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How long is this model of canoe? I had a Discovery 169? I think and really liked it. Oh, and I guess I need a PM too on the price please. Thanks.

Wow, that thing looks like a pot bellied pig.

Good luck finding any help there. There's a few people who chime in on reports for there but not many. My first 2 trips down there this year I had a few fish, but the last 2 I've been skunked so who knows. Good luck. Report back if you go fishing, good or bad, thanks.

Oh come on J Fry. Sleeping and fishing on a gravel bar is the best, most comfortable way to camp. You just wait to sleep till you get home. But those places are the best to fish. AWAY FROM PEOPLE.

I'd have to say fishing off the bank at Delaware Town would be challenging considering the amount of people who throw hooks out there. There are catfish in every part of the James river and in good amounts. You'd probably be best off to find an access without an easy boat launch, and then walk or float if you had a canoe to the next good hole of water.

Zander as a matter of fact it's now been 2 trips in a row without a fish. It's really making me ponder why it is I like to fish. Coyote, all I do is fish at night for the most part. I try to get there just a tad before dark and fish as long as they are biting. But the way it's been the last couple trips, I'm not patient enough to fish much more than 1 1/2- 2 hours before I'm really ready to get outta there.

No fish. No bites. Yeah that's about it for me tonight.

Hey JFry I left you a PM at the top of the page.

I'll second that guys. I was down there from 6-8:30 last night. I had 2 bites before dark, figured they were trout or crappie, since they were light bites. I think I seen you Zander fly fishing. I was fishing just below you on the Forsyth side with my wife. I didn't have a single bite after dark. The water wasn't coming over the dam, but it was a little higher than it has been the last couple times I've been, I thought that would help but it didn't. Maybe next time.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your latest Missouri Conservationist Magazine printed the following letter-to-the-editor with no response: "Your February issue has a large helping of ways and means of killing wild animals. The front and back covers give us a glimpse of songbird appreciation, but between the covers it is quite bloody. Even when you write about nurturing quail or other birds or animals, it is with a view to eventually killing them for your own enjoyment or consumption. I can understand that many of your readers relish articles on killing or trapping, but you may be underestimating how many there are of us who disagree quite strongly. Please try for better balance in the future." - MaryAnn Salo, Stockton Does anyone remember a published letter-to-the-editor about how there was never anything in the Conservationist for hunters and trappers? Does anyone think the Conservationist has been or ever was heavy on hunting and trapping (I mean KILLING) articles in the last 10 years? Do you think it was an oversight that the editor of the Missouri Conservationist allowed a letter from a lunatic, that refers to hunting and trapping as KILLING to be published without correction? You have just been insulted by the MDC. Why don't you tell them. Here's the email address: Magazine@mdc.mo.gov

Also try using some soft plastics for them walleye. I know hardly anyone else uses them, but I have very good luck with them, along with stickbaits. Hey JFry, do you fish Powersite very much, I fish fairly often down there and we live close enough to carpool if you're interested. I mainly night fish to avoid the crowds, plus it's better fishing.

Yeah Tightlilne, Clark is a good land trapper. I don't know how much he catches though. I trap the water so we kinda stay out of each others way most of the time. I live in the same town as both of them. Clark does look like a mountain man, he even has a house to match. He has a really neat place.

I've had the same gun that you're wanting Ryan since I was 12 and it's a great gun. I've just about wore it out though. I need a new stock for it. It's excellent for hunting geese and turkeys. Mine is a pump though

Hey Tightline, are you talking about Clark and possibly Roy?

Hey Bill, Me and my dad trapped Taney the same year you and Lilley did. You guys seemed to have done pretty well. We seen several spots like you described where there was a catch circle on the bank, unless that was someone else too possibly. We thought we'd just have tons of otters from all the rumors that we had heard. We ended up with 1 otter and was shocked. There were lots of beaver though in the sloughs. I had thought about trapping lower Taney this year for beaver, otter, and rats but things didn't work out. Maybe next year. Did you guys catch very many fox on Taney? We caught 8 reds and was totally surprised by that.

No I didn't try to catch it, but I did give it a good bug eyed stare. I just figured some clever fisherman had transfered it from Fellows Lake. I guess next time if I see a 3 footer I'll know for sure.

Ok Trav, I'll find somewhere else to trap then.

Hey Trav, I might take you up on that offer. Regular trapping season is over now, but there are a few animals still trapable. Would I be able to leave my boat at your dock? That's one thing if I trap Taneycomo I don't wanna have to haul it back everyday, since it's such a long drive. Do you have many beaver or muskrats around your area? To make it worthwhile I'd need to trap all 3 animals. How far is mile marker 9 from Powersite Dam? Patrick

Thanks for the responses guys, it's appreciated. Slider if you hook me in my ear, you'll have to reel me in and then I might just stay in the boat and fish till I get my limit. So watch your cast.

I know they wouldn't of been stocked, but thought some fisherman might have caught a few out of the lake above Springfield and brought em down. Probably was a pickerel though, it just looked like a muskie.

Thanks for the heads up Lilley. I'll ask.

Does it bug you guys when people float past you in a boat or canoe at the Tablerock Dam. I was thinking about trapping some coon and otters down there below the dam and I just wanted your opinions. The last time I tried it we got "The Look" from flyfishermen who we had to paddle past to get by. Thanks.

I was in a canoe today in Springfield Lake. I've never seen a pickerel so I'm not sure. But anyways, I looked right at the edge of the bank and there was a fish about 1 foot long. It looked just like a Muskie. I know for a fact it wasn't a gar. It's head was big like a muskie and the snout was about 2 inches across all the was to the tip of the nose. Do Pickerel look like this? Opinions appreciated.

I agree with you guys on the gigging problems. I trap on the rivers and I lose traps every year to giggers. But I don't think they should make gigging illegal. That's just one more Outdoors Privelage taken away, when they aren't adding any more to the list. RSbreth I know another problem at the Ozark Park. Otters. I went through there a couple weeks ago and seen 2 bass heads and 1 catfish head on the bank. I caught 3 otters there. Maybe that'll help ya out a little. You guys wouldn't beleive the number of bass I see on the James and Finley rivers that are dead from giggers. Some are just dead and others have been filleted out laying right along side of the suckers. I do a lot of floating during the river so I know the gigging problem just as well, if not better than most of you guys. But just like someone said, you can't catch the people that gig them and shake them off the gig into the water. Only the ones that keep the bass they gig. But then there's gotta be a CO at that access when they come in off the river, at who knows what time. And look at the number off accesses there are. It's pretty much a uncontrollable activity to a point.

Yeah, that old dam above 160 got me and a freind the first time we floated it while trapping. Luckily I was in back and he was in front. It put us at a dead stop while going pretty fast. I ended up in the bottom of the boat and he ended up over the front of the canoe into the water. I was soo shocked I couldn't even laugh at him for a few seconds, lol. That was on the right side of the river as you're going down. Be careful.