Howdy

[petertherock]

I thought it might be appropriate that i introduce myself, since I've posted a few on the forum. My real name is Tom. I used to be a preacher up in Cape Fair and I substituted full time for the ReedsSpring School district. I started fishing Table Rock religiously back in 1983. Prior to that I considered my home lake to be the Lake of the Ozarks. My pap broke me in to fishing the Dragon when I was just a little tike, It was crappie fising on the Little Niangua, in specific crappie bed 41. We originally lived in St. Louis but made several trips to the Lake of the Ozarks in the summers and stayed at an old fishing camp resort there called Bowers. The resort was between Kon-Tiki and Sportsmens. Any way I started bass fishing in my teens.

Later as an adult I fished BASS Federation tournaments and local tournaments in the Mid-West. In retrospect I hated tournament fishing, too much anxiety, too much hype!

My folks decided to retire to Table Rock back in 1983. They bought a piece of property up on Eagle Ridge off of DD highway from Doug Blevins & Rick Miller two fine local young men(then) that owned and still do Miller-Blevins excavating and DD Dockbuilders (Commercial) that included a slip in a boat dock just below them.(A funny part of the story) in negotiating a price for the lot, Doug called my momma the first Jew in the Ozarks!(were not Jewish)but my momma is shrewd for sure, he pegged her right! If the property and home ever goes up for sale, while my momma's still living I'll let you know, becuase you'll want to negotiate through me, trust me! My parents plans were originally to retire on the Lake of The Ozarks, but it just became to commercial for them (imagine that)

I came To Cape Fair back in the Mid 90's and stayed through 2000. I always have and will consider the Rock to be my home! I live out in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia now where we fish up on Lake Erie, Pyatumming, Mosquitoe, Berlin, Tappan in Ohio, the Ohio and Mongehela Rivers, trout fish many streams in PA and West Virginia as well as hit the streams for smallmouth.

I am still a preacher of the Gospel within the Independent Christian Churches/Churches of Christ. But God always gives me opportunities fish probably as a reminder that we real in people to a relationship with Christ, one at a time, just as we do the bass.

petertherock

[jcmojo]

Hi Tom,

I've been around for awhile also, but have not introduced myself yet. I grew up around the Lake of the Ozarks area in Central Mo. and have lived in Jefferson City Mo. most of my working career. I've been retired now for a few years. I spent a five year stint in Canfield Ohio, and had many opportunities to fish Mosquitoe, which was only about 12 miles away. Good walleye and crappie lake. You and I have been very fortunate to have always lived around good fishing lakes and rivers. I know parts of West Virginia and Pennsylvania are blessed with scenery like the Ozarks, but that area of Ohio that I lived in was pretty blah for scenery. It didn't hold a candle to the Ozarks. I don't fish year round nearly as much as I used to, because I caught that dreaded bug called golf. I still love to get after the crappie in the spring, and will be spending most of April doing just that. Hope to get down to TR for a short 3 day trip. I love to read this site, but don't have much to post yet. I try to log on every day and catch up. Good luck on getting back to the Rock someday Tom.

Doug Kehr