ColdWaterFshr

Dang, Ness. Mouth is watering. Nice plates, too!

Opposite. Keep it going. I'm amused! Qanon and right wing loony wet dream. Can we just say that a jewish space laser shot it down, and not an F-22 ordered by Jospeh? Plausible? don't cancel me? 🤣🤣🤣 Paging Marjorie. Marjorie? Come in, Marjorie?

Fox news!! Facts? what facts? Mere speculation and fear mongering. Love the "should have". Share with us the intel we are not privy to, that you seem to have. I'm all ears.

Common sense?? You presume to know a lot about shooting down 3-story tall balloons at 65K feet with unknown payloads. Tell us more. Yeah, I've been through those states . . . vast is an understatement. So what? Do you want it falling on your land, or house? Shoulda, woulda, coulda, with absolutely no knowledge at all about what the heck you're talking about other than what Tucker or Hannity made you outraged about on Fox 20 minutes ago.

Just go ahead an lock this thread. Its more stupid than valuable.

Another armchair expert watching Fox. So really, 100's of chances? Please tell us more. Give me 5.

And I would like to know your source for making such a ridiculous statement. Hmmm, who could that be? 🤣 Carry on.

Sorry to hear, FshnDoug. Hope she is on the mend. Prayers sent here as well. And I forgot completely about Daryk's terrible accident a few months back. We all walk some difficult paths.

Use the Bass Pro gift care to buy a good quality fly line ($80) and some fluoro tippet ($15). Then pend another $100 on this rod and reel combo, which admittedly, is from China. I bought the 4 weight combo and its as good as my much more expensive rigs; https://www.maxcatchfishing.com/fly-rods/548-3-10wt-rod-amp-reel-combo-fast-action-im10-fly-fishing-rod.html

Mine are done. Will go in the mail on Monday.

Will try to have mine done by this weekend. Barr's Meatwhistle. size 1 Daiichi 4660 tungsten conehead, large, black nickel w/ .020 lead wraps brown/black chenille base rabbit magnum strip, gold variant krystal flash blue/pumpkin rubber legs ginger marabou plumes Pm'd my address to MIC. Thanks for organizing!

I want in too. I'll do something good. Meatwhistle abortion, or variation thereof.

I had the In-N-Out burger a few months ago. 2nd or 3rd time having it. Nothing special. Freddy's is probably a little better. I think that by far the best burger from a chain is Five Guys Burgers and Fries.

Tell that old knucklehead I said hello. Still fish and float out of his old Dagger canoe all the time. Love that boat. And he is one of the best fly tiers I've ever been around. Gavin is a close second. 🤣

I haven't fished it in a couple years, but that stretch from the Hwy bridge up to the red gate has always been the most feature-less part of the creek in my opinion. Not as curvy, more wide and shallow.

Impressive!

Nice spot to put a cabin in. Too bad the fishing in that stretch isn't very good.

I did a genealogy test and the results were shocking. It turns out my real mother, Sally Jesse Raphael, and my real father, Lee Marvin, had something of a fling back in the 60s during the time of free love and LSD. It all happened at a wild party thrown by Ernie Borgnine at his home "high" (literally and figuratively) in the Pacific Palisades. 9 months later, Paul Dallas was born in the backseat of a taxi cab after SJR was thrown out of Universal Studios during filming of "The Dirty Dozen". She was extremely upset over Lee's infidelities and had to be escorted off the set after it was discovered she had destroyed Lee's entire GI wardrobe with a pair of scissors, . . . and when confronted, she flew into a violent rage, yelling at the cast and crew and even picked up one of the studio's props, a fully loaded grease gun (M3 submachine gun) aiming it wildly at everyone. She also pulled a pin on a live grenade. Fortunately, due to Charlie Bronson's heroic and tender actions that day, filming on this monolithic masterpiece was able to continue immediately. He was able to talk her down and get her a cab, and just a block outside the studio gates, she went into labor, and he delivered the baby. She asked Charlie to be Pauls godfather and they remained in close contact for many years. Thank you for letting me share with you this very personal subject.

Yeah, baby. That lake used to love a spook around the big timber.

Used to fish that area a lot back in the 80's. Point 13 was a walleye hotspot, and all that timber on the west side of it for largemouth. I'm intrigued by the Stunna jerk bait. It doesn't look that much different than Megabass or Luckycraft. What makes it better? Thanks

Very sorry to hear this news. He was one of the best. Love that guy even though I never met him. Pure class.

Agree with most of what you said, but I hope you're wrong on this point. In a way, and I didn't always agree with this, I do see some value in the "Blue Ribbon" moniker these wild streams have been designated by MDC. Blue ribbon may mean different things to different people, but it is a special designation and a line drawn in the sand with a purpose, . . . for protection and for future advocacy. I don't think it would be terrible idea to carry over to a select few pristine stretches of wade-only smallmouth bass water. At least the ones that aren't so secret any more. I think the pinhead landowner threats are a bigger threat to their longevity than the pinhead fishers that would target these places. Maybe. Maybe not. A 16-18 inch SMB has quite a bit more meat than a 10 inch trout, and much more likely to be kept, regardless of any regulation in place.

Not ticked at me I hope. Its a pretty little creek and I caught a single pretty little fish. I don't think Barren Fork is in danger of becoming the next Bennett Springs due to my little trip report. If anything, I'd like to see the wild creeks like this get more attention. Not that I want to see cars parked there the next time I go . . . selfishly, I want it all for myself. But isn't that a narrow view? particularly when it comes to protecting such rare resource like this for the long term? It deserves at least SOME attention. I get what you're saying about the pinheads though. But suppose its a pinhead who owns property on this creek and starts trashing it? People need to expand their imagination of where to go and and how to fish and what to target, and in the end I think you become a better steward of wherever you prefer to go and fish. Outlet #3 at Taney, yeah, I've done that once. What else is there? How do you challenge yourself and seek out a new adventure? Is that 100th stringer of stockers you landed as thrilling as the first stringer? 99.9% of the people who trout fish in this state will never bother with a place like Barren Fork, . . . . and thats okay. I've driven by it so many times, I'm glad I finally pushed myself to go and explore it, even for just a few minutes.

This creek would definitely fail the navigability test. Its tiny. I did e-mail MDC just a couple days ago about access and received a prompt reply from the biologist. He sent me a better map (below) showing where to park (P) and if I cared to bushwhack to the middle section. Beforehand, I had a good idea of this "bushwhack" spot he refers to in his map, but the road shoulder parking was almost non-existent unless in a very high clearance vehicle . . i.e., there was no shoulder and a scramble down a steep hillside all by my lonesome was tempting but also had the potential for the many ways in which it could go wrong. The fish was full of fight and one of the prettier, more unusually colored wild fish I have caught in Missouri. Iridescent green. The picture doesn't do it justice. BarrenFork.pdf