tjm

Back in my day, Truman was all rivers and creeks and yep the fishing was good. Ever wonder if impoundment alone doesn't have a negative impact on rivrerine genetics? The first 10-20 years after the dam building the existing stock would be in place but then the fish would adapt to changed environment?

People have always been nuts.

in your profile settings>account settings>other settings>some notification options = I think may be what you want?

Saw this and thought it interesting and that it applied to this discussion; https://www.boatus.com/seaworthy/magazine/2015/october/boat-wake-damage-liability.asp and this; https://www.boatus.com/magazine/2011/august/seaworthy.asp The more I read on the subject, the more I wonder how many boat drivers are even aware that boats make wakes.

Not a golfer so I wouldn't know, but, with everybody having a lot of balls and carrying clubs, I would expect a degree of courtesy.

It looks nice. I think it might be beyond my ability to cast, that's a lot of fly.

Even if they are amateur anglers, the problem was with boating safety/etiquette. It really indicates a need for revocable boat operator permits more than anything else. The fishing tournaments did not create the idiot operators nor turn them into rude behinds; the tournaments do give those people an excuse to be there and a seeming 'open pass' to be on their worst behavior. Have you considered that most automobile accidents leading to death are caused by amateur drivers? Highly regulated and permitted, but, amateurs still.

Trappers looks will fool you, some of the best are a lawyer and a Dr. in the off season. Like picking out the anglers in a crowded office complex. A couple well known trappers are so fat that you would think they never leave the couch and one I know of is one legged. For the most part cats feet support their weight so well that they don't leave many tracks, often in snow a big cat's track will look kinda like it was made with a lady's powder puff, no real distinguishing characteristics. A better indicator of species is often the print placement pattern if a trail is visible. Is the trail wandering, staggered, straight line, are prints overlapping, overprinting etc. and so on. A red fox trail in snow is distinguishable from a domestic dog's trail at a distance or in a drive by; but a single print might be hard to tell.

Well it is a protected species and all, but he already got his picture taken and published so anonymity is already compromised.

You (all who want to designate the lake as a tourney play ground) should buy him ( and all others who protest despicable behavior) out and locate him (them) a place on another Ozark lake where outsiders don't have bass tournaments.

Just think how a flotilla of those guys could affect a tourney if they organized.

The OP's 2nd post describing preferred boat operation is a direct quote of a Department of Safety pamphlet.

I think the OP realizes that, the idea is that the tourneys and other tourney anglers self police and discourage the bad behavior and/or ban the "bad apples" based on tourney Standards of Courtesy. Bad behavior on the part of tourney participants can be imposed in several ways; the "good" anglers could set standards and self police or nasty regulations could be incorporated or a battalion of "innocent" pleasure boaters could casually disrupt every tournament to the point tournaments go else where to muck up some other lake. With enough upset non-tourney water users involved and a bit of organization a nation wide movement could grow to the point that every tournament day would find any lake crowded with skiers or cruisers or kayakers to the point that idle speeds become standard and every cove is full of pleasure boats. People simply do not have to accept that tournaments are contests between Gods and mortals keep out.

Biggest I could find recorded was 53". A couple 4'6". I'd bet it's a state record.

Don't you suppose that when you buy a conglomerate like Jarden Corp, the then owner of Pure Fishing, you might be more interested in the forty-leven other brands Jarden owned than in a single company? I'd guess Newell had plans to break Jarden up is why they bought it.

4'6" copperhead is just about a world record. No doubt bigger than any I've seen.

I added a green X to the dog track, you will never see a cat track that has this open X space

Carp draw the X through that dog track so's they can see that distinguishing mark. JCreek do you recall that bio's name? The one that I think should be working your area is a trapper and does know tracks. Large dogs often leave deeper and larger tracks than pumas might.

https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/chestnut-lamprey https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/northern-brook-lamprey

My point was kinda what Trevor said, there's a lot of marbles unaccounted for. 18 weeks per year worth for most in the work force, that is a lot of days to count your marbles. Folks that don't work 5 day weeks or have longer vacations or comp days can count even more weeks off.

Makes sense , it's not only the votes in the cities; by far the majority of the sales tax is actually paid in those cities. If you get most of your income from one source does it make sense to ignore that source and give all your services to some group that pays next to nothing in? Must be in the City to ever have had an outhouse?

Nice stuff. I'd probably just put them on display... too pretty to feed fish.

Good luck with that.

Thing that strikes me is the river is wide enough that any tree should have been avoidable. I wasn't talking about the date when I said I doubted it was by outfitter, I was thinking about the water depth and speed. Risk of lost and damaged equipment. But then I don't know any of the current operators either. The places near the bridge in Pineville looked ready for a big weekend when i passed this evening. Water in Little Sugar is ~5' lower than it was Saturday. Elk still looks pretty full. same rains that raise Beaver lake flood this drainage.

Little Sugar has been at flood til day before yesterday and still is very high, not what I'd like to canoe; especially knowing a fresh load of trees have just been dumped in it. I doubt an outfitter sent any boats out yet. Not many details yet, but, it said near MT Shira, which is public (MDC) and she was from Bella Vista, so a local. Always some that like it best at or near flood stage.