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We ended up seeing 5. Only three were shootable, but passed as they were young. Wussed out this morning since winds were gusting to 50mph. Will head back out about 2. Hopefully I still have a blind when I arrive!

Nice deer! Been slow for us today. What kind of setup are you shooting?

I swear the harder I studied things, the worse I did. The last two were just kind of thrown together willy nilly with names I knew and I did a lot better.

Talk about the story of my year when it comes to tournament fishing. I finished one or two spots out of they money so many times this year and here I am again doing the same thing in fantasy fishing. 😆

He come running up behind me right after I dumped the boat in last weekend and right before you pulled up to me. I was running up the river and then heard that rumble come up from behind me. I knew who it was before I even turned around. There's not mistaken the gator growl on Taney.

I never understood the fear of moving water, especially on Taneycomo where it's wide open. Maybe I've just drifted too many riffles full of rocks and trees trying to catch smallies in my day to think much of it. High water and flood gates are my favorite time to fish Taneycomo.

I hate to say it, but I am going to definitely pass this year. I'll be up in north MO the weekend before helping out with a disabled/youth deer hunt and around quite a few people from different areas of the state and I don't feel like a week is enough time in between traveling just in case I were to pick up Covid.

My fiance is an RN at and said they are absolutely slammed due to covid. One of the RTs she works with claimed that they have seen more patients die this year tyan in the previous 20 years of their career. They have watched people in their 30s succumb to Covid. The overall death totals for the US are a lot higher than they normally are even though many functions that require people to gather in large crowds have pretty well shut down. Regardless of whether covid cases have been misdiagnosed, there is no denying that the number of hospitalizations is way up overall and it ain't just a fluke. I didn’t really buy in to the Covid panic for the first half of the year but listening all of the things that she has experienced this year has changed my tune.

Yep. That is the one Duane pointed out to me.

I didn't but I was guessing it to be 30-32". Duane think it was one of the browns that was posted on your lunker board that was caught several weeks ago. If it is the same fish, it said it was 34.5" on the pic. I checked the generation schedule and saw they were calling for generation between 6-10 so I convinced myself to bundle up and go out this evening to toss the jerkbait. Between 6-9:30, I boated 21 rainbows with four between 18-19" and had as many or more hooked that pulled off during the fight. Everything came on a rainbow pattern signature series jerkbait (762 model I believe). They definitely wanted a rip-rip-pause retrieve over the slow swim and would pop it on the pause. This one was 17.5" and probably the prettiest one I caught all night.

The 10:30 mark in my video is a prime example of what NOT to do.

If they want to be mad at somebody, be mad the ones who are running 1/2 throttle and plowing water. They throw the biggest wakes by far. Either idle or go by me on plane. Anything in between is just making things worse. People may holler at people going by on plane, but they are honestly doing them a favor. Sometimes I almost want to turn around and 1/2 throttle past them to enlighten them....

Dad and I got out for an hour an a half this morning before the rain set in. Fished around the Narrows in the trophy area. Pretty slow. Only caught 8-10 fish. One on a jerkbait, one on a jig and float and the rest on sculpin/ginger jigs. Only highlight was dad caught his best of the trip which was an 18.5" bow. Sitting inside drinking hot coffee watching it rain right now. Not sure if I'm feeling up to going back out in this stuff or not. I'm not as mad at them as I was two days ago. 40 degrees is one thing, but 40 degrees while wet amplifies the cold A LOT!

Evening bite was decent again on sculpin/ginger, sculpin/peach jig and pink worm. My dads buddy was fishing yellow power bait and it was a lot slower for him. We boated another 20-25 between the three of us. I brought them back then ran up to the trophy area and bumped in to Blake as he was finishing up the One Cast. He was catching them pretty good as soon as he turned off that camera. After the water came on at 7, I ran ip to the cable and made one drift down to Trophy Run. Caught 8 bows, all solid 15-18” fish, on a rainbow pattern signature series jerkbait (not sure which model) between cable and island. From the island down I think I only caught 1 more. Water had already started dropping so I called it and came back in. Looks like tomorrow may be a wash out so this might the end of the report. We’ll see.

Sunday 1-4pm. Fished Narrows to Trophy Run. Pretty slow. Maybe caught 10 on the sculpin/ginger jig and one on ginger micro jig below float. Gonna grab a bite then take dad and one his buddies up near Short Creek to catch some eaters for a fry. Hopefully evening bite picks up.

If we are counting that one then that means I finally boated a 20”+ in my own boat since I grabbed the stinkin thing! 😂

Saturday 3-6pm. Fished around Short Creek. Boated 20-25 on sculping/ginger jig and pink worm. Sunday 8-10:30am. Fished same area with dad and had around 20. Started off good and then slowed down. Jigs, pink worm and olive micro beneath float. Found a big diploid brown floating dead by Riverlake on our way up. Probably 30” and 12-15#.

Is there anybody around the area that sells xd100 oil?

I like using the ZMAN Punch Crawz on jigs up to 1/2oz. Like all ZMAN products, they pretty well last forever or at least until you break the lure off. The trailers with the flapping claws such as a Paca Chunk are good when the water is hot, but they don't hold up very well.

The only thing I've noticed is that the site doesn't automatically redirect you to HTTPS. It could have been like this forever thought for all I know as I never actually paid attention. If you type https://forums.ozarkanglers.com then it will show secure and you can check and see that certificate is still valid until 12/31/20.

I love a good white bite. Dad and I are headed down Saturday for a few days so I hope it continues.

Livesay FINALLY paid off after killing me time and time again.

I'm going down next weekend with the parents. If you make it down, holla at me!

I took Palaniuk out the day before the cut off. No surprise that he ended up winning the thing.....😑

I didn't much effort in to picking my team this time. Seems the more I analyze things, the worse I do. I'm just picking names I recognize and like this time around so we'll see how that goes.