Gumboot

I'm thinking you weren't trying too hard to catch white bass. Today. I'm done with them as I don't like to freeze them and wife says enough, time for crappie.

I grew up with dogwoods blooming, crappie on the banks. Over the past few years my new one has been red buds poppin, white bass runnin. Caught 21 sunday, kept 5 for fish tacos, all males on a 1/8 oz roadrunner. In a creek that you have to walk about a mile and half to fish, and that you can wade across in several places... in knee boots. I have a fancy fishing boat, but this is my favorite kind of fishing. Going tomorrow and see if I haven't missed the gals. Didn't see but one other person, so social distancing accomplished. This information may not be applicable if your in NW AR or SW MO.

Nice. Any of your custom cranks involved in the catch?

There's been much discussion on the Table Rock thread concerning COE discharge guidelines for a particular lake. But, being in the grain business, and shipping barges for many years, I realize there are many variables....least of which is how your lake is fishing at any particular time. LOZ excluded, as I'm not sure they play by the same rules, and I don't want to piss off wrench before he works on my old tohatsu... Discharge seems to be a moving target, but it sure is fun to type about. Last 4high water years should produce some really nice year class fish, in all categories, except hopefully those toothy fish I lost 3 McSticks to last year. They like them right now, if any one is interested. From what I hear they eat really well if you know how to clean them. Take em all.

Following the Table Rock thread are we.... 🙂

Speaking of bait fishing. 20 years ago I went on a guided smallmouth trip to Texoma, was really surprised when guide showed up with a bait well full of shad. We'd go from cove to cove where the guide basically had the smallmouth trained. He'd throw out a handfull of shad and the water would boil like you were throwing fish food in a catfish pond. Can't tell you how many smalls we caught that day swimming a live shad on a bare hook. Not my favorite way to catch them, but catch them we did.

That would have been the rig to have during our runnin and gunin, your only trespassing if you get caught, White/AR river duck hunting days. Cool setup.

http://www.brittanyclubs.com/StLouis/index.html There are some nice folks in this club, with some fine bird dogs. Bet some would love to come work dogs.

Added pics.

"wish I had a barrel to run it in" You can't run it on muffs?

Short trip this weekend to check on the lake shack, charge batteries, rake leaves, and grill and drink beer in a different setting. Lindley side very dingy, maybe 1' visibility. Don't know what water temp was but the dogs didn't swim around in it long. Jigged up a couple of crappie, and caught 3 short bass from the bank on a pearl colored swimbait. They're still pulling 2000 out of lake. If they drop discharge to 500 or so, I'll have a river report next week. Shouldn't the walleye/jerkbait/rip rap thing be starting sometime soon?

There’s a guy named Randy that fishes that lake. But unless you’re one of those personal injury types, with a billboard, and a bunch of 7’s in your phone number...I doubt you could afford him.

Took my 13 year old last year for a float. We caught some fish and saw some boobies. He really doesn’t like to fish much, but wants to go back.

You need to go bird huntin

Flu shot every year. Wash my hands only enough to barely abide by societal norms. Rarely get a cold or the flu, but likely attributed to the medicinal effect of scotch and tequila.

We did go through this a while back. Almost every QuikTrip station in KC has 2-4 pumps with red handle that mark it as ethanol free. Probably the same in St. Louis. I don't know if it makes a difference, but early in the morning the lawn guys are lined up at those pumps gassing up their stuff. Not that this has anything to do with drones.

I'm not a very good bass fisherman to start with, but when they're dropping the lake 5-6" a day... I really suck.

it's ok Bill. It's not like you were telling us that your were catching them dragging a jig, when in fact your were slaying them on a top water.

We have 2 pileated that I've seen on and off for last 7 years. I've never actually seen one still on a tree, always flying through the woods or across the road. Makes my day every time I see one. Great pics. Thank you.

Very impressive work Mrgiggles. For every one of you there multiples of me, that keep Wrench in business. Wrench, once it warms up I'll be dropping off my Nissan 25 with the bent prop shaft. That my boy, who is the only one to run that motor over last two years, has no clue what happened to it.

Some real life lessons here: There are women out there that will clean up when you cook them dinner. (Gonna see how that works tonight) Don't swing, cause once you start swinging it's hard to quit...at least for her. Duh! Based on this thread, a good looking wife that cooks, enjoys sex, and is true, is an outlier. Learnin a lot here.

I could get so much more work done if I hadn't found this place. It's threads like this that make me want to get to work early and log in. And cool thing is I actually learn some stuff amongst the chaff. Guarantee you that ozarkfishman still lurks.

One MO law that sucks is what is considered a baitfish. I grew up in AR and any legal fish could be used as a baitfish. So I filet a mess of crappie and I can't put a head on a catfish pole...that's ignorant.

Maybe not the screamin' deal of original post...but you can still get them. https://www.tacklehd.com/products/hi-def-craw

You're making it too hard. Pick a floatable stretch on any of those rivers, stick a hook through the middle of a green pumkin dinger, start floating and cast towards the bank. You can make it harder after you catch a dozen or so.