MoCarp

NOPE but leaving 100's of dead fish to stink up the lake isn't cool...imagine what it would be like if under your deer stand 100 guys took a dump after eating 10 plates of ghost pepper fajitas at Mexically Joe's buffet all you can eat night... even worse a school of corn eye brown trout floating past your float tube

Maybe because I am just old enough to see how much things have changed, in 1970 Ozark, Missouri had a population of 2384 in 1980 it was 2980 took 10 years to jump about 600 people...now its almost 20k...Our population in this part of the country is getting to the point we can't afford to allow the small % of people that cause litter, pollution, over harvesting game, or get drunk, cause problems to the general population....at one time I could go to Branson/Silver Dollar City and probably see someone I knew... I lived in San Antonio for about 8 years moving back to Carthage in 2011, I realized when you are anonymous people can and will do things they might not if someone knows them. I can't remember ever going anywhere seeing anyone I or my Wife (who lived there all of her life) that we ever knew...ever..... This area's water using population, has been blessed,...with in a reasonable drive from my home in Carthage, Mo...we have Grand Lake, Beaver, Table Rock, Taneycomo, Bullshoals Stockton, Truman, Lake of the Ozarks, not counting Trout parks and the many many Floatable/wade-able rivers/creeks..... Outdoor using population was spread out. I have seen the newly in this country devastate the places I used to wade fish a short drive from my home, They being used to subsisting living, didn't understand that pound and a half Smallee he caught on a pop can wrapped with fishing line using a hook/shot and worm he dug, was more than a meal to those who have grew up fishing here. I used to fish over 300 days a year, if we fished LOZ and got tired of fishing, we buzzed past the party cove to see busty co-eds looking for Mr $ to get their MRS degree. We knew if you hit the main lake on Grand you had to watch for the big Cruiser yacht's wakes that would submarine almost any Bass boat long after they passed. You fished Table rock early in the year before the lake got warm enough for the water sports folks came out in force. You could fish down lake on Taney and catch huge bass most never ever knew where there and never see more than a handful of people fishing even on a weekend in May...Then there was Stockton(except for the hand full of sailboats) was a fishing lake most times too rough to water ski..(got a bit more when PWC became popular)...It was by design a fishing lake, restrictions on boat docks and limited ownership of lakeshore property...on a late July night, I could fish and see the stars like I was in a planetarium. Catch monster Smallmouth and walleyes, and hear sounds that carried across the water at night.. I guess what I am saying is hearing drunks party, and wanna be Musicians butcher their cover of Sweet Home Alabama clear to point 6 on Stockton.... or a Jet boat tour blasting past like a Miss Budweiser unlimited hydroplane is the straws that broke the camels back

Not at the time, Just when he is on duty driving a squad car

got me there

True.... but it makes me feel better Perhaps, but the days of politicians getting rich off special interests with out consequences iis changing regardless of what party Most Liberals still just don''t get it... in the drive by media or otherwise, the reason we have a new President (who is an A-HOLE) is because we NEEDED someone to be an A-HOLE for the bulk of Americans, tired of the entrenched "royalty" be it the uber rich, Hollywood elitists and deep state politicians, who are out of touch with what the bulk of what Americans want....

I always wonder if when they go thru an area at night if it runs fish off....I know the state found out at stockton shocking fish (walleyes) would run them off spawning areas. ok I owe you a marked spot "s" on a map pic a lake TR/Stockton..and a species

Ill share an awesome fishing spot or 4 at Stockton or TR IF you keep it to yourself.....

wanna bet.....

a few years ago new mussel harvest regulations were enacted in Missouri because they were getting over harvested for the production of seed pearls for the cultured pearl industry......fresh water clams get their shells ground into spheres and placed into pearl oysters.....that coat the irritant with mother of pearl.... and get harvested for cultured pearls

I understand drunk chicks in swim suits are a huge draw...I get that.. if someone wants to chase chicks at the bar great I don't have to go....if you don't want to fish great don't go....but now I am forced to go to the bar, so-to-speak... if I fish Stockton.......If thats what people want go to LOZ...... I am FAR from a social justice warrior, I am a card carrying, gun toting, church going, voting conservative.. The big city liberal life style, (see LOZ)... is why people like me got "Trumped off" and are not going to take it anymore....I don't have to like A-morality, or rainbow gender neutral mamby pambyness...I am not giving up tradtional hunting, fishing, trapping and the love of the outdoors with out a fight and many off "us" feel that way the trends of "Industrialized Outdoor Activities" creates lake Havasu, LOZ TR...dragging Taney with it are screaming in that direction....... Getting off my soap box now

I sorry if my "lake user group" gets Trumped off at YOUR user group....just because YOU like getting your bar fix @ Stockton, and sometimes go fishing, some of "My lake user group" is WAY WAY more serious about fishing...doesn't mean new laws can't get brought about.....I bet the rare Ospery and Bald Eagles get "disturbed" off the nest and need some protecting from "excessive" night nose that makes the birds abandon their chicks, I think I am on to something here, I bet loud generators and bright lights on boat fishing boats fall into "disturbed" category...... http://www.snh.org.uk/pdfs/strategy/renewables/birdsd.pdf

Did you notice if you caught more or less fish coming in behind the area bow fished?

Or I can start at revolution to get some new regs.....perhaps get the "we don't want cabin cruiser wake" people all together.... grass roots moment

I heard from a friend that said, it blew past them WAY faster than 30mph.......and knocked the cooler off the boat seat...granted it was a aluminum boat with just a tiller 25.......Told him to vid it next time he went out...

Some of us fish for the biggest fish of a lifetime.....

Check for arrow holes........its that time of year.....found a huge brown floating on Taney once, should have kept it for the warden

if you chum about a 1/2 golf ball worth of 'gots up current and let them drift down the trout will go nuts, ...using the clip and "hair rigging" will keep from gut hooking fish...a plastic "maggot" rigged on a jig work as well, just put them in the live ones overnight. the "ball of maggots" in real or plastic form will temp even the most discriminating monster trout....

Big Carp Tackle is where I got mine,... they import Carp "kit" as the Brits call it from the UK,.... they are out of Oklahoma....prob others online..... just be carful where they ship from or it will spend 6 months in customs...something about the word "clip" and its made of metal can set off metal detectors..... makes customs twitchy... I ordered some beta lights once from a supplier in England (used for carp fishing bite indication at night see pic) I did this pre-9-11...I can't imagine who would be knocking on your door when you set off the radiological detectors when they landed in the USA today, prob get a night in the pokey and cavity searched....come to think of it kinda creepy to think how the term "pokey" came about for jail anyways "Beta Lights" "Tritium emits electrons through beta decay, and, when they interact with a phosphor material, fluorescent light is created, a process called radio luminescence."

Bass boats blasting off at daylight doesn't go on for hours n hours, typically not drunk being stupid, and they are trying to fish, have had guys trolling motor right past me, was quiet as a duck swimming, I can live with that.....50 foot power yachts blasting 6 foot waves....hate it...sail boat folks don't like it so much ether....new rules are coming you can feel it.....

did i tell you it works on picky fish?

you can use other things with the clips red worms..corn, but chumming with maggots won't be harmfull

even have plastic options too

chumming them, is easier with the right tools, raising your own makes it affordable also a self-defence option! a fist full of juicy 'gots right in the pie hole will make even the most belligerent person back off!

hooking them them