Home Waters

[hank franklin]

My home water is the Bourbeuse River, probably the most northern of the Ozark streams. The Bourbeuse is where I learned to fish, shoot a .22, ride a dirtbike, throw a horseshoe, row a jonboat, skin a catfish, etc. As a kid we caught about every fish that swims (at least in Missouri) out of the Bourbeuse. Later when I got serious about smallmouth fishing the Bourbeuse was my classroom. I've floated its entire length except for two small sections. The Bourbuese, like Al says of the Big, does not seem as fishy as it once was, but it always seems to give up something of consequence. It's also quite slow and murky and thus is not much of a canoeing river, which means it's not swamped with fools like its parent the Meramec and many others. Still, it gets a fair amount of use and the nice thing about that is the people you do see on the Bourbeuse generally love it like I do.

As my home water, the Meramec is number two, but I don't feel at "home" on that river or any other like I do on the Bourbeuse.

[alletec]

I voted for the Lake Of The Ozarks because that is where I have done most of my fishing, but not latly. In the past three years it has been Tany and Maramec Springs. With no boat and very little time to fish that is what I have been doing. Like my favorite shirt says, "Born to fish forced to work"

That says it all.

[LostMyWife]

My home waters lie in a private lake call Holiday lake just outside of Edwardsville IL, a small bedroom community that is a suburb of St Louis. I can't believe we did't make the list.

Oh Wait.........I found it..........OTHER

[MrDucky]

Taney would be mine , I do fish Roaring River also , But Taneycomo is mine

[jjtroutbum]

Week long family summer vacations camping getin dragged half a sleep sat in the back of a pickup poptart shoved in my, my brothers and our cousin (he wasnt and nether were his parents really related but they were family) mouths. Truck stops in the dark and the gate drops. Putting on disposable waders(simaler to trash bags with legs drawstring included) and grass cutin sneakers. Its dark very cold and absolutely home even with a thousand other anglers on the stream "Bennett" was my vote

JJ

[Dewayne]

I grew up fishing the James so its where I love to go even if I dont have that much time.One way or the other I can usualy catch some sort of fish.Even in winter I fish for bluegill or even the big minnows does'nt matter to me as long as I get to go.

[Randall]

i have to call meramec springs my home waters because i learned how to trout fish there. i like taney and the current river more, but i have too many memories at meramec.

[Thom]

Taneycome is both my favorite and the place I fish the most in a years time.

[ckjacks]

I voted Stockton. I have spent many nights out on the Party Barge with my grandfather over brush piles fishing for crappie, white bass, walleye, and the occasional drum(my uncle caught a 8lber and proclaimed it a record small mouth, we still give him a hard time about those smallmouth drum). Although I do fish Taney and Beaver a lot, Stockton still gets most of my traffic and is my favorite place to go. It might not be as easy to fish as some lakes and the water might not be as nice, but I think its one of the best crappie, walleye, and smallmouth lakes around.

[rainbow]

I voted for Taney because it is my favorite and I fish there every chance I get. I also go to Mark Twain and Truman about the same but trout fishing is my first pick and that's Taney.