Matt, i went up to muscatine and went pheasant hunting with my brother in law and his boss (they work for the Farm Service Agency...i think it used to be the ASCS agency.) anyway, we went from mountain home, arkansas to muscatine iowa...took us about 8 hours on the way up and 9 hours on the way back because of some octoberfest or something like that in herman missouri or somewhere like that...blocked up traffic. anyway, i went to harding university...a small private christian college in searcy arkansas....that is where i met my best bud and best man in my wedding....you really ought to hook up with this feller (assuming you aren't a psychopath!!) his name is alan evans...he's the new dentist there in town, and he grew up there. depending on how old you are and if you grew up in muscatine, you probably went to school with one of his many siblings (and his dad was principal/superintendent for a while there i think) he's a great feller, loves to hunt and would be a good connection for you, or just swing buy his office sometime... His dental practice is next to that new store Elbert something or other...big new store..can't remember the name. anyway, we killed a few wild birds...then rain was forecast, so we went to a preserve where he has a membership and killed about 22 birds. fun, but i'd rather do it the wild, non preserve way. but after i drove that far..i just wanted to kill some birds!!! we wound up heading back home to ark. sunday a.m. because rain forecast for sun/mon/tues. anyway, good luck. holler at alan. we plan to come back up there the first snow weekend to hunt pheasants again.
shawn...thanks for the info on missouri...i was totally impressed with the "pondage" in mid missouri. and the free stuff makes it sound even better. let me know if you hear of a "pondable" trac maybe 300 plus acres. i would prefer some running water thru it or springs to make a 50 plus acre pond. i'd either need it near an airport or a flat enough area to build a grass strip. i'm really surprised the property in that area is 1 grand per acre. i'm about 10 miles from the southern missouri border and propert runs 500 plus per acre. anyway...just dreamin
yes, we have pretty good small mouth fishing here, especially on crooked creek. one of my partneres has a 1500 acre farm with 6 miles of front on crooked creek....grrreeeaaatttt small mouth fishing..but fickle. now don't get me wrong...if you want some real small mouth, head up north, but if you want to catch a bunch and not have to fight mosquitos....i got the place!!!
going bow hunting huh....sounds great. the nice thing about missouri is you can just pay for the license... in iowa i think you have to "draw" for a buck license...anyway.... love this website; i agree with you, most of the folks i imagine that have the interest we do on this web site most likely aren't pyschopaths, but if they are, we got a lotttt of hungry catfish on the bottom of some deep fishin holes around here if they pull some crazy crap on us!!!
ha, mark
