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Lawerance in Sgf. I cannot seem to get a good pic from Wally world, everytime you can see the pixels on the print. So I tried Walgreens 100% better, just the other day while in SGF I dropped the download off at Lawerance, same print and wow the difference is worth the extra drive and effort. I dont like matte prints as I feel you loose details. Plus you can choose so other papers at Lawerance.

Floyd at Bear Skin Marine told me the best thing you can do is grease after each use, this chases the water out with fresh grease. Remove the gasline and run the carb dry each time you use it. Also if storing the motor use foggin oil. The impellor made need sharpening every two years. Unless you run lots of gravel and sand.

I have an 1975 or so Merc 9.8 2 storke, works fine but my back is really bad and its now manual start only. Has a new water pump, new kill switch (merc brand) Bear Skin out the water pump, switch and spark plugs in it about two months ago. I would like $250.00 I cannot find and electric starter for it so I bought a new 15hp Merc EL. Like I said I have a really bad back so must have Elc start. Messege me here if you are interested.

I think its easier to fix than throwing money at it. Why not require one generator to be running 24/7 This power can be diverted to the lines and sent where needed, reducing the amount of coal burned maybe even locally as Jame River plant or the Newark Ar plant. I dont think its for boaters, Years ago I had a 1950 study outlining how BSD would have to be used for the trout project, since the cold water kills of most of the warm water fish.. Somewhere in the National Archives must be the study book. Now back to the boaters, most of the guides know the river and can pretty well move around even in the lowest water we have had lately. Or just move to a hole launch where they can move up river or simply float down river. At low water I can go down stream fromt he BS State park near the first jetty. I see some guides putting in there too. So is flow standrads for the boaters? or is it for the fish to increase the amounts of food available? We all know in the winter shad go thru the turbines, maybe this would increase the shad kill and that will increase the fish eating and growing larger. I know from the past three year I have been heavily pursuing trout I have seen as the shad kill increases and the fish near to the dam slow on feeding that even down river the fish start getting a few shad then more shad and the winter sizes go up a good bit. If flow standards can be funded then studies can be done and rpove or disprove the flow standard theory. John

Roark and Bull Creek. I have fished each twice and caught several bass one almost 4 pounds. I have seen others catch some larger bass in Bull Creek. Bull has lots of big lipped bass too.

Stripers would grow huge but they eat a lot of trout in trout waters. Pike and Muskies would also be bad for Tcomo, in Europe there are many waters where you can catch both but trout fishing does suffer somewhat. Cutts can get along well with with the current fish in Tcomo. Brookies might work but Brookies can be decimated by turbid water. the F-1 hybird Bluegills are a cross with green eared sunfish and the bluegill. they are suppose to be 97% males. I have them in my large pond and am very dissapointed in the growth rate... One fish that might work and its different in the turbid water it can handle is the Europeon Grayling, they can grow larger than the Grayling in the western hemisphere and I have seen creeks and river in Europe that were flooded with muddy water for weeks on end have great populations of grayling. Best leave thing alone, its a tough thing to do when trying to develope and build a fishery. Lake trout did very well in Bull Shoals for a while, but the commison stopped that as well as the striper stocking. Seems they also lowered the rainbows released in the lake too.

We hit the water today again at Bull SHoals State Park, since the rain the bite slowed a good bit, just did not seem to be the fish today like there was on Sunday. We caught several nice bows in the 13-15 inch range, the few fly guys were doing pretty poorly. Water still low and fewer browns in the ready. Most fish were caught on Rapalas CD-3 was the best one in Gold today. Non of the fish were interested in any of the Rooster tails, they would chase but not strike. We had a bit of a breeze that kept moving us up river in the boat, due to the low water we did not go below the first shoal. We found the fish to be in the deeper water and those were biting better than the one in the shallows. Better to on the river fishing thinking about church than in Church thinking about fishing!!! John

TUrned out to be a bent bail, heck if I know how it got bent but it happened, the tech at BOS showed me how to repair it shoud it happen again.. This reel has been wet from a dump in the river, wet from the torential down poors. and this was the first time I had any problems with it, I will buy another Shimano Sahara 2500FB, very good reel for the money. It has probabley 300 hours fishing time on it this year and now its fixed will get another 40 before the first of the year. John

Y'all really dont care you just dont have a clue.

I have a couple husky jerks, I have not done much good on them, but I know others who have. Yesterday I found that a gold with well worn back worked bettr than the new one, so scraped some paint fromt he back and things picked up. I use power baits but did not yesterday and the fishing was great, just darn hard to lanch a boat and not much room to move from that launch ramp area. John

With the water very low we had to work to get the boat in the water, once in we cuaght a lot of fish and most were well over 12" lots and lots of nice fat rainbows. Using shallow diving crank baits, seemed an color was working. We named lures by color and all produced well. Lost a nice brown at the boat and a huge rainbow when it went under the boat. Lots of good browns down stream from the jetty and some tailing. Rain came a went all day, we finally called it quits about 3:30 with well over 50 fish for the two of us. We quit counting at 50. The people fly fishing did not seem to be doing any good. There were some Buffle heads and Shoveler on the river with lots of crapping gulls. Most gulls were down at the first shoals below the park. Just a warning if you dont have 4 wheel drive I don't think you will be able to launch a boat, unless the trailer has full roller bunks. Lots and lots of shallow water holding fish!!!! The best working lure was the CD-7 rapala in Brown trout. worked on a long rod and popped just under the surface. John

I have a hard time using fly rods due to rotator cup problems in the shoulders. Just wondering which spinning reels you like and why. I have use the cheap Avocets by Mitchell and they are good for about a year and then they are done. Shimono(sp) Sahara wore it out too and its not cheap.

Foggy al day with a bit of rain off and on. Where the mid 50s they promised? HOpe Sunday is better, I have the new Merc on the boat and need to fish!

Yea they have Memphis BBQ, not to good IMO, but if you like Memphis its ok. It was Couch's BBQ. If you are down Batesville way east of town toward Moorefield is Cowboys BBQ, they have a kick butt stuffed potato!! I dont know what kind of BBQ it is buts its darn good.

Maybe they are just dispursed better. We had a horse biten by a poisonous snake in 06, he nearly died but is not on the way to recovery. Since we did not see the snake its hard to know or even guess. It was either a Cottonmouth or large rattle snake, due to the space of the fang marks. Since then we have found several cottonmouths in the large pond, which are identified. plus some other fanged snake with keeled scales that I dont find in any book for NA snakes. We have also seen large cottonmouths on White River, I thought White even down at Ranchette would be to cold. A fellow who lives near Pyatt AR has a huge gathering of Copperheads every year. Huge we are talking in the many hundred if not more. Assumed that they gather to breed. On our floats on Buffalo this year we did see fewer banded water snakes, but many Cottonmouths, but the Cottonmouths were back away from the water a bit. Little Buffalo is loaded with Cottonmouths far more than I have seen there back in the early 1980's. Maybe they are moving away from were humans tread. Living back in Newton County Arkansas we see many Copperheads, but I don't know if they are in a reduced population status. Even caught one Copperhead floating the White above Gastons this summer. The snake had swelled up to float. The White at Batesville is loaded with Cottonmouths and my friends who are rice farmers say there is not any shortage of snakes esp. Cottonmouths there. I do know around the place here I expect to see copperheads and have yet to see one, but have several King snakes and three road runners that may contribute to that problem. JOhn

Put a red strip down the center of the house today. I being born in raised mostly here in Arkansas and wife being born at Scabbs in Branson and a Mizzou grad. I guess this is one game we will watch. Yea I think Mizzou will win, but I sure hope not!!! Arkansas seems to start putting things together and then fouls up, hope things get together now. Things have been NUtts for years.

naru, I have not seen real pastrami in the OZarks, here its just a ground proccesed meat. The closest I have found was at a place in Springfield IL. in 2003. I base tmex food on what I ate as a kid out in Colorado,late 1950's thru the mid 1960's, Uncles wife could not speak english when they first married. Plus there were little stands around Denver. Plus what I have eaten in southern Mexico and the Yucatan (not in Cancun or Cozamel either) traveled to Spain several times while in the service its different than mex too. The Gyros over in Europe are awesome, nothing like the dog food they try to serve here in the USA.. Good Basque has Datil pepers in it they have a different flavor!!! I have to agree with the Chinese buffets, just not good Chinese food, its good food but not real Chinese. Next time anyone is in Atlanta try the Atlanta Underground, some really good Veitnamese food. but you Veit vets may not like the place!!! A Veit. era SF soldier took me there a few weeks back.

Mexican villa Sucks!!! Worst crap I have ever tried to eat. I would rather have a Mexican TV diner!! Poor quality and ever poorer service. La Hacienda on Glenstone is tops in the Mexican food dept.

Ate at KT's a few weeks ago and still the same people running it. D&S Boudacious BBQ is the best in the area, Pork Sammich at $6.00 including tax. Its a blue trailer in Harrison just past the north Hwy 65 and B-65 interchange across from Taco bell. Sammich is big!! Try the Gumbo its the best I have eaten.

we fished Wildcat Sunday, not our normal place but with the low water we thought somewhere else would be nice. With the rain falling we hit the river, about 10AM the fish finally started biting, we both caught a lot of fish and one 15 inch Cutthroat. We left as the temps started falling, it was a great day only boat in the area, there were several fly fishing the shoals, so we stayed above the shoals not to bother the fly fisherman. Something I did that was different with the fish, was since the temps dropped I decided to go ahead and throw some ice on them and wait unti yesterday to fillet them. This really firmed the fish nicely and made filleting them so much easier. I cut them like you would a bass and then depedning on size either cut the pin bones out or if smaller fish under 14 inches I will make a cut on each side of the pin bones and when fried the bones are cooked and you dont know they are there. John

Ordered a 15 Hp ES Merc at BPS out the door price was $2550.00 verses the higher $2995.00 to $3195.00 the dealers are asking. Went to J&S and ordered a wider version of their boat, with raised seat on the rear, and some other things a little different. So that raised the price a bit. It will be about three months before I can get the boat If you order now you can get the cheaper price. If anyone is in need of manual start 9.9, BPS has a Mariner for under $1600.00. You don't pay sales taxes on outboard motors in Missouri!!!

Thanks for the information. Does anyone know where Shawnee is located. I tried to google them and stuck out.

Its not just TaneyComo, its the lakes and White River too. I get so tired of the guides who chum with corn, then decide to get in my way on the o ther bank when I am doing drifts in the boat. I will comment on Davy Wooten, he is the most courtious guide I have seen, he has never been close to another boat or even bank fisherman that I have seen. True gentleman in the guide service. My son and I hit taney Tuesday Am and had the same propblems with boats coming in on top of us, its was just because we were catching fish. When someone else is catching fish and you are not, it doe nots mean there are no fish where you are at, it means you need to change your tactics, i.e. lure, depth or something you are doing ain't right. Yea, when guides get to close I tend to say something that should embarass them. if that dont work, you can always make a lot of noise and cast across their lines. I normally keep a rod with a nice large crank bait just for that!!!

We use a lot of bait. What we have found is that the standard small hooks kill a lot of fish. We see this on White River. Eagle Claw makes a Crappie hook that is black in #4 size that has a bend on the shank. We seldom gut hook a fish using this hook. But then we don't leave our rods propped up on rails or the side of boats and use super sensitive rods and 8lb Vanish Florocarbon line. The #4 crappie hook allows you to run your index finger down the line and your finger tip into the bend of the hook, a easy push will remove the hook and your finger tip will act as a guide and remove the hook without damaging the fish. While that should not be the case in the restricted area it could happen.

Thanks John. Yea, I have been looking at new motors and all the four storkes are built by the same plant in China. Yamaha is the only maker that has a 2 stroke and its the 25hp at this time. While in Kansas City a few weeks ago I found a dealer that had all the motors side by side and sure enough they are as he said all Tohatsu built, bolt for bolt the hoods are some different and the shifter Mercs and Mariners have the handle forward/reverse shift. I do remember seeing Mr Berry up at Rim with a boat load of people. I am thinking at lest a 15hp on the wider boat. The jet motor seems like a good idea but I have zero experience with a jet and would like to see how they handle first since the cost is a good bit more. Thanks Taxidermist