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Everyone is invited to attend the inaugural fundraising banquet for the chapter we are starting in South Central Missouri. Price is $45 per person or $65 for couples. Dinner and a year QDMA membership with a subscription to Quality Whitetails included. Doors open at 5:30pm at the Ann Short Turner community center in Mansfield. If you are interested in attending contact: Adam Keith (417)543-4486 Chad Keith (417)543-0724. Or just message me here. There will be the normal auctions, gun and donation raffles, as well as habitat seminars by Adam Keith and Matt Dye of Land and Legacy, as well as at least one MDC presenter.

I'm not sure i agree. Wouldn't you think the better they can see, the better they can identify.

Phil we would have had that boat from texas from both sides if we could have used those darts. I was the guy in the little plastic two man above the tin whistles. We went over to swan not long after you left and there were some people right in the mouth catching the occasional fish, but nobody was really tearing them up. I think i am going back this evening too with waders but I am not sure where I am going.

I was at the stump hole yesterday and from the time i got there till about 11 there was a steady stream of boats putting in. I could see over 20 boats the whole morning, and there were far from the same ones the whole time. I ended up probably catching 15 at least but over half went back in to the water. I heard there were over 100 boats from tecumseh to liner which i wouldn't doubt one bit. This is really just the early run where they run up and down never staying in the same spot, and just scattering all over. I havent heard of anyone catching many walleye either. I have heard the same report about a limit of whites caught above tecumseh, which it sounds like everyone in southwest missouri heard. I think it was just a case of the muddier water from the rain making them make a small run and then coming back down.

Now Jeremy, you know if the wind gets up there too much more than that you are getting up into the walleye whitecap range and not just chop.

I didn't have time to spend search the old posts looking for it. I was just wondering if someone like Al or anyone else could tell me who you are supposed to call about stream disturbances, such as dozing in a streambed. I was told by a friend of some on the gasconade and i wanted to call and see if it was approved, and if not notify someone of it. I remember a post a while back about it because I had also seen some then on Bryant creek and never got around to calling. Anyway thanks for the help.

Hey you might want to call the Forest service office about Big Bay, and make sure you can camp there. At one time it was flooded and i thought like the day use part was all that was out of the water.

I know a guy who carried a bucket half full of rocks for times like those.

Everyone has their own money making scheme on our creeks and rivers no matter the detrimental effects on them. From people mining gravel like that, people cutting all the trees along the banks just to get a few more blades of grass so their cows can eat and erode a bank, or the people who rent 5 million canoes to drunks throwing tons of beercans in the river. Just for a few more dollars in their pockets. Money...the downfall to everything good in life.

That's a nice idea Phil, but i figure the same people who are calling demanding info would just start writing Bill letters demanding info. Thats just the way those kind of people are. They want everything handed to them.

Yeah I will admit to eating a slick more than once while sitting on a lake shore walleye fishing. Jeremy you know as well as i do how boring walleye fishing can be. I can honestly tell you that im pretty sure there is no good way to cook a slick. I dont know the old timers in the depression did it. We fried them in various things, cooked them scaled layed on a pop can, boiled in a can of water, and they were absolutely disgusting every time. But hey it had more to do with peer pressure than anything, and then once we had done it one time everytime we went and got bored the subject came up again.

Speaking of Grabbing, boys its been a rough year for it. The only people i know of that have been are the people who dont white bass fish or do anything else, and are desperate for something to do. There will be fish everywhere if we can ever get a break in the rain for more than a couple days. This may be one of those years that you can look back and tell your grandkids "Well that one year back in 2008 we grabbed suckers all the way up at ____________." I'm sure there will be a bunch of places to insert there.

Phil what was Jeremy drinking while you were fishing. haha his hats all crooked and his eyes are crazy. Just having a little fun with Jeremy. My brother was one of the guys on the bank up there, that Jeremy talked to. He ended up with 9 i think he kept 7. He said he was catching them on a lure like jeremy and then had one break his line when he got it on the bank and it flipped back in the water and he couldn't find another lure they liked quite like that one. What do you think the water will be like tomorrow, I was kind of thinking about going.

I agree with you Al with the Trophy Smallmouth areas. I get so frustrated that do so much for a stinkin trout and will not try anything like that with the smallmouth. I mean looking at Missouri wouldn't you consider the smallmouth the pride and joy of our creeks. I mean what is going to hurt to even restrict gigging on just the already established trophy smallmouth areas, just to try it out and see if it helps the smallmouth. I love to gig but there is plenty of area to gig, so that the few trophy areas being closed wouldn't hurt the gigging. I still dont understand the technology debate. I mean the people who intentionally gig sport fish are going to do it weather they have all the technology in the world or a wooden raft and a sharpened stick. I would think the better technology would just help reduce the unintentional killing.

Haha me too. Thanks for stating your opinion Al. I think from seeing your posts we have a lot of common opinions on the creeks.