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Definitely plenty of fish to be caught. Finding wuality is the hard part. We only had two over a pound a several .75-.90s.

I wish I had that same luck at these trout tournaments.

How is Babler from Lilley's? I'll be down to fish the Masters this weekend. If I have some downtime after the tourney, I could swing by and try a few things to see if we can get OAF working.

Weird. I can't find anything about that ISP when I do a search for it. I'm assuming it is a WISP that offers fixed wireless service? The only two WISP's that show up for Nixa are Total Highspeed and WON.

Nice fish. I'm all about catch and release, but it's never a bad thing to keep a limit of small ones to eat. Too many fish equals more competition for food and that ain't good either. The thing with fish is that once they get to a decent size, they should be cared for and put back for the next person to enjoy. Killing big fish is the problem. Those little guys get replenished every time the stock truck pulls up.

Are you sure Truman doesn’t have them? LoZ is full of threadfin shad.

Supposed to be in the 50s Friday through sunday this weekend! Hallelujah!

If I ain't snagging or fishing a tournament, I'll definitely be there!

Got down to the park about 12:30 just as the last two anglers were packing up and heading out. I fished from 12:30 to 4 and had the whole river to myself. Fishing was good. Lots of midging activity. My total fish count was between 20-30. I quit counting after 15 and caught several more after that. Most of the fish were between 1-1.5#. I'm not sure I ever did catch anything real small. My two best fish came on back to back casts by the bathroom hole. The first good fish was an 18 incher that I plucked from the fast water upstream of the falls. The next cast was below the falls and it produced a 21" rainbow that weighed just over 4#. The trout were midging heavily and I think a guy with a soft hackle or a crackleback on a fly rod could have really put a hurting on the fish. There are quite a few trout over 20" in the stream right now. I wasn't looking real hard for them and I spotted at least a half dozen. Nothing gigantic, but all about like the one I landed. I also saw a trout about like the biggest one that I caught floating dead in the moss down by the river bend near the back parking lot. My guess is somebody caught it and then beat it all around and held it out of the water for a lengthy period of time trying to get pictures and stressed it to death. That is a shame. If you catch a nice fish, keep it in a net in the water while you get things ready. As you can see, the big one I caught today is still in the net with it's head in the water. If I let it flop around on the gravel for several minutes while I fumbled around getting my phone, chances are it too would have died. The net is also what I use for weighing fish. Leave the fish in the net and then clip the scale to the net. No sense is risking damage to the gills.Of course you have to deduct the weight of the net to get the actual fishes weight. I think my net weighs around .20 so the fish was just a smidge over 4#. This post has been promoted to an article

I never met the man, but I remember my buddy talking about Duffy back in the mid to late 2000’s when he was going to college in Springfield. Duffy gave him some pointers and helped hiM with his fly fishing several times back then.

Yes sir!

Are you gonna be at Lilley’s? We are Coming down Friday morning to fish the Masters tourney.

Send them on down through TR Dam!

It does seem odd that every single one of this felgirl87 users comments are on a Mocarp post.

There were several keeper browns caught last Friday and Saturday by guys trolling jerkbaits. I’d say your best bet be to start at Cooper Creek and worK your way down river while staying as close to timber as possible.

Count me in again!

I threw jigs all day up between Fall and Short Creek and caught a pile of them, but none were over 13”. Talk about a dink fest! Luckily dad caught that 1.94 and squeaked us in to 9th place. We ran way down river scouting around yesterday, but I couldn’t figure anything out so we just fished our typical holes. That water is big down that way! I wouldn’t be opposed to a little nicer weather in two weeks either. It was brutal this morning till around 11:30.

I cant see it being a port issue. This site is accesseed over port 80, which is your basic internet port. Have you tried different browsers or a different DNS server?

Better just setup a VPN and sneak your way in to OAF.

The deer have really started moving around a lot the past few days. I guess they have had enough of this cold weather crap and food is getting scarce. Dad shot a big doe a few nights ago as well. He wanted one more deer for canning. I took the time to get my deer scraps that I've saved for grinding taken care of since it has been so cold. I've got plenty of lean protein in the freezer ready to go now so no excuses for me to not be eating healthy at least for a little while.

I don't see why sucker fishing wouldn't be any good as the riffles were absolutely chock full of them. As for catfish, I never really hear much about people fishing for them up in those stretches. It's all about smallmouth, goggle eye and suckers.

What were you fishing for? I floated near Hazelgreen last summer and caught more smallmouth up to 17" than I could shake a stick at. It was far better fishing compared to anything I've experienced between Mount Sterling and Boiling Spring. The number of suckers I saw up there was unreal as well.

Nope. That is considered a farming practice and is perfectly legal. Now if you don't have live stock around, then I don't think there is an exact distance that makes it legal. Basically if the deer you are hunting are moving past to reach the baited area then you would not be legal. That is one of those grey areas that is left up to Mr. Green Jean's discretion.

If you plan on running a feeder, just remember that you must have all feed removed from the area 10 days before you hunt it. As for food plots, if you want a kill plot that can handle heavy grazing, then winter rye/wheat, oats and a good white clover are your best bet as they will handle browsing pressure the best. They should hold up well throughout the fall until it gets really cold and go dormant. Winter rye continue growing until the soil gets below 34 or 36 degrees. A true late season food source such as standing soybeans or brassicas (turnips/rape) needs to be at least 5 acres in size if you have any number of deer in your area. Deer have no problem wiping out an acre and a half of turnips on dads place by the end of bow season.