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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?

Winter wheat and/or fall turnips might be good, wheat will be green in the snow and deer have been known to top a patch of late turnips. I think the visits to such will likely be nocturnal though. Corn feeders bring in 'coons as often as deer, I think. Neighbor used to have a big feed bunk for cattle and kept salt-mix out in it; deer that visited regularly, they went so often that they could be ambushed 1/4 mile away. So a feed station by your shop might let you catch them as they come off the neighbors land and make it more probable that they fall down where you can get to them without a trespass issue.

imo, unless you plant 40A , a food plot isn't about aiding their survival. A handful of deer can eat most of a half acre garden in one or two nights. As an enticement to slaughter some plants will attract deer at certain stages of growth, select plants that will be at that stage of growth at the time you want the deer there. Otherwise let other people feed the nuisance animals. They won't starve.

The biggest change in this part of the Ozarks in my life is conversion of oak barrens to Fescue. Lost a lot wildlife to that "improvement". From quail to mussels. But hey, cattlemen get better production from the land and the water is still wet.

Not to me. It probably is to person who caught it.

I was told to bleed by tail, filet out the back straps, cut the back straps into steaks, bread and fry like it was fish. This seems to work on 5-12 lb. carp. My wife and kids said it was good. ymmv

Trophy would be something over the current world record, any thing less is just a fish. Of course every fish is a prize more valuable than a trophy. Trophy means different things maybe, but it brings to mind rotted taxidermy hung on a dirty wall. I don't get that and never have.

If they are in the Grand Lake do they come up the Elk?

Well, If MDC interviews that group they may get different answers than the guides provided? Never having been over there to fish I would have guessed guides got 10-12% of all anglers at most, so thinking guides are representative of all users is far out there, but maybe not.

I was told once that USACE does not control generation at all, they may let water out to control lake level but Southwestern Power Administration controls generation. Whole nother branch of the guberment. I wonder which is truth? SWPA says they adjust generation to meet use loads. SWPA will tell you generation schedules @ 866-4941993. I don't think they care about flood control, that would fall on USACE.

That was my thought too, or lip piercings. Found under/on her jaw; might have been a necklace.

But the water will still be warm? And the water will still be stained? Will removal of spotted bass make the stream less fertile? Is there another place where the spotted bass has colonized to the detriment of other black bass, or is this watershed unique in that respect? It was established on page 4 or 5 that no one wants to believe a Fisheries Biologist. (Stupid college grads know nothing and will not say what I want to hear?) Some one on this forum did say that he has studied to be a fish biologist, was it Mocarp?

USACE Little Rock list's that as; Bottom Power Pool: 881.0 http://www.swl-wc.usace.army.mil/pages/data/tabular/htm/tabrock.htm

http://tablerock.uslakes.info/level.asp First site that came up when I searched ' table rock lake level' , looks like valid info, idk.

Quick peek at the net for Indonesia fishing, doesn't mention spotted bass? It did say game-fish so that would explain no carp on the list. Tuna Dog Tooth Trevally Amberjack Grouper Marbrn Swordfish Sailfish Yellowfin Tuna Barracuda Wahoo Mahi-Mahi … etc.

Just looked this up; Winter Pool: 881.00 feet, currently 912.76 It would seem they have ways to go, down 0.15' from yesterday, at that rate it will take 211 days to reach winter levels. Years ago I was told that (at least on the lake I asked about) generation depended directly on usage, colder weather means lots more usage and billions of idiotic decorative lights mean more usage, so that was my first though as to why. But, it's possible they just want to jack with the fishermen and boat people.