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Id like to find a 90 to 125 horse outboard motor. It needs to be a two stroke and I'd like it to be late 80s or newer, it also has to have electric tilt. Brand is unimportant as long as it runs good. Im not looking to spend a lot of money on it, but am not looking for anything free either. I currently have a late 90's 70 horse mercury force that runs good, Im just looking for a bit more speed, and the boats rated for up to a 125. I MIGHT be interested in trading my motor straight over or adding some cash with it, but I will NOT sell mine until Ive got a different motor and know its gonna be reliable. If anyone has anything or knows where ones at, please message me here or call/text me at 641 218 4348. Thanks.

Thats a nice deer, I'd shoot him up here.

I need a few things for a place I recently bought on Lake of the Ozarks. Were looking for a cheap used push mower, a mattress and box spring (must be clean, size doesnt matter as long as two people can sleep on it), a fridge (both fridge and freezer must work, brand and color dont matter) and a paddleboat for our kids. All would have to be within about 30 miles of Warsaw, I can pick it up, and I have cash. Im not looking to spend a ton of money on any of it, though. Im also in search of an 6-15 horse motor to use as a kicker, mines about dont. Must be a tiller and must be two stroke. I'd like to keep it under $250, but would spend a bit more for the right motor. PM me here if you have any of this stuff to sell/give away. Thanks!

Ok, thanks. Thats what I was wondering. In Iowa, you can only have 5 separate ditty poles out each, but you can have a lot more than 5 hooks on a trotline. I know our regs like the back of my hand, but yours had me a bit confused.

See, the number of hook thing is always confusing. Here in Iowa you can have a lot more hooks on a trotline then you separate lines. Do you have any idea how many banklines you can have per license assuming each one only has one hook on it? Thanks, BTW, I really do appreciate it.

I checked the Missouri regs page and found trotline rules, but nothing for bank poles. Can anyone tell me: 1. How many lines can we have per license? 2. Do they need to be tagged with our name, address and phone number like they do here in Iowa? 3. Can we still rod and reel fish while we have bank lines out? We only use one hook per line and would check them a bare minimum of once a day. Also, we dont have a ton of blues up here in our interior rivers, when targeting big blue cats, would you guys suggest cut bait or live bait? We caught some eaters last weekend on cutbait, but none over about 3 lbs. Thanks!

We did ok this past weekend. We never did try to catfish any bays/coves. We caught a couple nice blues fishing right up against the rock walls near the oarhouse in deep water and then anchored right before dark on a flat and caught some channels. We were sitting in 4 feet of water and it dropped off quick in the channel to close to 40.

Ill answer my own question. Yes, it is, it was good, and cheap.

Is it worth a mile or so boat ride for dinner?

Thats got me excited now. I definitely know how to catch crappies, but dont have a lot of experience fishing them on whats more or less a river system, and I wasnt really wanting to spend half the day in the boat heading to the "lake". Turkey Creek and Coal Camp creek are both real close.

Thanks guys!!

Do any of ya'all crappie fish that far upstream? Are there any coves in particular that we should check out? I know how to catch em and know where to look for them this time of year, just dont know the lake at all yet. Is Turkey Creek any good? Our place is at MM 81 across from the Oarhouse. If anyone can give me any suggestions so I dont waste a ton of time and boat gas I'd appreciate it. Well be down this coming weekend. Thanks!

So for you guys that are pickier (by that I mean you try and shoot "mature" deer), what do you look for? If I see a 120-135 should I be shooting? I will have limited time to hunt down there.

I'll be hunting private ground. I will also PROBABLY not be hunting the rut in MO, unless I tag out early here in Iowa. Your archery season opens two weeks before ours does, so I plan to come down for a few days in late September and hopefully find some deer that are still on their summer feeding patterns. Are there really not many deer over 140 around there?

Ok, we got our place down there bought, and I got permission on some decent looking ground thats within walking distance. If I have time either way early or after I fill my Iowa tag Im gonna come down and bow hunt. What should I expect? I dont shoot little bucks, but Im not near as picky as some. I pretty much shoot for 140 or bigger. Are there many deer like that around? Also, when would you guys say "peak" rut is in general? I KNOW thats a loaded question, but ballpark on an average year? My favorite day to hunt up here is November 12th. Thanks.

We fished LOTO a couple of weeks ago. The river (lake) was a madhouse with the spoonbillers so we stuck to the coves. We tried rip rap, cliffs, mud banks, channels leading into the bays and multiple different depths and had one nibble in maybe 6 hours of fishing. A friend of mine went down there the next weekend and said they hammered blue fishing a deeper hole against a bluff in the river. Did we just pick a crappy day or should we have stayed out of the bays and focused on the river more?

I bought a place around the 81 mile marker on LOTO.

What about way down close to Truman? I would think the area around the Truman dam should hold some bigger fish?

Not looking for gps coordinates, but where do guys catch most of the big blue cat you always hear about on LOTO?? I pretty well know how to catch them, but this is new water to me. The deeper spots in the river channel in the main lake I assume? With cut bait? I appreciate ALL of the help Im getting on this board, btw. If anyone ever needs fishing info on Iowa lakes and rivers or deer, turkey or pheasant hunting help make sure and hit me up.

Ok, thanks. Our plan is to stay in the turkey creek area, well prolly try anchoring behind windblown points and fishing cut shad and shrimp.

Has anyone been trying for any cats recently? We'll be down next weekend and well prolly spend all of our time catfishing. We had planned to try and snag some spoonbill too, but we dont know anything about it or where to go, and Im the only one of the group that has equipment that would work for it. So since we dont have a lot of time this trip, cats it is. We went ahead and committed to the place we were coming down to look at (without even seeing it), so well have plenty of time for everything else!

18 foot aluminum deep V, but its LIGHT and I can get in and out from the ramp with an electric motor if I need too.

Sorry if this is redundant. Does ANYONE know if there is enough water in the coves up close to Truman (specifically Spring Branch or Turkey Creek) to launch a boat?

So is it still coming up at all? Does anyone know if I can count on putting a boat in in Spring Branch cove near Edwards in a couple weeks? Sorry, the nicer weather has me busy at work so I havent been able to spend much time here. Were heading down the first weekend of April so I wanna plan accordingly!

I THINK he meant where you live as in a general area.