Wayne SW/MO

Oh, I thought you meant they were launching. I don't know oneshot, many things have changed in the last 30 years. That's about the time they started remaking the park and the area.

I haven't been there lately, but I think he means the old field directly across from the access. Someone may have leased it launch from, to avoid the access. I haven't watch the major launch in years but, but the time I did had to have outfitter tempers rising. If I was to guess it would be NRO and they might be subleasing tome of the little outfits, but it's a guess, probably wild.

I don't believe there is any room for debate on the political side of the question. This isn't the place to argue politics. The past thread about the shutdown of the Buffalo was not political in my mind. The question of whether the agency has the right to lock citizens out, as opposed to limiting or eliminating services doesn't favor any particular party platform or tendencies. It is certainly hard to put a handle on a decision to shutdown completely a very popular attraction that they exist to insure availability?? Maybe I'm getting old but I thought the whole affair was an embarrassment for the congress as a whole. I mean if this much stirring is over 1% then obviously there is little hope period.

Is that what drove you in your attempt to garner attention with your lesson for us in fly fishing? We don't want a wise Cricket, we like the smart alec Cricket.

We caught our share of them on Creme purple fire tails back many decades ago. The water is different now because a lot of the wood is gone and it's not as clear.

And you thought we owned the river. You can pay for it, including the salaries of the high on's, but they will decide when or if you can use it.:angry:

Oneshot I would think the bank would be more important then the bait. A 2"-3" Black perch should get you one of them or a big flat.

As long as he's happy it's good.

If you catch a lot of crappie in open water, schooled in the middle of nowhere, you might have something to worry about. The one thing and only thing that makes stocking feasible in freshwater is gizzard shad. They wander around in open water to big to be a food source for most native fish. Crappie and stripers simply don't inhabit the same areas.

The Crackleback is a good one, but not a substitute for soft hackles. You can swing anything down there as far as woollies go, but scud flies and sow bug patterns rule. You can't go too wrong with some Trout Crack or Hares Ear in assorted colors, of green. You should work on your soft hackles, if I can tie them, anyone can. The ugly ones outfish the pretty ones sometimes.

The one I saw was on the east side of Indian. I hooked a carp, about 5 pounds, and when I brought him to the net the Koi was following him. There's a rig called a Hair Rig that is about 95% effective on hooking carp, and it uses a single hook. Corn popular and effective and you don't need to drill holes. Use canned or frozen sweet corn or soaked field corn.

Not really. While I agree that ice becomes drinking water in time, bottles frozen at home aren't as cold as the ice you get from a good vending box. A piece of dry ice will lengthen the life of a cooler filled with ice. All the old tricks work in the new insulation to extend their usefulness.. It's hard in my opinion to make a cooler work for day trips and multiple days trips. Any form of using one cooler for cool and another for storage will extend the life of ice in the storage unit.

You're right Creek wader, they were stocked for food and people ate them, but not that many because less bony fish were plentiful. There's a restaurant in Omaha that specializes in carp sandwiches, and it's been there for year's.

I've used a Rubbermaid for years. Mine is the old Gott design and I believe its 55 QTs. It held ice for 2 1/2 days on a trip that started at 102F. If you carry a big cooler you have clean water to work with.

They have a following of long rodders. Because of their tendency to go into high gear at the hookset some call them Golden Bones. The crawfish imitation does a good job and larger SJW,s are popular. I've seen at least one big Koi in the rock.

They are there, but it's a big lake, which part are you interested in? You can't fish too close to the docks without running trouble sooner or later. Another area is the Pothole, and the creeks, Swan and Beaver, on Bull Shoals. Depending on the water level, they aren't too hard to find sometimes in these areas. You're a long way off, but the Kings and the Elk rivers have good, easy to find, populations.

I like all the 5 day coolers that will fit and have loop handles on the ends. Putting a strap through the handles to keep the lid closed tightly is the way to go. If you dump the cooler out it won't go far and as a plus it won't fill with water and make your water filled canoe that much heavier. You can also buy closed cell foam, glue it on the top and have another seat, another cool seat.

I believe that, thanks to the internet, Jason Lucas's book is still available. The reason I bring him up is that he preceded Circle as fishing editor of Sports Afield and was a pioneer in structure fishing principles. Reading his book and then Homer Circle would bring you a long, uninterrupted period of bass fishing's evolution.

They tried them in Stockton when it was built, but they didn't make it. I would imagine that some move down the Mississippi and Missouri when conditions are good and then because they aren't a migrating fish. they stay. How long they can survive probably depends on the water, how hot it gets and how clean. To have a population you would have to have two sexually mature mates arrive at the same ideal place, and the odds of that are pretty slim. The term Jack salmon likely came from comparing walleye to Northern's, or Jacks and the migrating habits of salmon and the Jacks. If that is true, and it is most likely, there must have been more Northern's around in the past. It's possible because the earth was a lot cloder in the first half of the 18th century.

Carp are a great resource that is overlooked. If they jumped and had few bones they would top most list. Hint, hint:rolleyes:

Sorry to hear that. I know how painful it is. We had a poodle mix that we took everywhere, even on the ocean salmon fishing and descending some rivers in a cataraft. She also lived to 17 and we missed her for many years, but it gets better and the memories are priceless.

If you find the groups a little short you might try 55's, my 22-250's shoot better with 55's.

That is often the result of quality. You don't say what brand or models of reels, but if they're fairly new it may be a quality issue. Lubrication, or the lack there of, can also cause it.

There were always some blacks under the sand bass in Texoma and they did the same with the stripers when they were introduced. As far as weights being different in table Rock? They always have been. The lake didn't become famous because it was the equal of the other White river lakes. It was producing big time in the 70's long before stripers were introduced into the watershed. The one thing I question is why not do Hybrids? Hybrids are controllable to a large extent.

The red wolf was native not all that long ago. It's not surprising that some coyotes would still show some DNA because inbreeding is assumed to be the demise of the Red. When I lived in Laclede county we had a very wary yote that had a strong red tint and was on the large side. I always assumed there was a chance he had an unusual dose of wolf DNA to explain it.