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I saw those also on the website, local shop does not carry them inhouse. He has a few of the swimbaits and the yabbies in several sizes. The website has some great looking baits and shipping is reasonable.

A local shop has started carrying some of the River2Sea lures and I picked up a pack of the Stand'n Yabbies to try them out. Nice little crawdad jig that I thought may do the trick. 5 for $4.99 seemed a little steep, but its only money. Tried them on the Big River Sunday in the heat of the day when the bite slowed down and wow did they do the trick. You need to pinch the barb because the fish inhale them. Several fish tossed them on the way in because they were latched on so hard I could not set the hook. They do come apart pretty easy, bluegill like to pluck the eyeballs off and tear off the pinchers, but they still work after they are mutilated. Had several Green Sunfish that were tough to get the lure out of their mouth, they stuffed it in pretty good. Bass would hit it as soon as it hit the water sometimes. River2Sea Website

75 seems about right. With fuel the way it is, they just pass it along. We rented a canoe at 2 Rivers a few weeks back to go from Eminence to 2 Rivers, 47 bucks. There is a campground in town below the MDC access that will take you most anyplace if you camp there and have a group. Last few years we had enough for 8 to 10 boats and they would shuttle us up to Akers if we wanted to for regular price. We did Akers to Pulltite a few years back, scenery is nice, river can be crowded this time of year because of vacations. Several trout in the first part then smallies here and there. Go to Round Springs if you want a 2 day and take your time.

We had to go thru a tricky spot yesterday on the Big River, a low steel bridge crosses the river and you normally lay out in the boat and drift under. The water was still up and I could not make it thru on the sit on top, so I backpaddled out of the hole to the bank. When I stepped out, I spotted a nice thick 4 footer heading up the bank to a clump of willows next to the front of my boat. He dislodged of the biggest bullfrogs I have seen in a while out of the clump and sent him sailing over the front of the kayak. That caught me off guard, never saw that one coming. Thankfully, I was already out of the boat, but was still waist deep in water trying to line up the boat to send it under the bridge. I probably would have bailed if that frog had landed on my lap.

Try a can of Cheap Tuna Cat Food or just Cheap Tuna. Poke a few holes in the can and they will come running. The scent trail draws them in.

I'd book one of them Alaska to Michigan float trips but I don't think there would be much fishing.

That must be a hard day's shuttle between the 2......

Experience..

Did you get the one I sent last week??

There have been several pieces of malware running around in the last year that pops up and says your computer is infected and installs a fake antivirus or repair tool. Ahout the only way to defeat it is to start in safe mode and run a cleaner or zap it with a boot disk or usb drive. One handy tool I use comes from this website called Combofix, My Bleeping Computer. . There are several boot iso files from Kasperskylab and Dr Web Cure it that create boot cd's with a linux shell that will let you remove viruses, delete autoruns, and fix mbr's that have been damaged. You really should not have to toss your computer. If all else fails, fdisk and format the drive and reinstall Windows and programs and you should be back to day one when you bought the computer.

If you were using Internet Explorer, it would not have happened. Microsoft products are impervious to viral or malware attacks.....

My pet peeve with them lately is that they close a stretch of road to replace a bridge and detour traffic miles out of the way around it instead of making a bypass bridge. Here locally, 61 is closed at Appleton, 34 is closed at Burfordville, and I just saw that 2 smaller roads are closed today for culvert repairs.

They cut back on the spellcheckers.........

Did you go home to a pot of chicken soup? Can't have a blind hen wandering around the farm...

At least they should have plenty of cooling water. Just a thought, you would think one of the many engineers that built that project would have thought twice about building in a flood plain.

Phil posted last week that there were some on OAF seeing some type of virus activity while using OAF. This popped up this morning on Avast while I was browsing. Something got set to the temp folder that Avast did not like. It may be nothing, but if you get the same, let Phil know with a PM.

He has lived there for about 6 years now and we have spent some time on the lakes fishing which have always been productive. They have a golf course if you like that sort of thing. Big River runs thru it and there is a good put in/ pull out spot for a float. It is well policed and protected with covenants. They have a great fireworks display every 4th. Just an hour drive or less to St. Louis, Wappapello Lake, or Clearwater Lake. It is a real nice place for an outdoors person.

I am voting Missouri mainly because of my experience with it and none of the others except Arkansas. Missouri is unique, it offers wild small stream born trout, tailwater trout, lake trout, put and take trout, and pay to fish trout. Not many other states offer so many ways. Missouri offers Rainbows and Brown trout, and just south of the border you can find Cutthroat and Brookies if you want them. The scenery on some of our streams are second to none and the fishing is year round. I have fished Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alaska, and North Carolina for trout. None really compare to what we have here in the Ozarks.

I met a guy in Alaska that humped in a full pack and an 18 pack of Bud Heavy tied to the outside of it in the carton to our float camp. Tossed them in the river, set up a tent, and had cold beer when he was done.

My x wife had a friend over one time that took an interest in my fly tying equipment. She stole some feathers and a pair of hackle pliers to make something called a "roach clip". I guess she was too poor to hire an exterminator.

They have a complex and extensive Sewer System, no Septic Tanks. Although I know for a fact there is urine in several of the lakes.... What lake is the home located on? I have a friend on Capri.

This one sure had a delayed reaction........

Shallow Shad Raps in Crawdad or Gold/black, size SSR5 I think. Work good for trout in rivers too.

Gavin has a good point, yank off all of the good feathers you need and sell off the excess. Take the profit. put it in the bank till next year or so and buy new stock. It is a fad, it will pass shortly. Remember the AR gathering shortly after Obama was elected. Prices skyrocketed, there were widespread shortages. Now the market has a glut, prices have fell below what they were before the election. There are some great deals out there now on AR style weapons.

Some friends fished it yesterday and it was fair. The river was in good shape, but there was a lot of jet boat traffic on it due to the holiday weekend. Lots of dads. Heading down in the morning for a day trip also, will be in a jet myself. Packing rain gear cause we are gonna get wet.