ColdWaterFshr

I’m grateful for some really outstanding heart doctors I’ve had over the years. Kept me on the right side of the dirt! Dr Nicholas Kouchoukus performed the Ross procedure on my when I was 29. Dr.Krainik did cardiac ablation on me a couple weeks ago. Some cool images from that…

Camped there a few times, not bad, but not for me. Y Cabins up the hill about a mile is much more luxurious and accomodating.😆 The boat ramp and parking area is pretty small. No big whoop. $5 is worth it for convenience of the purpose of the place if it keeps cars from parking there.

I support barbless above fall creek and also no trebles. You can't tell me trebles don't harm fish, I've harmed many just wrestling big fish in a net with a triple-treble jerk bait. They're hooked in at least 4 places by the time you get the hemo's or pliers to them. Compared to a single point fly?? C'mon.

Not sure how I missed this trip report, but sure enjoyed it. Need to get up that way and explore the area. Thanks, Ness!

Yes - still keep in touch with Kip. He actually built 2 cedar strip canoes. The first one he and his dad built together. The second one by himself after Sr. passed away. He used cedar from deadfalls he found along the Current river, and took great pains not to use any power tools, or as little as possible. He floats them occasionally. Has them on display in his basement. The 2nd one, you can barely see it on the deck, but he inlayed a perfect arrowhead he found on the river. Very cool seat and paddle too. The first one he built is the snowy picture. Anyway - they're both beautiful works of art. My brother Philip built the cedar strip kayak you see in the picture below (with power tools) and lots and lots of sanding. I got to paddle it a bit last summer down at Lindenlure. Very light and fast.

Beautiful. Cherry for the inner gunwales. Nice. Can't wait to see the thwarts and decks. What kind of wood are you going to use there?

Death Trap trebles . . . I need to look into getting some of those. Thanks for the pro-tip! To answer your question about my "watercraft" . . . its true, I am a man of very humble means, and by no means, King of the Road. I don't have a, what'd he call it? . . . . a brand spanking new Phoenix in the boat barn with all the latest peaky-boo glass. That sounds pretty sweet, I'll admit. All my fishing rods are +10 years old and most years I'm too lazy to even change the line. Look . . . the only way to settle this debate Livescope vs. No-scope . . . is a spirited match of Pickle-ball. I've got a torn ACL, a torn meniscus, a bad ticker, a pacemaker due for new AA's, and I'm balding. My partner, she's pretty spry though, and carries me in most games. Who's in? One nice thing I DO have besides my pretty lil partner is a $180 pickle ball paddle . . . . woooooo.

I'm not the one packing up his marbles and going home over a very, very softball insult. If you go back and re-read Mr. B's original post, where he says about his friend and all the gear he had, and then gave it away and bought all new latest and greatest saying that . . . . "as you may guess, money is no object". Barf. Sounds like Mr. B is putting his own little asterisk (*) by his friends accomplishment, but I don't want to parse his own words. Swirling an A-rig over a concentrated nest of fish that you can see on one of your 6 state of the art video screens . . . hmmm. Yes, its a foreign concept to me.

Exactly. Deep water fishing is a completely foreign concept to me. Sorry to slag on it and ruffle any feathers. But I don't think I ever got in to any name calling. Funny that Bill would mention it, but last summer I was up at Sturgeon Bay staying at my brother-in-laws house right on the water -- which is directly across the bay from Potawatomi State Park. Been several times. Anyway, last summer I took one of his kayaks out every morning, worked up a sweat fishing pretty hard for a couple hours, changing rigs, changing depths, retrieves, etc. Didn't catch squat. Then later, several times it happened, as I was sitting on his back patio enjoying the view, a boat would come up and the fish the exact spots and catch fish left and right. Livescope. Well good for them. I suppose its the new ante to be successful at that type of fishing. And if it makes you happy, then enjoy! I really shouldn't rip on that which I don't understand.

Hope it wasn't my comment about helicoptering to Mt. Everest, but it appears that maybe it was. Very sorry. I've had much worse said about me and my fishing compadres. Much of it deserved!

Topwater bite was definitely not happening on the upper 11 point last week. I tried. Not even a single bump.

That is a sweet boat. I think my Dagger 15' Royalex might be identical shape/form when Mad River acquired Dagger's canoe line-up. Only difference might be that mine has wooden gunwales (though I sometimes wish it didn't). Superlight. Handles well. Versatile as both a solo boat with gear or tandem day tripper.

I love the Stones, and always will. Saw them 30 years ago at Faurot Field. They were old THEN and the tickets were expensive, but not insane. It still sucked. Mick looks completely foolish trying to strut around like his old days. It would be painful to watch for free, any seat in the house. James Taylor at $27 packed a lot more punch. An icon, not embarrassing himself. Robert Cray at the Sheldon coming up . . . now thats more like it. Small venue, up close, reasonable tickets, no strutting and pretending to be 23 . . . just pure talent with focus on musical performance.

James Taylor put on a great show . . . clearly enjoying himself and having fun. Loved the sneak intro. And he finished strong. Show clocked in a 2 1/2 hours with a 20 minute intermission. Impressive.

Starting with your first statement, ....which is F''d, ....you need remedial history lessons, Wrench. The good??? Well for starters, we probably wouldn't exist as a country if France hadn't come to our aid in the revolutionary war. And Britain and France certainly wouldn't exist if we hadn't come to their aid in WWI and WWII. Never mind Japanese imperialism, Russia's designs on Europe post-WWII . . . . You're joking, right? Your second statement . . . "allowed themselves to be forced into going". I don't know what you're saying here, a certain bone-spur-boy found an exit, but many others didn't. For those who served, how can you not be grateful and in reverence for their sacrifice? -- whether KIA, POW (not "suckers and losers" as BSB described them). Sure, Vietnam was a disaster. Our intentions were good, our intelligence was flawed, and our politics made a bad situation even worse. Certainly not the first mistake in our country's checkered history. As for your 3rd statement about your "personal standards aside," this is so myopic and narrow, . ... .a struggle as where to begin to explain . . . short answer, we don't live in a bubble, and never will. And we cannot pretend that history, treaties, alliances and agreements don't exist . . . . (read that as NATO) . . . . . and there are conflicts, important conflicts, that without some of our involvement would change and threaten our way of life inside our borders, and our long time allies, in a very bad way.

Nice picture. Just curious. Was there an opening band? We're trying to figure out what time to get there tonight.

He is a nice feller. And a helluva fisherman.

Notable concerts for me: Elvis Presley - Hammons Student Center '77 Glen Campbell - sometime around then The Muppets on Ice - sometime around then 80's - complete blank . . . . . Linda Ronstadt / Aaron Neville / Bob Dylan - Ozark Amphitheater, 1990 Squeeze - St. Louis - 1991 Stone Temple Pilots / behind Surfers / Flaming Lips - Riverport 1993 Elvis Costello and the Attractions - World Theater, Chicago 1994 Buckwheat Zydeco - KC - 1995-96? Lyle Lovett solo and with John Hiatt Elvis Costello and the Imposters - multiple times Rolling Stones - Faurot Field, 1995'ish. Cool, but underwhelming Nick Lowe - multiple times Hootie and Blowfish with John Hiatt opener - KC amphitheater, 1996'ish Robert Cray and the Memphis Horns- Liberty Memorial Kansas City, 1997'ish Tony Bennett - 3 times, KC, STL and San Francisco Tedeschi Trucks - twice, always good Bruce Springsteen - Milwaukee last year Tom Waits - twice, Glitter and Doom tour; Chicago and St. Louis Leon Bridges - 2016 Pageant- maybe the best concert I've ever seen and 2023 at STL Music park Jimmy Buffet - 2017 Wilco - multiple times, Pageant was the best Dave Matthews Band - a couple years ago, left early, weather channel music that bores me Jeff Tweedy - Sheldon last year, amazing Wood Bros - twice. Solid and entertaining Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats - twice, fantastic Black Crowes, Black Keys, Brandi Carlile - last year, all 3 were awesome Sierra Ferrell and Cat Clyde - this year, awesome Andrew Bird, Lord Huron, Pokey LaFarge, Rayland Baxter, Shovels and Rope, Shakey Graves, Graham Parker, John Hiatt solo a few weeks ago I'm forgetting a bunch more.

How was it? Seeing JT tomorrow night at Hollywood Amphi-pit. Last time I saw him was at Telluride Bluegrass Festival in 90 or 91

Kristi Noems would shoot you. Harry Butker would applaud your masculinity. 🤣🤣

I just watched it, too. Nice work! Some very cool footage. Especially like the sunset scene at 16:48 and all the underwater shots as well.

What a difference from yesterday to today. One side of the backyard, almost none. The other side, directly under several tall silver maples -- many thousands of them. Fence was covered. Dog was trying to eat them.

Big time hatch has started just within the last 24 hours here in Ballwin. Not noisy yet.

Looking forward to watching this.

Sorry to hear this news, Gavin. He seemed like a nice guy the few times we chatted, and apparently a helluva fisherman. His spore fly was quite novel creation, and worked really well.