Ozark Anglers Forum 1St Annual Float And Boat

[FishinCricket]

Darn, you beat me too it Cricket....

Pete

Yeah but (judging by your time stamp) you were a minute late already... :snicker_snicker:

[Mitch f]

Looks like I won't be able to make it this time, deadlines looming.

Catch some fish fellas, and try not to catch anything from cricket.

Sorry man, see you next time

[Gavin]

Hall Pass is secured...will be heading down Thursday AM or PM.

[snagged in outlet 3]

I start a new job July 5th so I don't know what will happen,

Hoping to come down Saturday. Don't know if I'll float or not but would like to meet everyone.

I handle all the haul passes at my house...

Jus sayin

Pete

[Gavin]

Planning to load up the smoker with 40-50lbs of meat this weekend..Get me a head count and I'll bring enough pulled pork for dinner on Friday. Someone else can pop for the buns, & sides.

[Mitch f]

Planning to load up the smoker with 40-50lbs of meat this weekend..Get me a head count and I'll bring enough pulled pork for dinner on Friday. Someone else can pop for the buns, & sides.

Wow, mighty nice of you, I will take care of the buns and sodas/ BYOB

[ColdWaterFshr]

I'm in for only Thursday late afternoon thru Friday, heading home Friday evening before dinner. My son has a double header on Saturday that I can't miss.

[Phil Lilley]

Just to clarify- I copied some old posts from the other topic--->

Boiling Spring Campground is about two miles below the mouth of the Big Piney. One can put in at several spots around Devils Elbow, none of which are easy except the private access at the bridge which charges a fee and, as Chuck Tryon said in his book on Smallmouth Adventures, they have an openly hostile attitude. That would give you a 5 mile float. For those wanting a longer float on the Piney, I'm sure that the guy at Laz-Y-Days would let people put in at his place, which adds another 1.5 miles. Or if you really want a longer float, you can put in up around the East Gate at the Fort and go down to Devils Elbow, which 13 miles. There are some obscure Forest Service accesses in between that can make for shorter floats if you're adventurous enough to find them. Chuck's book is an invaluable source for that kind of thing.

Riddle Bridge on the Gasconade to the campground is 13.5 miles. You can cut three miles off that float by taking out at Hwy. 28, though I don't know how good the access there is. It's 7.5 miles from the campground to the next access at Jerome.

I figure there's an even chance that we'll now enter a drought phase after all that rain this spring, and if so the Gasconade above the mouth of the Piney is no place for jetboaters who don't know the river very well. But from the Piney down it's fairly easy to run. And there are good accesses at Jerome, Bell Chute, and a private access at Hwy. 42, all of which are a fairly easy drive from the campground.

If your using boiling springs campground Larry is a great person. He knows the Access's on the Gasconade and Big Piney. The area You guys are fishing is all great smallie water. I've been on all of it Canoe and Jet Boat. I'd say the Piney will be the best water for the canoe guy's and the Nade will be good for the Jet boats up to Hwy 17. Above 17 the canoers should consider heading that way. Larry has some great access for those who use his shuttle service. The Lazy days campground owner is a very avid smallmouth fisherman. Oh' by the way the weekend after the 4th of July is a very busy weekend for all campground and canoe rentals. I would definitly do some research on how early One can get on the water and how may access's for that day's trip to avoid some of the rif raf. Or go in a canoe so far upstream that no one wants to go cause of dragging. I gotta work or I'd love to go.

Ok,

Here's what I see on who's going

Smalliebigs- Yes

Al Agnew - Yes

GotMuddy - Yes

Cricket -Yes??

Gavin- Maybe

Snagged- Maybe

Eric- Maybe

Drew- Maybe

ColdWater- Maybe

FishinSWMO Maybe

Does anybody else want to go?

Tell me if this works for you July 9th

How many are camping, how many just floating?

Should be fun!!

Some people are showing up Thursday, some on Friday, some on Saturday.

I don't know if you guys have already contacted Larry at Boiling Springs or not or do you want me to do it for you. Let me know.

I probably won't show up until Friday afternoon when the Friday float is near ending. BTW,

a know a couple of guys that tore em up on the upper float putting in at Riddle Bridge access last week!!!

So let's have a barbque on Friday night and then float again Saturday. I'm sure some will

stay and float Sunday as well. Since I don't have any camping equipment I was wondering if I could share a tent on Fri and Saturday??

Here's a prelim agenda for Saturday night:

6:00 to 7:00 Supper

7:00 to 7:15 Change from beer to cocktails

7:15 to 8:00 Tally fish and award ceremony

8:00 to 9:00 Feats of Strength (JoeD, Coldwater)

9:00 to 10:00 Airing of Grievances (Cricket)

10:00 to 10:15 Get more gasoline and logs for the fire

10:15 to ? Free time

[FishinCricket]

9:00 to 10:00 Airing of Grievances (Cricket)

Uhm, you mis-read... I am doing the "Airing of Water balloons"..

[Al Agnew]

I'll be there Thursday PM. Actually I'm planning on a two day float trip on the Piney with my brother in law and his sons either Tuesday-Wednesday or Wednesday-Thursday. So I'll be fishing for at least 4 or 5 days straight!

Gavin, whenever we finalize our plans, if it works out we're both fishing Thursday want to do it together or at least run a piggy-back shuttle with one of us floating an upper stretch and the other floating the next stretch down? (Piggy back shuttle works like this...load all canoes on one vehicle, drive to upper put-in, drop off whoever is floating from there down, other drives vehicle to that take-out, which is their put-in, then when person on upper float gets to take-out the vehicle is waiting and they drive to take-out for other float and pick them up...With two vehicles you can drop off the other vehicle at the take-out for the lower float, and then nobody has to wait for a pick-up.)