I'm thinking that it's time out time for me.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by wgrr

We have many lakes here in the Ozarks. Some are huge. The trout fishing below the dams is some of the finest in the world. Until a few years ago the world record brownie was caught in the Little Red river, below the dam,
in Greers Ferry, Arkansas. It was around 40 pounds.

I prefer the catfish I catch out of the small lake Fayetteville were I have a boat docked. It is a couple miles from my house. Every year we have a huge fish fry to eat up all the fish we catch. We build a big pit out of concrete blocks, build a charcoal fire, put large cast iron skillets on the hot coals full of oil, and put out the breading. You dredge the fish, coat it, and fry it. We have another section with grates to cook corn on the cob with the husk on that has been soaked in water. After it is cooked you shuck it and stick it into large tubes of real butter. It don't get any better than that.

Sounds good to me.

Just made arrangements to spend a week at Bull Shoals in June, my favorite place to go. We'll be staying at the Pinder this time, as the fishing camp we've been using for the last 8 years has gone kaput.

A terrible shame, Americana is continuing to disappear, and once it's gone, it's gone for good. As far as I know, the Pinder is the last of the '50's era seedy fishing camps down there, and I'm afraid it will be gone before too long as well.

I intend to enjoy it as long as I can.

Chas