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Glad to see your business is growing Mitch. I think they would be a popular with the river guys But for me I would be thinking of something 7-9" For my drop shot applications and would be expensive to mold and would not really sell to well to the general public. You might want to try to mold a few in some other colors. Pink can save the day at times. I tied a few Marabou pink jigs to fish on the stream about 50 years ago as a joke. They turned out otherwise.

Hey there I would love to see something like a giant trick worm with a bit harder head on it,

I been out here tooooo long I cannot stand the traffic in St Charles.

We almost got slammed he'd on 5 right in gravois mills yesterday buy some fool crossing way over the center line. Was a mistake he will pay for there was a cop pulled of right next to a small shop monitoring people mo\coming into Gravois Mills He seen it and was on him right away. For the regular commuter type drive the more you drive the more chance you have of a accident. Seems me like those who Drive all the time have sharper driving skills.. . I have nephew a property manage for a major US company. His district is from Ohio to North Dakota and from Canadian border to the guff Mexico. He has been at this a few years and is on the road 4-6 days a week Not had eve na fender bender. Have friends who live in Northern Mo and slap a 100,000 miles on a car in a year Running from there to Eastern and Central Tenn..On business..Been doing it for many years. with no problem

As far as LOZ goes the trolling is over for the year. Think the lure is moving to fast. The crappie I can tell you right now are holding in deeper brush. Near or under docks. Where they just about are ant other time of the year. You got to use a very slow retrieve.. I would be looking for brush at least 10 ft down. We for the most part are jig tipped with Crappie candy fishermen, but it is kind of hard most of the time to beat a plain jig head tipped with a minnow hooked thru the eyes.

You got a good point there Wrench But in my case I got two grandkids 200 miles away. what with dancing soccer and now basketball. we make that 200 mile run with some regulaity.

From what I seen on the Armens site They are going to starts ! Dec and is over by end of Feb. That is about the time we start having ice problems if were going to have any. He neglected to say You better be in the right place at the right time It will usually be a short bite You need to run a lot of the lake and fish certain spot like he mentioned boulders and such when they have sun on them usually. That is what the old timers use to call the milk run. I have heard of one fisherman down here would fish unweighted plastic worms In sun baked places out in the deep water. Just repeatedly casting them out and letting them sink. I have never tried it but he won a awful lot of tournaments so I would not doubt his word..

The amazing thing is here drove it for 14 years he sure did not need too He has millions and millions

My sons father in law has a Honda that is 14 yrs old he drives everyday. He bought it new it now has about 275,000 miles on it and he has only 2 small problems with it. My thing about the ToyotaHave a neighbor who had a Tundra 11 year with no problems except putting new tires on it. My problem with either one of those is it is at least 60+ miles to a dealer.

Trucks and car get moire complicated for us old folks just like the TV. We are looking to replace our old ford Focus with a new Ford Eco sport Titanium This will be the First time we ever bought the top of the line Titanium. This thing is going to have more stuff than I think i can grasp easy to say the very least We are choosing it because it because my wife insist on something with 4 wheel drive option. That it has. Plus tooo much more(I think for a 80 yr old)in the smallest SUV ford has ever made. Its has the new type transmission Ford is bringing out called INTELLIGENT 4 wheel drive. I certainly hope so. When you look down on the Shifter You have in gear knob plus 3 more options.shifter is front wheel dive. . Then you got three other picture button by it. First is 4 wheel drive, that is all I really wanted to begin with. Then something that looks like Independent all wheel drive( something i hated in one of out old SUVs) . And last but not least something for driving through though grades. Then there are sensors that adjust things while you are driving like braking and speed. I admit to driving to close sometimes like on HWY K when we are visiting in St Charles.. As I understand it this feature will not let me do that. It will adjust your speed and apply breaks as needed. I wonder what could happen In the traffic crush on Hwy K if someone shoot in close in front of me going about 60 with another car close behind me. At the very lest if it applies brakes it is going to startle me.

He did not say when the book he read was published. So yes and no. Maybe some are better but I doubt it.. It depends a great deal I guess on the time frame your viewing them thru. With regulations they are much better. Back 60+ yrs ago when My wife grandfather use to regularly fish with Dynamite on the Maramec River in Crawford county. That stuff like gigging is not good. . In the early 60s I used to float that river from the birds nest all the way down to Onondaga almost weekly. it was peaceful life renewing thing. Now days it is overrun with tubes, jet boats and drunks. Like I have said on here before. I returned to the River some yers back because of a friends funeral In Leasburg. While ther I went down to the river at Onondaga Cave to take a look. What i seen in that commercial mess made me sick.I have never went back and never will. We did not have big jet boats, tubes and beer cans floating all over in the water back then. I do not believe commercialization has benefitted the rivers in any way I cannot understand why there are not several drownings every year resulting from encounters between those tubes floaters and root wads especial when they happen in a blind curve shoot.

i have a couple of friends in Eastern Tenn. You might here a lot about the streams here in the Ozark. But remember Its a old book. They may not be what the book described now days. You have some very fine waters there in Tenn.

Wrench My buddy from Kirksville has been catching limits of crappie trolling 15 ft or better with crank baits Up in Indian creek. Worst day he had was last Wednesday he caught 12 . He caught several Hi Brids that day also. I went one day when the weather cool weather earth stated to close in for 5 hours. We caught a limit but trolling about 70 ft back with a crank baits can be tiring. With these shoulders of mine it took 2 days before I could reach up into the kitchen cabinets. I have officially retired from that sort of thing. Buddy or no buddy.

Glad to see your fishing buddy is not dressed as the buddy is still and down home fishing girl. Kind of wondered what she might pick up on her recent trip

I been fishing a big black plug for years that i do not even remember the name of(I think it might be sputter fuss. it is about 3 1/2 to 4' inches long and has a buzz bait type spinner on there front. It has large heavy galvanize hooks on it.. The hooks are the reason I do not use it more they do not hook well. I really need to change therm and be more serious with it. Pretty versatile bait over all

For you coming were having a a very cool day with very cool off and on rain I started very early this morning about 5am while i was out gunning s Armadillo. It could play havoc with your plans pattern I bet

Everything has been slow but the Green fish Give you an example of the crappie We caught few after dark under light from a friends dock down the gravois and they were all in a brush pile laying down in 15 ft of water. Rain might change things I hope to be down there Sunday evening after the crowd goes home. I set on my deck a lot of evenings and watch them work the point across mil creek from me I haver only seen one boat out there all this week.I also drive up the road a lot in the evening to Botts Farm if you know where that is and look out over the lower Gravois. It looked like a ghost lake out there last week. I hope these rains coming or cold. a lot of the gravois is back up to 82. I sort of think It is not so much the heat as it is that Sun. That is really hot and penetrating

I been trying for a couple of years to catch some of those I know down at PB2 on the Friday before. Its not going to happen this year. I have to leave early Friday and transport a antique Chest of drawers and My 12'inch chop saw to St Charles and do some finish carpentry. Won't be back till made Sunday or Monday.. If we git the rain (cooler the better) Saturday I would look towards Buzz Baits for something that will get you a check in one of those periods. I would still not forget to check the deep for a real hog. That water is in the 80s and it is suppose to be near 90 today and again on Friday. Next 5 days the weather is going to be weird. Watch yourself Saturday for the thunderstorms. Its no joke to get caught on LOZ in a tornado. I been there and done that.I was just lucky I was not in the path proper.There just is no place to hide out on the water to hide All you can do is watch the weather and run like hell the other way..

I think Would encourage the music thing. If she gets serious about it some types of music can be captivating.

Yes. I have seen my friends do it up in Laurie at ozark outfitters in the past do it but not for a long time. I was told it is expensive to do. They heat they jig with a torch then dip it in the powder. Myself I understand a lot of guys like a jig head colored. I use all of mine just like they come out of the mold. .

I do not know what kind of crap you would have had to go through. every time i see her she is setting on there couch peacefully.

Glenn I do my donuts over them and try to intercept schools coming in. I think once they have stuffed their faces they are in not mood to feed. I have found in the place I fish they are moving towards certain areas as I am sure you know. I stay out a bit from those areas to do my donuts and searching. That is what happened the other evening . There were 3 boats out there besides me. They were all sitting up on a shallow area that the fish had been rising to. The rise there is the not a consistent thing. . I stayed out and was doing my exploring in 20 ft of water. I found two schools of big ones at 18 ft. and caught 5 out of them. Never seen another fish caught by anyone. I have said this before. I think bigger the fish get the less time they spend shallow. I can see in my mind how a large Hybrid.would be searching more for a bigger meal or one that it has to expend lesser energy catching. And I will admit. I do cheat( as I been told by some people people) some of the time by using FRESH Shad on the tip of my spoon.

I have known for a long time they show up on the bottom under feeding whites. I seen a woman boat one over 50 one evening. guy with her weighed it with some help from me and it his scale was limited to 50 and went there real fast.. I have caught enough of them under White that I sometimes use a small wire leader on my spoon.I had big one chew off right by my boat.

I just cannot get over how the big Hybrids seem to act like a big catfish. I have visions of them swinning along mouth open scooping up fresh and dying shad like a vacuum cleaner. I have had some real nice experiences with big cats while bottom jigging for whites. Earlier this year I had just bought a now front depth finder. Was not certain what just i was seeing yet. We were bottom jigging and I seen this rather large glob on the bottom. I knew cats looked like that on my old finder but this seemed a bit to large for a cat. Out of curiosity I flipped any spoon over the top of it expecting to get hung up in a small bush. And in the first seconds I thought I had. Then this bush started moving out slowly no head shake no nothing just moving well enough to turn my boats bow 90 degrees before the hook pulled out of what I bet was a 60 lber or better that I foul hooked. I hope I see that thing again and hook it in the mouth.

Anybody on here ever caught a big Hibrids( 5lbs or better) on the surface??? I have caught 4 or 5 over the years jigging breaks 15 to 20 ft when the smaller ones are chasing shad on the surface. Makes me think the big ones have a differant behavior pattern Sort of reminds me of big catfish that follow under the whites and Hybrids scooping up what the surface feeder kill and stun as they sink to the bottom.