Fishing Near Diggins, Missouri

If you're ever in the Springfield, Mo area and you want to catch a catfish or bass in a beautiful setting, check out Fisherman's Paradise in Diggins.  They have 5 or 6 big ponds (small lakes) full of catfish, bass, and big fat sunfish.  It is very easy to catch catfish here.

New Trout Fishing Website

Check out this website about trout fishing.

Deep Hollows of the Ozarks

Ed's been traveling and writing lately, and he put together a cool blog about the Ozarks of Missouri and Arkansas. He covers everything from civil war cannons to crawdads. If anyone knows the Ozarks region, it's Ed. He's set up float trips on just about every floatable stream in Missouri. (Did you know that floatable is not a word, according to spellcheck.) Josh and I went on a float trip a few weeks ago, and we luckily found our way to the river, but it wasn't easy without Ed telling us where to turn. Well anyway, check out Ed's blog, Deep Hollows.

HELLO! (Hello! hello hello).   Is any body here? (here here here)

Water Levels

It looks like we'll have no shortage of water.  Hopefully, the rain will let off that last week before Memorial Day.

There is a breeze from the south.  The air and waters are warming.  The fisherman feels it on his flesh and in his brain.  The fish feel it in their gills and in their stomaches.  In three weeks its going to be On like Smallie Kong.

I Heart the Jack's Fork

The Jack's Fork is my new favorite river.  I like it even better than the Eleven Point even though it lacks trout.  Heck, I like the Jack's Fork more than I like my wife.  (Just kidding, Kerri.)

The Eleven Point is awesome.  It has trout and good water levels year round, and the Jack's Fork has neither of those qualities.  So why is it my favorite river right now?  I think it's the smallmouth.  Yep. It's definitely the smallmouth. 

My Plan

So, my plan is to come down on Sunday morning (early!).  I expect Jeff and Gentry and maybe Russell will have already been on the river for a day or so.  I'm not sure about Josh.  I think Drew and Matt should come too, but I don't know what their plans are.

I think it will be best for any of us coming down Sunday to already have our canoe, maybe mine if it is up for it, so we don't have to take time getting rentals and getting transported to the river.  We'll have to figure out where to meet up at.   What if you guys put in at the Prongs on Saturday morning and then we met up around Buck Hollow on Sunday morning?  Then we could take camp at Jam up or somewhere around there Sunday night and take out at Rymers on Monday.  I think that would be about 5 miles a day which I think would be an excellent fishing pace.

Yar hardy hardily ho!  Har yar harr harr, harr yarr dardily do ho ho.

Matt wants access, Russell.  Give it to him again and maybe he'll use it this time.

Yar freakin har

Yardy Hardy Har Har Har

Ye hardies yo! Yar har har! Yo ho ho and a bottle of arrrr! Maties, we be yar har hardy ho! AAArrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Yar Har!  We be back! And it be time for another outing.  

Jack's Fork.  Memoriall Day weekend.  We'll be rondayvooing at vareyus times and from at leest four reejons so we need to get organized.  An unorganized pirate is a poor pirate.

Riverton Cabin Remembered

The frigid weather and desolate winter landscape has me thinking back to last January, to the float trip that didn't happen. Being on the Eleven Point would have been nice, but the cabin at Hufstedler's, with the big fire right outside the backdoor, was too warm and tempting compared to the 10 degrees outside.

Besides, it was still a cool trip. I killed my first deer, and Jeff took his Jeep off road for the first time. We found prehistoric girlie pictures in the old workshop and explored a creepy old house.

The thing I remember best is the slow pace and the stark calm of the landscape, and as hectic as things get around the holidays, I wouldn't mind heading back down there soon.

Pirate gets Married (and not to the Sea)

Congratulations Ed and Nikki!

Look, Admiral Otis is even in the picture, but he must have been in a cat-fight or a naval battle because he's missing an eye and a leg.

Weather change

Has anyone noticed it's gotten cooler since those Pirates in Somalia seized that ship?

No, sir.

I'm beginning to think that that Pirate Name Generating Machine does not have a large arsenal of names. No, sir. Not a large arsenal at all.

Also, has anyone talked to Josh or Scott lately, particularly regarding their plans for Des Moines travel and lodging?

Wordle

Dirty Jack Rackhem cheking in

The quiz says I need a bath. I think we just need some rain. Damn global warming!

Ye be beholdin Dirty Jack Flint! Yar-harr.

I like my name but the description of me was not flattering.

Nikki, on the other hand, received the name Captain Ethel Rackham, and it has gone straight to her head. "I'm the Captain," she says.

This is my Pirate-self.