wayne b

Will try to go

most people would think that I am nuts but a few years go my dad and me found some tracks round a pond that looked like large cat tracks(no claw marks) we also found some deer kills that had bite marks to the back of the skull and to the throat region also the hair had been pulled out of the of the deer and as scattered around in a fairly large area ( not sure if hawks and buzzards scattered the hair). We then saw what we think was a large cat as it crossed the road in front of his truck. it was light reddish tan color and was about the size of a large redbone hound but its tail was much longer and bushier than a dogs would be. Mdc at that time told us there were no cougars in Mo and that tracks were probably from a dog but they never came out and looked at them. I am still convinced that what we saw was a cougar. I grew up hunting and generally spending time in the woods and still do but I have never encountered tracks like that again or seen an animal colored like that since.

Vertical jigging and crank baits

I use my electronics to scan for structure and depth that is about it mainly for reasons wrench listed above

I was by the mill at the conservation parking area. I would have stopped and fished the second access but my wife's grandpa dose not get around to well anymore so I try to keep him out of the brush as much as possible the walk to the first access is about all he can stand and even then the hill by the bridge can be tuff. I might make it next year is this a fly rod only thing cause I have a hard time putting down the spinning rod with a rooster tail at capps

sorry I could not make it this year guys I fished capps today with my wife's grandpa and we done well but it was around noon when we started fishing. We caught about twenty stocker bows and a couple of small browns on rooster tails and power bait.

I think I will try that plug. I have some crappie that just need to be cooked. I don't know about the age group thing though I am only 28. That is the way my mom and grandma always cooked fish my wife had never really liked fish till my mom showed her how to cook them. her family did not fish much and her mom can not cook fish at all. If you want to try something use jiffy quick cornbread mix to batter your fish in it is kind of sweet would not want it done this way all the time but it is not to bad from time to time.

thanks guys now I'm going to have to try Andy's seasoning I usually just roll them in corn meal with salt and pepper. add some fried taters and hush puppies with sweet tea and I am done for the day. the only thing that only thing better than the fried taters is if you can find some morel mushrooms and fry them with the fish in the same batter. When this happens I think that I am in heaven

thanks for the pics of the midget digit I have a couple of orenos and a midget digit. I knew what the orenos were but the digit was a mystery till now the they belonged to my great grandpa he was born at the turn of the century and grew up on little sugar creek. My grandma said he used the lures quite a bit and always caught fish with them. but that was in the late 40,searly 50's I think. Grandma also told me that most of the fish that she ate growing up were put on the table by gigging and noddeling. It did not make her dad much difference what it was he would gig it. But when you cut ties with a axe for a living you ate what you could catch. She also told me that people would free range hogs then and her dad always seemed to find a shoat that had not been ear marked or traded work for one in the fall. She told me that her brothers and one of her uncles used to hunt ground hogs for the table by chasing them into there hole then digging them out of the hole this way they did not have to shoot them. Her uncle lost his hand doing this by watching her brother while he was digging out a ground hog and leaning on his shot gun with his arm over the muzzle of the gun some how discharged and the local doctor amputated his right hand and about four inches of his right wrist . I think that times were pretty hard then. She said that she can remember eating green grapes that her mom picked because they did not have anything to eat.

bass oreno was used some in the latter years

had a golden retriever do the same thing to a 12 in small mouth on big sugar creek. the dog was following me and my son while we were wading I caught the fish and the dog landed it for me then ran off with it my 5 year old son thought it was funny. In the end I did to

I don,t know about table rock but my grandma grew up on the white before beaver dam was built she still has the deed to 40 acres that are underwater by lost bridge it belonged to her uncle they refused to sell. When they moved out of the back door water was touching the front porch of the two roomed house. she also remembers when the old lost bridge collapsed. She said that the river flooded and it piled trees and brush up aginst the pilings and it went down under the pressure of the water. I love to sit and listen to her talk about her child hood on the white and growing up in the depretion. If I was talented I would write her stories down ad make a book. I think we need to pay more attention to the older generation and learn from there experinces because they will not be here forever. By the way she was born in 1931.

hey quill I think I know were that pic was taken I fish the same spot. The pic is awesome by the way. I pass a maple on my way to work that is colored about the same that looks just like that but it is hard to get a pic of because of traffic. I need to be on the water soon but time is a issue if you see a maroon tracker 185 with a 90 merc stop to b.s

nice fish

don't know about trout but I watched a heron eat a 10 in white bass at grand lake. it took the heron a while but he eventually got the fish down head first