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[brittsnbirds]

Calling for chance of rain every day after Thurs till next week. I am heading to Spring River this weekend and will just tough it out. Big rain came in over weekend and all full in Se Mo.

Funny you talk about the Spring River jd. Once upon a time when I was going to Jr. College at NEO in Miami Ok I fished a river off of 10 hiway called the Spring River. Just east of Miami. Nice little pull in, walk up stream where the river would change banks and SLAUGHTER the white bass off of the sand bars!! They would follow the cut and get bottled up in the headed off cut. My dad accused me of not going to classes until I pulled a monster bag of fillets. He quit complaining and tried to get a kitchen pass from mom to come down. Needless to say we were both in the dog house!!

Those were the good ole days back around 1975-76.

[upstream]

darn that was a long time ago . Suprised you c an remember back that long ago .

[jdmidwest]

Around 75 and 76, I was slaughtering the white bass on the St Francois River near the Old Greenville access with my great Uncle Bo. He lived in St Louis and came down on weekends to our farm where he had a trailer. He had an old 14' jon boat with a 25 hp Johnson that would only run when it wanted. No seats, just the hard aluminum. I would either dig the nightcrawlers or trap minnows during the week waiting for him to come down.

Most of the time we would catch a mess of Drum or White Bass and filet them out. If it was a drum, we would shuck the rocks out of its head and toss them in a jar. We had a collection of them, each one had the L shape on them, he called them "lady luck. Auntie would cook them down and make fish cakes for us to eat fishing or for supper.

For kicks, we would head down to the dam and fish the spillway for a pot luck fishing trip. Carp, buffalo, crappie, bass, white bass, or drum would be the one on the hook. For fun, we would toss minnows and catch gar.

Those were the days, good days I miss.

[brittsnbirds]

You got that right!

[brittsnbirds]

darn that was a long time ago . Suprised you c an remember back that long ago .

[brittsnbirds]

Yea it was. Kind of surprised I lived to tell about it.

Finally made it down. Rained the whole way until we hit licking. Hopefully it will stay north of us.