Grand and Chariton Rivers in NoMo. Any of those in your range/on your list? The only way we ever caught golden eye was on green river worms. Every fish in those rivers ate green river worms. Those streams cut thru 10-15ft of rich soil, leaving mud bluffs. You just had to find a thin layer of buried organic matter in those bluffs and dig 'em out. About 1/4 the size of a crawler, pale gray/green, and the squirmiest, slimiest worms I've ever encountered. Once you had the slime on your hands you could smell it 2 days later. It was worth it.

...used to be. Selective Availability was turned off in May 2000. Now accuracy is purely dependent on the device and its' view of the sky.

Totally off topic, I apologize but I want to elaborate on my first encounter with a "lying fisherman"... Bad Bob Breeden. He was pretty old when I met him at 18. Former USN millwright in WWII. Best all-species angler I ever met. Freely shared knots, tackle, boat & motor info with anyone that asked. Me and a couple fishing buddies went in together on a 1236 jon, and Bob kept us in $25 3-5HP motors for a couple years. Goodyears, McClintons, etc, all valuable antiques today, but the sand-bottomed Grand River ate water pumps and lower units, so we typically just loosened the bolts and buried them where they died, floated back to the truck and went looking for Bob to get another. In the NoMo '70s, no one had ever heard of C&R. When Bob returned from a trip, his first stop was the Friendly Tavern to show out. Every single time someone asked him 'where' or 'on what' the answer was the same. "Airport pond on dough balls". You could find anyone that didn't know the airport pond was only a ~2ft deep, lily-pad choked, unfishable snake pit there the next day, with doughballs and determination. RIP Bob. And thank you.

For me, this site is a direct social replacement for the time I spent in bait shops in years gone by. Bait shops were where the "lying fisherman" blossomed and flourished. I learned early (the hard way) that what some guys said there was never what worked, but the guys that just listened might give you a real tip on the way to their truck. I adapted and assimilated. If I told you something in front of more than just you, it was likely a lie, or at least an inversion meant to send you where I wouldn't be, doing stuff I wouldn't do. So, even when it was only word-of-mouth in a local area, you didn't give up the good stuff. You knew better. The www is many orders of magnitude worse in that regard. Information has value, but for it to be your value, it has to stay in your head. Or you can share and perhaps gain perceived value from that, but you can never put the cat back in the bag. As for $ for Phil, I didn't pay to hang at the bait shop, so I'm not paying to hang here. I did, however, buy stuff while I was there. I'd suggest instead of annoying algorithm-driven microcent ads for someone else's junk, you splatter us with stuff you have to sell. I won't give you a dollar a month to read and post, but I'd for sure buy some hats or tees... or book a room & boat... or, whatever you might choose to offer. 🙂

Deleting stuff here only deletes it from... here. The Wayback Machine has been crawling this site since 2012; https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://forums.ozarkanglers.com/

There's two things that money can't buy... True love and homegrown tomatoes.

From a historical perspective, 4th of July maters were a sure thing in Mom's 2 acre north Mo garden in the mid '60s. I remember one particular 4th we took a single layer of flats across Dad's '64 Ford p/u bed to the grocery store and I bought my $1 worth of Black Cats, bottle rockets, and Roman candles on the way home. Probably 1/3 of my summer diet was maters there for a few years, and I loved it (another 1/3 was sweet corn, 2 more acres of that, 6-12 dozen a day). Those ugly, lumpy globes of goodness were so flavorful, so full of acid... haven't had anything close in 40 years, and not for the lack of trying. Bucket list item - eat a mater as good as I remember.

Do you know if there are still any gator gar below Batesville? That stretch has so much potential for, well, most anything.

To be honest WR (Batesville L&D) was my second guess. When I saw the foam, I first figured an AR River tailwater, then I noticed it wasn't brown, hence the second guess. 😉