Old plug
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I am out all of the time bow with nother guy pushing 80. He was a marine and I was navy we enjoy ourselces out there for a few hours every evening.We tell Sea Storie , bachelor days stuff ,mama sans, and all that sort of thing. ( sort of wishful thinking) Most of my fishIng comes over and in water 15 ft. wrench on the other hand you just about have to get a tow boat to get him out there that deep very often.
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JOE. I do not think you do git it. i want to be alone out there. it is not about being anti social. To some of us this fishing stuff is a compulsion or addiction we thrive on . Wrench is a very good friend of mine. But over the period of 20+ years I have only been fishing with him 3 times that I can remember. We do not fish the same style. He fishes very shallow and I on the other hand am not comfortable with that. He does fish sometimes with someone. I also do have another old clog my age that I fish with. But it means nothing to our friendship. i do not think I would be comfortable with him in the front of the boat. i know he would not ne comfortable with me in the back. i am one of the most talkitive deaf people you ever could meet. I am sure we both fish alone for comcentration and peace as well. There is also more than 20 yrs between us. it can make differance.
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Trolling with gas outboard vs trolling motor . . . ???
Old plug replied to wareaglecamo's topic in Stockton Lake
Slapping the water. Well i do wish that was never posted. It can be a very deadly Crappie trick still fishing for crppie. l learned that from a guy down on Clear Water Lake when I was in my 20's. -
I am afrias this type thing might come knocking at our door more than we want it to. I have not looked this moning yet but I would not be surprised if they did not start closing the gate a bit. to be rushing water out of here the way they have been is certain to cause problems all the way to St louis an beyond. I sart of thing all of us in the reagion qre going to see a longer timecthat we like before the water receeds Now there is going to big bulg doming down the ill to add to waterever you got to dump out down there in Ark. lIttle off subject but I watch the Earth quake patterns on MY RADAR. jus got to wonder how you boys slept out there in Okla last night. There was a whole lot of shaking going on out there yesterday..
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Me too Laker67. i go buy the hourly reports from Armens. but I guess it could have gotten that high somewhere are at a peek surfe between the hourly reporting periods.
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i I do not think goung to hardly make 664. WARFRAF I would be more worried about snow on a community dock. That is the one thing i know tthat cn destroy one if those and everything in it. A few years ago a heavy snow sunk a couple big marina docks at Millstone Gardens. The roofs dropped down right on top of many big cruisers and crushed them. Was a bug thing to the owners. To save money most of them only insure the boats during the summer months. Booooo Hooooo.
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iTs true Wrench it can cost a fortune in repair work. Then there is the Sea Wall if the place has one. iF it does not upur to late I do bot think they approvve them anymore. Something about concrete and morter. i taen to not sport that. But they can be real buggers to take care of and you need to keep your eye on they for wear or weakness. Especially at the bases. Mine or 7 ft high so assure you I get plenty of the taking care of it in the winter when the water is down. i do not like the rip rap too well there are by far to many smaller pieces of rock in the mix that might wash out. If I was ever force to them I would maybe do something I annot suppose to do. After they got them done l might get a truck full of 40 lb bags of concrete mix and pour it into every crac and crevis I could find. Thereby turning ut into one hell of a rock. If you really want to save some money buy yourself a MIG welder and learn to use it. You can just about teaxh yourself everything you eed to know qbout repairing docks. i bet I have done Several thousand dollars worth of repair and improvments with a $ 400 MIG Welder.
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I am not to concerned about this prsent high water and damage they might incur though . Ice is my numver one concern when it ice breaks up in large chunks and starts to move they are unstoppable. I just sort of think of them as a locomotive barely moving along. They can and will rip a dock off its moorings no matter well connect they are. if not that they might just rip a cable or arm right out with its its anchoring. In the later case I have seen it bring down the sea wall with it. Anyone who has a dock or yard lights etc should be very concernd that it is safe. Anyone living here right now should have there their docks shut OFF at the circuit breker box. There is a lot of pressure in the state house to make the policy of ARMENS state law. I wired mine fully up to standard but still cut the powe to it day before yeasterday at the fuse box. i know some of it seems silly but electric has a way of wondering around all by itself so to speak. I bet there is a awful lot of docks walks and other exterior things that are HOT right now in these condition.
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Send me the directions to your grand parents house and I will drive over there and look at it
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They got a lasso on it laker its just not large enough. The gates are wide open and discharging 102,531.80 cubic feet per second. Lake stands at 663.78. i think we will see 664 before its all over. i watch it every hour if I have a chance. It is causing damage to home up in mill creek. wrench----- if it gets windy it will bust up docks now. The cables are looser now than normal. Pat just cane back down 5 thru Grvois Mills. She sait it looked like it ws about to float a bunch of those trailors.
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If i did not have to bowl might drive around take a look at it. Would like to see it. The flow has now up to 102,000 cubic feet a second. The lake dropped 1/100 of a foot last report. But that report was taken right at the end of a heavy rain.
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As of 7am LOZ is approaching 3 1/2 ft over full and rising about 1/10 ofa ft per hour. The gate or open and pumpimg out over 95,000 cubic ft per second. All the docksRound mehave submerged ramps. It is worse right now than last spring.
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LOZ is about 2 1/2 ft above fool pool. Lot of ramph will be under water.
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They made and may still make a suspending wiggle wart. I hd one did not like it.
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I just looked. LOZ is 1 1/4 ft above full. Ramps to the docks are starting to go under water around me.
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Lake is going to be going down very soon. They published the notifcation last weeks paper.
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i just put 0/6 or larger hook in the head when I do manage to fish them. i like those big Tokar style hooks for this. Use both weighted and unweighted.
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Jig hooks. Since I have been on here. I see everyone using Gamsracker are how ever it is spelled. I am not to nuts about them at all. That mey be very sharp point but they damage very easy. I cannot prove any real advantge other than in our imaginations. There may be hook that you have never tried it is the Eagle Claw O' Shaunsey model. I just ordered 100 0/4 and 100 0/5. And for the first time in the Sea Guard finish. From my friend that has a tackel store here in town. The reason I use those hooks in my jigs is that their shaft is X2. I believe the extra length aids in hooking as much as the extra sharpness. I think the O' shaunsey hangs up less the wide gap style. The Sea Guard models look like chrome but it i just a coating.
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It certainly is childish. Here at LOZ the excuse about stocking more than a minimal amount was that same excuse about impact. I have no doubt that they can do it if numbers or high enough. But i was told by some one who was involved in the decision in some way at the time that some of it was some bussiness people around here were complaining that they ate too many crappie and it might impact on theire business.
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I did not have welding skills either. But I own a dock and the cost ofrepairs isout of this world. Someone died and his wife gave me a old rod welder. A freind that owns a sock service showed me how to strike it and gave me a few pieces ofmetalto practice on. i never good get very good at it. Then I discovered MIG welders. i bought one for $400 bucks and the first time I had to use it on the dock it paid for itself. They are also called wire welder since the welding is done by a wire being fed other than having to move arod in your hand. They are as easy as pie to use. darn good investment for any dock owner.
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If the rain is warmer than Than LOZ is n my area it might be a blessing. I live about 150 yards from amassive winter holding area. If it is raining warm some large crappie will often come into my dock for a short time while it is raining. It is usually in the afternoons.
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Very well dome my friend. I had one almost exactly like that for years A friend gave me several pieces of steel shorts and I built the one in the picture about 5 or 6 years ago.It is 24"by 30" The top is treated wood rest is 1 1/4 steel angles welded together. It hangs from steel cables in my unused stall attached to a pully and winch as it does not float. I can lower it about 10 ft. Into the water. Keeps the racoons away from it. Believe it or not I have known them to figure out latches. I have had many problems with raccoons.
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I turn almost evrything back. From blue gill to gar. I keep about 10 crappie a year. I prefer lot ofhings outof the slt water better.
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Stl County Park Lakes been any good recently?
Old plug replied to Haris122's topic in Other Ozark Lakes
i see post on here about the STL park lales. doesn't anyone fish the Mississippi. Have no idea what its like now after having not been fishing it in 25 yrs but back in the day winfiels and Claraville tailwaters were a fine fishing this time of year. Especially cLarksville. i cannot begin to count the number of Crappie, Sauger and Walleye we caught up there.
