Leg Buster

I would not go to the dam... I have been hitting the james hard for spoonies and the fish never made it to the dam...if it were me i would go to walnut springs and just work my way up.

I took a guy that just wanted to catch some fish so we went up around blunks. on the first cast he had one on. and the rest of the afternoon it was constant. i dont know how many we caught, but we slaughtered the whites today. on the way back down i through some big hooks around and managed to catch about a 30 pound spoonie. he really thought that was some thing special. i might try and make a trip or two back down there in the next few days and see what else i can catch.

I am going to be down there this afternoon in a 1648 legend with a 50hp johnson... if ya see me say hi. my name is Philip

blow smoke please... do you know who i am lol. i did catch 8 of those old nasty spoonies on monday night. Even with the big cat lol. as for white bass I think they are on their way back down. three weeks ago they were catching some big sows way up river. now all i have heard is that peopel are not doing diddly. your guess is as good as mine. i was on the osage last saturday and slaughtered the whites. maybe you need to start fishing a different river.

i always know where the fish are

Dad got sick we aint gonna be down there any more...

No whites down here. I wouldn't waste my time

hey troutfshn how have you been. are you wanting to snag with us some this spring? give me a call sometime we can see what we can find.

i made a report with the game thief people. i haven't heard any thing . but maybe they will watch a little more when the water goes down.

Tonight i went fishing down below the springfield lake dam and saw a whole bunch of spoonbill. they were cool to watch. anyways i was catching some perch and just wading around when three guys showed. I didn't really pay them any attention until i saw two snagging rods show up, and they started catching spoonbill. I did everything i could to find the greene county agents phone number and i couldn't. i am sure this is not the first time these guys have done that. If anyone knows the agents name or phone number i would appreciate having it..... thanks.

it makes me no difference i think dad is coming down on friday night with his boat. i would like to be in a boat especially on a weekend becasue of the peole. its what ever you can afford though. i dont care if troutfshn wants to come thats fine with me. i have two good rods now so its whatever. just let meknow what your plans are i am about to go right now and see what i can tear up....

yea i think that you are right with your rules there. once you keep your two fish you can continue to snag for other things like suckers in the creeks and what not. i dont think if i had two paddlefish in the boat i would try to snag gar though. to risky..... and we do try to gently roll them in the boat, seth adn i... and they still beat us to death, but we don't hold thier heads, we might try that. on opening night we rolled one in the boat that racked seth lol. we probably should have held that ones head to save seth's....

hey troutfshn when are you gonna go again. i think i might go back to that spot maybe tomorrow or thursday. and if not we will go crappie fishing in a couple weeks out at indian hills. call me and let me know what you think

you can realease all the fish you want. because we are men and dont use gaffs. and all the fish are gone if you really need to know. we have many families around the area that just love to eat paddlefish that we give them too. so theres my two cents. maybe you shouldn't kill the fish as soon as you catch them. and non of the fish i put back your gonna die. they were all just as good wheni released them as i caught them. and you say " snag and release" what do you do when you catch a short fish.. i guess you keep it because you dont release....

I went with seth friday night and caught seven and went down below the dam tonight and caught eight to make my thirty. the fish are all holed up right now and are very easy to catch. i met a kid from msu there tonight and he caught one and hit two others before his reel broke. i am not sure how to put pics up so i will have seth do it for me lol.