Johnsfolly

They eat snails throughout their range.

Haven't been fishing since that shark trip. I will this weekend though. I will be renting a car and thought this was an appropriate meme😉😆

Go old School and get the chartreuse color that @Sethalways wore🤔. I've gone to three plus a Taneyfest. Does that warrant a shirt?

I found that if you slowly get in the water and wait five to ten minutes they tend to forget you are there. Just don't be too visible with your casting. I also like to wear light camo when chasing spooky trout.

Looks like a fun time for the Billetheads😉 Maybe we'll go some year.

Shooting deer with paintball guns might catch on as a catch and release hunting strategy😆

Hopefully Daryk it would be beyond the statute of limitations. That wouldn't be the case if you were running for political office or appointed as a judge😂!

Maybe it was E Jean Carroll. She painted a bunch of trees blue😉. We don't have blue but we do have a lot of local luecistic (piebald or white) and melanistic (black) squirrels running around (also a fair number of piebald deer). Problem is that they are in town. If I found them on public hunting areas, I would love to get a ying/yang taxidermy squirrel mount😉😁

I've tried them once and am not a fan. Maybe I just didn't have them cooked right😜😂

I still have several of my better mixed tapes kicking around😁

You could predict that cassette tapes were done when we no longer used pencils and when Bic pens were made round instead of hexagonal.😉🤔😂

@Travis Swift Still sounds like a great trip!

Back in college in PA we used to get hot dogs at a place called Yacco's. They had their own chili sauce, onions and mustard. My friend would eat a dozen in a sitting. The family that owned the place were relatives of Lee Iaccoca. We didn't have White Castles near us. I've only eaten there a couple of times.

All of the redeye bass subspecies that have now been upgraded to species level over the last several years look very similar to smallmouth bass. They like the Bartram's bass are found in distinct river systems in SC, GA, AL, etc. They are all genetically different from each other. I have been seeing this bass being reported and I believe that it was one of the subspecies at the time that made up the GA black bass slam.

I'm out aready😑! I will be out in CA for a business trip.

I thought they may want you to lay down in the back😉

Wild Cherry

@BilletHead @Mrs. BilletHead congrats on a successful dove hunt! Looks like you guys had a great time and maybe some sore shoulders😉

@jimithyashford I agree with what TJM @tjm was saying in his response to your question to me. I have the same opinions in regards to the health of the trout populations in the various trout streams across MO. I love to catch brown trout and the red ribbon sections had degraded over the years that they were not enjoyable to fish anymore. There is one river where there is a blue ribbon section that runs into a white ribbon section. Upstream in the blue ribbon section I would regularly see and catch trout in the typical holes and runs. Down in the white ribbon section, those same areas were devoid of trout. Since I had a goal to catch a trout in both sections, I fished the white ribbon section for a couple of hours until I found a rainbow hidden in a small overlooked hole. I also feel that many of the blue ribbon sections run through more scenic parts of the state making the experience for me far more enjoyable. I have been living in Maryland for the last 7-8 years, but if you go back into the OAF archives you'll find a lot of posts from my trips across MO trying to catch trout from every white, red, blue ribbon creeks/rivers (at least as of designations prior to 2014), the four trout parks and Lake Taneycomo. I also have fished a number of the urban trout lakes across the state. I lived in Columbia at that time. I had to travel well over 100 miles each way to trout fish and got pretty particular as to which creeks I would go back to and fish. To follow up on Pete's @snagged in outlet 3 response, I would include a number of microjigs, John Deere, chenille grubs, glowballs, etc. that you can also pick up at Weaver's. You can also fish nymphs under floats on spinning gear if you don't want to fly fish. While wading I have caught both rainbow and brown trout in the Niangua up by the Hwy 64 bridge and down at Barclay's access using marabou jigs, microjigs, and small jerkbaits. I don't recall having more than a 6 trout day at either access point. Hopefully you can have some more success with different techniques and get to fish other trout creeks across the state.

Caught it in a spot that is much different than Taney😉. Possibly a stream bred trout,🤔

Congratulations Dave! Lots of sweat equity in those catches!

Congrats on a great trout Pete! That's a bit bigger than the rainbow I caught yesterday😉

I would say the same. Fish the different sections of the park. Use different baits. The park will provide lots of opportunities to see fish respond to different baits and how you can change slight tactics to get a response. Catching fish there should give you some successful techniques to use in other areas. Also listen to Wrench and others on applying what worked in one location to other similar locations. I personally didn't like fishing the white or red ribbon areas in MO. I found that the further I got from easy access on blue ribbon streams that I found better fish that were likely to bite. If I wanted to fish stockers, I'd fish the parks or the urban lakes in the winter. Your power bait setup with six inches between shot and hook plus using a #20 treble hook with two or three Gulp eggs will catch a lot of stocker pond trout in Feb. If you can travel try, get to know OAF folks and get down to one of the "fests" on the White river in AR.