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ME AND MY 11 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER MADE OUR WAY TO THE WOODS THIS WEEKEND. SATUARDAY WAS KIND OF FOGGY ON THE START. WE HADNT BEEN SITTING VERY LONG WHEN I SAW HIM. I TOLD MEKAYLA TO GET READY WHEN I MOVED HER TRIPOD THAT SHE USES FORE A REST I DRUG IT ACROSS HER BOOTE AND HE HEARED IT AND PICKED US OUT IMEDIELY. WHILE I WATCHED TO SEE WHAT HE WAS ABOUT TO DO SHE COUNTED POINTS. 10 POINTS! SNORT AND HE WAS GONE. THE REST OF THE MORNING WAS A BUST BUT SHE DID GET TO SEE A BIG BUCK. THIS MORNING WE WERE BACK AT IT AGAIN. ABOUT 8:30 SHE SPOTED A DEER AND POINTED IT OUT TO ME I TOLD HER TO GET READY, AS HE MOVED OUT OR THE FIELD INTO THE BRUSH WHERE WE WERE SHE PUT THE ONE SHOT ON HIM. A NECK SHOT AND DOWN HE WENT. IT WASNT THE 10 POINT BUT WAS HIS LITTLE BROTHER A 6 POINT. SHE WAS TICKLED WITH IT ANYWAY. SHE JABERED ALL THE WAY HOME ABOUT IT. THIS WAS HER FIRST ANTLERED DEER. SHE KILLED A BUTTONHEAD YEAR BEFORE LAST. WE HAD TENDERLOIN FORE SUPPER TONIGHT AND IT WAS GREAT. SLIDER

ME AND MY BROTHERINLAW WAS AT THE DAM THURSDAY NIGHTAND YOU COULDNT KEEP FROM CATCHING FISH. WE GOT THERE EARLY AROUND 6:00 AND STARTED CATCHING SMALL HYBRYDS AS SOON AS WE GOT THERE. I HAD 1 WALLEYE 22 INCH JUST BEFORE DARK. JUST ABOUT DARK WE PUT ON BEETLES AND WERE DONE WITH OUR LIMIT BY 8:OO. WE STAYED AND FISHED ON THE NORTH SIDE UNTIL ABOUT 9:00 AND CAUGHT FISH ONE RIGHT AFTER ANOTHER. WE WENT TO WALMART FORE ICE AND LOAFED AROUND FORE A WHILE. WE GOT TO THE SOUTH SIDE AND STARTED CATHING FISH THE SAME WAY. I DID MANAGE TO CATCH A FEW CRAPPIE. AT MIDNIGHT STARTED OUR FRIDAY CATCH AND I WAS DONE AT 1:00. WE FISHED UNTIL AROUND 2:00 AND CAME HOME. HAD 60 WHITES 20 CRAPPIE AND 1 WALLEYE. WE KIND OF LOST TRACK BUT FIGURED WE CAUGHT 150-175 FISH. THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME I EVER HAD CAUGHT ENOUGH FISH THAT MY ARM WAS SORE! IF YOU GO BE SURE AND WATCH OUT FORE THE RACOONS BOBBY WAS HEADING OUT WITH HIS FISH AND ONE GOT HOLD OF ONE OF HIS FISH ON HIS STRINGER WHILE HE WAS WAS WALKING OVER TO ME IT GROWLED GREAT BIG AND BOBBY DROPED HIS FISH AND HAD TO ROCK IT AWAY FROM HIS STRINGER. SLIDER

WE HAVE BEAN CATCHING A FEW WALLEYE BELOW THE DAM. IT REALLY PICKS UP DOWN THERE AROUND FEB. AND MARCH. SLIDER

GOOD BUNCH OF FISH. YOUR CAT WAS BIGGER THAN THE 2 THAT CAME HOME WITH US. WE HAD A FISHFRY SAT. AND THE CATFISH, CRAPPIE, AND WHITES WERE GREAT. HOPE YOUR BROTHER IS DOING BETTER, LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AT THE DAM AGAIN. DID YOU FISH AROUND THE SAME SPOTS ON FRIDAY? SLIDER

MY LAST POST GOT POSTED IN THE LAKE TANEYCOMO SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT THE TRUMAN TAILRACE. MUST HAVE BEEN HALF ASLEEP FROM A LATE NIGHT. SLIDER

MADE ANOTHER TRIP TO THE DAM LAST NIGHT. FISHING WAS A LITTLE SLOW. MY GOUUP OF 4 CAUGHT AROUND 40 FISH. ABOUT THE SAME AS ALWAYS HALF WHITES HALF CRAPPIE 2 FLATHEADS. I SAW BITTLE HE LOOKED LIKE HE WAS HAVING A FAIRLY GOOD NIGHT, ILL LET HIM TELL ABOUT HIS BIG CAT. WAS NICE TO MEET YOU BITTLE. SLIDER

VONREED: I HAVENT BEEN FISHING ANY BEFORRE DARK SINCE THE WEATHER GOT HOT. ALWAYS BEFORE THAT JUST ABOUT THE TIME THE SUN GOES BEHIND THE DAM YOU COULD START CATCHING CRAPPIE ON SLIDERS OR SWIMMING MINNOWS. WHITE OR PEARL AND THEN SWITCH TO A SMOKE JUST BEFORE DARK. ABOUT THAT TIME THE WHITES START TO MOVE IN. THATS WHEN WE SWITCH TO THE BEETLE. I TALKED TO MY BROTHERINLAW TODAY HE WAS UP THERE FRIDAY AND FISHED IN THE AFTERNOON DIDNT START CATCHING ANYTHING UNTIL JUST BEFORE DARK. SAID HE HAD 11 WHITES 2 CRAPPIE AND 1 17 INCH WALLEYE ALL ON PURPLE BEETLES. IT WOULDNT KEEP ME FROM TRYING THOUGH I HAVE DONE WELL DURING THE DAY BEFORE, I JUST DO BETTER AFTER DARK. HOPE THIS HELPS. SLIDER

BITTLE , SORRY BUT WORK IS CALLING ME SO I WONT BE ABLE TO MAKE IT TONIGHT. HOPE YOU CATCH A BUNCH. I PLAN ON GOING THURSDAY THOUGH. SLIDER

WENT TO THE DAM LAST NIGHT WASNT AS CROWEDED AS LAST SAT. NIGHT. 4 OF US WENT AND BROUGHT HOME AROUND 100 OR SO FISH. CRAPPIE AND WHITES 1 WALLEYE. FISHING WAS A LITTLE SLOWER THAN IT HAS BEEN THE LAST COUPLE OF TIMES. FISHED ON THE SOUTH SIDE, AT TIMES I WISHED I WAS ON THE OTHER SIDE. GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE, IF I WERE OVER THERE I MIGHT HAVE WANTED TO BE ON THE OTHER SIDE! CAGHT EVERY THING ON BEETLES. SLIDER

SORRY ABOUT MY LAST POST EAST AND WEST SHOULD BE REVERSED. IT IS REALLY NORTH AND SOUTH TO ME! SLIDER

BITTLE, I FISH BOTH SIDES DONT, REALLY HAVE ANY HONEY HOLES. IF IM ON THE EAST SIDE I FISH FROM JUST BELLOW THE BATHROOM UP TO THE FENCE ON THE WEST SIDE ABOVE THE HANDYCAP PIER TO THE FENCE.I MOSTLY LOOK FORE A GOOD FLAT ROCK TO STAND ON, AND BELIEVE ME THEY ARE HARD TO FIND. I DIDNT GO LAST NIGHT BUT MIGHT GO SOMETIME THIS WEEKEND. JUST STAY ON THE MOVE UNTIL YOU FIND FISH IS THE MAIN THING I CAN TELL YOU. GOOD LUCK AND LET US KNOW HOW YOU DONE. SLIDER

VINCE, IT IS THE BODY AND JIGHEAD FROM A BEETLESPIN. THE COLER WE USE MOST ARE PURPLE, BLACK, AND BLUE. THE BLUE WE DYE WITH GARLIC DIP AND DYE IN BLUE. I HAVE MIXED SOME RED AND BLUE AND MADE A REAL DEEP PURPLE, I DONT THINK IT MAKES MUCH DIFFERENCE IN THE COLOR IF YOU ARE FISHING AT NIGHT, JUST MAKE SURE ITS A NIGHT TIME COLER LIKE THE ONES I HAVE MENTIONED. IF IM BUMPIG THE BOTTEM WITH 16OZ I WILL GO TO A 32OZ JIGHEAD. THE SLOWER I CAN FISH THEM THE BETTER I LIKE IT. I HAVE TRIED WHITE AND CHARTROUSE DURING THE DAY AND HAD SOME LUCK. BUT I FISH MOSTLY AT NIGHT. HOPE THIS HAS HELPED YOU. GF GOOD TO HEAR FROM YOU AGAIN. I DID CATCH 1 WALLY ABOUT 20 IN. A GUY BESIDE ME CAUGHT ONE A LITTLE LATER ABOUT THE SAME SIZE. VONREED YOU HIT IT RIGHT ON THE MONEY. SLIDER

WE DID CATCH A LOT OF SHORT CRAPPIE. USUALLY THIS TIME OF YEAR THATS ALL WE CATCH 6 TO 8 INCH. YOU CATCH 3 TO 4 SHORT FISH TO EVERY KEEPER. IT DOES KEEP YOU RELING IN FISH ALL THE TIME THOUGH.

THE PHONE RANG AND THE CALLER I.D. READ HARRY TREECE. I LOOKED AT MY WIFE AND SHE JUST WAVED! OF TO WARSAW AGAIN THIS WAS MY FIRST TRIP ON A SATUARDAY DIDNT KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT. PICKED UP MIKE AND CLINT AND OF WE WENT. GOT TO THE DAM ABOUT 9:15 STARTED CATCHING FISH SOON AS WE GOT THERE. DIDNT GET TO FISH ALL TOGETHER AS THERE WERE SO MANY PEOPLE. EVERYBODY DID QUIT WELL CAME HOME AROUND 3:00 WITH ABOUT 120- 130 FISH. ALL THE FISH WERE CAUGHT ON BEETLES. DID MANAGE TO CATCH A WALLEYE ABOUT 21 INCHES. SLIDER

THURSDAY NIGHT AGAIN. ME AND 3 OTHERS FROM WORK WERE AT WARSAW LAST NIGHT. HAD A PREATY GOOD NIGHT AROUND 80 FISH. ABOUT HALF CRAPPIE THE OTHER WHITES. ALL CAUGHT ON PURPLE OR BLUE BEETLES. TIGHTLINE TOOK A COUPLE OF PICTURES THAT HE WILL PROBABLE POST LATER. HE HAD A TRIP PLANED FORE TANEY THIS MORNING, PROBABLE CATCHING THE FIRE OUT OF THEM LIKE ALWAYS. SLIDER

THANKS TIGHTLINE, IM KINDA NEW AT THIS AND DONT KNOW ALL THAT MUCH ABOUT IT. JUST HOW TO FISH MOSTLY. SORRY IF IM GOING ABOUT IT WRONG! I DID THINK THIS WAS A FISHING FORUM AND NOT A GRAMMER CLASS! I JUST READ LEONARDS POST TODAY AND ALL OF HIS LETTERS WERE LOWER CASE. DOES THAT MEAN HE IS WHISPERING? IF ANY BODY HAS A GRIP PLEASE LET ME KNOW I JUST WANT TO DO WHATS RIGHT. IF NOT HORNEYHEAD YOU DONT HAVE TO READ THEM. SLIDER :

OUR THURSDAY NIGHT TRIP WAS MORE FUN FORE SOME THAN OTHERS. 2 OF OUR GUYS GOT TICKETED FORE LITTERING. THIS IS THE THIRD TIME WE HAVE BEEN CHECKED THIS YEAR. SO IF YOU GO TO THE DAM BE SURE TO GO BY THE LAWS AND PICK UP YOUR TRASH! ONE THING I CANT FIGURE OUT ABOUT IT IS EVERY TIME WE HAVE BEEN CHECKED THEY WILL WAIT UNTIL YOU ARE LOADED AND START TO PULL OUT BEFORE THEY STOP TO CHECK YOU. LAST NIGHT I SAW THEM THERE AN HOUR BEFORE WE LEFT AND WARNED THE OTHER 2 THEY WERE THERE. LOOKS LIKE THEY COULD AT LEAST CHECK BEFORE YOU PUT YOUR FISH IN THE COOLER AND ICE THEM DOWN. KIND OF A HASTLE TO DIG YOUR FISH OUT OF THE ICE AND THEN HAVEING TO DIG AROUND IN THE ICE. OH WELL JUST GO BY THE RULES AND YOU ARE ALLRIGHT. WE DID BRING HOME ABOUT 45 CRAPPIE AND 30 WHITES. ALL ON BEETLES. A FUN TRIP. GOT TO FISH WITH MY UNCLE AND COUSIN FOR A WHILE AFTER MIDNIGHT I THINK THE HAD ABOUT THE SAME AS WE DID. SLIDER

SETH: WE DONT USE THE SPINNER WHEN WE FISH WITH A BEETLE JUST THE BEETLE ON A JIGHEAD. IM SURE THEY WOULD WORK THOUGH THEY WOULD BE JUST ABOUT LIKE AN IDIOT PLUG THE ROSTERTAIL. A ROSTERTAIL DOES WORK ALL JOKES ASIDE THAT IS WHAT MY BROTHERINLAW CAUGHT THE 6LB FLATHEAD ON THURSDAY. AS FORE ME I DONT LIKE THE WAY THEY TWIST YOUR LINE, BUT THATS WHAT MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND. SLIDER

HAD THE 3 REAGULARS AND ONE NEW ONE ON THIS TRIP. JEREMY MY FRIENDS SON DIDNT LAST VERY LONG HAD HAD HIS TONSILS OUT TUESDAY AND HE WASNT HIS SELF HE CAUGHT ONE AND WENT ON HOME WITH GRANDMA. HE IS DOING BETTER TODAY SO HE WILL READY NEXT TIME. MY DAUGHTER AND HIS CAUGHT THERE LIMIT AND A FEW TROW BACKS. THE NEW KID WAS OUR PASTORS GRA NANDON HE IS 4 I HELPED HIM CATCH A FEW ALONG WITH GRAMPS. THE KIDS HAD A BIG TIME. LET ME THANK ALL OF THE SPONSERS AND MDC AND ROARING RIVER FORE MAKING THIS A GREAT DAY FORE THE KIDS I THINK I HEARD THEM SAY THERE WERE 1053 KIDS FISHING.SLIDER

SETH SORRY I DIDNT GET TO RESPOND TO YOU BEFORE YOU WENT UP SOUNDS LIKE YOU DID ALRIGHT THOUGH. WE FISHED WITH 16 OZ. AND 32 OZ. JIGHEADS WITH PURPLE BEETLES. WE FISH WITH SWIMING MINNOWS AND SLIDERS IF WE FISH BEFORE DARK BUT MOSTLY PURPLE OR BLACK BEETLES AFTER DARK. SLIDER

MADE OUR USUAL THURSDAY TRIP TO THE DAM AND SAW SOMETHNG WE CANT FIGURE OUT. WOULD LIKE SOME HELP. AROUND 9:30 THERE WAS A SOUND LIKE A 22 SHOT AND SHAD JUMPED OUT OF THE WATER FORE ABOUT 100 YARDS IN A STRATE LINE. MY DAUGHTER WAS WITH ME AND GOT SCARED I TRIED TO JUST FORGET IT AND KEEP HER FISHING. MAYBE 10 TO 15 MINUTES SAME THING HAPPENED AGAIN. I COULDNT FIGURE IT OUT. WE WERENT CATCHING ANY SO WE MOVED DOWN WHERE THE REST OF THE CROWED WAS AND THEY ASKED ME IF I HAD HEARED THE SOUND AND SAW THE SHAD JUMP, THEY HAD SEEN THE SAME THING AS WE DID. THIS MADE THE DISTANCE ABOUT 300 YARDS. WOULD LIKE SOME INFO IF ANYBODY COULD EXPLAIN. WE STARTED CATCHING FISH WHEN WE GOT WITH THE REST OF THE GROUP. I SAW DOITLOOKIT AND HAD A VISIT WITH HIM FORE A WHILE WAS GOOD TO MET HIM. WHEN HE LEFT I TOOK HIS SPOT AND ME AND MY DAUGHTER CAUGHT 14 WHITES AND 3 CRAPPIE WASNT AS GOOD AS LAST WEEK BUT A FUN NIGHT WITH MY GIRL. SHE DID CATCH THE BIG FISH OF THE NIGHT WHEN SHE SNAGED ABOUT A 60 LBS POUND SPOONBILL, SHE FOUGHT IT FORE ABOUT 15 MINUTES UNTIL SHE WOREOUT AND I TOOK OVER JUST ABOUT HAD IT TO THE BANK WHEN THE JIG CAME OUT BUT SHE DID GET A GOOD LOOK AT IT. WHEN WE CAME HOME WE HAD ABOUT 35 TO 40 FISH WITH THE OTHER GUYS THAT WERE ALONG MOSTLY WHITES AND A FEW CRAPPIE 1 6LB FLATHEAD. SLIDER DOITLOOKIT WERE YOU STILL THERE WHEN THE SHAD JUMPED?

BILL: WE FISHED ABOUVE THE HANDYCAP PIER. IF YOU KNOW WHERE THE ROCK PILE IS FROM THERE ALL THE WAY UP TO THE FENCE. THERE WERE TWO GUYS FISHING FORE CATS UP BY THE FENCE AND A FEW OFF THE PIER. WE CAUGHT MOST OF OUR FISH IN 2 INCH PURPLE BEETLES. I DID CATCH 4 ON A 16 OZ JIGHEAD AFTER I HAD MY LIMIT JUST PLAYING AROUND. I DONT KNOW WHY YOU COULDNT CATCH THEM ON A FLYROAD IF YOU COULD ROOLCAST, THE FISH WERNT THAT FAR OUT. I DONT KNOW ABOUT 40-50'. I WOULD HAVE TROUBLE IF I TRIED I NEAD LOTS OF ROOM. I SEE PEOPLE WADING ALL THE TIME EVEN THOUGH IT CLEARLY SAYS NOT TO. IM SURE YOU COULD CATCH THEM ON SWIMMING MINNOWS OR SASSYSHAD ALSO. I THINK WE ARE GOING UP THURSDAY EVENING. I WONT BE THERE UNTIL CLOSE TO DARK. I THINK MY DAUGHTER IS GOING TO GO TRY HER LUCK WITH ME. WE HAVE TO GET HER READY FORE KIDS DAY SAT. AT ROARING RIVER. IF YOU HAVE ANY KIDS THAT IS A HOOT FORE THEM DOWN THERE. HOPE I HAVE ANSWERED YOUR QUESTIONS IF NOT LET ME KNOW. IF YOU COME UP THURSDAY LOOK ME UP ILL BE UP AROUND THE POWER LINE THAT GOES ACROSS THE LAKE OR SOMEWHERE THER E ABOUTS. SLIDER

LEANORD: IM PLANNING ON A TRIP TO WARSAW THURSDAY NIGHT WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU COME ALONG. THE WHITES WERE HITING GOOD LAST WEEK. ANYBODY ELSE IS WELCOME ALONG TO. SLIDER

MADE A TRIP TO THE DAM AT WARSAW THURSDAY, WASNT SURE IF WE COULD TAKE THE HEAT SO WE DIDNT GET THERE UNTIL ABOUT 9:00 IT WAS STILL VERY HOT! STARTED CATCHIG FISH SOON AS WE GOT THERE. TOOK JUST A LITTLE OVER AN HOUR TO CATCH A LIMIT OF GOOD WHITES. HATED TO STOP. WE WENT TO TOWN AND BOUGHT SOME ICE AND ICED THEM DOWN AND LOAFED AROUND UNTIL MIDNIGHT AND STARTED A NEW DAY WENT BACK TO THE SAME SPOT AND SAME START AS BEFORE, JUST A LITTLE SLOWER. ABOUT 1:00 THE BLEW THE HORN IT SCARED ME SO BAD I JUMPED. MUST HAVE SCARED THE FISH TO THEY SEAMED TO QUITE BITING. MOVED AROUND A LITTLE AND STARTED CATCHING FISH AGAIN. FINISHED AROUND 2:00. WE WOUND UP WITH 60 WHITES 1 CRAPPIE AND 2 SMALL CATS. WHEN WE STARTED HOME I WAS STILL SWEATING THOUGH. IF IT HADNT BEEN FORE CATCHING FISH SO QUICK SURLLEY WOULD HAVE MELTED! SLIDER

CHEIF: TIGHTLINE GOT ME TO USING IT A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO I YOUSED MY FIRST SPOOL FORE 2 YEARS AND WHAT WAS LEFT WAS STILL GOOD EXCEPT I HAD TIED ON SO MUCH IT WASNT MUCH LEFT ON THE SPOOL SO I REITIRED IT. THIS YEAR I TRIED THE NEW CRYSTAL IN 4 LB. I DIDNT LIKE IT AS WELL AS I DID THE 6. I DID BREAK IT OF A FEW TIMES. THE LAST SPOOL WAS 6 IN THE CRYSTAL AND I LOVE IT. THE ONLY THING I DONT LIKE IS I HAVE A HARD TIME WHEN I SET THE HOOK ON CRAPPIE I DO JERK IT THREW THEM. I WANTED THE LINE TO FISH AT WARSAW YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU MIGHT CATCH A HYBRYD OR A GOOD CAT. DONE BOTH THIS YEAR AND IT WORKED GREAT. LAST TRIP I HOOKED A BIG GAR IN THE TAIL WORKED FORE 20 MINUTES AND FINALLY LANDED IT WITH NO PROBLEMS. HAVE WONDERED ABOUT THE 2 LB TO FISH FORE TROUT. SLIDER