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

thanks tim what do you think about the move is it going to make it better and is it true about the high end rooms that they are going to be building in the old ccc lodge depends on what kind of conctruction they do if it is just going to be a single story steel building with insulation they can have it up in a matter of weeks but if they try and stay with the same loook as the rest of the park you are right they won't have itdone for months

i was wondering if anyone has been down to see the how the new lodge and tackle shop was coming along or if they were still going to have it done by the first of march

tim i will be leaving work here in a few minutes from joplin and will be stoping by your shop plan on fishing a little this afternoon after i get settled in to camp

they close down alot of zone 1 for the kids all the way from the first hole to the low water bridge it is lots of fun my family and i volunteer every year on both weekends it os a blast i can't wait to have kids of my own but for now i just borrow kids and help them out

thanks sound like i might run down to conners bridge see if i can't snag a bill

has anyone been down to the rivers yet today water is the water like i was going to go down this evening after work but don't want to waste my gas and time running down there if it is flooded or too high

the river is down for now but we are getting some rain went friday night and sat. morning lots of fish being caught still lots of big fish being caught between the railroad bridge and grays so i din't think the big sows are up the river yet did see one guy snag a 50 or 60 lb sow at conners sat morn. so they are starting

we were snaggin from the bank we were at conners bridge which is between twin bridges and the miami park the water was over the banks there but i think it has went down now my uncle is planning a trip this evening after work maybe he can give me a better report tonight

had three hookede got one in in four hours my uncle caught one on his first cast then 45 minutes later caught another one he decided he would be done the water was up last night but that didn't stop anyone there were a few people down at conners

lots of boats in the river my cousins and i all cought one the biggest being 42 lbs. my after the rain this week the big girls will be up the river saw lots of bills caught all the boats i seen had fish hanging the new cleaning research center is great those guys are working hard to make it a pleasure for the snaggers