ness Posted April 2, 2015 Posted April 2, 2015 I look at water too, but it's usually in the context of fishing. I wonder if I could I get to it; if it holds fish; could I get my canoe out on it, or would the float tube be the trick.; what would MSA's Matt Weir do? John
BilletHead Posted April 2, 2015 Posted April 2, 2015 Dang you all are doing it wrong. I pull over, walk to the waters edge and peek up and down the creek. See who is fishing under the bridge and ask "catching any?" BilletHead Daryk Campbell Sr and bs1827 2 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
fishinwrench Posted April 2, 2015 Posted April 2, 2015 The ones that hurt are the stretches like where 5 hwy. crosses the Osage fork. They look so good....but you can't fish them without risking a major hassle and possibly a day in court.
ozark trout fisher Posted April 2, 2015 Posted April 2, 2015 Yep, I'm as guilty of any here. When I'm in country with really pretty water (ie out west) it's a wonder that staring at rivers instead of the road hasn't had some sort of consequence by this point. Though I wasn't actually in the driver's seat at this moment, I remember clearly driving along a branch of the Rio Grande in SW Colorado, literally pointing out which boulders I thought the trout were hiding behind. There could have been an albino moose standing in the road and I would have been too busy staring at the creek to notice. A few days ago, I added a significant distance to my trip home from the Ozarks just so I could see the Gasconade and upper Bourbeuse River, even though I've been on/fished them them too many times to count, and I didn't have any intention of actually stopping to fish. After awhile I'm pretty sure it becomes something approaching a magnetic attraction.
msamatt Posted April 3, 2015 Posted April 3, 2015 I look at water too, but it's usually in the context of fishing. I wonder if I could I get to it; if it holds fish; could I get my canoe out on it, or would the float tube be the trick.; what would MSA's Matt Weir do? Ness, my thoughts invariably turn to fishing. Does that creek hold any fish? How can I get down there? Once I get there how do I get back up, etc? I love to both wade and float and my float trips usually involve a fair amount of wading and swimming (I mean actually swimming not the consequence of being a crummy paddler) I feel most fully alive and engaged with the world when I'm out on (and in) the water. I think the abiding fascination with and love for fishing moving water certainly unites all river and stream anglers. Are we ever sated? I hope not. A couple years ago my buddy Dan and I were fishing a stretch of the Big Piney when we both witnessed someone tossing what looked like a bunch of dirt off the top of a tall bluff on river right. My initial reaction what WTF!! but as more people moved into view and they too tossed the "dirt" off the bluff I realized that we were witnessing someone's remains being redistributed and I was deeply moved (I'm still moved as I recollect that moment). That person could clearly never get enough of the Big Piney and wanted his or her ashes mingled with the rocks and waters. So, gentlemen, here's to all you who share my passion. Let's all do our part to make sure future generations can do the same. ness 1 Matt Wier http://missourismallmouthalliance.blogspot.com The Missouri Smallmouth Alliance: Recreation, Education, and Conservation since 1992
fishinwrench Posted April 3, 2015 Posted April 3, 2015 I've always thought the whole spreading of ashes thing was kinda gross. Keep your nasty old dead carcass out of the river. Every time I hear someone say that I get a visual of a charred zombie laying along the bank. Who started that crap anyway? Do you truly think it means anything? People are freakin' weird.
msamatt Posted April 3, 2015 Posted April 3, 2015 Wrench: Life is gross. Rivers are chock full of live and dead carcasses at any given moments. If you want to ponder gross (or wonderful) consider the fact that there is no new water on this planet. All of our water has been filtered through imaginable organism since we first developed an atmosphere. Matt Wier http://missourismallmouthalliance.blogspot.com The Missouri Smallmouth Alliance: Recreation, Education, and Conservation since 1992
BilletHead Posted April 3, 2015 Posted April 3, 2015 That's what they do to them in India except the torch them on a raft of wood. I bet there is more than ashes left Wrench have you not been on a river and seen a cow or dead deer float by? Oh O forgot you have a different type of floater on LOZ, BilletHead ness 1 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
fishinwrench Posted April 3, 2015 Posted April 3, 2015 Yeah but those beings didn't "request it". It's different if you have no choice in the matter. Plus, their co-horts don't dress up and make a big ritual out of it.
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