Did you fish in Crooked Creek? Use waders, swim suit or a canoe after a rain? What have you been catching in the Meramec at Wesco? Who gets the most? At Wesco do they say Meramec or Maramec?
I've never fished in Crooked Creek, but I hear it's pretty good. I don't believe that it's a navigable stream, so that would make it private property under Missouri law. I did walk up the creek bed from the Meramec to the old bridge abutments a few years ago. We catch just about everything in the Meramec at Wesco. Sunfish, bluegill, largemouth, smallmouth, bullhead, google-eye, even gar. I started keeping the gar after I found out how to clean them, and my son and I love jug fishing for them. It's a lot of fun watching them pull a 2 liter bottle under the water and take off with it! In the winter, we gig suckers. I just bought a welded boat with a 90 hp jet outboard that will make a great gigging outfit. I think everyone basically pronounces it the same, but typically it's "Meramec." However, at the trout hatchery on Highway 8 between Steelville and St. James, it's "Maramec Springs." Go figure. Pat
Do you have the transom up a little to not hit rocksad ? I had a jet Merc 20 hp and the druggies stole it and my 6 hp too. He in Arkansas we haae a lot of turkey vultures. They get them out of the state pen 6 times and within 5 minuters they get drugs again.