http://ozarkchronicles.com/blog Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:43:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So this past weekend my wife and I traveled to the wonderful metropolis of Milwaukee to visit a friend doing her medical rotation and to see John Mellencamp in concert.  My intent was to pack a fly rod, but it was left at home and we spent a solid 9am ... http://ozarkchronicles.com/blog/archives/14 There was a post on the OzarkChronicles.com forum about cheap fly rods and while I tend to spread the wealth around several different vendors I seem to always go back to the same 2 rods when fishing. So it wasn't until I gave this some thought that I had an epiphany.  ... http://ozarkchronicles.com/blog/archives/13 I guess it has been all this talk about "change" in the media, or it could have been the fact that Tim Russert died, or hell it could be that I despise weather over 80 degrees and have no real desire to fish in such heat.  But anyway, I have ... http://ozarkchronicles.com/blog/archives/12 I have always longed for big fish, there is something about the power and smarts they show when a big fish realizes it has something in its mouth that isn't natural and then the fight is on.  After my trip to Wisconsin last year, where I was with Tim Biesendorfer ... http://ozarkchronicles.com/blog/archives/11 I spent this weekend fishing the White River in Arkansas.  It was the maiden voyage of my drift boat, so it was a very pleasurable experience.  But there were some important lessons to be learned after the completion of this trip.  The biggest was that one should never take gear marketed ... http://ozarkchronicles.com/blog/archives/10 We decided not to set the alarm on Sunday morning and opted for a lazy morning packing and perhaps a short float on the river – but things don’t always go as planned as we began waking up one by one beginning at 5:30am.  By 7am the phone rang and ... http://ozarkchronicles.com/blog/archives/9 The alarm went off at 5:30am Saturday morning (3-1/2 hours after we set it) and we quickly rose to the noise of a ceiling fan that sounded more like a creaky rocking chair than a ceiling fan and I wondered which one of us it would take out when it ... http://ozarkchronicles.com/blog/archives/8 I had been waiting for this weekend for a long time.  This was the weekend that my drift boat took its maiden voyage with me at the oars.  This trip was in the works ever since Chris Gates (OzarkChronicles.com Forum member) invited me along a little White River float trip ... http://ozarkchronicles.com/blog/archives/7 Wow. So we had a long night last night at the Tucker household this friday night! I met up with Karen and my daughters and our realator at a home in south county that we wanted to look at. On the way to the second home, my oldest daughter (who ... http://ozarkchronicles.com/blog/archives/6 Well, it has been a long time since my last blog update.  Quite a bit has happened since then as well.  Where to begin...........  In early May, I purchased a used Hyde 16.8 drift boat in St. Louis with oars, anchor, and trailor for $800.  I have had to put some ... http://ozarkchronicles.com/blog/archives/5