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Did you see the big bow at cardiac or was it in the park, I would be happy to fish cardiac but I am taking my brother with me and he looses interest if he doesn't catch fish. Has anyone been fished cardiac lately.

Wow its that bad would I be better off heading to Cardiac

I am heading down to the park this sunday for some RR anyone else going.

I am planning on heading down to cardiac in the next week or so and I was wondering if anyone had been down there.

Here is a report from KMOX's website about the incident here is the link. Please MDC change your press release, it kinda makes me wonder what else they fall to report http://www.kmox.com/pages/1351642.php?cont...ntentId=1283535

Thank for the reply's everyone and keep em coming I havent been able to get down there since July because of wedding planning and a vacation but now that gas prices are dropping I am gonna start heading down on my days off.

Improving hunting safety increasingly difficult The “low-hanging fruit” was plucked in early – and highly successful – efforts to reduce the number of firearms-related hunting accidents. JEFFERSON CITY—Hunter-education instructors have tough jobs. The more they succeed, the harder their job becomes. “We have come such a long way in the past 20 years, it hardly leaves us anywhere to go,” said Tony Legg, hunter education coordinator for the Missouri Department of Conservation. Legg notes that in the bad old days of hunting safety, Missouri routinely recorded more firearms deer-hunting accidents in one day than occur now over the entire season. “The worst year was 1986,” said Legg. “We had 26 accidents that year, including one fatality. There were 10 accidents just on the opening weekend.” A big part of the reason for the large number of deer-hunting accidents that year was sheer numbers of both deer and hunters. Missouri’s firearms deer harvest topped 100,000 for the first time in 1986, and approximately 400,000 hunters took advantage of the growing deer herd. Responding to the challenge of making hunting safer, the Conservation Commission made hunter education mandatory in 1988, requiring anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 1967, to complete an approved safety and ethics course before buying a hunting permit. The results have been spectacular. From 1980 through 1989, Missouri averaged 16.8 firearm-related deer hunting accidents per season. Over the past 10 years, the average has been 8.6. Last year Missouri recorded just four firearms-related deer hunting accidents, none fatal. " The contrast is even more striking when you consider that Missouri had a nine-day firearms deer hunting season in 1986 and hunters killed 103,000 deer. Last year firearms deer hunting, including the muzzleloader season, spanned 36 days, and the harvest topped 260,000. “I certainly appreciate the difference between a sprained ankle and a gunshot wound,” said Legg, but the fact remains that more than 400,000 hunters spent millions of hours hunting deer in Missouri last year with only four gun-related accidents. That is a remarkable safety record. Three out of last year’s four deer hunting accidents involved self-inflicted gunshots. Such accidents frequently happen when firearms are being loaded or unloaded or when people bring loaded firearms into vehicles. Firearms with exposed hammers are involved in a large portion of self-inflicted injuries because they catch on clothing or other items and fall on the firing pin, causing unintentional discharges. Nearly all these accidents could be prevented by ensuring that firearms are always pointed in a safe direction. -Jim Low- This was a press release that Jim Low put out on Friday Oct 16th, but his facts are not currect there actually was a FATALITY last year during the muzzleloader season in fact it was my BROTHER IN-LAW. I did edit out the advertising for a local man in this article because I don't feel he or the MDC deserve the free plug.

Has anyone been down to cardiac lately, I am planning on going down in a week or so and was wonding if the browns have made any appearances down there

Here is the MDC stocking hotline # (636)300-9651, they useally list the catfish stocking on that number but in the winter months they list the trout stocking. For catsfish the tell what lakes and how many pounds.

I found this on Feather Crafters Website www.feather-craft.com Ed Story, my dad, passed away on Monday, August 4th. Ed was a U.S. Army veteran, owner and founder of Feather-Craft Fly Fishing, teacher and friend to many. Ed created the F-C Crackleback Dry Woolly and dozens of other world famous fresh and saltwater fly patterns. Everyone who met Ed would quickly consider him a friend. If you happened to run into him walking through our St. Louis storefront, he'd smile, shake your hand and ask, "How can I help?" Chances are ten minutes later he had you on the casting yard or at the tying bench giving you a personal lesson. He had a dynamic personality and a boundless energy for spreading the joy of fly fishing. His energy was also felt by thousands of his customers/friends that he advised and mentored over the F-C phone lines for over three decades. He loved teaching and talking about fly fishing almost as much as he loved doing it. My dad and I have been best friends and business partners since I was twelve years old; working side by side the past 28 years we never had one argument. He was loaded with wisdom that applied to both business and life. "Be nice to everybody" was his favorite advice to give, and exactly the way he lived his life. When he began handing me the reigns to the family business almost a decade ago, he knew that he had instilled in me his commitment, compassion, spirit and enthusiasm for fly fishing, and for Feather-Craft. All of us here at Feather-Craft will miss Ed terribly, but we will continue on with the highest level of service and commitment to our customers and to our sport, just as he wanted. The Story family has initiated the "Ed Story Memorial Fund" that will benefit a restoration project on one of Ed's favorite Missouri trout streams. Our hope is to spearhead a significant project that can be dedicated in his memory. Any donations can be sent to: Ed Story Memorial Fund c/o Feather-Craft PO Box 19904 St. Louis, MO 63144 Sincerely, Bob Story

Well its not for me its actually for my little brother, he just moved upto Minnisota and is wanting to try and find some trout waters to fish he heard about the Apple River, Willow River, and sorry for bad spelling but its called the Kinnickinnic River does anyone know of any access points or even know where the best fishing spots are.

I am not a Cardiac Hil expert by any means but I have fished there twice so far and I have found that the aluminum trout that come through have actually helped produce some fish for me. I haven't been down there on the weekends I tend to go down during the week but I will say this it is a real nice place to find some fat stream raised trout.

Is it the JR trekker and does it have a ped base or c clamp

I have an old sit on top kayak it is a little heavey and would need a little tlc it has a small leak in it from missuse before I got it but I recaulked the edges and think with a little epoxy paint on the bottom should fix the leak. I have fisshed on it once all day down at LOTO and it very comfortable I want to get rid of it because I am trying to get a white water kayak if you would like I can get you pics of it. Here is my email addy if your interested btutt63123@yahoo.com

I was just down at Montauk last weekend and the water was a little off color but only because it rained every other day. I had my best luck in the morning drifting scuds through the riffles and woolly buggers laters in the day. I only made it outside the park saturday evening and did real well running 1/100 thread jigs about 3ft deep through the hole outside the park, but I wish I had some BIG chernobyl ants to run dropers off as soon as the sun started going down I just couldn't keep the fish off my indicator that I was using. The stream is in very good shape lost of down trees to hold lots of big fish, it is wadeable

Ah I remeber catching those clawed mudbugs growing up in the county, we just took a window screen out ( I hope my mom doesn't read this) and would remove it from the frame and fold it in half and staple the three open ends closed but would leave a little hole in the front and would just throw it in the stream with bacon in it.

Has anyone used Bass Pro Shops Finley River Waders, yesterday I went shopping with my fience' for my five anneversery gift for myself and since my recent car accident I have been in physical therapy for a back injury and I decided I would try using stocking foot wader to take some of the presure off my back and after spending $160 dollers on a pair of good polorized sunglasses she said my limit was $200 I decided to do some looking around and found the Finley River stocking foot waders that were only like $50 dollers at BPS in St Louis. I was wonder if anyone has used them, they have been getting good reviews on there website but I don't trust there reviewers because I wonder how many work for BPS. Let me know what you guys and gals think.

its sounds like I don't want to tempt this trip unless I have someone else to tak with me sounds kinda crazy just to get to this spot.

I have fished up there a couple of times its alright it looks like a good crappie lake but I never had good luck. I would tell say if you like to catch gar on a flyrod fish the creek that flows into the meramec there kinda fun to catch.

I just heard about this place a couple days ago and I don't know how to get there, and further more how the trout fishing has been since all the flooding. I am planning on heading that way next sunday with plans of going to meramec springs but would really like to give cardiac a shot just because I don't mix very well with the bait chuckers. Could someone give me directions to get to cardiac from st louis, or is the river still cloudy and high. Please help

I was just on missouritrouthunter.com and Walt has a link to the water level gauges on there and it said the the a gauge was at 15 ft

I was just down there on monday and the river was a little higher then what I was used to seeing and I kept saying if the get anymore rain there gonna be some big problems but if I remember right that gauge goes upto like 3 or 4 feet but I can be wrong .

South County here also

Hey noluck if you wanna make a day of it and head down there next week let me know

Nope I don't have a goto fly picked out yet but when I goto Montauk I do very well on elk hair caddis so much so that I tied 4 dozen of them but I am leaning towards the scud pattern now. But if anyone catches the fish that has my fly and about a foot of my tippit please return my fly