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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.

The number of tourneys on LoZ is insane. I don't know how anybody could say otherwise. Everything about that lake is excessive (boat traffic, bass tournaments, etc). That's why I avoid it like the plague between May-November.

The logistics of keeping everybody honest and making sure that scales are all the same make, model and calibrated exactly the same just doesn't seem like a real possiblity. If you're going to do the catch/release deal then I think you'd have to go by inches. That's how the kayak guys do it. I don't think you'd see the same interest in inches tournaments, but I could be wrong. I'd likely still fish them regardless since I'm just there to have a good time more than anything.

Abiding by MDC regs is abusing the resource? And here I thought the point of those regs was to prevent that. Otherwise it's poaching and illegal. No wonder LOZ is still kicking out those big bags of bass! Must be due to all the tournament guys abiding by those regulations. 😁

Isn't that the area where most of the tournaments are held anyways? If the best fishing is in the area where the majority of tourneys are held, wouldn't they just be recyling the same retreads and leaving the upper 70 miles of the lake untouched for the most part? I think the Glaize arm meets the main channel at the 20mm or somewhere around there.

Impossible! @fishinwrench has confirmed that relocating all those poor bass during tournaments is destroying the fishery! That sounds like one epic trip!

I guess MDC better start offering a grant program so clubs can afford boat officials, calibrated scales, and a web based live streaming platform to every bass club in the state. 😁

Couple guys in our river club caught 22lbs in USA Bassin the week before. Pretty sure they were out deep too. Still only got 2nd. Big bags been getting caught lately.

They aren't as comfortable as the higher end glasses but not terrible either. I've worn them all day during a few tourneys already and they didn't feel uncomfortable. With them being so cheap, I can just throw pairs in the boat, truck, and anywhere else I can think of and not worry about forgetting them.

I'm fancy and only wear the high end stuff....

Based on the number of trout I've caught in Taneycomo with hooks coming out of their rectums, they seem to somehow pass them with decent success. If the fish swallows the hook, cut the line and refrain from digging it out or pulling on the line and yanking it out with hemostats.

I'd defintely keep Taneycomo or Lilley's in the name regardless. You are the face of Taneycomo in my opinion.