smartfish73

my brother has went down to conner bridge on the neosho river snagging the last two days yesterday he hooked one in about 40 minutes and about 40 minutes later his girlfriend hooked one but lost it at the back she pulled for about a hour longer and could not hit another one before they had to leave then today he went down again and made 4 cast and hooked another one so i would say the run is on he was talking to a couple of others guys down there that said they were starting to catch them in the park at miami i cant wait to get done there

well it looks like the weather might make my travel a little tricky this coming weekend they are calling for some nasty winter weather on thursday and we are leaving early friday morning then it is going to be bitterly cold for the start of the weekend o well rain or shine i am ready as long as i dont fall in the lake again this year i will be ok

Well it is that time again this will be my fourth year going to the Dummy Trout Inv. It was started about 25 to 30 years ago and now has became one weekend out of the year that i will not miss kinda like opening day trout season this event kicks off the fishing season for me and i am ready it is a bunch of guys getting together havin a good time and fishing in some of the best water the wonderful ozarks has to offer i am ready and almost cant wait

caught another sow today got down there around 11 and was at the cleaning station at 11:40 she weighed 45 lbs biggest one i have caught off the bank

went down to conner this morning around 10:45 made one cast and hooked up 40lb sow and waited two hours for my brother to catch his which was a 30lb male saw 6 others caught in the 2 hours that we were down there and about 20 others were brought into the cleaning station while we were waiting on our fish talked to a guide that had six guys in his boat which they all caught one 3 males 3 females the females were caught in the lake around greys and the males were caught on the spring river side so i would say that the run is on and will still be going for the next few weeks i will be going down again in the morning

when did you fish

rrsp gave out buttons up until about 3 years ago (or so not for sure how long ago) cause i have one that i got on memeoial weekend about three years ago

i dont see any difference in mounting a hatchery fed trout and a 30 lb striper caught down at bull shoals or anywhere else you still have to find a bait that they will eay you still have to land the fish and it is just as fun granted when i was younger i always did want the patches i have caught a few lunkers in my life and i just caught my first one over 7 lbs and i am going to have it mounted but i am not worried about the patches and i am not ashamed of catching and mounting a HATCHERY FED TROUT

thanks tim yea i have been asking around and a buddy of mine has had all of his deer done by that guy and i have seen some of his work

caught a 7.5 lb rainbow on openig day and would like to have it mounted there is a couple of guys here in joplin but have heard some bad things about them wondering if anyone had any suggestions on who to use any help would be lovely

brown and silver plastic minnow on a white 1/32 once jig head

i done pretty well over the weekend and the beginning of this week just got back to joplin this morning did not fish today but on sunday after noon i managed to catch a 7.5 lber out of the end of the long hole in front of the lodge

going down to conners bridge to try to snag a bill or two dont know for sure if they are up that far yet but i have nothing better to do so why not i will give a report tomorrow evening went down for 2 1/2 hours today and sngged nothing there was about 6 other guys and about three boats snagging and i didn't see any one pull anything in except for one guy snagged a white bass

Ithink it is going to be very busy on the water this weekend not only is the masters tourney going on but i am hearing of another tourney that is launching from trout hollow that is going to have about 10 - 20 boats in it so i think it is going to be alot of fun on the water

i hear ya there i am in the land surveying business and we are having a little trouble finding jobs ourself but as tim said above if the state is doing the construction then it may take awhile