ColdWaterFshr

Holy Angler Management -- good one, id10t!

but did you punch out your laptop screen over the news?

Dying to hear more about this as well. Banned from Springfield area lakes?? For posting on Ozarkanglers?? And especially fascinating is that you "furiously broke your laptop screen" because you had been informed of this ban, via e-mail I can only presume. Holy Anger Management, Batman!

ShuhZam!! Nice fish. And like someone else mentioned, great job and taking care of the fish and getting it back into the water safely.

Chuck Tryon's "200 Missouri Smallmouth Adventures" has enough water to keep you busy for a lifetime.

Mexican government is highly corrupt though and couldn't organize a bake sale. Criminals are always going to get whatever they want . . . I get that. We just shouldn't make it easy for them, like buying roadside peaches. Go to a gun show and buy whatever you want, full auto, sure, you want it you got it. You get caught with a gun and your license to have it isn't current, it gets confiscated, plain and simple. Want ammo, show a current license. There needs to be a process. It doesn't have to be a major hassle to own a gun, but jesus . . .

Gotta love Archie Bunker. I don't know about you guys, but I'm tired of hearing of all these horrible shootings. Difficult to say if tougher gun laws would've prevented this latest tragedy in Colorado, probably not. . . but its time SOMETHING was done, just not sure what. Its just way too easy to buy guns of any kind. If you gotta license and get emissions and safety inspections for your CAR every dam year, why the heck not with firearms? I know, I know . . . criminals will still have the guns illegally no matter what. But it shouldn't be as easy to buy guns and ammo as it is a loaf of bread.

Oh son! How does one get a pass to this secret farm pond?

Gavins Jeep.MOV

Not sure, but it was nasty. River needs a good flood for sure.

Mitch wins the pot! Gavin, Hoffmeyer and myself fished those same last 5 miles as you. Sure glad we didn't opt for the full 15. I wasn't tired so much as just hot and no shade. Too hot for my liking. I like morning or evening fishing when the sun isn't beating on you so bad, or a smaller creek with more canopy. Water was low -- low and an old local talked to us as we were fishing and he said the river was 8 inches lower than he could ever remember it. Also, lots of moss was broken loose and floating down in clumps. We had very similar experience as fishing success goes. Lots of half-strikes and small fish. Had a HUGE blow up early in the morning near our put in that had me thinking it was going to be a great day, and then not far from there I caught my biggest fish was probably a 15 inch white bass. Gavin said he did too. Mostly lots of small smallies and the occasional largemouth. I think I only caught one spot. Good times. Got to watch Gavin bust out his Jeep window with his paddle. Broke his paddle too! Dead battery wouldn't let him unlock his car, so he had to resort to that and we were able to give him a jump.

I think Wayne is right on. Get a Old Town 169 or 174. If your gal really is that close to your size, and I ain't trying to be a smart-aleck here . . . but ya'll are heading for some tip-overs and arguments.

PD might be up for some hooky.

nice ties!

Ice cold! I don't think thats the case with either shop. I'd say the reverse is true . . . lot of snobby shoppers these days it seems to me . . . expecting the royal treatment as they enter. Everyone is a restaurant critic these days.

Beetles and ants? Dangit. Thats about the only thing I didn't throw at them on Sunday morning. I threw about every midge size and color I had though.

Excellent! What lakes did you hit?

Good report. What size hook got straightened? I haven't had a fish do that on anything bigger than a sz 16. I'm hanging up the fishing rods until this heat subsides a little, or it rains, or both.

yes . . . . finally. No more baseball for a whole month!

Paul Dallas slipped his 15 foot canoe in to the inky pre-dawn fog hatchery boat ramp this morning and is still awake at this late evening hour to report on it, just for you. Many a moons have come and gone since the days he skinned his knees clambering among the slippery rocks in the dark, drowning injected nightcrawlers and Uncle Josh salmon eggs just upstream of this boatramp with Paul Sr. So it was a bit of a homecoming. The rotten smells and old frustrations came rushing back all it once. There was no booze, there was no tobacco, but it still felt good. Like the worn down wooden handles of an old wheelbarrel under the solid weight of wet manure. Yesterdays sunburn from all-day Table Rock tubing was salved in the cool fog as I paddled upstream. As the twilight of pre-dawn became evident, so did the thousands of dimpling fins all the way to outlet two. I felt like an indian. I've never seen so many fish and my fly-boxes were reached for more times than PD cares to admit. They laughed at me for coming back to this place and it hurt. Crackleback as an indicator and a size 18 grey scud about 3 ft below it. I managed only about 4 fish . . . but by 8 a.m. I had their number and they sent an 18" ambassador to call a truce. Cowards.

Yeah, that parable left me a little flat, and I'm always a sucker for a good parable. Suppose we did a keyword replacement and for each mention of the word wolf or wolves, we inserted smallmouth bass, and for sheep, we inserted minnows.

Cool trip! Thanks for the report. Wished I could've made it but the baseball monkey is around my neck for another week yet.

Very interesting, SB. Nice fish. Kinda scary about the low water, especially when you think about all the recent years its been so flooded. It wasn't that long ago that it made national news for flooding out the exit ramps to I-44 and shutting down 141 almost completely. I'm only about 3 miles from 141 bridge over Meramec and only a mile from Castlewood. Always assumed it was trash-fish water and more likely to hook a body than a fish. I would like to fish it sometime with you and get into some of those white bass or hybrids. Lets do it soon. PD

Its a red ribbon area now, so I wonder with that change they quit stocking browns there. Although in someone else's post he shows a stocker sized brown, so who knows. The rainbows I caught all looked very healthy and colorful and full of fight. Just an FYI - grasshoppers were everywhere. Had a few nice rises to my indicator. Wish I had brought some stimulators.