Mhyde

Thanks for your support and looking forward to next year!! congrats on the win!!!!

We're here Getting teams registered for Tomorrow's Charity Crappie Tournament befitting Ambassadors for Children!! $25 entry fee plus an optional $5 trash fish side pot!! We'll be here till about 8:30pm so come get entered!! Registration location: Brookline church of Christ 3086 N. Brookline Ave Brookline, Missouri 65619

just to let everyone know Stone Creek Lodge is having a big fish contest through the summer. You can take your Crappie, Walleye, or Bass to the tackle shop at the Lodge to be weighed to enter their contest!

caught nearly all of our fish in 12ft or less Friday night. didn't have any size just keepers, but tons of 12-14 3/4" fish. on a side note I've caught more small mouth in the last two weeks then I have in the last few years combined. don't know if we've just been in the right area or what.

Door prizes for Saturday. thanks to these people and Businesses!! -Large pizza gift certificates X2: Stone Creek Lodge -Hats and Bass pro gift card : Farr Better Plumbing -Hats : Crown Power & Equipment of Bolivar -Ammunition, 3 boxes of Steel shot & 1box of Hornady .380 Critical Defense : Blue Bonnet Farms -Custom painted Crankbaits : Estate Management Services ( LakeIt forum member) - Nemesis sunglasses X2 & added purse money : Matt Hyde Outdoors - 1 free oil Change : Willard Fast Lube - 2 $50 Bass pro gift cards : Freedom Bank of Willard - 2 stainless steel coffee mugs: AM Donuts **Thanks to Star Wholesale Supply for lending us their Tournament scales and Equipment from their company Tournament!!

I hope to post a list of Door prizes early next week, once I've got everything collected. didn't want to keep updating the list every time I was given something or picked it up. Just remember 1 member of the team needs to come by Friday night to register and pay. I will be there to start collecting money about 5:30-5:45 you do not have to stay you can just pay an go. (if you come early I may NOT be able to break large bills) entry is $30 total, $25 for the tournament and $5 for trash fish side pot. any questions shoot me a PM or call my # is on the flyer. tournament registration location: Brookline church Of Christ 3086 N Brookline Ave, Brookline, MO 65619

WERE STILL ON!!!

Wow 84 & 85 degrees, and it's not even June yet. It was 78 Friday night!!!

Took my 4 year old son to a friend's pond Saturday evening and had a blast! Kept it very simple only took nightcrawlers and a couple of frogs.

From what we have caught and seen I think the crappie spawned a little deeper this year. From a three weekends that we went I caught very little fish up on the bank I know others did in some areas but we never did most of our fish were 5 to 15 foot out. Im no crappie professional by any stretch of the imagination but when you cast it on the bank as much as I did and didn't catch anything and then you pull your jig or minnow (under a bobber) out deeper and would bites, I just figured they made beds and then we had some rain and I just stayed there were the original bed was made and didn't make a new bed up shallower.??

I know of the Brand I often throw a Chompers 3 1/2" tube. just didn't know which one of the Chompers baits you were referring to.

what do you mean by a Chomper?

we fished last Friday night into early Saturday morning, fished shiners under lights in 25-20ft in the little sac arm. caught most of our fish either on the bottom or just a couple of feet off the bottom. id say 40% of the fish were females and they had not spawned out and there was little to no blood in the egg sacks. brought home 38 crappie between the 3 of us. counting all the white bass and the 1 keeper walleye we had it was around 150 fish night. Caught a TON of short crappie from 8"-9 3/4" and TON of white bass. it would also come in spurts, we would go 15-20 minutes with very little action and then the graph would light up and it was on for several minutes and then shut off again. got on the water just before 7pm and was back at the ramp about 1:15ish am . good luck to everyone this weekend, gald to hear the flicker shad bite is starting, need to get those rod holders installed this weekend!!!

that was my first thought, but with some other the other products that have been on the market like the Max Scent series they have a horrible issue with drying out and becoming trash. just didn't want to spend $5.99 a pack on something wasn't that great of a product when the original Powerbait series of baits is just fine and like you said stood the test of time.

Just curious if any of you guys have tried the new Berkley MaxScent baits out yet. My main question is are they like the Trigger X baits that were made by the Rapala company that dry out if they are not either kept moist during the day or put back in the bag after use. -matt

YUP NOTHING IS PERFECT THERE IS ALWAYS SOMEONE WILLING TO TAKE IT TOO FAR AND PENALIZE REST OF US! GREED IS A POWERFUL THING

http://www.kayakfishingfocus.com/cheating-in-cpr-kayak-bass-fishing-tournaments/ video : https://scout.com/outdoors/bass-fishing/Article/Kayak-Bass-Fishing-Cheater-Busted-101453825

It's popular because it fits todays society... fast and now. Like I said its a TV production. we all know weekend tournament fishing doesn't look like the MLF show. we are all not bring brought in given a boat and sent out. their making $$$ because they have anglers that even most novice anglers know...KVD, IKE, Hackney Ott Defoe ect.... folks see those guys on TV and go buy Jack Links jerky and Rage craws, because they saw it on KVD's jersey. _MLF uses a scale to weigh fish, and they all have the same one, so in a local/club tournament who is buying the scales that anglers use (have to all use the same one) and who is certifying the scales are correct. _How many marshals do you think are really going to volunteer to sit a boat on a Saturday night 7p-1a club tournament. Also the Kayak tournaments format is not fool proof, one of the largest cheating scandals was only a few years ago when a guy had doctored this measuring board (i'll try to find the article.) so nothing is perfect.

I don't know if you will ever see "local" and club tournaments go to the MLF format. MLF works because its a limited number of anglers, cameras and a marshal in every boat, and remember MLF is for TV and attracts a whole new audience to tournament or "pro" bass fishing. MLF is more exciting to watch for most folks then watching BASS LIVE and watching anglers key on only 5 fish, they can watch an entire tournament in an hour time slot. I think in theory the MLF format is great but only works due to the $$ behind it. Its a production and is edited for TV to make money and sell advertising. They have put together and awesome marketing strategy and are making a killing $$$$!!

STRIPERS??? IN STOCKTON!!!?????

The bait shop at Stone Creek Lodge will sell them by the pound.

Stockton Friday nighters kick off this Friday! Be sure to read up on the rules as a few things have changed. I don't have anything to do with running the tournament just post as a courtesy and fish a few. http://stocktonfridaynighters.com/rules/

Another one was caught by a guy I go to church with earlier this year between the steel bridge and Taylor bridge. So that's 3 confirmed sightings/catching since last spring on Stockton. When he called the Polk County Office he was told that during last year's flood there was a breakdown of the dam at fellows and there is reason to believe some fish did Escape Fellows. I don't know if that's the story that the MDC is sticking to or if they really did try to test some fish. Don't know if we'll ever know the truth, We were all told for years there's no bears in this state.......

u know I am not sure. I forgot about those I couldn't tell you the last time I used either of those ramps.

Aldrich, High Point, state park, old state (Hartley cove) and CC are all the free ramps, everything else is run by the Corps. and is $5 to launch.