New to Missouri, Up From N.W. Forida

Hello Folks, I finally made the move. Future wife is happy. My name is Eric and
I am now living in Springfield and trying to get settled and accustomed to this cold. Not that it wasn't down there, well cool by your all standards anyway. Still have to make a trip back down to get my little go fast car, ('96 Miata...). Anyway, looking for some places to wet a line and catch some Crappy...Stuck on shore for a bit, but will hopefully have a means to get off shore soon. will probably be looking and watching on the site more in the beginning but will try to chime in as I feel comfortable. Till then...sore lip 'em....

Welcome to the board. You will have a lot of Crappie fishing opportunities in your area. There are plenty of locals who will be happy to help you


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In the harbor downtown and below the dam at Warsaw are good spots for a shore bound angler, there are many other spots as well around each lake it well get really good soon as the temp raises. Welcome and dont worry most winters are not this cold

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I also hear some folks are having luck at the fishing docks at Bolivar landing on Pomme that would be a lot closer for you

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Welcome to the site and the great state of Missouri
You are in the center of great fishing [emoji476]


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Welcome to Missouri and CDC.

As it gets warmer there are a lot of places reachable with waders. Most creeks have good white bass and walleye runs in the spring. Just a few are little sac and
Sac rivers on Stockton, beaver creek and swan creek on bull shoals James river near
Galena.


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Welcome to missouri , keep an eye on your in box i will send you a pm as my wife doesn't go as much as i would like so i am always looking for someone to go chase them crappie

Thanks Crappie Curt, look forward to it, As soon as I can I'll drop you a PM with my number...running out the door right now....

Welcome to the crappie.com family. You are in the perfect area to live. Multiple lakes can be reached in a short time.

Well, it won't be long and you will be really happy you have air conditioning. It gets HOT in the Ozarks. Good to see you escaped FL. (Son lives in Ft. Lauderdale)
Shoot me a PM with contact info. I get down to Stockton a good bit. Spring will bring good crappie and walleye fishing. Bass also. And a drum now and then.
Head out to Fellows Lake. There are areas where you can bank fish. Lake Springfield also. I grew up/lived down there 37 years.

One more thing.....
You are welcome at spring Crappie Camp at Bucksaw campground on Truman, just east of Clinton. "A" loop, look for the big white tent. Cruise up for a day, easy drive, wife/kids welcome. Hang out a bit and meet some of the finest folks here on CDC.
You might get in some fishin' on Truman.
Good eats Friday evening and a crappie fry Saturday evening. Several members have foundered but managed to recover.
Check out the Spring Crappie Camp posts. Bring cold weather gear and a life jacket, weather can be a bit "iffy". :biggrin

I'l see if I can Make it for it....really looking forward to it....Thanks All...

welcome to CdC lots of good info around here and even better peaple

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Welcome to Missouri. And make sure you come up to camp the first weekend of May. Even if you don't have a boat im sure we can get ya on the water for some fishing. We all camp and you wont go hungry.

I will do everything I can to be there even if it's a day trip. look forward to putting faces to all the warm welcomes and nice invites I've received.

Welcome to MO theres a bunch of great people on here and most all of them are ready to fish at anytime. I live just north of springfield just holler we fish here close would take ya to some of our spots to fish.

Day Dreamer, Sir as soon as I get thawed out a bit I'll take you up on that sir...Been in and out of the cold driving a truck, but always had the warm cab to retreat too...Haven't been in sustained cold where I'm in it more than out of it since I was on a major jeep- ex in Germany in 1980. We were in 0 and below with snow half way up a giraffe's neck for a week. had to start the trucks every hour around the clock to keep them from freezing up....reminds of then...BRRRRRRRR...hahahaha