Ryan Miloshewski

I was too busy doing the cooking! Next time I won't disappoint you or @Johnsfolly

Didn't take any pics because it didn't last, but turkey camp this weekend had my cousin, grandpa and buddy Dave down. Friday night we did prime ribeyes, asparagus and portobella shrooms on the grill. Breakfast was hog jowl, regular bacon, fried eggs, deer sausage gravy and homemade biscuits Saturday and Sunday. Saturday night I fried walleye and crappie I caught this spring with fried taters and onions. Dessert was a peach dump cake I made. Warmed it up on the cast iron fireplace. Didn't get a turkey (came very close) but truly a heavenly weekend with the food. I'll take pics next time!

It was within 5 min of me sending the pic that you shot yours, another buddy sent me a pic of his, and another 10 min later with his. It was like 8:30 hit and it was on. @Seth and I finally got to have our dinner date, too. We went to Rich's in Owensville. First time and it was darn good. Great job by all. Missouri sure is bouncing back nicely with it's turkeys. I would have no problem taking 3-4 birds total on the place I hunt this year. And even 2-3 years ago I'd say one was max.

Guess I'll add on. I haven't shot a bird on the opener since 2019. It's always second day or the hellscape of the last weekend with the ticks and other biting fauna. Sat up on the far east end of the property as I have been seeing a lot on camera there. It was windy as can be and cold for the first couple of hours. I finally heard a gobble on the far west part of the property. I called, but I knew with the west wind I could not be heard. So I left everything but my gun and mouth call and made the trek. I figured he'd head down the gravel road that leads into a nice, calm spot. I called sparingly, waited, and repeated a couple times. Nada. Finally got to where I thought he'd be headed, sat down and called. Nothing. As any good turkey hunter does, I stayed put, even though I was wondering if I'd bumped him. About 10 min later I hear "pffffttt" about 75 yds away. Then I saw the fan. He was strutting down the gravel road I figured he'd take, just being silent about it. I let him get to 35 yds. 11.5" beard, 24 lbs, and 1.25" spurs. Really a cool bird. Almost white spurs and a really light color to his fan in spots. Done by 8:35 am. Made a good lunch, napped, and listened to the whip-poor-wils at dark. Went this morning to listen and heard 6 different birds sounding off, and all appeared to have hens. I will be back the first weekend in May to try and tag out.

Really sucks. Started as prostate cancer in July 2023 and he was doing fairly well. He fell and hit his head while deer hunting this past season and when they did the CT scan to check they found tumors all in his brain.

I will be down Saturday for Chuck's memorial. I think he'd be ok with it if I fished before and after. See you then, Phil.

Not a marinade, but a great way to do white bass/walleye/drum is to lightly bread it with panko bread crumbs and good parmesan cheese. Mix the cheese and bread crumbs together, coat the fish, bake. It's fantastic for any white, firm fish.

A few turkey nuggets and that's Missouri spring on a plate. You've inspired me. I think I'll catch a few big bluegill Sunday and fry them whole in preparation for opening day.

Burn the reel and bury it somewhere dark, deep and far away from civilization.

People don’t just fly fish for trout. Any folks on here would’ve liked it for sure. It was a great time. We even named @fshndoug Missouri’s state fossil moving forward.

Great story from this trip. Thanks to Marty and Pat for coming. They’re my favorites. But yes that kid traded me a streamer for a streamer. I helped him and his 10 (10!!) year old friend tie some flies. And let me tell ya, they were both talented. I had about two hours of me helping them along. I had my Great Uncle Jack Neporadny teach me when I was their age. So I was all about it. Jack would be proud. And I loved it! Never asked their names. End of the show comes and the one kid comes up “hey Milo, would you trade a fly for a fly?” I said sure thing buddy. He took my most expensive fly and I got his great deceiver pattern. I said “hey what’s your name?” “My name is Jack.” I had chills run up me like I’ve never had before. Jack Neporadny was telling me something. What a great event.

It sucked. They wrangled up all the meth heads and gay people that were there and tried to make it a political statement instead of focusing on the tragedy, and to be honest, much more heroic stories around it.

@Lancer09 let me know if you don't get them tomorrow and I'll just drive down and we can meet to get lunch or something. I am tired of the USPS this year. I could've walked the darn things down there and made it back by now.

Called USPS today. They will be there Saturday. So they say...

I will get them sent out this week. I have been chasing the walleyes and whites, forgive me

Guess we three need to fish together again after our good fortune. Your turn for a 24" in 2026.

Carol's beans would be a great addition to the already amazing food lineup.

Nope, MO. I'm on the good side of State Line.

I went 9 days this winter without sight or sound of a mail truck. And I am in the city. Absolutely asinine. I mailed mine. Let's see how long it takes to go 175 miles.

Call Lilley's Landing if you want to trout fish, they will set your group up with some great guides. Not a bad one amongst their group. For TR, Robbie Dodson, Tim Sainato, Tony Weldele, and Tracy Frenzel are all great options.

Biggest largemouth I've ever seen was on Taneycomo 20 years ago during the spawn. She had to be 12+ lbs. I also found one floating above Bee Creek in 2008 that was huge. It was fairly decomposed, but we weighed it and it was 11.7 lbs. So add whatever live weight to it and it was monstrous.

Ahh, the ol' Sewer Hole as we called it. We, those who stayed and fished down lake, used to fish around there regularly and a lot of big fish were caught. Mike and Cindy Weaver used to stay at Briarwood with us and one evening they caught a 9 lb brown, a 6 lb rainbow and a 8 lb rainbow trolling Lil' Jakes from the MDC dock to the public dock. The bank down from MDC dock to Bee Creek used to be great, too. There used to be some big, big fish down there, but when everything started silting in the trout fishing went downhill fast. In the wood across from the white mansion, my buddy and his wife were fishing it one year. They always used to anchor up and drop a nightcrawler with one white power egg straight down from the boat. His wife had a big fish hit. She fought it and it came to the surface and laid there, right next to the boat. Huge brown. They were in one of the jon boat rentals from Blue Haven and it stretched from one seat to the next, so it was somewhere around 36-inches, (estimating, of course). He didn't bring a net and she tried to maneuver it and the line broke. It sat there for 5 seconds, kicked its tail and away it went. It was in June of 2002 I believe. I had something big hit once doing that exact same thing in 2004 or so. Line tapped, it slowly started moving away and I set the hook. Three massive head shakes and it got me in the timber. I just know it was a huge brown. Still have never felt a head shake like that. Also used to catch a lot of big fish around Bee Creek, even up until 2017, on jerkbaits and Lil' Jakes. On the bluff side and the flat--anywhere around it. I haven't played around down there in years, but I am sure there are still some big fish about.

RAID THE FLYBRARIES!

No worries. I will get them in the mail this week, after today's blizzard

Hey @Lancer09 I will be passing through Nixa Sunday if you are able to meet up so I can give you my flies. If not, no biggie. Also, I will be fishing Taney Sunday if anybody wants to join. I’m off work Monday/Tuesday and fishing the White. Can’t wait to be off work for the first time since November for something fun!