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You were too busy blasting Snoop Dog and didnt read the forum about the topwater reports of the last 5 years!!!!

Great report!

I throw these directly into a log jam in the river and never get hung up!

I used to do great on a Silver Buddy

Welcome Jason!

I've found that smallmouth like The Allman Brothers. Large mouth like Led Zepplin

I thought you were gonna say Lucky 13?

Very nice largemouth Al, I bet they bent your rod in half!

Some people haven't figured it out about noise pollution. They think everyone wants to listen to that crap.

I was just messing with you....yea it covers the best part of the river

Between Cedar Ford and Moselle

Very nice Jim, I have the exact same kind of floor on my boat… Looks like a Troutt and sons special flooring job! Great post spawn patterning

I agree with Phil, 168 is a good poke for a 7 iron, I used to be able to hit a 7 around 160-165 but not anymore.

My buddy lives in Normandy not far from the St. Louis airport. He had 2 coyotes rip into his big dog at night. He flipped the back porch light on and the smaller coyote left, but the other one was a big male and stood his ground even as my friend walked toward him. He was intent on fighting his dog. He reluctantly walked away slowly as he got within about 10 yards of him. Still growling with the hair standing up high on his back. I have no doubt coyotes will kill any dog, regardless of size. The just gang up and get it done.

If you can Walk the dog as good as Al, you don't need a WP!?

Way to go Aaron! 20" on top is awesome!!

He's a good guy, but he's a small business owner who thinks it's his way or the highway. Sorry for this story I'm about to tell, but it's funny as heck. He's the kind of guy who bounces every 5 years from one thing to another and has to go out and buy the most expensive toys. So after he gave up on stream fishing, he decided he wanted to "get in touch with his wild side" (his words), and go buy a top of the line Harley. His wife knew him well and told him he couldn't buy it unless he purchased an extra 1 million dollar life insurance policy. He agreed.....exactly one month after he bought it, he decided to drive all the way to Sturgis, with basically no experience riding a motorcycle. The day he was to leave, his buddies drove by to pick him up with their Harleys. His wife decided to make this event a real Kodak moment, and actually had a movie camera out to film him riding off into the sunset. What he didn't realize, is he forgot to turn the fork lock off, and he took off and only went 15 feet and ran into his wife's parked car and dropped the bike on its side!!?????.

I went with a guy on the Upper Jacks Fork once in the trophy area. We drug the canoe half of the float. He still complains to this day about how much fiberglass he lost on that trip.

Did you catch the drum in the middle of the river?

But then again, what if we all got together and..... ?

Monster smallmouth are a rare treat. A smallmouth that's truly 20" is a heck of a trophy. I'm still amazed how big a 20" smallmouth looks when you're holding it in your hands. They get smarter as they get bigger, but it seems the times when I caught a big one I didn't seem to do anything special. I was just at the right place at the right time with the right lure. But more often than not, the water was a tad murkier than normal. But I do think a stealthy presentation works to your favor. My old working buddy at McDonnell Douglas had property on the Gasconade river. He was the first true smallmouth freak I'd ever met. He described what he thought the best way to catch a trophy smallmouth on the river. He had a John boat and would motor up to a big log jam or rootwad in the middle of the river and tie on. Then he would use what he called "The one cigarette rule". He smoked a cigarette and waited. After he finished the cigarette he would dunk a live craw dad down in the middle and just let it sit there without moving it for up to 10 minutes. He caught a bunch of big smallmouth!?

I'll text you

Update on Hawaiian Sling dude...... He (the same guy) was run out of an outfitters campground again this last weekend. Witnesses told the manager of the campground that they saw a guy with a wet suit and a fish basket and reported him. The manager recognized him from the last run in. He confronted the guy with the same pictures at the beginning of this thread and the guy said "Yeah, I got busted and paid a lawyer $500 to take care of it for me and I didn't need to show up". The manager kicked him off his property and the dude ran up to the closest MDC put in above the campground. The manager alerted the Conservation agents about him and that's the last anyone has heard. Obviously he did not learn his lesson! Reminds me of the guy shooting the catfish with a bow in the other thread. Some people think they are above the law I guess!

A frog with a scrounger head in my subdivison pond is all I can muster...new baby keeping me out of the boat