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54 minutes ago, Seth said:

Tyler obviously doesn't seem to have any problems catching plenty of big smallies. Maybe other guys just need to get out there and figure em out. If he's figuring this stuff out on his own and wants to post videos, that's on him. He seems to be fishing the same stretches of water quite a bit so he's not messing up everything. I enjoy making videos of my fishing escapades myself, but they are always on highly pressured waters anyways so I don't feel like it really matters. Everything I'm catching fish on is nothing secret. I'm not one to ask for advice from another person either and would rather figure things out on my own. If somebody feeds me info or shows me something, I don't post any video of it because it's not mine to share. That seems like the fair thing to do IMO.

I only really fish the Gasconade so that's all I can really comment on. The fishing pressure from tournaments and pleasure anglers has gotten worse every year since I started fishing in 2012. The smallmouth fishing has been better the past two years than it had been the years prior since I started fishing it. Most tournaments are dominated by smallmouth instead of the largemouth like they had been in years past. I've seen more 3.5lbs+ smallmouth brought to the scales in the past two years than I can recall in the previous 7-8 years that I've been fishing for them. 

Is this due to higher water levels or something else? I know it takes smallmouth a lot longer than 2 years to grow to 3-4 pounds, but they sure seem to be more abundant than they used to be. The opposite seems to hold true when it comes to largemouth though. It seems more difficult to find a 3+ pound greenie now than it used to be.

Many of you have a lot more years of service chasing bass on these bodies of water than I do so this is just based on my decade of experience. I don't do much floating on the smaller streams so I have no say on those, but I do feel like I have pretty good tabs on everything below Big Piney through all of the different bass clubs that fish it. I've only fished way up the Gasconade once and it was like a completely different body of water. No tournaments and little jet boat access made for a lot easier fishing. The biggest fish still seem to come from way down river even though it gets a lot more pressure. Could just be more places for them to hide I guess since it's quite a bit bigger water.

It doesn’t take a talented fisherman to go to a secret creek and catch 20” smallmouth. I could give my 5 year old a whopper plopper and she could do it. Now these kids are making money doing it on YouTube. Drives me fruit actually to see them expose the creeks. Oh well, they all want to be YouTube stars. 

"Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor

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1 hour ago, Gavin said:

I'm trying real hard, real hard,  to avoid becoming a resentful, grumpy old man, but these darn kids aren't making it easy!

We could start a club 😜
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16 hours ago, Mitch f said:

It doesn’t take a talented fisherman to go to a secret creek and catch 20” smallmouth. I could give my 5 year old a whopper plopper and she could do it.

Can you take me Mitch, please? I haven't caught a 20" smallie and I have my own whopper ploppers 😉.

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15 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

Can you take me Mitch, please? I haven't caught a 20" smallie and I have my own whopper ploppers 😉.

As long as you don’t bring a camera. BTW if you hear the dueling banjos 🪕 in the background just act like you don’t hear it!! 😂

"Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor

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Meh, typed up a comment about Tyler and his fishing spots, but what's the point?  We are seeing fishing pressure on small to medium size streams at least double in the last two years.  It's all going away.  Either the creeks get pounded until nobody can catch much, or the landowners shut them all down.

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18 minutes ago, Al Agnew said:

Meh, typed up a comment about Tyler and his fishing spots, but what's the point?  We are seeing fishing pressure on small to medium size streams at least double in the last two years.  It's all going away.  Either the creeks get pounded until nobody can catch much, or the landowners shut them all down.

Yep, and maybe more landowners are shutting them down in response to the rapid increase in bodies on the rivers/creeks and have had quite enough. 

"Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor

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