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All I know is that the water temps 2’ down were 53-55° on Table Rock yesterday. The big female spots have disappeared. I’m guessing that they are in a pre spawn holding pattern some where.

If he is on land, Rapid Roberts has a store in Shell Knob. By water maybe Campbell Point Marina.

I must have screwed up your camera. They were lots bigger in real life.

We got no help from the wind today. We thought maybe crank or spinner would work but NO.

Jeff met me at barely daylight this morning. There was only one other boat there in the lot. The river has treated me so poorly that I couldn’t make myself go up. We hit some bluff ends, pockets, and creeks. We caught something almost every where we stopped, though not a lot. The common factor seemed to be rocks, the more the better. We caught 26 lmb, smb, and spots. Keepers were scarce. We probably only had 4. Jeff had a 3# smallmouth and a 4# largemouth. I’m on my tablet and don’t have the pics here. I hope Jeff will post them after while. We threw spinner baits, crank baits and jerk baits…little to no love. The main bait was the Ned rig. I think we only used dirt, green pumpkin and Alabama craw. They hit all three.

Put the Canadian goose in there and I’m with you.

You guys can have your fungi. We have people trespassing and looking for them from now to late spring. Personally I’ll take vegetables. I saw a couple of asparagus spears when I looked out the window at breakfast. I just came in from a closer look. I have at least 30 spears sticking up from 1 to 12 inches. I’ve never seen them in early March before. I guess I’ll pick them Monday morning.

If you can’t find one on here, you might give Scott or Brad a call at Marine Repair Center 417-833-9191. They seem to always have used trolling motors laying around.

Thankfully I was given a heads up from one of those guys about whom wrench rants. He said if I had any plans to get another ash harvest I better get it done before the borers got here. Which I did. Sadly it looks like it was the last one.

Absolutely. There is no way that I would cut, split, and haul firewood to try to sell it to campers. When I sell logs, I hire a logger who has the proper equipment to go into extremely hard to reach areas, cut the trees and bring the logs to collection points. Then I contact the buyer who comes, inspects and pays on the spot. All I have to do is collect the check and go to the bank, and head to the lake, not stand by the road hawking bundles of wood. I also have some wood chucks who will cut up the tops, split them and stack them in the barn on shares.

Once again where did you get your information and to what type of logs are you referring?

J D even though we are actually able to see the results we are probably wrong because wrench is a renowned forester who knows more about ash trees and logging than we do.

I never said anything like that. What I said was that ash is not premium fire wood. Maybe you should take the time to read before you post.

You obviously don’t know what you’re talking about. Ash logs are specialty items for specialty buyers. They are not marketable for firewood. I’ve been selling various kinds of timber for a lot of years. My most consistent buyer is located in Oklahoma. Before we sold off 1000 of our acres we were logging one farm or another every year or so.

I don’t find it intriguing, I find it costly in that I can no longer harvest them for lumber, only second class firewood.

So how many of them are connected to holes bored into the trees and the flat headed bores under the bark?

No not all of us switch. Myself, I will switch even with the bite on just to see if something else works better.

I can’t speak for most of your listings but they got it spot on with the ash borer. I have standing dead ash trees all over the place.

If I were you I’d be looking around Jimmy or one of the Music Creeks. That would keep you within 20 miles with half a lifetime of places to fish.

Good trip. Nice brown fish. I had a feeling that you would be getting out there. I’ve been waiting for you to post something. It’s been like summer here. I’m busting a gut wanting to get back on the water, hopefully only 6 more days.

A friend of mine used to fish for them below Truman dam.

Except he hates Mercs.

Both arms are Sac River arms.

Have you called the Cape Fair Marina to see if they handle them?

I don’t think it is open.