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What kind of fly did you get him take?

Three of us went up to Bagnell and fished from around 1pm till dark. Shad were absolutely everywhere up there below the dam so bait was easy to come by. The fishing was fantastic. We caught probably 30-40 channel and blue cats today and brought home I would guess around 20 that were from 1-4 pounds. Everyboat that we seen fishing today caught lots of fish. Nobody caught any catfish of any size that I seen though. The biggest fish of the day was a 17 pound bighead that ate the drum fillet on my buddies hook. We brought our bowfishing rigs incase we ran into a school of those carp, but never did. Go figure that one would eat his cut bait LOL.

Launched the boat and bow fishing most of the day. Shot a couple gar and only seen one bighead on the surface but missed him. We netted a few shad and threw some cut shad out underneath a float and messed with the gar for a while and had a blast. Those things sure do fight, but it's hard to keep them from cutting the line with their teeth when using only 8 pound test. We drift fished between the islands and the banks on the East side where the turbines are and caught a couple small channels. At dark, we anchor closed to the white line in the heavy current where the turbines are and fished with shad. I landed one fat channel cat about 3 or 4 pounds and that was it. Had one other good hit, but missed it. Some guys were fishing on the edge of the heavy current right up by the dam and were catching a ton of catfish. They had one that was at 20-25 pounds. The funny part was we watched the agent sitting at the top of the power line watching them for probably two hours. I bet they got a hefty fine.

I think that is correct too. If the other parks have those hours, then Maramec should be the same I would think.

Those big trout like those gut piles the anglers leave them at the cleaning stations. A couple years ago I landed a 10 pound 27.5" rainbow off the docks at Lazy Valley. I hooked him right by the cleaning station with a white Trout Magnet. It probably resembled a little piece of gut wiggling in the water. It also had a white power egg in his mouth from where somebody had hooked it before. There were three other trout that were twins to the one I caught that we hooked, but could not land. One broke my two pound test and the other two had the hook pop out of it's mouth. Years ago, my dad seen a brown swim out from under the dock there at Lazy Valley that he said looked like a salmon. He said if it wasn't 30 pounds then he must be crazy.

Does anybody on here fish the mouth of the Gasconade where it enters into the Missouri? I'm curious if anybody has been catching much, especially catfish. I remember that the water was pretty deep where the rivers met. It looked like it could hold a few good cats somewhere around there.

LOL...I need to go fishin with this guy sometime. Hopefully, I don't whizz in my waders though.

Darn, I thought that was you I seen walk down there just as I was leaving. I figured it was after I seen the Taneycomo Nights van in the parking lot by my truck. We had planned on wade fishing, but seen the water was running a bit when we got there so we went out in the boat instead. I wish we would of been around for when they flushed the hatchery, that's some crazy fishing when that happens. Sorry I didn't get to stay and talk, but the girlfriend was hungry and probably wouldn't have liked me stnading around talking for an hour.

I just grab them a little behind the head since they aren't usually very thick and use pliers to pop the hook out. Unless they swallow the hook, it's not hard to unhook them. They have some pretty rough scales on them too so they are easy to hold onto.

I'll be down this weekend if anybody plans on doing some fishing then. I need to tie up and restock on gbugs and scuds and softhackles, but I just haven't gotten in the fly fishing mood yet for this trip. I too stuck on catching catfish lately...hehe.

I'm not sure what yellow suckers and black/blue suckers are in Taneycomo, but I know that we have caught a number of white suckers over the years in Taneycomo. We love eating them. I haven't caught any, but usually where there are white suckers, there are Northern Hog Suckers or "hog mollies" as a lot of people around here call them. I've never caught a redhorse on rod and reel, but have gigged a few of them. They are a blast to gig and they will lay on the bottom and then blast off like a rocket swimming through the water. You gotta be really good or just get lucky to hit them when they are moving that fast.

I caught a 27" 10 pound rainbow two years ago down at Lazy Valley Resort by the cleaning station on a white trout magnet. My guess is that it resembled a little piece of fish gut wiggling in the water. We've seen browns swim by the cleaning station down there before that we swore would be new state records. They looked like salmon!

Get a light action spinning rod and rig up with a long shank crappie hook with a minnow. Find where a school of gar are rising and toss out the minnow and just let it free spool around. You shouldn't have to wait long and one will latch onto it. More than likely what will happen is that you fight it for a bit and they either slice the line with their teeth or the hook pops out, but you do land a few. They put up a heck of a fight on light tackle.

By golly I am taking a whole week of vacation the first part of November to hunt big whitetails bucks and take a day or two and chase some browns. I never even made it down there last year because I was so engrossed in chasing whitetails with the bow. This year, this feller is not missing it again.

One of the resident gut eaters that hang around the docks I bet. Those fish get some weight behind them when all they have to do is lay and weight for the guts to fall into their mouths. Glad to hear it was released to get even bigger. Congrats on the fine catch.

Glad to hear that. I hope they hang around till next weekend so I can get the family in on some good fishing.

We are doing our annual stay next weekend down at Lazy Valley Resort. I'll be up at the outlets fishing Friday night and Saturday night more than likely so hopefully I will see a few of you up there. Leonard, I still got a few flies you gave me from the last time I ran into you that need to get a fishy smell on them. I'll be they work great once I get the chance to use them.

Thanks for the replies. My dad helped me out and got them working again. The only things needed were new bulbs and we had to strip some wires on the left tail light and re-crimp them to the light.

I think I am just going to run new wires and be done with it. The old ones already on there don't look that great anyway. What do you guys use to fish the cables down through the trailer? Do you just pull the new wire through as you pull the old ones out by taping them together or what?

Are there any easy step by step directions online that tell you how to try and fix boat trailer lights? The lights on the trailer that I just got aren't working. I don't know anything about electrical work, but everybody tells me that it is an easy fix. Any help is appreciated.

Me and three other guys catfished the no boating zone from 8pm till 4am sunday night/monday morning. We never caught a single fish. There was one guy that had a fish that we seen, and it was about a 20+ pound blue catfish. Talked to some other guys and they said it was very slow that night because of them running 4 units.

What a pig!

My dad and I caught 10-12 fish between the two of us. The water is up a bit right now, just over the walkways in some spots. It is still relatively clear though. We both started out drifting power bait on bottom by where the little spillway is in the deep water. We each caught three and put on our stringers. I went to using lures and trout worms and caught 3 more eventually, dad kept using bait and caught a few more also. The biggest concentrations of fish are in the Pond Hole and where the spillway is down by the bridge. With the water up, I wouldn't doubt if a few lunkers make there way up into the parks.

I went floating from Mill Rock to Wenkel's Ford a few years back. That was the first float trip I had been on in forever. I caught one smally about 12" and a small largemouths that trip. It was fun. Where do you live at hank? You from around the Gerald/Owensville area?

It wouldn't bother me any if the acorn crop sucked this year. Then maybe the deer will hit our food plots harder after the acorns normally fall.