RSBreth

Yeah - we've gone over this bridge but I'm not buying a 'yak just to fish this either. Several "hybrids" that have "Yak" in their name are legal but are canoes nontheless.... oh well.

We would think between Al, me and ten other guys going back to the old days of RiverSmallies we have a pair that works but like Al said when I find something they discontinue it. I've been using these, but need a new pair after two years.http://www.academy.com/shop/pdp/foreverlast-mens-flats-boots?repChildCatid=389410 Two years isn't too bad though.

I will give a second thumbs up on those Air Stream rods- a little faster action and lighter than the microlights.

That is all.

My good friend Sgt Vest does something like that - but usually it's when people start crowding us while wading Taney. He starts YELLING not singing the Roland Martin T.V. Show theme song - "HE'S THE GREAT AMERICAN FISHERMAN, HE'LL FISH ANYWHERE, ANYWHERE THERE'S WATER, YOU KNOW HE'LL BE THERE..."

A lot of people use Jonboats at the park, but it's a small lake. Even a 12 ft. Jon is a pain to drag far with a motor and gear in it. I just paddled my canoe with my son sitting in front to a good spot and then get out and wade it or fish from the bank when he was little.

Finley is still a little off-color today so it's probably a little cloudy still up there on the James - give it a day or so and it'll be clear.

If it was daylight it's rabies more than likely.

I use a heavy lead eye leech/sculpin, clousers and poppers/sliders. That about covers it.

You get some right at the confluence of the James and Finley at Jamesville mostly. A few hang a right and head up the Finley a ways but not many.

I have a bunch of them but wouldn't part with them. Maybe try eBay?

If you use superline/leader on your other rigs do it here too. I can't think of any good reason for old twisty on spinning reels anymore.

When you say "Summer or Fall" if you mean when the James is still warm (into mid-September) just head over to one of the canoe rentals and get some Smallmouths going when they are generating at Table Rock Dam.

Looks like a common Kingsnake to me.

Good luck - they won't budge off of 6 HP for Springfield or 40 for Fellows - I know someone who has been pestering them for 20 years.

Whoever said it first got it right - people just stop on their way back from the James or wherever and clean their fish there. I've never caught a White above the two dams.

There are plenty of "hybrid" 'Yaks that are nothing but a solo canoe with a skeg or whatever so it's largely semantics as to whether a specific boat is a Yak or not - but thanks for clarifying it is the bigger organization that makes the rules. Pity, or I'd fish it

There's a few spot on the James I hit when the water is still cold - that's not one of them. Give it a few weeks of warm weather.

If you didn't discriminate against us solo canoe guys you would have more people attend.

Slab Ford off of Round Mountain Road way up near where Ozark Shooters is on 65 is the furthest upstream easy access. Don't know if you want to be up that far, but from there to Rockaway is an easy half day fish float.

I have a copper-orange saltwater one that I'm on the third set of trebles it's caught so many Smallmouths.

Good Luck. I really mean it, too.

Shelvin is hard go upstream even at normal summer flows - the easiest for me ( in a solo canoe btw ) is H.L. Kerr or the Galena access. Both involve a land portage, but make for easy floats back to the put-in. And another tip - I found out last year showing another new 'Yak guy the river just up from H.L Kerr is easy for me with a single blade paddle in the canoe - but almost impossible with a double blade because you need to paddle up right next to the shore in the slack water - the double blade just whacks the shore and isn't able to do it and trying to use it a like a single blade you can't get the leverage you can with a single. So get a back up single blade in your Yak for tough spots.

I see an easy way to dump and get everything on board (including the captain) wet in that right there...

Don't the difference between Rock Bass and Smallmouths?http://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/types/fishes?page=7