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I used a black light and clear blue stren at night when we fished LOZ. 15 lb test looks like 1/4" blue rope above the water.

I also heard great things abut tackle TW, nice to have a company to deal with that treats customers first!

The topwater was working well today

Fish the wood with jigs and flukes. Stable water with make it better fishing but you can't control the generation schedule.

I agree Wayne, if they have 3 teeth, they're from Missouri. Two teeth they're from Arkansas, and 1 tooth they're from Mississippi. Toothless is from Louisiana

I wouldn't mind paying $5 to park, keeps the riff raff out and only affects the people who use the resource.

Scott and Andy, great fish, I've never caught Hybrids like that on the Meramec, only whites!

You a catch and release guy?

LOL

Exactly, I wouldnt bet on it either. Why take the risk? Best to stay on the side of caution. The damage will be irreversable. I also agree that none of us know diddly...including the scientists on both sides, who probably only know slightly more than diddly.

Funny, that's exactly what I do with a Spike-it marker as well. Since I use a neutral baitfish color fluke and I sometimes can't see them flying thru the air or in the water slowly sinking. My Lasik surgery was only on one eye so I can still read a computer screen without glasses. This causes me to loose the baits flying thru the air and my casting depth perception has suffered. BTW, I love the Arkansas shiner color fluke. Sometimes crimp a split shot on the 4/0 Gamakatsu EWG hook shank that you can slide front to back so you can adjust the fall tilt from horizontal to nose down. Also allows the bait to sink a little faster with faster current or deeper water (much easier to keep pace with your partner who's throwing a crankbait and working your way down a bank). You can also use the Superline EWG's which are slightly heavier to help sink it a littler faster.

Had a great experience today fishing an Ozark stream. Didnt catch that many but the fish were actually being caught where they were supposed to be. Guess they read the book that says " When the boats come by lurk near structure"

Thought you guys were doing the MSA James river thang!!

When I was a kid we would make the journey form Florissant to Northwest plaza to see what was then the largest mall in the world. My how times change!...and so has Florissant! Also our father used to take my brother and I to Wamser Ferman sporting goods store on Manchester road, which seemed like an enternity to get there. He bought us matching Plano tackle boxes (plastic worm welders) and a zebco reel on I believe a shakespeare fiberglass rod. We always wathced the Virgil Ward show and filled our boxes full of beetle spins and Creme purple worms, sinkers, gold aberdeen Eagle Claw hooks, and so on. Our next door neighbor was an avid bass fisherman who actually was the guy who got me hooked on bass fishing. We went to a local carp lake called "Rock Lake" near Missouri Bottom Road (which is now where I-370 runs thru) with my nieghbor and his family. The neighbor rigged up my line with a creme worm and told me to just throw it out and reel it slowly back in. He went about 100 yards away and started fishing. About the 10th cast a 3 lb bass hit about 5 feet from the shore just as I was ready to lift my rod to make another cast. The splashing and the look of total disbelief on my face caused everyone within 50 yards to rush over to come to my aid. The nieighbor was the first on the scene and kept repeating "I told Ya, I told Ya!" All of this made me start crying and couldn't stop for 2 minutes. Been hooked ever since!

Lincoln was assassinated , MLK was assassinated, Dat Buckwheat jest got shot

Last year at the Boat and Float, Jeremy, AL, and I were by that ramp in my jet and one of the local queens dropped her baby in the water (no floatation device or life jacket of any kind) and finally fished her or him out of the water with the baby screaming of course. The baby daddy runs over to check the baby out...after a quick check he determined "He just more scared than anything"...ya think???????

Hasn't happened (yet) Eric. Our great so called "republican" mayor of New York is fighting a war on big gulps at the moment

Well of course, if you are going to take something, it makes it much easier that way! Don't want to re- hash the argument (pun intended) but a good friend of mine, kind of a hippie welder guy used to hang out there and I was asking him about the place. He said ANYTHING was available. I asked him specifically about hard drugs and not just weed. He answered ANYTHING, and it was right out in the open. So apparently this was brewing for a long time. A little common sense and discretion goes a long way.

A little expensive but seems to track slow and true, also makes a nice little bubble trail. I like it in spite of the Roland Martin endorsement most buzzbaits you can tune and tinker to get them to run better anyway but the cavitron seems good out of the box. I did have to adjust a couple though

I like the Cavitron

Great report and very informative Junkman! Do you use circle hooks for the perch?

Yep, I usually just say I'm not interested and put my right hand up with my palm facing them. They get the message fast. The minute you let someone bother you, they have won the contest. I just hang up on phone solicitors.

Well Blazer, Smallie and I went out the other day for a few hours and didn't do so well either...

Haven't heard anything since the seizure

I suspect you are right, a guy with a fishing rod is much less a problem than a bunch of drunks. Some places just flat out attract the finest people. When we ended last years float and boat on the gasconade, there was a huge group of people at the Riddle bridge boat ramp just darn near blocking it. They weren't fishing, just a local hangout I guess.