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Caney here I come! 😂

That guy that mentioned the buffalo knows what's up. They have to be one of the coolest fish ever. They have cranial nueromasts on their heads that connects to their lateral line system running down their body that allows them to detect changes in pressure and movement who knows what else. They don't spawn every year, can get to be monstrous sizes, and they fight real good on medium light rods. They are awesome fish, all three species of buffalo.

What an important and fascinating series! Both Donavon and Larry have a wealth of knowledge when it comes to the Illinois River! Glad you were able to share it!

The bluffs and cliff faces on Tenkiller are gorgeous now. I couldn’t even imagine the view when it was just a river before the dam! 🤯

Before this episode I was a big fan….but now I’m an entire industrial cooling unit

33 mins wasn’t enough for this one! Got my attention. Ready for the next one already! Keep it up y’all.

Loving the podcasts and really enjoying this series on the neosho! Keep up the great work!

I've never held a fly rod but I've caught my share of carp and buffalo here in Arkansas. Baits they seem to take regularly, red worms, and craw style baits. It came as a surprise to me but I guess almost everything will eat small crawfish.

Awesome video. I'd like to know if Neosho are in Spring R? I saw a huge bass in there, it ate my minnow right beneath some falls but I lost it trying to get the net. It was an absolute pig.

It was the american chestnut that got me first. And really the two are identical in terms of their impact on both wildlife and our lives, but its that one tree could provide so many of the necessities of life. The american chestnut grew tall and straight over 100 ft and over 10 feet wide, with wood thats about as rot resistant as wood comes, making it the ideal timber tree. Ive read stories from the late 1800s of people living in cities who would take a vacation to the country side to collect chestnuts, and theyd make more money selling those chestnuts than they would from working that week. Also 1 in 3 trees was an american chestnut in the appalachian forests, it just blows me away that a forest tree could provide as much food if not more than crops we grow ourselves. Its hard to imagine that a forest as large as the forests of the eastern us could change so rapidly, in under a century, when castanea had been the dominant species for thousands of years, and theyve been around for millions.

Ive seen estimates of 1200 chestnuts or chinquipins coming off of young allegheny chinquipins, extrapolate that to a mature american chestnut, giving 3x the amount of nuts per bur, im really not qualified to guess but suffice it say many thousands of nuts per tree. Then imagine having 4 billion trees. Even if only half produced that is literally trillions of nuts to go around. When you think about it its a mriacle wildlife even survived the extinction of the american chestnut.

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Great episode, as usual, fellas! It’s crazy to think that AR is the only place in the world that all 4 species are natively found!

The first time I heard Clay Newcomb's name was when Steve had asked why Arkansas didn't have quail anymore. Several podcasts later, a detailed and bullet pointed letter reached Steve's hands and he read it on air. The author was Clay.

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Most waste of government money.....

Game Warden=Revenue generator

The traps are not putting a dent in the hog population.

AGFC is full of shit. All they are trying to do is come up with a way to make money off of the feral hogs. Just like everything else.

Social media and commercialization has hurt hunting big time. Our future generations will not have the hunting opportunities we have. It will be a rich man's game. Pay to play.

Do you think many of these flies would work in the western lakes?

I just took my early 90s Berkley Cyclone casting rod with a Diawa spincast reel out on the Meremac (sharing with kids on a busy Saturday). Caught many more smallies than I expected! Kept it simple and cost a fraction my go to spinning set up. Fun stuff, really decent ned rig combo!

Very cool on the history. I’ve got a lot right down the road from me at Wilson’s Creek. Can’t metal detect there though 😂

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Love the episode. I have family that lives in Phillipsburg, cool little village and area.

Good thing I decided to rig up tackle while listening, yall right it was dark.

It's been several years since I've looked it up but I used to hunt in the sandhills of North Carolina and found that deer preferred Post oak as well. Nutritionally they are superior to quercus alba.

I love the Ozarks

is "Game and Fish" an Arkansas thing? F comes before G...

From southwest Missouri my family was southern and still is there are some southerners here

Speaking of the tap root. I am not a biologist, but I did take a vacation to see the giant sequoias in California. They explained that the giant sequoias do not have tap roots either. They put on runners like you are talking about. Are they related perhaps...???

It's been probably 50 years or longer since I have a chinquapin. We had one in the woods not far from the house when I was a kid. I loved those things back then. I can't even remember what they taste like. I just remember they were good. I'm 54 and I remember them.

That Buttonbush!!!

I would love to see more content like this

Nice work fellas! We need more of this!

I live in Tulsa. My mother's side of the family has lived in Cherokee and Adair county since the 1820's. Cherokee heritage has always been a big thing in our family but so has Ozark heritage. I'd love to hear more about the Oklahoma Ozarks. Also, I don't consider Miami to be in the Ozarks either lol.

Amazing podcast!

After reading "The Overstory" by Richard Powers, I got to thinking about the chestnut and the chinquapin. Super happy to see this discussion!

Great episode fellas! Makes me wanna go up there to forage and try them myself!

how far north do they go?

Guys, thanks so much for shedding more light on our native trees and prairies in the Ozarks. Without the habitat, we lose the wildlife.

World record in AR was 22lbs. Not 26 and change

The armadillo kick had me laughing out loud! 😂 I never thought about it, but they are a very puntable shape

Love the scene y'all set up!

Been camping for a week here in bullshoals and working in mountain home to make the same dream come true

Very informative! Striper is on my list to get on the fly this year! Walleye is a close second!

Me and my two uncles take a ten day trip in February evry year to go fish the white and we stay at a place called Rileys outfitters for the first three days it's on the white and directly across the river is where the Buffalo joins the white I have caught many of good fish I do better on browns at the confluence then I do at Northfort damn

Yes sir...the kee kee is way overlooked in the spring. I use it almost every hunt. Don't usually go on a full run with it but a lot of times throw in 2 note kee kees. Them old toms love to eat that up as well. By the way...that was a very well done podcast gentleman. Very informative.

I’m in Lawrence County and fish the surrounding counties in the hills. The hogs are frequent enough that in the last couple weeks I’ve seen a whole herd or pack swim across Shirey Bay and my gf and I saw one on a back road off strawberry river standing in the road chomping it’s cutters that hogs back came up to the hood on our jeep.