Wayne SW/MO

Gosh Ness, you think that might make a difference?

TSmith you should consider a metal coffee can with a roll of toilet paper stuffed in it. Saturate it with alcohol and make sure it has O2 and you have safe heater with fuel that's safe to carry. I had to pass over the Cascades twice a week for a couple of years and I kept one in the truck all the time.

It's pretty expensive to rig up for gigging.

Second Monday I believe? The rivers always open.

Oh oh that's another one I almost missed, thank heavens we had back seats. I agree that is a good idea.

P Diidy We shor did have them high schools and crick bottoms full of that mariwanna. I also went to school with 2 grades per room. It was less a shock if you didn't move forward cause you got to stay with them friends you had. Yup bailed a lot of hay for $1 an hour. Did have cars and my favorite was my '50 Ford convertible. I liked it so much I even put turn signals on it. Never thought about safety belts though, didn't know there was such a thing.

When I lived there it seemed that most of the catfish came from above Moon Valley, but that might have been because it was hard to fish below that. When there was good hole at Moon Valley there were cats in it. I would think a worm is likely to catch anything that swims in the river. Smallies and trout feed on the bottom also.

They seem to be very effective, but so is the plastic worm. Given the fact that anyone can use them without any special physical or equipment advantage, banning a lure would seem to be opening a can of worms, no pun intended. If you ban one legal lure, what's next?

That's tough. Shotgun, rifle, handgun -20ga Double Kayak, boat, canoe - Jon 12 or 14' River Fly rod, Lure Lucky 13, redhead. Fly-Leech Color of Jig-olive Color of plastic craw/worm purple firetail Scoundrel Live bait or lures -Lures Only catch-Smallmouth

But PD the school system is charged with educating children and a 1 or 2 hour class in a school year might keep them from losing students that bring them money. They don't get jack for a dead one. I do have to ask though, if they teach safety in their drivers ed, and allow time for drug education, why would it be considered an inconvenience to teach gun safety? Not enough deaths and injuries to be concerned with?

And yet Ness a bill that was proposed in the MO legislature that would require grade schools to teach gun safety caused an uproar among educators that were opposed. The opposition that I heard was in regards to the time involved. Both of your stories are hard to imagine, but you can't fix stupid.

Your accounts of the stockings and success don't add up Bry. You claim they waste money by not keeping them longer, keeping them longer cost money and increases the chances of a big loss. I know they get their fish 8 miles from my house, and they do it in March, so if they're going to release them in the spring they'll have to board them a year. What ever they do, the hatchery fish don't have to run the gauntlet that the wild fish do Some waters in this area do better than others and they have been in the major river systems for a long, long time. I suspect it takes deep oxygenated water for them and some our lakes are a lot deeper than others. LOZ has had eye's, AKA jack salmon for as long as I can remember and I think BS probably has also. LOZ has never been a hot spot unless you knew exactly where to fish. Given the over all return walleye are most likely marginal in terms of $ and opportunity for the state and its sportsmen.

You might also use a large yellow fly for an indicator with a midge. Keep the fly well greased with floatant and don't be surprised if it takes a hit.

I understand that even 223/5.56 brass has skyrocketed. I know it took a small jump when the gubmit quit selling its surplus and now I guess it's even higher.

Step By Step. I assume you were fishing from the bank and that had to be a tricky landing. Do they stay shallow in the winter and how active are they?

Bry they take the brood fish in March and I would imagine that is what drives the whole process time wise. I can't see where it would make any difference, if they're spawned naturally then March is when they start. If they're spawned in the hatchery in March they will still be the same age, only maybe a little stronger from being raised in ideal conditions.

I've used, and still have some, Yo-Zuri, but P-line CX Premium is also a hybrid and beats Yo Zuri.

If it helps I believe that canoes has a 37" beam.

Do you think the people in the rarefied air seats behind them enjoyed it? It is some what of a joke anymore because the show is generally aimed at the TV audience. They used to put on bigger shows aimed at the stadium audience. It was a good game, one of the better. The Dodge ad was nice, but I enjoyed Hardee's also. This whole season of bowl games and playoff games was a cut above the norm to me because of all the close games and the come from behind victory. If there has been a season with more I can't remember it.

It's hard to say at this point. They scatter their eggs and they need a few days of normal flow to be successful. The problem here is that all to often we get a frog choker about the time the females come up and the eggs get washed into the lake. The spawn should have been successful last year, even if fishing sucked, because the flow was pretty much consistent.

Last year the males made it look like the run would be early. They did this until it got close to time for the real run which was kind of a bust IMO. I went virtually every other day starting in February and only saw a lot of fish being caught on 3 occasions. When it was time for them to be there it was really spotty. I have wondered if the run got spread out so much that the numbers at any one time were low? I suspect that the females are locked in as too there time to run because of the development of their eggs.

Why don't you try above the spring? I would think there would be some up there, Windyville? I don't know about suckers though, that stretch gets hit pretty hard by giggers.

Those are outstanding. Never fished that creek, Ollie told me there weren't any fish in it.?

My SOP when I refill a spool is to strip as much as I can across the yard, rewind it, then put it in hot tap water for about a minute so that it sets to the spool configuration. This, plus closing the bail manually has cut my problems to near zero.

I would go with a braid and flouro leader on the drop shot rod and P-line on the others. You will cut the twisting considerably if you close the bail manually and back reel instead of the drag as much as possible.