Jet boat tours?

[MoCarp]

8 hours ago, Gatorjet said:

Do you, or have you ever fished Taneycomo?

 

Yep....not so much since moving back to Missouri from San Antonio, But thats because of heath issues, but that will be changing, I remember once at Lilly's a coot swimming around with a Brown Trout over 30" following it! prob cause it was pooping, ether that or it was stalking it

I also remember a guy blasting up to the dam and ripping a hole on rebar....or seeing a Brown longer than the miller high-life fishing sticker ruler on my buddies 23 food bass boat.

remember catching Cuttbows in Taney, even remember back in the day driving on the strip after Silver dollar city closed for the season and not having any traffic.

I remember when gravel was dredged  out of the lake, or the old swimming area by old Branson....

winters & dog days of summer Taney was the fishing spot of choice...my biggest regret was not taking more pictures before changes happened 

always was something magical about the mist and fog of a morning on Taney, Wood ducks swimming past like victorian women hats with feet..mink hunting trout along the shorelines....looking up at a bluff or forested hillside with no sign of mans changes.

I had to take several upper level english literature classes in my quest for a Biology degree, I was stuck with a poetry class because of availability...at the time I though how worthless is this? Yet of all the classes I had taken my mind wanders to a specific poem triggered by a life event.

This pops in my head

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." Henry David Thoreau... soon it looks like many places to live that will be gone,

 

[Mitch f]

On ‎6‎/‎10‎/‎2017 at 1:38 PM, Greasy B said:

I say why not, don't we already forfeit large sections of our waterways to the loud and obnoxious. Our society doesn't value peace and tranquility, we look at our waterscapes as playgrounds  for idiots and we even admire those who turn them into amusement parks.   

As for regulations... we all know that's a bad word. 

When I'm an old man I think I'll give up all public water and spend my time trespassing on tiny creeks. I'd just as soon take my chances with gun toting, paranoid red necks. If they want to kill an old man with a fly rod I'll accept that fate. 

No kidding. 

I'm not sure what the future holds. Most urban/suburban kids are so used to the iPad or playing video games that they never leave their room. The only time they will see the outdoors is on a field trip or float trip. It seems the whole Boy Scout Girl Scout thing is dead too. I've got Buddies with a house at LOZ and can't get their kids out in a boat to go fishing. There are obliviously exceptions but it seems the rural kids are the only ones outdoors these days.

[Old plug]

That is exactly how  it is with your buddies Mitch. Only Good thing I note in my neighborhood is that there are just virually not tournaments and very few fisherman. Especially on the weekends. Maybe it s becaise the fishing has gotten pretty bad in this area this year. 

 

[MoCarp]

Its a sad state of affairs, single moms...dads are lucky to see Jr on weekends......less disposable income for hobbies....

[snagged in outlet 3]

Not all kids are I heads.  My daughter and her group spend 5 weeks every summer at climbing camp.  Climbing swimming camping canoeing bon fires at night. I wish they would let me go

[MOPanfisher]

My kids love all that sort of stuff too, they just never cared about fishing.  Maybe I am biased with my kids but having heard all my life about how these dang kids nowadays  (fill in complaint of choice), but I am quite impressed with an awful lot of them, very intelligent, thoughtful, kind hearted, and willing to learnn.  I actually am thinking that some.of the younger generations will be the saving grace for a lot of things.  Will our world be different in 50 years, sure, at least I hope so but that doesn't mean it will be worse.  With some of the technology coming out of the minds of those early nerds there are going to be a lot of changes.  Hope I live long enough to see them.

[Flysmallie]

My youngest (13) is a technology nut. (Actually all of my kids have been. They probably got it from me.)  She doesn't like to fish. She doesn't like boats. So most would assume that she sits in her room all day playing games. And while she is no stranger to games, you are more than likely going to find her in the backyard listening to music, writing songs, and drawing. 

If a kid wants to do nothing more than sit around and do nothing then that's on the parents, not the kids. I think most parents try to get their kids involved in what they like. But when their kid determines they don't like what their parents like then they are just left with nothing. So they do what all the other unsupervised kids do. It's great if your kids like to do what you like to do. Everybody wants that. But you can't just give up on them when they don't. If more parents would get interested in doing what their kids like to do, and enjoy doing it with them, the world would be a better place. 

[snagged in outlet 3]

Our stance has always been to expose them to as much as we can and maybe they will find something they like to do.  I mentioned I would like to go to camp and she laughed and said.  "We don't drink, you're afraid of heights, there's no air conditioning and we sleep in hammocks"  I told her I'll pass.  But please send pictures.

[Mitch f]

1 hour ago, Flysmallie said:

If a kid wants to do nothing more than sit around and do nothing then that's on the parents, not the kids. I think most parents try to get their kids involved in what they like. But when their kid determines they don't like what their parents like then they are just left with nothing. So they do what all the other unsupervised kids do. It's great if your kids like to do what you like to do. Everybody wants that. But you can't just give up on them when they don't. If more parents would get interested in doing what their kids like to do, and enjoy doing it with them, the world would be a better place. 

Pretty much agree. But with more than one child (like you and me) they all need to suffer sometimes and do things as a family. This goes against the grain of all involved. The oldest is bored and only wants to hang with their friends...the middle likes doing her stuff and so on. They all like different things and get irritated when they have to get along and then start complaining. 

One of the biggest things I teach my children is to respectfully communicate with adults. When someone says hi, don't stare at the ground. It's been tough sometimes but I'm making headway.

[Flysmallie]

1 hour ago, Mitch f said:

Pretty much agree. But with more than one child (like you and me) they all need to suffer sometimes and do things as a family.

 

Yep. And mine do that. Sometimes I'm the one that suffers though.

Actually mine are pretty easy. They get along, they know how to speak, they also know how to be quiet and patient. It's not rocket science, but parents have to put in a effort as well.