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Got out yesterday evening for a couple of hours after work and fished Hickory. Didn't do too bad. Landed four to hand and missed a couple. Not too bad for just a couple of hours. Black was the go to color and other colors didn't get me any bites. Water level is still pretty good. Not too low, but a good flow still. Had a bad experience however that really ticked me off. Walked up on a guy bait fishing on his bucket and watched him throw a beer can in the stream as I was watching him. I couldn't keep my mouth shut! I let him know how hard our efforts were in keeping this stream clean and that if I saw him down there again he better have his t's crossed right and his I's dotted just so. He did apoligize, but he sure didn't feel bad enough to go and get the can. Why can't people just pick up after themselves? I have never figured that one out.

I might be pulling the trigger to go this weekend! Of course that will depend on the weather.

WOW! What a ride bobber. I don't think I want to float the Buffalo at that river stage. Glad everyone made it out ok. Sounds like a wild time for sure.

I'm probably going to float closer to home this weekend. Hopefully I can make it down there next weekend if the water is still in good shape.

Yea, bobber might be up for it. Ham, I'll probably shoot for 5/8 or 5/16. Don't know for sure, but I want to go for one of those days. Who knows, it might not be right for floating either one of thoses dates!

Would anyone like to hook-up when the Mulberry is running good? I know it's a crap shoot, but I can burn a vacation day sometime soon! I can't ever seem to find someone when I can go, but I realize that that is how it goes sometimes. Any takers?

Here are some pics of the litter pick-up.

WOW! What can I say. We had a great turn out for our first clean-up. For all of you who couldn't make the event you missed out on a great time and some good food! We had 60+ people turn out for the event and got a LOT of trash and debris out of the stream. I am a little sore today and I'm sure some of you that made the event might be a little sore as well. We concentrated on a mile stretch between Spring street bridge and Wood street bridge. We ended up taking out 3 pick-up truck loads of trash and a lot of other debris. Lots of trees and limbs were removed also. We started at noon and went until 3:00. I was very proud of everyone who made the event such a success! Thanks to all that came out and to those who have supported us. Sorry, I'll try and upload pics later when I figure out why they aren't loading.

I use to use Tectan as well, but made the switch to P-line and haven't had any issues.

Does anyone want to meet up for breakfast before the clean-up? We could go over my game plan and make adjustments for the day? As it stands right now, I have a LOT of freebies to be giving away! I still don't have any idea how I want or should do this. One thing I turned down earlier from someone was a canoe. Now I'm thinking we should have one. One person could be in the water with the canoe while others on the shore are filling up trashbags and putting them in the boat. Anyone want to bring a canoe?

That's too bad Travis, I was hoping to meet up with you at this event. As far as the juveniles helping out that is ok. I have already tried to line some up down here to help out with our cause. I see no problem with them helping out as long as they stay good! I will probably have to sign them in and out for their time, but I don't think it's a bad idea at all. Let's see what others have to say about it.

Well, I fished it yesterday and did alright. Got down there around 10:30 and fished it for about three hours or so. I caught 5 and my friend caught 3. Caught mine on a ginger jig and he caught his on a rooster tail. Beautiful day with not many people in sight.

We would be glad to have you aboard crappie crippler! Just show up on the 11th and we will sign you up. I could do it now, but would rather wait until I had a few others to enter on the website. No big deal, we'll get you signed up one way or another!

Bump. Want to keep this up close to the top. Also I went out yesterday evening when Idol was on and caught 6 fish in 45 minutes. Three were of the slime rockets, three were goggle eyes, and one sucker fish. The park was all to myself and it rained all the time I was out!

Capps is a "white ribbon" stream according to MDC. Limit daily 4 with a mix of browns and bows, but the browns have to be over a certain length. Not sure on length due to I don't keep any at all. The stream only got one stocking this past winter as far as I know. Slim pickins unless you know where that at! Look in the deeper holes and you should be able to pull out one here and there.

Decided to put this in a new topic. How many plan to make the clean-up? Just want to get an idea who can make it from the website.

I copied more flyers of the new design today. I would like to get a head count on potential people who are going to show. Something I can take to the guy catering this rodeo! Let's hear who's coming!!

Great job guys! Looked a little cool in the morning,but things warmed up in the afternoon.

Mark or Travis, could you post a new link to the revised flyer if it is ready? I cannot find the old link anywhere in my emails. Thanks

Ok, I knew someone would comment on that mess! Pictures 2 & 3 as your looking at them left to right are the biggest problem that's for sure. After I took these pictures I got back to the computer and read that the city will be contracting out work to take care of this log jam. The last two pictures are of the same two things. A big sink in the stream. The first picture is doable and on the homeowners land where we can go with his blessings. Picture 4 is of the other spring branch that flows out of the hatchery. The other was of the Big Spring branch. I am pretty sure we will be able to bring chain saws and possibly a small backoe or tractor to help out. However I cannot commit to those two ideas as of yet, although I know they were used before after the ice storm.

Here are some pics of the problemed areas that I have identified and would like to see cleaned up. I will just post them and let everyone see them, then I will comment on the where,what and why of them later.

Mark, go ahead and invite Anrew. It sounds like a good idea to me as well. It would also be great if you could list us on the city's website calender. I have been out today at the creek and I got a real schooling from the other stream team. They do mainly water quality monitoring. It is quit a process from what I could tell. It defenitly should take at least 2-3 people to do this chore. There were about nine students down there and two teachers and it still took them around 2 hours to completely do the task correctly. It was very educational to say the least. You will be interested to know that the insect or macro invertabre count was very positive. LOTS of scuds and sow bugs per each sampling. More of them than anything else it seemed. I don't think we will get much help from the High School team though. They do have their own agenda and they are pretty much sponsered through the science club. That means their interest are divided up among many other projects that they are doing. No worries though, they are doing other worthwhile things in the community for which they deseve kudos for. I still anounced our date and hopefully some of them can make it out for our clean-up. I also talked with the owner of a property that needs a LOT of work done to it. He is giving us permission to do whatever we can to help him out. You will see what I am talking about in the next post.

Hello to all who are watching this thread and to those of you who have joined our team. Our first litter pick-up is now official. The date is set for APRIL 11th at noon. That is on a Saturday and hopefully mosty can make it on that day. If the weather is looking bad I more than likely will move back the date to the next weekend. Hopefully though the weather will cooperate. I have made several contacts and the ball is rolling pretty fast right now. It's more like a snowball effect than anything. I have been so overwhelmed by most everyone's generosity and willingness to help that I am beside myself. We have the flyfishing group M.A.K.O. behind our efforts with a donation and possibly some them to help out with the litter pick-up. The city of Neosho will provide the pavillion (thanks to Scott Swope) to us to use down by the ballfields and will make sure the bigger dumpsters throughout the park will be emptied before we start. I have contacted the local paper (Neosho Daily News) and they will run an article for us along with the public service annoucement. I also contacted the local radio station KBTN and they are going to get back with me next week on the PSA they will run for us. Dave at the Hatchery in Neosho is commited to helping our efforts as well. They are donating some hot dogs and their time to help also. Steve Werries from MAKO is also helping out by securing another donor for food and possibly they will be cooking it as well. I don't know that that one will be a for sure deal or not. I have to wait until Monday to find out that one. I still have many businesses to contact before it starts. It's just hard when you have a regular job and kids in school to get everything cooridinated. I would like to see that flyer again re-produced with a few modifications to it. I can't remember at this point who designed it, but none the less please let me know! We need to add some kudos to the MAKO group,the National Fish Hatchery and both news medias as well. Hopefully I will find out about the third possible donor by Monday. If you haven't recieved your packet through the stream team by Monday please let me know so I can call them up and make sure I got your name on the list correctly. It's all starting to fall in place! Almost forgot the start time. It will kick off at noon in the park at the pavillion. Food will be served afterwards. ollie

Hello to all who are watching this thread and to those of you who have joined our team. Our first litter pick-up is now official. The date is set for APRIL 11th at noon. That is on a Saturday and hopefully mosty can make it on that day. If the weather is looking bad I more than likely will move back the date to the next weekend. Hopefully though the weather will cooperate. I have made several contacts and the ball is rolling pretty fast right now. It's more like a snowball effect than anything. I have been so overwhelmed by most everyone's generosity and willingness to help that I am beside myself. We have the flyfishing group M.A.K.O. behind our efforts with a donation and possibly some them to help out with the litter pick-up. The city of Neosho will provide the pavillion (thanks to Scott Swope) to us to use down by the ballfields and will make sure the bigger dumpsters throughout the park will be emptied before we start. I have contacted the local paper (Neosho Daily News) and they will run an article for us along with the public service annoucement. I also contacted the local radio station KBTN and they are going to get back with me next week on the PSA they will run for us. Dave at the Hatchery in Neosho is commited to helping our efforts as well. They are donating some hot dogs and their time to help also. Steve Werries from MAKO is also helping out by securing another donor for food and possibly they will be cooking it as well. I don't know that that one will be a for sure deal or not. I have to wait until Monday to find out that one. I still have many businesses to contact before it starts. It's just hard when you have a regular job and kids in school to get everything cooridinated. I would like to see that flyer again re-produced with a few modifications to it. I can't remember at this point who designed it, but none the less please let me know! We need to add some kudos to the MAKO group,the National Fish Hatchery and both news medias as well. Hopefully I will find out about the third possible donor by Monday. If you haven't recieved your packet through the stream team by Monday please let me know so I can call them up and make sure I got your name on the list correctly. It's all starting to fall in place! Almost forgot the start time. It will kick off at noon in the park at the pavillion. Food will be served afterwards. ollie

I wish I could make this one Russ, but I can't. Hope you all get a lot of trash out of the water and have a good time!