Wayne SW/MO

I have 3 and love them and fortunately I haven't broken any.

Fishnwrench informed me that they sold them as minnows at one time. So much for the tale about a flood accidentally releasing them. Another example of a government protection that's to little to late. They shouldn't allow any foreign creatures into this country unless they are dead or zoo bound.

When you get to my age nothing can be trusted from memory, fortunately there is the net.

It's tough this year with the exceptionally high temps and the lack of fresh water, but if the past is any example then cooler temps and hopefully some rain this fall will turn things around. Fall has always been my best time for fishing. I'm sure they are deep and with the James coming into the lake and probably driving cooler water down in what isn't a big lake they can move where they want. We also aren't getting overnight temps that will cool the surface water. Bass don't like 80 degrees and won't stay if they have a choice.

I wonder how this fish got there? I don't think I would put it on the wall of my business. http://www.oldoarhouseinn.com/Carp_record.htm

I've been fishing it since the about 57's, I'm not one to remember exact dates or even years, and lived in the park for a year and nearby for several. Things didn't change a lot until Sam Welch and Jim Rogers got their heads together. It was all down hill from there for the average fishermen. The DNR can't do anything to really help the river because they are part of the problem. The started renting canoes, as if there weren't already enough, about the time they should have started regulating.

Actually Lilley's is about as close as the two at the dam, which are good shops. I have on more than one occasion found what I wanted in the quality I wanted only at Lilley's. If you don't find what you want at the dam you won't find much traffic going to Lilley's until you get to 76 and it's a short way to 65 at that point.

The nearest trout to Missouri would be the cutthroat. They're the Rocky Mountain trout. I think Missouri uses strains that were developed here over a period of time and are so named. I understand that they are primarily a McCloud strain, but not pure. I would imagine it would be hard to find pure strains of rainbows because they were confined to the west coast and there was some stocking there.

There was a char at the end of the ice age and that's about as close as we got. Brookies in Nebraska, I didn't think they got past the east coast.

Mic it helps to sweep your rod low with circles and don't forget they are made to be swallowed. When you pull them out of the gullet you want the fish heading away so that the hook can catch the corner of the mouth. An old trick for channels at night is to use tree frogs under a round bobber. Don't weight it, that way the frog can attempt to climb on the bobber and attract the cats.

Well I'll have to give you an educated guess on that one. The upper gets hit hard, the lower not so much. There should be more water lower, at least in theory, because of the springs. There are only three accesses feeding it, Barclay on the west and Ho Humm, Mountain on the east and I've never seen many launching at Barclay. Oldhams would be a long shuttle for Ho Humm or Mountain Creek. That would be my reasoning. The trout fishing will be thinning as you go down river and there is, or was, a tricky split right above Prosperine that you might have to walk through.

If you go riveted Lowe runs a double offset row, unless they've changed. Leaking was very rare. Some are using MIG now to weld hulls and it's hard to keep them from seeping.

Wrench you got to give them credit for moving all the tents, tackle shops, Henry's cabins and the riff raff away from the stream an putting up the high dollar places so the nice people could be close to the stream.

I've used a purifier for decades, it beats hauling water, or worse being sick. I always start using my cooler water and then when it runs out I use a coffee filter over the intake. If you have a bunch of kids you might want to have some run the water threw a cone coffee filter in a funnel and then purify that water, it would be a little faster overall. Boiling spring water at night with what ever fire you have left would probably be the fastest, unless the fire source is a backpacking stove.

It will be crowded. I wouldn't look for a good experience if you're going Saturday. If you're using Maggard you might want to consider Corkery to Oldhams, I think he probably still does that stretch. He's a little liberal with his mileage so I wouldn't worry about being in a hurry if you get on the river at a decent hour.

Don't feel bad for me. I run my "city" water through a pur drip filter for drinking and the only difference I can see is that I don't have a tank bladder to replace eventually, or a casing, or a pump that will cost an arm and a leg to replace. Been there and done that and I'll pass.

It hasn't been too long ago that Wilson creek had some problems and I don't know if they found the source of that. Table Rock, the lake that was noted nationally for its clear water, was green here a while back due to an algae bloom. It was right before the 4th or Memorial, can't remember which and they were telling everyone it was just natural. They didn't say it was from too much sewage.

They only thing I thought of was maybe the heat isn't compatible with the concrete they want to use.

May be, but we don't pay them to be cranky.

Take warm water and slow it down, add a little sewage, and you have lots of algae bloom. It;s there all the time, just not as thick.

There are simply to many holes in the theory for me to not question the extent of man's influence on global warming. I've never said I don't believe the earth is warming, despite attempt to make it appear otherwise. There is no evidence that man can inspect any period of time that closely in the earths total time. The bottom line is that little is being done to combat the effects of global warming and much is being done to enrich a few. For all the effort and money spent claiming we will make a difference, there is no difference. The talk is that this drought is due to global warming, yet to date it doesn't rank but near the top. Maybe we should pay more attention those "anomalies" because they do represent reductions. Pinatubo doesn't really seem to fit.

Circle hooks are hard to beat for cats. The trick is to let them take the bait and move off with it, then set the hook by lowering the rod tip and sweeping it to the side. You should virtually all of them in the corner of the mouth.

And that has no importance in the problem? Why, if was slower by a substantial margin then I would think it would be important to know why, if the aim is to slow the growth. All these "it doesn't matter" answers are typical cop outs when something bends the common conception and can't be addressed with a real answer. Whatever reduced the rise those years might be important, but given the fact it's virtually impossible to contribute them to man they must be ignored. '87 was the 5th highest, 5 years later '92 is the 2nd lowest???

One of my good fishing buddies managed to ingest guardia while swimming. It took him 3 months to comeback completely. Springs are subject to runoff and are magnets for animals and animals are what they are, infested.

I spent a great deal of my working life troubleshooting electrical problems and one of the standards was consistency in the problem. If it wasn't there then it needed to be identified and its relationship to the problem resolved. So..................??????????????? What happened in '92 or 99', why the big drop in those two years?