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[FishinCricket]

Hello all! My name is Cricket ( I know, my parents were a little weird) I am from Lebanon, MO and have lived here almost my entire life. I am an avid fisherman (though not much of a game hunter) and have spent alot of time on the Gasconade, Osage Fork, and Niangua Rivers... I like the Gasconade the best, mainly because it fits my 16 ft jon boat, but also for the Monster Largemouth and Smallmouth..

I have years of practice getting the trout to bite on the Niangua, but am still considered an amateur by the locals due to my stubborness in not using a fly rod, or anything that costs over $30, for that matter..

My favorite fishing pole to this day is the little shakespeare Ugly Stick ultra light with 4 lb test.. I have drug in 15 lb. catfish on that pole (it's all in the dragset)

I joined this site because I have been told by too many local anglers that there is so much here in the Ozarks that I am missing out on.. So I stopped by to find out what everyone is talking about...

I look forward to conversing with all of you... I look forward to garnering your best advice and stealing all your best fishing spots!!

PS the Photo I posted is from this time two years ago on the sinking creek (a tributary of the Current River) on a camping trip.. Another magical trip where the fish were hitting every cast. The photo shows the deepest part of the creek. What you see in the background is a large blue tube that held around 25 smallmouth. This fish took the topwater popper I was using out of a smaller fishes mouth! I walked a two mile stretch of this creek and landed around 35 fish in a few short hours.. Lucky for me a local hippy was there to snap this photo, otherwise it would just be another fishing story...

[Trav]

Welcome!

[Phil Lilley]

There's so many places in our own Missouri backyard that all of us are missing out on... but God willing and the creek(s) don't rise, we'll see most of them someday.

But until then, we have people like Al and Brian and many others to -show and tell- us all about it... and now we have Cricket.

Welcome.

[FishinCricket]

There's so many places in our own Missouri backyard that all of us are missing out on... but God willing and the creek(s) don't rise, we'll see most of them someday.

But until then, we have people like Al and Brian and many others to -show and tell- us all about it... and now we have Cricket.

Welcome.

Do I detect a slight amount of sarcasm? hehe

thanks for the warm welcome all, I look forward to talking with you...

[Phil Lilley]

Do I detect a slight amount of sarcasm? hehe

You don't know me very well...

[FishinCricket]

You don't know me very well...

Hey, you are a fisherman.. It was an easy guess..

Besides, all fishermen are experts, aren't we?