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I would love to know if we have any documented Hybrid cottonmouth / copperhead specimens in Missouri....if the venom is different than ether of parents

put out a floating light, get all you want hard to keep alive though

The mental image of a drunk canoeist being chased by 40 snakes makes ROLMAO

hey vern, your no fun had to say hey vern..where is Qwee Qwee these days?

I have trolled a might, more of a minimalist when I can be, caught the biggest channel in my life trolling stockton 12lbs thought it was a blue....

I also hear snakes go nuts on fish on a stringer ESPECIALLY smallmouth bass over 3 lbs!..why I knew a guy looked behind his canoe and 40 snakes was chasing his stringer! every time they stopped they tried to get in with them! was this time of year, best way to avoid snakes DON'T STRING FISH!

I am sure some are around, people being people miss Identify late water snakes often.. found this to be helpful

If you want walleyes, heres a hard to find and as expensive paperback you'll ever buy, now if your after ol marble eyes think dusk and dawn (crepuscular), walleyes have a vision advantage over prey. I found at Stockton after the spawn (late Feb-March) fish scatter then feed heavy in far shallower water than most would think, stick baits like rapala husky jerk. rogues, bomber long A....on rocky points where the wind is blowing in.... start at 4am till 9ish bites done on a sunny day, a cloudy rainy day all day bite! Then again last 2 hours of daylight. after the drop back into deeper water a big juicy crawler is the ticket... drop a big white jig in the lake, when you can't see it anymore, thats the depth you usually find fish steath is key drop a split shot on the boat floor, will stop the bite....hit another spot but come back and hit it later....the wind always at your back is a good idea....if you don't own a drift sock for stockton get one! put a pool float on it to keep it up in the water column.

if you say so..........did you see where we got a trophy carp fishery established in Austin's Texas lady bird lake? (formally town lake) or Lady Bird Lake in Austin, there is a daily limit of one (1) trophy-sized common carp measuring 33 inches or more. you should see the plans we have cooking now! why all kinds of folks having fun screaming drags etc... I am such a bad boy

Euro Carping is only one thing I do,..... I trap, hunt fossils, arrowheads, garden, explore..........here is a pic of a breeding pair of bigfoot(s) shoal creek in 1998....you get my point

cool

post a pic next time you see one... http://newsok.com/article/2269860

NICE! trips like that make people move...lol

Many will be floating this weekend for many its tradition, please be careful, high water and new brush in the water, even changes in where holes , undercut banks etc are... can be deadly. Drinking while floating will be going on, and sad to say there will be people drowned, if you are on the rivers, try and be safe, and keep an eye out for those who may be in harms way take more trash out than you came with...most of all have fun and take pics to share, above all BE SAFE!

from the MDC site https://mdc.mo.gov/conmag/2004/06/cottonmouth-confusion

I have spent enough hours on the water in my 57 years, than many folks, here and where I grew up in the swamps around Mobile Al and SE Mississippi, I have seen ONE cottonmouth in my life here, that was on the north fork of the Spring river in Jasper Co Mo. in low light conditions a slit eyed snake pupil can seem round, if your that close with a cotton mouth you just asking for it! Cotton mouths are hyper aggressive, the flairing of their mouth is a threat display copperheads are our most common Venomous snake, poisonous is disingenuous term...if a peach was poisonous, you eat it and die...if it bit you and you died then its venomous! that little fact cost me a grade point in University never forgot it.... As a note I have seen more timber rattlers than cotton mouths another rare snake here floods do move many critters around, and a 6 foot timber rattler dropping in your lap will get your attention FAST!

copperhead

Cotton mouth

Cotton mouths? those are rare around here, most are most likely northern water snakes

Its not that expensive to get a guide for a 1/2 day, as much $ as one spends for a trip down its worth it, boat out better chance to catch a fish of a life time...thats what Taney can do for you...just saying

I always thought it was delayed spawn stress allowing a virus, that and an old white bass is 5 years.... sooner than later a year class will croak

we used to fish for white and crappie under lights near Big M, always dropped a big minnow on the bottom would pick up a couple big trout never under 4 pounds, have not fished that way for years bet some monsters are down there after all the last few years floods

Big bone river old name for pomme before the dam http://www.mosaicsciencemagazine.org/pdf/m06_02_75_04.pdf

another big find near stockton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Eddy_Site