Is power bait allowed there? I know that where I go on the current it's hard artificials and flies only. No soft plastics, no power bait, and no live bait.

There is a zone in Bennett Springs State Park that allows power bait and live bait.

I was talking about fishing in the river though. Just outside of and down stream from where the springs dump into the Niangua. Anything goes there.

I still need to get my fishing license, and a new fishing pole for that matter. Mine got broke last year.

You only have one?

I tell you what. The ****ing dinks at Chamberlain on the river are pissing me off. Caught probably 50 Walleye's, kept 3....

I found some crappies this weekend.

excellent.........

Nice.
I hit the river Friday night with a bucket full of perch but only had one good strike right after sunset.
Otherwise we sat there till midnight with only a few taps here and there, nothing big enough to take the bait.

yea the channel are running some .. but the big flatheads have'n started yet .. crappies are surely getting ready to spawn soon .....

I bet you can fish with the best of'em boog, gimme some of your catfish & gar secrets, particularly gar... thats my targeted species this year.

Any advice is appreciated...

Farm pond bass are on beds at my place. Its a riot watching them chase gills off

Wont find one like this where i'm at, but wow, this is one huge gar, it looks like a medium size shark next to his johnboat, great fight here...

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Nice. :thumb: Impressive how that thing can just take off with his drag at will.
That’s a very similar rig to what I’m cat fishing with too.

Yea boog, if you know how to clean and prepare gar I’d be interested in that too. I had it once when I was a kid, good fish meat from what I can remember but I never saw how it was prepared.

Yep, he obviously has heavy gear but still it tests him at every turn, an awesome example of one man fishing alone.

You've surely caught many gar, whats your best tip, live bait on a bobber a few feet below topwater?

edit- above, below who really knows?