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No tubing in the park or any other watercraft of any kind. No swimming either, so don't let the kids screw around in the water of the park boundries. Take them out of the park to Tan Vat. I saw a group launch a couple of canoes at the handicap hole once, caused quite a stir with the park police.

The biologist that runs the park say he stocks it once a month. It does not have the fish that it did a few years ago. 10 years ago, I fished the runoff out of the lake going thru the wooded section of the old lake. Its dry for the most part now. What you see now is a fraction of the original impoundment. The levee that runs around the section used to form a big lake at one time.

Many years ago, MO was covered in a shallow ocean. Earth cooled and polar ice formed. Activity formed under the crust and uplifting occurred to form the St Francois mtns and the Viburnum trend. Earth cooled further and formed the Ice Ages that came down to the Missouri River or further. Ice melted and gouged our rivers and streams and filled aquifers. Good news is that the sun is entering a cycle that will result in cooling and maybe more ice will form, I have noticed it alot this week as a matter of fact. Population has increased in the last 200 years and somebody had to raise the crops and animals to feed the people. This uses more resources. MDC sells Eastern Red Cedars as cover/erosion protection in the wildlife bundles to prevent erosion of our poor soils and enhance our wildlife which supplements our nutrition needs. Solution, less people. Who wants to leave this earth to save it from ourselves? Lets quit eating cows, pigs, chickens, crops and wearing cotton clothes and burning Ethanol gas and using computers that have large amounts of lead solder in them and cutting trees to make our houses to fix the problem.................

My thanks too, always looking for new stuff to tye. Alot of effort goes into the posting of these too, unless you have a personal assistant to do it for you. Great work.

Barrrffff. You all are nuts! But if its for a good cause. We used to toss them to the dog when we cut pigs. He would gobble them down and then go puke them up in a pile. I have never tried one or really wanted to either. I heard it tastes like chicken.

Montauk to Cedar Grove is an 8 mile float, about the same from Cedar to Akers Ferry. The first is a trophy area float, the latter is a put and take fishery. Montauk to Baptist could be waded easily in a day and would be pretty skinny to float and fish unless the water is up more that usual. Might be hard to find a shuttle this time of year. I am kicking aroud which way to go myself this weekend, Upper Current or Spring River in Ark. Weather looks better on Sat, Sunday looks wet and cold. Gotta get out and wet a line and waste some of the flies I have tied up.

We are bunkered up pretty good here, neighbors are like sheep running around like chickens with heads cut off. If I run out of firewood I'll have to start cutting up downed trees. How is everyplace else? Local new just said that it was frosty and icy at noon. Not much news past locally.

Looks like we caught the brunt of the storm this time. Sitting in front of the fireplace listening to Raymond on the crank radio squandering my battery on the laptop. We have been w/o elect since 12 am last night and not expecting any for a while. Most of Jackson and Cape Girardeau is w/o. I live in the country so we will be last. W/o phone line this morning, still have water. Freezing rain started it all, followed by 3 inches of sleet. Then thunderstorms last night dumped another 3/4 in of ice that screwed it all up. Whats Spring River look like for this weekend??? I need to go floating.

Is there some reason for this selection of 9's? A Glock, Kahr, S&W M&P, or Springfield XD would be a more reliable choice. Esp if I were defending something near and dear like me or family.

Well, you could use floating powerbait as an indicator and a nymph as a dropper and meet the requirements of the bait zone.......maybe. Years ago at Bennett, I used a little cleo with a scented plastic egg or a wad of powerbait on the hook when I would spin fish the bait only zone.

Not all people Dano, just that one. And they took care of him.

He probably needs to investigate the firewall part. Follow directions that Capt E posted. Turn off any firewall. Although, I can't figure out a reason why it would block your site unless he triggered it.

I always like the float from Dam 3 to Riverside Camp. You can rent a boat there or they will shuttle you back. You can make it a 3 hour float or all day, summertime I usually take a early morning float to fish and float it again later for fun with the rest of the crowd. Most rentals don't launch before 8 am. There are several access points, from the Bayou you can hike a long way up stream to get away and into good fishing. Any of the campgrounds will let you fish for a daily fee. Smallies are better below Riverside or over on the South Fork a little farther over. CC, thanks for the tip on the pickerel, I like to have them on the end of a fly. I did not realize they turned on this time of year because of spawning.

When he says he can't "access" the site, does he mean he can't login or the website does not load at all? Something may be blocking your IP address on his computer like a new firewall. Does the website require Java? Is he typing the address in right? Try to have him google Ozarkanglers and enter from the link off google.

Phil fixed that about a month ago. Check your personal settings and make sure you are in the right time zone. The posts tonight have been reporting the right time within about 15 minutes.

This brings back the orignal question. An articulated fly is usually jointed with either wire or mono line. A dropper is similar to an articulated fly, just a longer attachment point.... Missouri fishing laws have always been pretty open to fishing methods as far as flyfishing goes. My favorite is fly fishing only areas that are filled with spin fisherman using jigs. I don't think that was what the original intention of the rule was supposed to be, it has just matured to what we have now. I would think the original intention was to avoid conflicts and tangles with 2 completely different styles of fishing, not skills or fish mortality. A fly fisherman casts upstream with a current and drifts a floating line with the current and requires more space. A spin fisherman can go either way, but will work fishing areas completely different. Given close quarters of a crowded trout park, it causes conflicts. Add the back casts and the false casts and things get worse.

Yeah, deleting the cookies fixed it. I was in advanced mode but the cookie was confusing it from the old forum settings. Thanks guys. The forum has been remembering my login, my cookie cleaner was set to keep this cookie. I would switch to DSL the very second the phone jerks upgrade the equipment that sits about a mile a way. Right now, ATT is very slow to upgrade rural connections for fear that someone else will sell stuff on their lines. So, for now, no internet classes, no e-business, no e-commerce, no streaming anything. I am out of the line of site for wireless, no cable, and satelite options are not cost effective. I have a pale blue pink skin with blues and greys, kinda fruity. But, beauty is only skin deep. The meat of the forum is still here. I liked the old skin better, more fishy.......

I have noticed since the changeover, when I view a reader post, the followup posts show up as folders in a tree view. I was able to scroll down and read the followup posts before, now I have to click on them one at a time and wait for them to load. This sucks at dialup speed. Is there a setting to go back to the old view?

Hey, its my Home Water on the West side, East side is the Castor River. Just don't give up all of her secrets, I don't want to have to find a new quiet place to fish.

Waterfowl season is over and all of the other outdoor hunting for the most part. Superbowl weekend is coming up and it is time for the first big trip of the new year. Kind of a tradition, a few good days of trout fishing followed by a return trip listening to the Superbowl on the radio. I get cheated out of all of the commercials. I usually get back to watch the last half on the TV anyway. I have not seen a report on the Current River, Spring River, or 11 pt in a while. Which way do I go???

The St. Francis River, one of MO's finest and most diverse. From its headwaters in the St. Francois mountains to where it exits Missouri in the Southeast Mo. lowlands, it starts at one of the highest elevations and leaves at the lowest. The upper end is home to clear waters and fast runs. Whitewater championships are held in the upper reaches in the spring flood season. After the Little St. Francis and Big River enter in, the river forms deep runs with riffles at each end. It is dammed up from near Greenville to Wappapello Dam forming a 44,000 lake for flood control. After that it becomes a lowland river, slow and deep, full of silt, to Wilhelmina at Mo.'s lowest point.

Had to look a little closer and now I see a turbo layout boat painted the wrong colors. Needs a jet or a Go Devil.... Where are the plans????

Them starlings make good soft hackles.....

I bought the Eagle 242 Portable a few weeks back. 8 AA batteries, suction cup mount transducer. I can move it from jon boat to yak to inflatable with no hassles. I was not looking for highend electronics, just something to give depth and bottom structure. If it finds fish it will be handy too. Hummingbird makes one also. I was going with the Bottomline, but the trolling motor type mount would not work in some of my watercrafts.

Looks like water level is back to normal. River Gage