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Wayne I went to wally world today and got the needed supplies for a winter storm, 2 big bags of Lays chips, a large bag of Reeses pieces, Bunny tracks ice cream etc.and then in the beer aisle I saw it ,shineing like a lighthouse on a stormy coast, Leinenkugel CANOE PADDLER beer an omen telling me that even if the power goes out and I can't watch my 18 DVR'd Fishing with Joe Bucher TV shows I can read by candlelight in front of my wood stove back issues of IN Fisherman.comforted by CANOE PADDLER beer. My bride thought that was a good idea as long as I could get her to an airport so she could fly to FLorida to visit her brother..................

Ya, we have been going down there in May and October for a combo fishing trip and SDC for the crafts and the music and just to get away from the house we live about an hour from Indian Point but SDC really sucked last fall both quality and quantity of musical groups fell way off. It's kind of sad because we had decided to stop taking long vacation trips and spend our money in MO or Arkansas. I' still be down there every once in a while to eat at Crazy Cajun Citchen on the pointgumbo ettoufe and meat pies, Danna's in W Branson Pulled pork and loaded baked potato and Parmesean's pizza in W Branson. Now if someone could tell me where I can find a resturant that serves Turtle soup my life would be complete.

Yep, fast women and slow horses...............I hear, cause I've been happily hitched for 51 years but to continue my saga , she changed her tune when I told her buddy over at the the other table told me if i bought a timeshare a night with her came with it................

Got an email Stillwater. Discount on rooms and condos from March 1 till May 21. We stayed there a number of times in the last couple of years after OAF recomendation and liked it at the discount rate.

Was it Grouco who said he didn't want to belong to any private club that would allow the likes of him membership. Ness, that young lady at bass pro assured me that everything they told me was true............

Coldwater that was why I married a girl with glasses in 1962

Back in the day the only time we took photos of fish was back at the dock or ramp or in your back yard so if you were commited to catch and release no photos even an Instamatic was to big to carry in your vest. My boat camera was a Cannon AE1 which cost an arm and a leg and a weeks pay and was never allowed in a canoe. Most of the phones and cameras and I phones whatever, most of my life were science fiction. The first cell phone I had after my heart attack in 97 was a bag phone because the smaller phones were unreliable because the battery technology lagged behind. Obviously I didn't wade by myself for a few years.Now we have smaller batteries that are reliable except in airplane use.

I noticed when I swam it it didn't spin like a texas rigged bait might. I think the sinker hanging below the hook acts as a keel. I plan to spend a lot of time fishing it this year maybe to the point of only taking it with me in my boat. That was how I yers ago learned how to fish the texas rig worms in the late 60's and the wacky worm in 99.

I started my post above before yours and had to leave the room for a while wasn't try ing to walk on your post. Did you have much luck swimming it?

Doc Seger's Jinka rig from last fall uses bell sinker with salt water split rings and 2/0 or 4/0 Gamagatsu super line worm hook (has a bigger eye to allow split ring to move around) attach spli ring to hook and bell sinker to split ring or a second split ring to first and put the weight on the second split ring and he used a Beaver or River Bug or a Chompers Salty Sinker Watermelon Candy Or Chompers 6" dark melon pepper Lizard. I replaced the second split ring with a #3 fast lock snap , easier for me to change sinker size (arthritis). Stacy used the rig on the Bass Pros 2 weeks ago on the Outdoor Channel so it will repeated many times the rest of the year. I think the big advantage to this rig is that you can throw it any where and it you can fish it out without losing it much better than a jig or even a Texas rigged worm.

I don't take a tape measure or camera when I wade a river but I have my rods marked every 3" above 12" and every inch above 18" and obviously when you lip a fish and hold him up against the rod you can't hold the tail togethr but right after I put Werner Redus from Hot Springs Village on a close to a 23" smallie the next cast I caught a 22". Both were measured against my rod and immediatly released back into the Ouchita River under I30 at Malvern AR off the upside of the second pier in the westbound side of the bridge. That area of the Ouchita in the seven years I lived there produced more over 18' fish than I caught anywhere else. After that day Werner and myother fishin buddy started calling me "guide". Werner is gone now catching even bigger giant smallmouth up in the sky but I still remember the smile on his face that day.

Bucktail jigs Uncle Josh pork Rind Eel ,Virgil Ward's Tarantula rubber leged spinner bait, and a brown wood Bomber used to catch largemoth all winter 40 years ago. Good to see fish still bite on bucktails......Did you make that jig mic?

I didn't see any fish videos nominated for an Oscar they don't award them for independent fishin' films...............

It ain't easy being a duck......You used to see lures made to look like ducks, squirrels, etc in bait shops up north and in catalogs such as Herters and the original Gander mountain but I haven't noticed any in a few years I guess people stopped buying them.

I started fishing a 6wt about 40 years ago when I started fly fishing and and it caught Bass trout and bluegill never saw a need to go any any lighter except I went from an 81/2 foot rod to my 61/2 foot in the mid 70s which I still use for bluegill.

You said that about otters a couple of years ago at a seminar in Springfield and a number of us disagreed at the time. Anyone would think that the MDC would have realized the possability of overpopulation and the affect they would haveon aquatic animals. When they talked about doing this how many people knew about it most people had no computers and there were not that many sources of information about what the MDC did. Recently on their website they admited things did not work out the way planned. But when I talked to Tim Renken about it in 1999 and he wrote acolum about it after interviewing Devoe Mckiney in Texas county (who knows more about smallmouth than anyone I ever met) the MDC took the position that anyone who called them out was out to get them

I got one, If I remember at the time my respose was pretty much I didn't see much of a need for change. I have always felt that people who don't catch bigger fish now won't catch bigger fish no matter what the regs are and I don't believe there is much water in the Ozarks that are capable of growing much larger fish. But I really don't care fishing to me is fun it doesn't define who I am. The survey results also puzzeled me, I agree with Al, I can'tbelirve people only catch 7 to 10 fish for trip. I myself would keep a 6 fish limit but they would be under 12 inches and no fish over 12 inches if you want large fish you can't be harvesting over 20 inch fish who have the chance of growing larger. Justin, Goggle Eye are the reward given to us when we don't kill smallmouth.

I think 6wt is perfect for bedding bluegills. With a #10 Tom Nixon black knat plain wet fly or #12 dry

As long as they don't ban my arkansas fish fiber

I failed to mention I weighed about xx pounds less when I had the 12 ft coleman and was still able to fit into it I would need at least a 14 foot jon boat today

I still kick myself for selling my 12 ft Coleman trolling motor Crawdad when I moved back to MO. I had used it to fish the Saline River after I moved to central Arkansas with a 50 lb trolloing motor. I needed that size because I would use the trolloing motor to move upstream and and then float downstream and use the motor to hold my position or guide the boat. I stopped floating downstream with a jon boat a long time ago after running into a logjam on the upper Big Piney in a high bank area above the narrows and spending what time I had left to fish getting the boat around so I could get out at Dogs Bluff thats why I start down stream nowadays. Plus you don't need a shuttle and I never had a problem dragging a jonboat or canoe when I floated.

Actually if they had the super bowl in Lafayette at the Cajun Dome I would have gone..........and watched the game at Randouls or Mulates in Breau Bridge

Works for me, went there about 25 years ago it was even crowded back then I don't think the Indian in Cherokee had learned to dance back then but you could get a picture with him. We added 3 days at Dale Hollow on the way back. Smallies and wlleyes.My bride even said Dale Hollow was the best part of trip. The best part at Gattlinberg were the hiking trails and the strams and waterfalls in the park Justin, C W Mcall "Convoy" It was the dark of the moon.................................. and a GMY haulin' hogs........brings back memories, I had more fun in my life than anyone deserves.

I use hivis XL on spinning for grubs worms etc. on the bottom and xl green for cranks spinner baits and Top water on my spinning reels Suffix Performnce 10/4 braid for crappie and bluegill at Truman, Reelfoot or Lake Conway in Arkansas where the water is not very clear.

They have the superbowl in LA and no New Orleans music and why can't they have the National anthem sung by, oh I don't know, maybe a member of the military, instead of that garbage performance insult to this country. But I guess maybe I'm just old fashioned. But the NFL is fixed and corrupt from start to finish but it gives criminals something to do on Sunday afternoon.