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I know there is not any such thing as polar bear chair anymore.. I have not found anything yet to compare with its sink rate on a little 1/32 oz crappie Jig. And do not tell me artificial. I hate the stuff. It compresses when it sinks excellerating the drop and also gets tangled around the hook to the point of preventing hook ups. I been thinking about black bear fur. I know its black but I do not think the crappie would care what color it is to be truthful. What about deer belly fur. Been looking the deer belly stuff late of late. Looks pretty fine in the package. Have not examined any outside of that.

CHILLBILLYThat is only medium sized spoonbill. I had a friend that caught one over 70 lbs on 12 lb test line But thos is the biggest I ever caught. I caught a Blue cat about the same size on 10 lb test line. I can guarantee you that spoonbill was nothing to battle like that Big Blue. The spoon bill does have tugging power but nothing like the faster speed and antics of a 50lb Blue. If you got big spoonbill in open open water and enough line you can beat him.The blue though will roll up in your line and all sorts of things that will make you sweat it out. Plus they got teeth that can can cut a line by chewing around on it.

Majicworm that was a good example of fishing slow. I would deliberately repeat that If were you. i have done that this time of year often letting it sink to 10 ft or more. It is just that the bass are spending deeper under the dock.

IF your doing 100 days a year out there your doing OK especially of you retired MANY years ago. (I retired early in 94 ) I would go every evening till the wakes,tradfic and health problem slowed me down. I am still out there regularly. When I can be. But I have a 32X32 dock about 50 ft away from the house plus beighbors docks.that I have done things to for the fishing wih surprising results.

a few years back I was on my dock trying to adjust a wiggl wart to get ot to run straight. I had 10lb test mono on. I was cast far out and watching how the wart ran coming back. I sngged this thing right in those three bones where the body meets the bill.. Was a bit of a tussle but let him have all the time he need to give it up.

i used to own a 2 log ponton on LOZ came upon a giant cruiser roller ( they are very hard to see) cane pver the top seen what we were into but otvwas too late stuffed the nse of that pontoon into that roller water cane in breaking thecfrontvdor and the back ebd raised out of the water so far the motor was about 3 foot in the air? I hollared for everyone to stay still and the boat just backed inself out of the hole and we were ok. Incan omnly imagine whatvwould have happened had I not hollered or paniced. Old navy experience cones in handy from riding liberty boats.

I agree about the water. Also Teaa and coffee. Going to a party in a week or so when my friends wife gets back from roaming were only drink they will serve is Sweet Tea. That is my way to party. I was a Honky Tonk man 1st Class when I was in my eaely 20s I feel lucky some land reaxhed out of the heavans and straithtened me out.

That is interesting about the Alfalfa. This is the scond time in about a week I head about using it A friend of mine bought a house across the lake from me. He put plastic pipe in the lake for feeders and puts Alfallfa in them? I never heard f that before. I know the purpose it is to drawe bait fish that draw the crappie. I will have to reserve judgement on that. If it draws minnows and the crappie come to fed on the minnows it sort of looks like it will work against the fisherman to me. I have sunk enough brush over the years to fill an couple of dump trucks. Never Tried willow My fovprote is Oak because it does not need to be weighted if you are gomg to hang it. I love those garly oak top you see hi up in some oaks. Kind of hard to come by. I found long ago that side scanning finders my and my not work. I watch them come by here all the time marking the brushy docks then come back and not catch any fish.

Sounds like a nice quote from MDC. LOZ has a ahoreline full of docks and it is one of the beneficial things as far as fishing goes .Fish of nearly every species on the lake benfot from docks. The thing is ther are more wanna be fisherman out there that with more knowledge about catching the fish and less knowledge about how t care for then.

i spent several years of my youth living at 3825 botanical. Just a few blocks from Shaws Garden. I do not know how many times I have been thrown out of there for fishing. Back in those times there was a nice lake in the back area of the gardens . We fished there regularly. Also used to fish for crawfish for bait in those ponds puctured in posted here. . I returned there a few years ago and really enjoyed it. I believe it was the first time I took the time to stop and smell the flowers so to speak. I went way in back of the compound to see if the damaged Chain link fence was still there. IT WAS! We bent a hole in the fence at the bottom to sneak in. They would throw us out the front and we would cone in the back. OH SUCH FUN!!! If that was today we would have been sent to reform schol with a criminal record.

That is interestng I got to wonder though jus how much you fish.

The very fact that we are into stocking is absolute evidence to me of the fishimg pressure increase.

Someone mentioned the Mississippi. That was one fine fishery back in the yeasteryear as my wifes grandmother use to call it. . Have spent numerous fine winter days below Clarksville Dam. I understand its crowded now. More than being more fisherman there are more that know how to do it. Me saying that does not mean I support in any way or fashion the bombardment of information into the anglers mind today. It is all a commercial endeavor to get into your pocket.. It can lead to more confusion that help. I will say again there are only 3 things that really matter. RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE and RIGHT WAY. None of this has to do with expensive tackle. boats, electroics Rainbow of bait and colors that your told is what " catches them" Knowing your lake and how the fish behave is really what is important.

I think your right about that. If you ocan run the whole lake and fish hours and hours you might do better. Bur at my age I have no inclation to do that. my estimations are based on this little 3-5 miles I have not left in years.

Thats true but you do not see many of those period anymore. This year on LOZ a 20 inch bass ran better than 4 + lbs. I caught one 22" this year that was one of the 2 seperate 5 lbs ones I caught. That one was in a spot I did not expect it to be in. First time I hook it I lost it. Went ahead and fish other newrby spots and got this nagging notion to try that spot again. Went back there and caught it in the same spot about rhat was about as bog as a toilet seat. Over the next 3 weeks I cauight it twice more out of that tiny spot. have not caught it since mid june. It was just one of those rare things you experience in fishing that makes it so wonderful

If he's been fishing there 35yrs and says that the fishing has declined. I would tend to believe him. I know all the BS surrounding the catching of bass has done things to most lakes. Nowdays everyone wants to be a bass fisherman. I fish here on LOZ for large bass not keepers becaiuse that is my goal. I have caught only 2 at 5 better this year. In one two week period this summer I caught 16 bass between 18 and 21 inches fishing just 1-3 hra in the evening during the week days. I surely should have caught a couple in the period at 22" or better. 25 yrs ago I certainly would have. I believe a lot of bass or caught bounced around in live wells or handled improperly by to much showing them off and do not survive. I never keep any of these fish. I do not cotton to competitive fishing. I would not win anyway. I only average between 2 and 3.a evening and that is enough ro satisfy my 87 yearcold bones.

i just hope my grands get a scholarship to some fine school. All the potential s there. They both stated reading at the age of 4. All any of us parents or grand parents need to do is see that this really fouled up world does not infect them in any way.

I feel fall transition actually starts in late August. We are showing signs of movement allready. As a example crappie were really good in my area the last few day, But they seemed to have slowed drasticlly as sudden as it started. That is a good example what fall is like. It is not easy to depend on any pattern or theory where they are suppose to be (are any other time really)during the transition. I usially stop when the water temperatire is in the low 50's.. The air temperature to make the water that cold is about to much for these old arthritic bones.

I guided a few times on the upper Meramec and floated it many times. i loved that river very much. when .i returned a few years ago I spent about 15 minute on the banks below Onandaga. All I can say is you all or NEVER see ao know the rover I knew. It makes me sock to my stomach to think what people have done to that river.

I think he is on the hogh side myself. It is also prety clear that he sells a lot of chinese imations of lures at the same price as others I have seen the writing on the back.

i do not believe in the taking advavtage of the consumer. And I do nt believe in the consumer taking advantage of the bussiness. I know thats hw it has always been, but it des nt make it right.

My daughter lives in Hermann Mo atop that mountain that rises above the missouri river on the right as you cross the bridge into Hermann. That is where I will be. They have a real noce veiw of anything that goes on in the area.

Hat is exactly the problem.

i see nthing wrong with selling on line. But as far as I am concerned stuff like face book and twitter we could do without. And as far as Johnny and his boat cmpanies is is called greed. just bear in mind he is goggeling up all the outdoor chains as well. you sure do mot see any benefits to the consumer either. that is not good bussiness it is plain and simple greed. You either buy his at the price he wants to charge you are you do not buy it.