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F&F my daughter who lives south of Little Rock texted to thank all of us for sending 2 hours of rain down to her

Love means you never have to say you are sorry............

.........but if the coyote knew how fast he could run , how would Acme Company have made any money? Does anyone else remember the Cheers episode that featured the motives of the Coyote vs the Road Runner?

Wrench used to drive up to the Fin Inn in Grafton IL and wait outside in line to eat one of their buffalo meals and they had walleye 0n the menu. But I have never tried to clean a carp usually don't fish for them and too lazy to spend the extra time to clean them.

Before I first went to Canada in the early 80s we were always told Northern Pike were not fit to eat until we were shown how to clean them we were also told that carp were not any good.

Looks like a Green Sunfish to me. For some reason in your neck of the woods they grow at least as big if not bigger than any where else I ever caught them. If you take care of them pretty tasty out of the grease. The area you where you live may have the best strip mine and farm pond fishing there is. If I had never fished So ILL farm ponds I might never picked up a fly rod and if I ever move again it will probably be to the area around Nashville, IL My secret weapon was Tom Nixon's Black Gnat plain on a #10 wet fly hook You might Google it or Tom Nixon Flies or see if the library has his book "Fly Tying and Fly Fishing For Bass And Panfish" He was kind of the warm water fly fishing guru from the late 1960s until he passed away a few years ago.

green 4 inchworm texas rigged no weight green 4inch worm texas rigged 1/32 oz or1/16 worn weight or jighead 3 or 4inch twister style grub with a 1/16oz 1/0 hook jig head My small chugbug in a purple orange chartruse color 3 inch Gulp Alive Chatruse Minnow on a 1/32 oz with a size 1 hook jighead

Al I missed another classic the late great Johnny Russell's Redneck White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer

Mitch the ultimate insult for any white man is to be called a yuppie usually preceded by something such as claiming he has an improper relationship with his mother or he has a good buddy relationship with a male person or the milder beady eyed maggot yuppie and white trash might get your butt kicked in a few paces I have been..........

Go back to sleep Phil this almost educational. Al almost right actually I Goggled redneck and checked wickiwhatever and found that the original recorded record of redneck was the use to deride farmworkers who had sunburned neck they were also called among other things woolhats because only the elite could afford silk hats it also was used by the coal miners in the last century like WallySmally posted. Now everybody should know that Gomer would probably prefer NeHI Grape with his Moom Pie lunch in North Carolina in the 60s and I have to challenge your definition of the term Redneck........I focus on two classical emotional moving songs first the classic Redneck anthem set where else but in the great state Oklahoma by classical song writer Ray Wyley Hubbard, " UP Against The Wall Redneck" which actually inspired me with the lyrics 'kicking yuppies azzes and raising you know what" so much that I once asked my wife if she would change her Christian name to Betty Lou Thelma Liz obviously that's a story for a later time under a flashing neon sign. The other classic song was David Allen Coe singing about this long hair don't hide my red neck and the bikers who are looking at the yuppies who are hoping they get out of here alive...........So with the term redneck featured in such great classical songs I think your derogatory description of Rednecks should be revaluated............I think

I' m not trying to belittle Ozark streams or smallmouth fishing in the Ozark streams, I've fished Mo and Arkansas waters most of my adult life so its just a question I thought of while I was up in Iowa for my Grandsons birthday in early June and noticed on the Cedar river park in Cedar Falls that the people fishing that river were not using canoes or kayaks they were in Lund V bottoms and Tracker Boats and this is way up on the Cedar its 60 miles by road from Cedar Rapids and the river still has a long way to go from there and for the last 20 years they seem to catch bigger fish then we do here and the river holds quality Walleye and Northern fish. I'm all for total catch and release if that would do the job.

Al recently mentioned World Class Smallmouth Fishing on another post and I was wondering if it is really possible on Ozark Streams? I ask that because other than the Gasconade and Meramec do we have the volume of water on our streams to support World Class. When you look at streams like the Cedar in Iowa or the Wisconsin or Menominee in Wisconsin which people are able to fish quite a lot of those streams out of 14 to 16 ft v bottoms with outboard motors or in some cases bass boats I just wonder if we have the water volume and depth to have that type of fishing.

Hey I love everyone's fish porn photos but I really like the ones that tell the story, so keep those fish on a paddle pics a coming............please.

Smally wally I never heard that. I always thought it was used to describe anyone who worked out side and got a sunburned neck later it was used to describe anyone who actually worked and didn't sit at a desk wearing a tie or today sits in a cubicle watching a computer monitor.

Hey Mitch funny but wrong. I was born in 19farty one in sight of the White Water tower at Grand and 20th sts. There was no North county in the Fartys other then Jennings Ferguson etc. The term was not Hoosiers it was Missouri Hoosier and was used to deride folks who moved to St.Louis from southern Missouri, Arkansas or other southern states to find work in the auto plants or other industries. As a side note there was a hotel for female Christian Missouri Hoosiers and no men were allowed above the first floor lobby but that's another story. Now the Missouri Hoosiers should not be confused with the folks who came to this country before WW1 we were just called rednecks or white trash if we didn't pay our bill at the Butcher shop at the end of the week. "That is probably why I pay my bills on time" So if your parents were born in the St Louis Metro area you can't possibly be a MO Hoosier. But you can be a Redneck which I think is a thing of pride or if you don't pay your tab at the Butcher shop each week you might be White trash That's all I got from 5 miles south of Interstate Farty Far

Nice fish, great photo, Too many times a fish photo is just that and doesn't tell the story

Wrench,I figured I'd start you up. I'm old school like you. Actually I'm a lot older school than you. I have no idea why these guy take on long term debt for a boat that is not going to make them any money and a tow that they have to finance. I'm always amazed at the amount of money people pay for rods and reels fly lines. Now if fishing is your business that's a different story.

But Wrench you gotta look cool in your boat.

Mic a good idea but an even better one is have your library buy it for you. part of the library's job is to purchase books for their clients and a lot of tomes they have no idea what books or magazines people want. My wife was the librarian who did this the last five years before she retired. I never had a book or magazine request turned down and once they start buying someone's titles they usually will buy the new ones. And if you ask them you can get at the top of the list when it comes in.

F&F that was my point, the guys who wanted to sign the petition read that and they will think they will save that much tax money even though they don't pay that much in taxes now.

Sorry F&F I have to question those numbers to have that amount of sales tax in AR you have to spend a lot of money on retail sales. Because you don't pay sales tax on non retail sales, at least we didn't when I lived there and at even >08% sales tax rounding off you would have to spend somewhere near $175,000 on retail sales that would be pretty difficult unless you were buying high end autos or boats without any trade in of last years expensive autos or boats.

Old Plug don't leave

Agree with GreasyB you'll do some dragin' at least to brushy creek just above horseshoe bend.........but I never floated any of that stretch without doing lots of dragin' but it always was worth it.....If you do that float do not pass up theriver above and below Brushy Creek especialy below Brushy Creek with out fishing back up it more than once and I would get out and wade fish it back upstream the right bank below that hole is public LAD State walk in forest on down through Horseshoe Bend so you should have no problem beaching your canoe there

Daveinozark that's the secret. Fishing should be what the child wants it to be and nothing is better than a fishin' hole with a playground and a parent or grandparent with a lot of patience. I would suggest crickets cause if the fishing is slow and the playground is boring , it can be a lot of fun catching the crickets when grandpa drops them........

Landing lights for the mother ship...........