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Chuckpacific
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Yeah, over the last 4 years they spent all their money on criminals and this next year only have $5 or $6 million to spend on basketball players....
Checking out the great catfish pictures brings to mind a fun story I have to share with you folks.
My grandfather homesteaded and ranched along the Missouri River in South Dakota for all of his adult life. Most of the firewood he used for cooking and winter heat was obtained by snagging driftwood on the Mo. River. He rigged himself a homemade kind of grappling hook tied on a long line that he would fling out on the river trying to catch the floaters. One day while snagging logs, he observed this large catfish swimming round 'n round near the surface, and acting really wierd and strange. Out of amusement, he started flinging the grapnel at that big ole catfish, and after numerous attempts he actually snagged it ! It was a really nice big fish, so....naturally....he took it along home to clean and eat. When he opened the thing up, inside the stomach was a LIVE RATTLESNAKE. That, obviously, was the reason the fish was acting so strange. The poor ole fish had a live rattler rolling around inside him!
Hope you enjoyed the story. It's pretty typical of the kinds of things my old grandad experienced while ranching along the river. He's gone, and so is the ranch. It pretty much went under water when the Corps put in the Gavins Point Dam at Pickstown, SD.
Paul aboard the Joni Lynn
My grandfather homesteaded and ranched along the Missouri River in South Dakota for all of his adult life. Most of the firewood he used for cooking and winter heat was obtained by snagging driftwood on the Mo. River. He rigged himself a homemade kind of grappling hook tied on a long line that he would fling out on the river trying to catch the floaters. One day while snagging logs, he observed this large catfish swimming round 'n round near the surface, and acting really wierd and strange. Out of amusement, he started flinging the grapnel at that big ole catfish, and after numerous attempts he actually snagged it ! It was a really nice big fish, so....naturally....he took it along home to clean and eat. When he opened the thing up, inside the stomach was a LIVE RATTLESNAKE. That, obviously, was the reason the fish was acting so strange. The poor ole fish had a live rattler rolling around inside him!
Hope you enjoyed the story. It's pretty typical of the kinds of things my old grandad experienced while ranching along the river. He's gone, and so is the ranch. It pretty much went under water when the Corps put in the Gavins Point Dam at Pickstown, SD.
Paul aboard the Joni Lynn
Chuckpacific
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Paul,
Gavins Point dam is at Yankton; Ft Randall dam is at Pickstown.
Chuck
Gavins Point dam is at Yankton; Ft Randall dam is at Pickstown.
Chuck
Chuckpacific
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Paul........
I grew up in the area and have been to Gavins Point many times. In the summer of 1968 I was part of a small group that took jet boats from Sioux City (near the last of the navigable Missouri) to the base of Gavins Point Dam. Anyone familiar with the Missouri or who has read "RiverHorse" will attest to the dificulty of trying to find the main channel of that river once it has left Ponca, Ne. The catfish on the Missouri are quite large...a friend of mine caught an 80 pounder several years ago. There are also large sturgeon in the river (although nowhere near the size of the Columbia River variety). In addition, once you get above Ft Peck Dam in Eastern Montana there are large (100 lb and above) paddlefish. Unfortunately the river, which carries the 'lowess' soil of that area (as does the Yangtze and Hwang Ho in their areas) will soon silt up the reservoirs impounded behind these dams as the slower water drops the sediment. The thing that always surprises me is that Lewis and Clark paddled UP that river. As anyone who has lived near the river knows, in the natural spans it is impossible to stand up in the Missouri if the water is above your knees.
Chuck
I grew up in the area and have been to Gavins Point many times. In the summer of 1968 I was part of a small group that took jet boats from Sioux City (near the last of the navigable Missouri) to the base of Gavins Point Dam. Anyone familiar with the Missouri or who has read "RiverHorse" will attest to the dificulty of trying to find the main channel of that river once it has left Ponca, Ne. The catfish on the Missouri are quite large...a friend of mine caught an 80 pounder several years ago. There are also large sturgeon in the river (although nowhere near the size of the Columbia River variety). In addition, once you get above Ft Peck Dam in Eastern Montana there are large (100 lb and above) paddlefish. Unfortunately the river, which carries the 'lowess' soil of that area (as does the Yangtze and Hwang Ho in their areas) will soon silt up the reservoirs impounded behind these dams as the slower water drops the sediment. The thing that always surprises me is that Lewis and Clark paddled UP that river. As anyone who has lived near the river knows, in the natural spans it is impossible to stand up in the Missouri if the water is above your knees.
Chuck
Hi Chuck,
Curious to know where you grew up in that area. I still have relatives living in the Yankton and Platte area, and I get out there every now and then. We (my wife and I) canoe-camped down the Mo. River from Chamberlain to Springfield in '84. In the 60's/early 70s, I lived in the Sioux City area for some time and spent lots of time on the river. El and Bill (Halcyon) are kinda planning a float trip down from Yankton to St. Louis, and I'm seriously thinking of floating with them for a spell. It's a goofy river, and below Yankton, it changes daily.
And yes, the fish get BIG in that river, and the big ones seem to congregate in the spillways, just below the dams.
Paul
Curious to know where you grew up in that area. I still have relatives living in the Yankton and Platte area, and I get out there every now and then. We (my wife and I) canoe-camped down the Mo. River from Chamberlain to Springfield in '84. In the 60's/early 70s, I lived in the Sioux City area for some time and spent lots of time on the river. El and Bill (Halcyon) are kinda planning a float trip down from Yankton to St. Louis, and I'm seriously thinking of floating with them for a spell. It's a goofy river, and below Yankton, it changes daily.
And yes, the fish get BIG in that river, and the big ones seem to congregate in the spillways, just below the dams.
Paul