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Not me! I only want to fish where I can walk in the water. If I have to use sonar, depth charges are in order. Always nice if there are some bushes handy too.

Those deer crossings are excellent spots for road hunting, I'm told. It seems deer come from all over to cross at those places. No bait required. If I knew where to get one of those signs like that I'd put it up in my back forty. Sure sorry about blabbing about that trout place, Johnsfolly. Wife always said I talk too much.

there is a reason all fishers must be liars, we got to protect them fish, even the carp and trout; evil forces are out there.

Happned to me at RRSP, was there and caught a trout., told my neighbor about it and the next time I went there there people all over everywhere. Some from far away as Texas. From now on it's shhhss! caught nothing saw nothing wasn't even there etc and so on

Pictures looked as though only at the stern was the hull lower in the water, but the argument (in my head) for having the prop wet with a 9" prop made me think that there was some mistake/misprint. Maybe it was 13"? Then again if they can't get into the shallows, why are the other guys whining? Looking for ways to disqualify these boats?

It said that boat would run on plane in 3 inches of water, how much shallower will a jet get on plane? Or, how much shallower do you need to get? It seems from all the comments that he ran up a river where glass boats couldn't go, unfair advantage and all that, might not have won in a regular boat, blabla..So i suppose that hull has some purpose. They did mention that jets were not allowed. So, how much does a guy win in a tourney like that? Are the boat expenses worth it?

Sure, they determined the style by carbon dating other stuff stolen from the same graves, didn't they? I've thought that the primitive people might not have picked old tools and points up the way we do, because of superstitions and association with death or spirits. Some "expert" told me the rock sharpeners from one age had disappeared/been extirpated from the region for long periods before the next "civilization" came to be. I never was an artifact hunter but have known a few, my deceased neighbor had about 12 gallons of stuff from one 8A hay field and a guy I worked with found a knife/spear "factory" where he found a perfect 9" blade along with some partials and said the chip pile would fill a dump truck. The two sites are about 1/2 mile apart. 1/4 mi from the field there were acres of mounds until they were bulldozed out in the late '90s. I have a celt my dad found that looks to have been shaped with a grinder, then hardened, whatever it is made from isn't native rock.

"Those were the days.." , I caught river trout at -17F when I was young and "tuff enuff" , Bill said "heck they don't know its snowing, they are under water". 95F isn't so bad if you wade in the shade but there are limits in either extreme.

ssshh! I don't even want to know the drainage, some things are better left unsaid. That's a lovely fish and those places don't take much pressure to devastate.

I have often wondered what the people here between 4000BPE and 1800 used to hunt with, all the sharp rocks that I've ever seen found locally fall into that 5-10,000BPE category. Also have wondered why as time advanced the workmanship deteriorated.

Might say the most scenic parts (and the best farmlands) of all the Ozarks are under somebody's lake. I recall a trip up the bottom of Beaver before they built that dam and fished most of Truman when it still a river. Not a fan of flood control, me.

"Put another log on the fire". I ain't as tough as I once was, sunny, 45+ and no dang wind; you might get me fired up for fishin; but the days of wipin snow off my beard and plunging the rod under the water to melt the ice is long past.

I bought the cheap boot foots at Cabelas about a month back on sale for even cheaper, Tried the stocking foot kind on and decided real quick that I don't want to be hassled with separate parts. Worst thing all waders that I tried were snug in the top half, not much room for coat or vest inside them. I think when I'm ready to spend more money I'll likely get Caddis Waterfowl Wading systems bootfoot breathable. https://caddiswaders.com/

Just off top of head can think five "trout farms" that used to be on tributaries of the Elk plus all the indiscriminate stocking done by the Feds in early years.

Little orange fleshed native as native could be brookies. I spent a number of years in RI and fished nearby SE Mass. as well. Lots of tiny water that fisheries departments assumed were not suitable for trout and so left them alone. 10" was a whooper, 7-8" fairly common though. Cedar swamp flows mostly and water brown with peat and iron.

I wouldn't know how to research it, but what I've seen and heard of makes me think every good spring branch in the Ozarks has had trout in it at some time. I used to chase those places back east and it is surprising some of the small waters that prove out.

Long ago when brother and I drove suckers for Dad and his friend to grab it was when water was warm enough to wet wade. Same for when they gigged and I pushed the tub. I can't imagine wading wet is much fun this time of year. School was good about us skipping when the suckers were running.

Catch and release equals reduced pressure. The report did not make it clear to me whether the creel survey involved just the trophy area or the entire lake, but it showed more catch and release of legal fish than they had supposed. Boats don't necessarily mean trout fishing and trout fishing doesn't always mean catch and keep. If catch and release is always successful it would mean long term very little restocking based on natural mortality. But in the trout parks the C&R mortality is such that it requires fairly frequent stocking to maintain the numbers satisfactory to the winter fishers. That report suggested to me that the study was just the trophy area. Made me think in terms of further restricted limits in that area. Time will tell.

Search; Jim Owen mayor Branson

I'll have to ask one of the agents sometime, I doubt it's enforceable unless the area or a distance is defined. All your neighbors could set up deer specific feeders and prevent you from legally hunting at all. Things I never thought about.

Looks like getting ready for a church picnic back when.

Seth does it say how far away the feed has to be? What is the "area"? When my neighbor fed his cows and I hunted the deer on their way there was I in violation?

Way less row cropping in my area than there was in the '50s or '60s. 90+% of the land that used to be cropped is now in fescue also.

Of course cat fish having no scales would make them un-clean and carp got scales. So does suckers.

I thought the metals were processed through the zoo plankton to the filter feeders then to the eaters of filter feeders and so on. Aren't carp considered filter feeders?