ColdWaterFshr

Rare footage of Paul Dallas this past weekend. Looking quite fit and vigorous . . . https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k_1DlddIrJe16SaTGl8bpAbNGwuVPSzt/view?usp=sharing

Had a great time last weekend floating Greer to Turners North with my brother and my brother-in-laws and niece/nephews. My nephew is a wiz-bang on the Diji drone and shot some cool footage, but unfortunately deleted the clips of my pulling in fish after fish. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i4x0FoBdnvroexcRszYgi_IRdnI_2tTa/view

Had fun exploring this tiny little creek for about an hour while on my way down to 11 point. Access is difficult as I discovered, but I did manage to fool one little beauty on a stimulator. Beautiful area. Needs more exploration. Is it okay to wade all the way down the creek as long as you stay in the water?

I tried to private message a couple of you guys about Barren Fork just a minute ago, but it wasn't allowing the message to go through for some reason. Plan to hit this creek in a few days and was curious to get some more detail on how to find this sliver of land to bushwhack down a steep hillside to get to the good water. Is it off CC? Is it between Twin Springs and Roaring Spring? Will post a report with pictures. PM me if you can provide some basic clues for access to the good water if you don't feel like pimping it out here on the public forum. Thanks in advance!

Saw Shakey Graves the other night for the 2nd time, opening for Head and the Heart. pretty amazing talent.

How is Chief doing? Miss that guy on here.

And um, that first picture. You're speeding. Slow it down, bra.

quite? or quiet? I need a translator for everything Oneshot says. Context of any story is 100% absent, and fruit loops, . . . but yet he can't be a troll, because its way too far out there. He needs Paul Dallas to shadow and copy these deep thoughts and one-off gems. She just finished a class on re-building. This could almost be a Merle Haggard lyric. She is awful "quite", could be too. She's quite awful fetching, or quite awful difficult, or awful "quiet" because I hit her with a beer bottle in her forehead when she wouldn't shut up, but darn, she can right a pretty good FEMUR esstimut. 🤣

Somewhere in the midst of that meteorological soup of statements, swirling in the skies above us, like a leaf from the top of a tall tree, there is a point trying to make a safe landing. 😂

Henry Kissinger once said "America has no permanent friends or enemies. America has interests" . . . or something to that effect. True. Please share more of your rambling geo-political open air questions and musings, Oneshot. This is good stuff! Were you good with the post-WWII Marshall plan? With the formation of NATO? With Eisenhower Doctrine? What about Detente policy to end the cold war? Or going WAY back, were you okay to TJ forming a US Navy to open shipping lanes and protect private trade in from the Tripoli pirates back at a time when our country was still in its infancy and such endeavor was wildly expensive? Can you forgive those pirates?

Elvis was a rare and amazing talent. The marketing came after he was gone, so I can’t hold that against him.

Jaunarajas -- 🤣 -- I think is spelled "genre" Will have to see the movie. I've heard good reviews of it. I was fortunate to see Elvis "live" in one of his very last concerts at the old Hammons Student Center in Springfield in 1977. This was before jumbotrons, and we were sitting up in the rafters. I remember being slightly disappointed because his live versions didn't sound as good as what I was accustomed to hearing on my scratchy assortment of 45's. Of course, I was only 8 years old at the time and had not seen many live concerts. If you get a chance. Book a room sometime at the old Rail Haven Motor lodge in Springfield there on Glenstone. Looks a bit dodgy, but they keep the place up okay. Ask for the Elvis room. This is the room where Elvis stayed with his mother back in 1956 when playing a gig at the old Shrine Mosque. Right about the time his star was really on the rise.

Positivity vibes heading your way and wishing you a quick recovery. Geez, head-on at 65 mph, you're lucky to be alive, so count those blessings. That Hwy 21 is a nasty stretch of road.

Lot of driving. What is this slam all about? Catching a smallmouth in a watershed, and then leaving to go hit a different one?

SEMO? I have my two girls going there this fall.

Yeah, I know that spot well. Its hardly a secret spot, but this photo and your accompanying story should probably kept to a smaller audience than this board will allow.

Yes, thats shaping up very nice! Great work. My brother finished his kayak a few weeks ago. He was stupid and trusting enough to let me paddle it around at Lindenlure for a bit while on my 3rd All Day IPA. Very fast, light, and responsive.

Pretty brown, Phil!

Nice fish! I'm still trying to break the 20" mark. Have lots of 19 and 19 3/4, just can't get over the mark.

Had the Hangar this past Saturday night. Very, very good. Make a good Old Fashioned, too.

Its a nice shop as fly shops go, but not worth the 2 hour detour unless you have other stops to go with it. T. Hargroves is much more of an immersive experience, and then go across the street and get a delicious counter-burger and draft root-beer at Carl's Drive-In.

Enjoyed your report! Putting those guys on their first smallmouth is pretty cool. Going to have to remember to do a rope picture like that. Looking forward to Linden this weekend. Hopefully not too much of an algae bloom going. Have you had any rain the last few days?

Go get 'em T-man. I'll be down at Linden next weekend. Can't wait. Hope the water isn't to scummy.

I would PM you Ketchup, but I think there is value to a broader audience on this post, and we can thank Steve McBasser for bringing this up. Its no joke. To Ketchup, ....one of my best friends is an MD dermatologist here in ST Louis -- Dr. Breer, who did the initial biopsy. I trust him 100% and he said not to play around with it. Like you, I had the same problem on my temple with the bleeding. Anyway, he didn't do the surgery, but referred me to Dr. George Hruza, who may be the very top in the country for MOH's surgery. Surgery was easy. Back and forth testing between 3 scrapes, which were quick. Slow process overall, and mostly waiting so it took half a day or better, but at least its outpatient. Stitches. Stitches removed a week later. Minimal pain. A pencil eraser sized bruise a few days after surgery. But the last thing I want to do is minimize any of you jackhammers not keeping up with getting checked. DO IT. I know many who have died from skin cancer. Squamous cell isn't melanoma, but you don't want it festering either.

Yeah, hang in there McBasser. And thank you for the reminder. I had MOH's surgery last week to remove some squamous cell near my right temple. Just came back from the surgeon's office a few minutes ago to have the stitches removed. Not as big as your incision, but no fun either. I think I have a few more spots that need attention too.