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You can bring a bass boat if you want. Lots of stumps. Kayak or canoe is great unless wind kicks up. Open area that is pretty shallow. Catches alot of wind.

Jonquils are blooming in TN. Water temp on Pickwick was 49 this weekend. Air temp was 70 when I left.

Call Wilderness System and they will ship you some patch material. Looks like weedeater string and you put it on with a small torch or heat gun. Just like welding sort of. Look for a hairline crack under the seat on bottom. That is where my Pamlico cracked. I buddy did it rocking back and forth on a log.

Not if you use the cheap Always Save stuff. Its tough as nails.

Only a good fly fisher can chunk a piece of power bait and not have it fall off the hook....

Powerbait and heavy split shot.

Mark, they usually stock the same months that trout parks are open in Missouri streams. March thru Oct., once a month. Maybe extra stockings if they have a surplus of fish. Some streams will not get a stocking in July or August due to warm stream temps. 11 pt has gotten a special stocking in the past in Dec., but I don't know for sure if that still happens.

It is shallow and warms up quicker than any other area lake. Can't help you with a spawn date, I don't fish it for crappie. But I catch some nice ones fishing for bass.

Good at stabbing them. But they had poor eyesight. They had to wait to the pull out to id and cull them out.

For several years, Super Bowl Sunday was a trip to 11pt fishing for trout. We would listen to the game on the way home and watch the finish. This year was the most boring game in a while. No big effort on either team to score, lousy half time, and a lackluster commercial performance. I think the Superbowl has jumped the Shark.

I think they strain and chop the solids out before it gets to lagoons and outlet pipes. That part is probably still working.

How can you be broke with a $20 an hour income and no debt?

After my little Jolt in November, I have already had all of those thoughts. Now with my second chance, realizing that I am 52 and not bulletproof and waiting quarterly for the next 5 years for some feller to verify that his cuts got all of the cancer, life has a new perspective. Keep doing what I was doing. Exactly what I was doing with one little exception. I now realize there is no need to sweat the little stuff. I am the luckiest man in the world, how can I do better than that? I have my health again, my family and friends, and I can still do everything that I did before. I don't need anything more than that.

Was it a brown jersey with 5 fingers. I lost one of them and don't know where it is....

Maybe some skid marks left over on the banks..... Use some corn to match the hatch... What are all the complaints about? I have to drink the crap down here when I stop to eat in Cape Girardeau.

They used to call it a Montauk special. Add a marabou tail to it and you have a woolly bugger streamer. There are several catapillers that float on the water film when they fall in. A dry woolly worm would make a good imitation. Cracklebacks were originally designed to fish dry or stripped as a wet fly.

Irish Wilderness portion will have jet boat traffic, nut no worry. You have to worry more about flood water that time of year. Turkey flocks are fewer in that area, no crop land to support them. Just natural mast and bugs. Should be a good hunt.

It will flush out soon in the next big rain.

There has been poop in the water longer than there have been fish in it. It will dilute itself out next big rain. I think what made this flood monumental was all of the tributary flash flooding running into a swollen Mississippi. 93 was from flooding upstream on the Missouri and Mississippi backing up and spilling out into the Mississippi flood plain. This time, most of the water locally came from local streams like Meramec and others.

Aww poop. Good place to find brown trout now.

Never really thought about that one. But I am Protestant. Not sure who is the blame, the printer or the proofreader.

Not how he spells it on his storefront.

Something more to be thankful for. I was able to Fish a local lake for trout last Thursday. Casting into a wind and landing a 14" trout did not cause the arm any pain to speak of. I managed to get in an hour of fishing before dark. Last weekend was spent on the Spring River, my first trip out since surgery. Casting both a spin rod and fly rod worked well. The arm performed good with a wrap on it for protection and support. Fishing was fair, the river still running full. I enjoyed one of the most beautiful sunsets with a friend on the deck overlooking Lasseter's behind Riverview Motel. Ducks were flying and a cold beer was in hand. I count my blessings daily. I can fish again and enjoy life.

The park is open for camping at Montauk. There are plenty of places just south of the put in to camp at Baptist. Big gravel bar or hike down into the woods along a trail.

I usually run into a good rope swing on alot of my floats. Tie off the hammock to the tree and the rope and camp over water of the night. Fall out of bed into a refreshing bath to start the morning.