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When I was up there years ago, I'm not you could fall over without hitting the guy next to you. It was a line getting in at the head of a hole and getting out at the tail and repeating. Don't recall what zone that was but it was a strange fishing experience. I'd think if the guy in front of you stepped in over his head and popped up 50'-100' feet down stream that the other hundred people in line would use caution. Anyway, thanks for the heads up.

Aren't tiger muskies sterile? A mid '80s stocking would be 30+ years old and should be 6' long by now? Fellows must be about a million miles by river, imo, either the fish got transported or an unreported stocking took place. Could have been carried there after death, even.

On the other hand many or most are already taking 18 weeks per year off, and don't realize it. It's a nice story, but it brings to mind the guy that got wealthy by only working half days every day. He had trouble deciding which 12 hours were best ...

1 boat maybe fishing in 37 years ? That is unbelievable. Is heavy fog a nightly occurrence?

Yes, it will help. No you won't ever be eight teen again. Try building up to a thirty minute brisk walk and find out if that woman is wrong or not, exercise wouldn't be a jillion dollar business if it didn't help some. I don't know about that stepper thing, but you can start by going to the mail box and then down the road a piece and back, til one day you can walk to the post office. Every body over 30 has got arthritis. But if you give up half way round the mushroom patch, there ain't gonna be no Oklahoma Big Horn & Elk hunt in your future. You go get yourself fit enough to walk to the boat store and carry that jonboat home, why then she'll have to let you get it. ps. 3 times a week won't cut it, try 7 days a week til you can out run that woman uphill, after that you'll probably be in good enough shape to cut back to just every day.

I'm not so sure of that fishinwrench, only seeing one question at a time it's impossible to gauge the slant of the survey. All over the country the fish and game divisions are being infiltrated by animal activists that are more or less against hunting and fishing, the questions and the manner in which they are asked could either favor increased gigging opportunity or elimination of gigging as a sport. Pollsters slant questionnaires all the time to show support for whoever hires them. Maybe do it twice once answer Yes I gig and the other answer No I don't gig and see if the remaining question are the same. I bet they don't ask any questions that elicit answers contrary to the desired outcome.

Too far away for me, I think, just to watch.

Do lots of logs get into Taneycomo?

Is there an agent present at all bass tourneys? In my they are kinda the same thing, I don't think either can be adequately policed unless they are banned entirely. Either accept that some bass are going to die from haulage and sorting or ban those things; either accept some bass are going die from gigging or ban that. The most effective control over gigging small mouth might be to close all the public ramps and or ban the jet boats on streams? I used to wade and push the tub and hold the light while Dad & Clayton did the gigging in water 3' deep and they could fill the tub pretty quick for a fish fry. I guess my thoughts run like; gigging is an old tradition in the Ozarks, but jet boats are not. Not too long ago killing passenger pigions on the roost was an Ozark tradition, Grandpa showed me where they roosted and told me how he and other boys loaded the wagons with the dead birds the men killed. Some traditions just die out, I don't know of a single market hunter in this county. I did not take the poll yet and might not, I want to see all the questions at once and they want to sort the responses question by question. A process designed to get a predetermined outcome, imo. I also think public opinion should not be a part of the process, we pay scientists to manage; make them do it according to science. Once the opinions over rule the science the AR groups will rule out all seasons, C&R will go first.

Did you try what the neophytes were doing, that is creating odd, against the current movement? Do you think the extra movement the drag caused actually attracted the fish? I recall one opening day on a small lake when a bunch of high school boys limited out on trout using salt water lures while the accomplished fly flingers caught only an odd one now and then. Made me wonder if the fish were illiterate and hadn't read the books.

Probably make that 46 or 47, most states the fish and game is legislated and changes at the whim of the masses, think limits and regulations set by animal rights advocates and the politicians they elect.

Might I ask why? I can understand liking another species better, but, golly, any fishing is better than finding something else to do. I'll fish for tiny long ear rather than skip fishing...

I think from the try this that & another bait and the repeated/recycled recommendations in each copy that these reports are maybe geared towards the latest issue of new anglers, I'd almost bet there two or three folks out there with nearly new permits that have found MDC's web page yet are not members of this forum, haven't even heard of OA. Some people that don't read this forum are also taxpayers, believe or not, and just maybe they want these useless to the professional angler reports. But, I have always found that an Email to MDC gets a timely response, so if it chaps your buns to have these published you ought to let them know. Surely if enough OA members complain MDC would reconsider publishing the Reports. https://mdc.mo.gov/contact-engage/contact-us

What is a man cave? I saw that some where else, but no details.

well, it's a report, that means it has to do with some thing that already happened and no matter if you get a report from them or bob or george or sally it is always going to be about what is history and doesn't apply to what is today or will be tomorrow. In the case of the MDC report it is weekly , so all the information or misinformation is based on last weeks history. Between September and April the report might be 6 months old but will apply to tomorrow's fishing just as much as a week old report. It comes in my email and I rarely open it, it is probably compiled by an accountant in a basement from what ever bits of info they get fed. You want to know how the fishing will be when you go? well, it's almost always "you should have been here yesterday" or a while ago or this morning. You want to go fishing, just do it. If you're out there every day, you can be the guy that says "you should been here then". Flush the toilet to see what the barometer is and look out the winder to see if it raining and get out there.

Tale of the tails, eh? or Nice behinds.

https://mdc.mo.gov/conmag/2002/05/rock-bass-panfish-supreme

Wouldn't those be Ozark Bass? I know, I know, they are still goggle eye or black perch, but I thought the authorities renamed them a few years back?

It shouldn't need replacement, I use lines that I bought in the '80s regularly and I have a couple sinking lines that date from the '70s that still look good. I'd tie one end to a bush and stretch the line a few times and clean it while stretched; then tie on a new leader and take it fishing. Some lines I stretch before fishing on every outing, it relaxes the reel memory. Cracking would be the key to needing replacement.(fwiw, if the cracking is only at/near the end, you can cut off several feet of level line on the tips of most fly lines without really changing the way they work) " Wipe off the reel, put a single drop of oil on the axle and go fishing. " with emphasis on the single drop. (I might wash the reel in a dish soap solution to get off old grease/dirt. I have seen a lot of reels that had too much lube applied and collected dirt in the lube. )

A tree gives a focal point and if one says the fungus can be up to 50' from the focal tree, it means many other trees might be within that 50' also. I have often wondered if the whole tree business is just that leaves don't pile up around trees and the root clump is elevated allowing us to better see the things than if they were under that pile of leaves over there 20' feet away. Trees most favored seem to elevate their roots more too. I have seen pictures of mores in pine forest a long way from any of the popular host trees. Burned over areas also give better visibility?. Looking at the ground becomes ingrained after you step in enough cow piles and have enough snake scares and and morels I find are just because they grow near the ground. I go out a few times a year in my old age with the excuse of mushrooming when it's really just an excuse to get out and walk in the woods. The three hours I spent walking the dry ridge tops yesterday were with the knowledge that I would be unlikely to find morels there.

well, ness, I never found a morel in a parking lot either; may want to get that down too. But then I never really looked real hard at all the parkin lots and maybe I should.

Reminds of my childhood. Single shot .22 was only gun we owned.

I lived about ten minutes from the Palmer River in Ma for nearly fifteen years before I knew of the shad fishery, I read about it in a national fishing magazine, people form the world over were going there for shad. Shad Factory pond. Only ever made a few trips there during the run and never caught any. Did witness a couple caught and when the shout of "fish on" went up everybody got out of the water, strong running fish on a hook.

As I said I'm only a casual mushroomer, but I have never found a morel in a bottom. This part of the Ozarks in mushroom time means the bottoms are repeatedly flooded and scoured by the creeks. So, what i find are necessarily in/on the hills. My personal observations (other than they can be anywhere) are the south and west slopes are barren of soil and therefore poor places to mushroom, some ridge tops have lots of morels and I never find them there, where huckleberries grow the soil is again poor and.. 90+% of all I find and that my kids/grandkids find are on the steeper parts of east facing or north facing slopes, these are the areas that have retained some black dirt and also where the best timber grows. Small green things like mayapple or jack in the pulpet are indicators of sufficient soil and moisture for morel development. The south and west faces and the ridge tops dry awfully fast here; it rained off and on Saturday and that night plus Sunday morning must have been in the 2" neighborhood, we had runoff, yet by Monday after noon the ridges were leaf crackle dry again.

Buffing compound is abrasive, so eventually the clear coat will be worn through. I wonder if that will be noticeable after waxing and buffing the wax? I don't have a boat, so.... but I'd think a solution of detergent, bleach and water applied with a stiff brush would take a bunch of the stuff of and do no damage. To remove black algae from your roof you can use a quarter cup of TSP + a quart of bleach + a gallon of water in a pump sprayer; soak it, let set 15 minutes and rinse. I have cleaned black algae from lumber using dish detergent and bleach solution the same way. Major Warning: do not use a cleaner that contains Ammonia with Bleach ; they mix up a deadly reaction with fumes that kill.