jdmidwest

Funny thing happens around the gun shop, we get a higher than normal amount of declines from the ATF on that type of weapon as opposed to the other fine guns we sell. They must sterotype like I do! It is what it is, a $150 firearm (or less). A handgun that is listed as a compact that weighs almost 2 lbs unloaded! Give us a range report and tell us how it shoots.. The carbines are fun to play with and are a pretty good deal also.

For the most part, Yes. Wooly Buggers, sculpins, minnow patterns, etc serve both fisheries well. Sizes may be larger for the bass.

Going Thuggin in the Hood with it?

For the most part, the best part ends when the water temps drop below 50. But a good warm sunny day can bring out some action. From where you are at, you can drive north and fish the St. Francois, Big Creek area at Sam A Baker in about the same time it takes to get to Doniphan. Of course, you can be in Eminence in a short while also and fish the Jack's Fork. Grab a Missouri Gazateer from Delorme and look at all of the little blue squigglies in the area, most any of them hold some good creek wading. You just have to watch your accesses and enter from public areas or gain permission.

He is young, his bones will heal fast when they break on the buttered marbles....

Ok, so when did the MDC stock Grass Carp in the Diversion Channel. It did have big scales, but goofy eye placement, lower than other grass carp I have seen.

There are several accesses that have been replaced in the past few years with High County bridges and blocked accesses. There are several places along various county roads in the area to access it. I think there is a spot below PP to park and get in. I have not been there in about 4 years. Little Black has access at Muddpuppy CA and above at K bridge.

There is still one on the loose, MDC confirmed that the one killed is not the one on the camera the week before. New Game Cam Photo of Mtn. Lion in Shannon Cty.

That is much better than owl crap on a sheet of ice. You are a word smith.

We used to fish from our farm on OO down to Gypsey alot when I was a kid. We would catch sauger and largemouths in that stretch. It is slow and murky, but full of deep holes and trees. I have not been in that stretch for about 12 years now. I don't even think there is an access at Gypsy any more. Zalma to Greenbriar is a pretty good bass float with much the same water as above. The area around the Blockhole is the good walleye stretch, but it was flooded out this spring when the catching was supposed to be good.

That was what I thought too, but look closely, it is a bighead carp or an asian carp. Buddy caught a yellow carp later in the day on a cricket too. We were fishing around downed trees that has sloughed off the bank. The bluegill were actual bluegill, no longears or greenies that day.

Thanks for the compliment. Look at California now, sure would not want to be there....

True, but is it really a solution that will prevent the spread? If not, it is futile.

That part was just a joke, much like the banning of felt soles because they are just one of the known factors of transmission. It has been proven that tourists transmitted it, so using the same reasoning, tourists should be banned.

But banning felt soles impacts everyone, residents and tourists, so your theory on that is out the window. The idea of banning them on only the streams that are currently infected makes the most sense. But, if it was the only way to spread the organism, it would be the perfect solution. Unfortunately, there are numerous ways to carry it from one place to another. Maybe on the wheels of the stocking trucks as they move from stream to stream while doing the fish stocking. How about the boats, rafts, tanks, nets, and trailers that Fish and Game uses to stock, they could be a possible transmission mode. True, MDC has numerous locations. But you and I know well that there will be signs at every point of access warning against the felt soles. Just yesterday, on the Diversion Channel Access, I saw a nice full color graphic on invasive species, another sign on horsepower limits, a full bulletin board for area regulations, a ballot box for surveys that was booby trapped with a wasp nest and no survey forms, numerous MDC Area Zone Markers, a sign that stated use only during the hours of 6am til 10pm to keep out party animals, and another sign that I don't recall what it said. It will result in more than just a line in the rule book that you have to look hard for at most vendors. This will only impact certain trout streams, not others from what I have read. It will not be a "statewide ban" affecting all streams.

Its the tourists that brought the stuff in, so why not ban them. Its not the boots, its the people that wear the boots and go different places. The logistics of banning the use of felt soles on certain streams would be as simple as the regulations for the different areas, blue, red, and white ribbon. One big sign and all of the accesses and public statements about a ban on felt soles on an infected stream would not be any harder logistically than to ban it on all of them. But, as the brief statement in the article posted says, which streams other than the trout parks, will be posted later. So it seems, by that wording, they will only be banned in certain trout water, not statewide.

Why not just quarantine the river and prevent anyone from fishing there unless they agree to fish that stream exclusively? Banning felt soles in the actual streams that have been infected with the didymo does seem sensible. That would eliminate the need to ban them elsewhere, the transmission factor would be stopped, and maybe some would be happy.

He has been in Jackson for about 10 years and just now found it. He called last week and reported a pretty good trip. Looks like the weather will be good around there next weekend. I hope they did not get any of the flooding from Lee. Sounds like it should fish the same as around here on most warmwater streams. Wiki says it got its name from Buffalo fish, looks like it should have been called the Drum river...

As most know, the beautiful clear smallmouth stream that starts out in Madison County turns into a flood control ditch around Advance. Below that at the Block Hole, it turns into a channel that drains it into the Mississippi. The old Castor still meanders south at Advance, but is mainly a slough robbed of inflow by the levee. Saturday, I had the morning to fish only, so we decided to test out some new mechanical work on the boat. We dropped the boat in at Scott City Diversion Channel access and motored up. It was hot, miserable. The water stunk like a cesspool from being backed up since this spring from the flooded Mississippi. We had tossed a few rods in, managed to drum up a few bass and bluegill, but not much else. We motored down to the Mississippi and checked it out, watched a tug come up. Sunday was to be Lake Wappapello, but the weather kept us guessing that morning and we stayed at home. Today, after a 40 degree temp change, forecast of 30 mph gusts, and a strong frontal system passing over, we headed back to the channel. Armed with minnows and crickets, we motored up river past Bloymeyer bridge and tied off to a tree out of the wind. I loaded a ultralight rod with a cricket and bobber, and a medium action rod with a minnow and bobber. Both were only out a few minutes when the cricket went under and up come the carp, 8lbs and lots of fun on the light rod. I looked and the minnow was gone, I reeled in a small gar. And that was the way it was going to be for the rest of the day till we run out of crickets. Bluegill, channel cat, carp, and a shad on the crickets. Channel cat and gars on the minnows. Many times I was cranking in 2 fish at one time. Its not the clear, pristine river as it is on the upper end, but it is loaded with fish.

I was wondering if anyone had any experiences with the Buffalo River system between Nashville and Jackson TN. I have a friend that wants to fish it next week. From what I am reading, it looks to be alot like the 11 PT here without the trout. It is a State Scenic Riverway.

Or the rock snot can come over the top of the boots into the neoprene if you are not wearing tight fitting gravel guards and stay viable to the next fishing spot. What if you do what I do on occasion, leave the bootfoot wader in the boots and travel from spot to spot. I take the waders off to keep water off of the floorboard, but the boots fit tight enough that they all come off in one unit like a bootfoot wader. Water and other material can be trapped in them from one location to another.

I don't want the government to spend any of my tax dollars on it, that is the whole point. Don't waste money on boot cleaning stations that don't get used. What is the real method of transmission, where did it come from, and what can be done to stop it. There are more than plenty of private interest groups that can fund that out of donations, voluntarily from citizens. If it was such an issue, why did several Environmentally concerned companies come out with new felt soles this year. Because there are more than one way to transmit it and the government was grasping at straws with the felt sole bans?

Who is to say that I back my boat and trailer in the didymo infested waters of the White River at Bull Shoals and drag it all thru the snot, leave with it hanging all over the frame, in the bearings, in the lights, the wires hanging down, the fender wells. Then my next stop is Taneycomo. But I washed and dried my felt soles good on the way in the taxpayer funded didymo cleaning station. Or maybe 11 Pt on the way home.

Funny, if an individual would have sunk a 5 gal can of gas in a stream, HAZMAT would have been all over it. But.....

It does take all people to run this world, and it really would run better without so much GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION. I am surely glad you brought out the politics on this one. It is not any party, it is simply the Government thinking that they know what is best without really thinking it thru. The government is here to protect us and we need less government.