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Congrats Mitch. Best pic of a 20 incher this year.
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Though it has been years since I've seen one, there are apparently still a few around the house; or at least the MDC believes so. They asked our neighbor to participate in a program aimed at improving their habitat by cutting back the brush and overgrown areas to expose more of the glades. I'm fairly certain they did the same thing a few years back in St. Joe Park as well.
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Is that at Palisades? Having a hard time figuring out the location from the pic.
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I don't feel like they are spawning yet as none of the ones I caught Monday sprayed milt when handling them. In my past fishing experiences this time of year that has been a pretty good indicator of whether or not the fish were spawning.
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When I think of how many baits these fish see at certain times of the year and how many of us unknowingly fish the same holes either in front of or behind the others, I am in awe of the smallmouth's resilience. It also shows just how important catch and release fishing is as there have been several "Master Angler" sized fish caught and obviously released from this stretch in the past few days.
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WOW!!! Glad that thing had lost some intensity by the time it rolled through the Lead Belt.
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Don't worry Ham. I am NOT a snake person.
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Had a neat encounter with this guy Friday while mushroom hunting. Got him to hiss, spread out his head and rear up. But I guess we weren't intimidating enough to get him to play dead. Only the second one I've seen in my life. First one was around 1984..... I think.......
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Took advantage of the last day of our district's "spring fever reliever" yesterday and had a good trip. 15 "keepers" all together on various baits. Only three over 15 inches; including these two which were both a smidgen over 18 inches and 3.43 and 3.04 pounds. All the others were 14 inches and under which I'm thinking were mostly males. (?????). Water temp ranged from 68 to almost 70 and was a little off colored possibly from two days of non-stop boat traffic.
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Yup...... And no one living today ever owned a slave or was a slave......Yup.......... Rape and murder?? Yup........ The fault of mean ol' whitey also.............. Especially in the inner city where all the Caucasians live................... Yup.................
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And that was just as wrong and unlawful as the antics of this black lives matter bunch. The difference between the two is that one was eventually prosecuted, and shattered into several smaller groups that are about as vicious as a 15 year old Chihuahua with no teeth. And the other, well..................................................... My apologies for derailing this thread even further.
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Great fish. Congrats.
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Yamaha outboards
Brian Jones replied to Gumboot's topic in Tips & Tricks, Boat Help and Product Review
What year and HP?? If the compression and ignition are good, and the lower unit lube is clean, everything else is fixable. -
Yamaha outboards
Brian Jones replied to Gumboot's topic in Tips & Tricks, Boat Help and Product Review
We're on our third Yamaha. All have been two strokes, ranged between 1985 and 1997 model years and have been jets. Absolute pleasure to own and operate and would recommend one in a heartbeat. Brother in law has a 115 four stroke on his pontoon and it has been as reliable as the two strokes. Plenty of torque to pull a skier out of the water. Enough power to cruise along in the 20's (24 foot pontoon), and crazy easy on gas. I believe his is a 2006 model and he's experienced none of the problems that have been common with the four strokes. -
If it's any consolation, today (Saturday) wasn't any better. Two of us caught maybe 8 "keepers" and only two of them were smallmouth. Biggest of the day was a two pound largemouth. Water temp was almost 59 when we put in and almost 63 when we took out at 2:00 Made it home in time to take a round in the mushroom woods. Fortunately it was much better than the fishing......................
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I love the dude perfect guys. Kicking myself for missing the premier of their TV show on CMT last night.
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Nope. If you want wading water, you'll need to go upstream about 30 miles. Keep in mind the Big is running pretty full right now from the rains that were earlier in the week so wading is going to be problematic in most places IMO.
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Chouteau Claim Access - Greate day for Poor Conditions
Brian Jones replied to BassMaster#1's topic in Meramec River
Not to de-rail this topic further, but I always thought that I was the reason he joined this forum...... You too, Mr. Bigs, for that matter................. -
wading - carrying two rods - any ideas?
Brian Jones replied to hoglaw's topic in General Angling Discussion
That's good advice Joe. I've been racking my brain all winter trying to figure out how to carry at least two rods while wading. And truthfully (like you said) it would be far more trouble trying to pack multiple rods as opposed to just re-tying baits. Thanks for bringing this to light for us more simple minded fellers who are try to drive round pegs in square holes. -
That ol' gal would go a long ways on Beaver. Hope you can put one like that in the livewell.
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Like comparing apples to oranges.
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Depending on your budget, I'd recommend a 1652 or 1752 .100 gauge flat bottom hull (Blazer or Alweld) with mesh flooring, a 60/40 engine of your choice and an 80 plus pound 24 volt trolling motor. That will allow you to run all but the upper sections of the meramec as well as most all of the other Missouri Ozark streams. A lot of people run .080 gauge boats in the 1652 and 1752 models and never have any trouble. But I've also been a little leery of running the lighter gauge. Dents ARE going to happen and I've always felt the extra gauge was worth the weight.
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Both. I've had good luck fishing the area just in front of the riffle with a moving bait of some kind as well as stopping the boat at the top of a riffle, walking down the bank or gravel bar and working the riffle itself by casting a bottom bouncing bait upstream and letting it bounce its way back down river.
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River crappie are frustrating (for me anyhow) to say the least. We catch enough of them every winter to carry extra rods, spend an extra $100 dollars on crappie "stuff", and waste an hour or two of each trip trying to catch the goofy critters. But in reality, out of a dozen or so trips taken each fall/winter/early spring, only a couple are truly fruitful in that we're bringing home enough to clean. Bottom line IMO; they're there in high enough numbers to justify fishing for them. But they are extremely fickle most of the time and will really test your patience.
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We found a corpse on Pelican Island Thanksgiving weekend 2000.
