Seth

That would be nice for open water crappie fishing where you don't have to worry about losing baits. You shouldn't ever have to change one out. Problem is lose jigs to docks and brush way too often.

Sticky traps and just keeping things picked up are about the only thing I've seen that reduces how often we see them. I'm sure they are still around, but it's one of those "out sight, out of mind" deals.

Green pumpkin baby brush with the tail dyed chartreuse. Texas or carolina rig it with a 3/0 EWG light wire hook and go fishing. I use the texas rig around cover and the c-rig on points, riffles and current seams.

The only snakes and spiders that I don't care for are those of the poisonous variety. We find brown recluses fairly regularly in our basement and in the tub and sinks once in a while. They get killed on site. If I see a black widow, it would get the same treatment. Wolf spiders and just about any other spider is left alone. In the fall when it start cooling off, I can go out in my yard at night, shine a light acrosst he grass and it will light up like the Las Vegas strip. It's all from the glow of wolf spider eyes. I think it's neat, but I'm sure it would give an arachnophobic a heart attack.

Same here. If I was being indoctrinated, I must have missed it because I was too busy doing actual school work.

I missed this but I was going to suggest crawlers and staying with in 100 yards of the trophy zone. Good way to watch some nice fish. If you want numbers, the flat in front of the dark grey house about halfway between Short Creek and Fall Creek tends to always hold stockers.

Fished 11:45-4:15pm. I landed 11, had 5-6 or come unbuttoned during the fight and miss plenty. Caught most in the first hole but circled the park and picked a few up in scattered areas. No real concentrations of fish besides in the first hole that I saw. There was 20-22" rainbow hanging around just above the bathroom riffle about 75 yards. Spent 20 minutes trying to get him to eat a jig, but it wasn't interested. There are were quite a few 15"+ fish in the stream, but I only managed to land one and lose another. The rest were under 15". White trout magnet, green/white rubber legged jig and a wacky orange trout worm did the damage like always.

I live within 15 minutes of the area you're talking about and haven't fished it in years. One of these days I need to get a kayak and start taking advantage of it again. Used to catch some surprisingly decent bass off of that river. The summer time "float 100 yards, drag 100 yards" got old pretty quick though.

We tore up an old clover plot and planted turnips a few weeks ago. It has had a couple good rains on it since so I imagine it's doing decent. I've not been back to actually check on it yet though. I need to go pick up some rye, oats, radishes and red clover for a couple more plots that we're going to do this weekend. Hopefully I can find the rye. Seems like some coops don't get it until after Labor Day some years. I discovered this mix a few years ago and it's my favorite by far. The oats and radishes provide a good early season food source while the rye takes its time getting established. Red clover doesn't do much this fall, but I've had my best luck with letting it get a head start in the fall and then it takes off in the spring. It gets worked under when we replant next year to help build up the organic matter levels in the soil. The oats and radishes will die off once it starts frosting and you're left with the rye to provide food for the winter.

@fishinwrench Cook's Boats and Motors has been strapping Zuke 4 strokes on to SeaArks for catfishermen for a long time too. LSK and Cooks are where pretty well every big catfish rig I've seen has come from. Maybe they are the only two around. I'm not sure.

I bought a pair of Ampere Time 12v 100ah lithiums last month for $740 shipped to my door. I've used them several times now and my only regret is not doing it sooner. My jet boat hops up on plane noticably better with the reduced weight in the bilge. Having full power to the trolling motor at the end of the day is nice too since I've mainly been fishing current for smallmouth. I cheaped out and didn't get the heated version since they were $200 more per battery. I'll have to bring them inside to charge during the winter. Since you can buy 20 and 40amp chargers for them, it won't take long to recharge as needed. It's not a burden to remove them either since they are so light in weight. It would be convenient to have a battery with the bluetooth BMS so you can check how much juice you have left, but I figured I wouldn't come close to running them down that it wouldn't matter anyways.

Wrench mentioned everything that I knew of aside from Lazy Dayz, which is at the 45mm. I believe it's $10 to put in there.

Sounds like me lately when I fish the Gasconade. When we do hook good fish we just seem to lose them.

Ok I change my mind then. We do need the political forum back. 😁

Don't over complicate trout fishing, especially on Taneycomo. If the water is off, use a 1/16oz black or sculpin/ginger jig on 2# hopped along the bottom or a pink power worm under a float a foot or two above the bottom. If there is quite a bit of current, upsize to a 1/8oz version of the same jig and fish inside bends and eddy pockets on the bluff banks. If you don't have the boat capable of fishing that stuff (needs a strong trolling motor) then drifting a double scud rig should work well too. Just use a 3 way drift rig and a 4' leader with enough weight to keep it on bottom. We won the Elfrink tournament this year doing exactly what I am talking about. The fishing was A LOT tougher than it is now too.

You'd be surprised how many small stockers chew on those bigger jerkbait/crankbaits. Trout aren't much better than bass when it comes to biting off more than they can chew.

Trout fishing definitely has a learning curve unlike most species. I've taken a lot of guys who are pretty solid bass anglers and they struggled to catch trout.

Why would even WANT to discuss politics on a fishing forum? There are a million other places besides OAF to talk about politics if your heart so desires. Besides, it's a midwestern based fishing forum so the chances of it turning in to a conservative circle jerk are exceedingly high.....

Should have stopped at Lilleys and picked up some 1/8oz sculpin/ginger and all black jigs. 🙂 Flicker shads are good for trolling and when the water is really ripping. I've had my best luck with low flows trolling them from Lilleys down to the Landing. In high flow, you can just beat the eddy pockets near the bank and get bit.

I didn't even know several of those varieties existed.

The biggest downfall of dumping fish at an access is that tue meat hunters can easily target them with live bait. I know it happens on the rivers. Largemouth in particular are prone to it because they will find the first piece of wood and hang out there for a while. Smallies seem to move on fairly quickly.

Those big gut eaters probably sit in the Big Hole and scarf em all up as the drift by. 😄

Maybe on fish caught in deep water. Shallow water fish are already in hot water and used to it. I've hauled bass around for hours on many hot summer days and they are feisty enough that it's work trying to get them out of the livewell and in to the weigh in bag. The deep bite reigns supreme on LOZ in the summer. If that many bass are dying, PB2 would be a grave yard of floating bass carcasses that you could walk across the water on.

While true, I feel like it would be harder to cheat when you've got somebody looking fish over up close and weighing them in front of everybody else on the same set of scales. Worst thing I can think of is prefishing and moving fish to one area. Tournaments alone do that well enough since the fish all get dumped at the ramp anyways.

I doubt our little river club stuff would be a big issue, but I could see the bigger money lake stuff could be a different deal. Hundreds of dollars is one thing, but thousands would be more likely to make people do stupid stuff. Plus your talking 15-30 boats for us versus 50+ to over 100 at the lake. Money makes people do stupid things. We all know that.