Wifey and I making our annual Ozarks trip and left Mandeville Tues afternoon,made a pit stop at MS College School of Law to drop off beloved chocolate lab with younger son and we made our way to Ozarks,arriving early Wed am and first stop was a Wal Mart in Harrison,AR.Funny story here,was wearing NO Saints tee-shirt and young fellow commented on my shirt and thanked him,telling him they stunk up Panthers stadium and we laughed it off(did not realize at the time he is a LA native-graduate of LSU Shreveport School of Medicine).Got a few fishing supplies and again ran into young fellow and we exchanged stories-he is Radiologist practicing up in Arkansas and told him bout my 27-year Pharma career.Bet he went to Med School with a few of de docs I used to call on.Fast-forward to today,Wifey and I took extremely fun and productive guided trip,guide was awesome(Rodney Anderson-coming back next Sept/Oct and want Rodney as our guide)he works for Donald Cranor's Guide Service(870)430-5484.From the get-go,I could tell it was gonna be incredible trip,guide had plenty of White River crawfish(dey calls em crawdads up here)and he was using nice chunk of tail meat to entice aggressive rainbows and we limited on fine rainbows,Wifey caught two fine brown trout but they have to be 24 inches to keep and bet we caught over 40 rainbows,keeping our ten and had an absolute blast!!Cranor has fine lodge and bunch of Top-Notch guides and Wifey promised Rodney dat when we return,we not only wanna get his as our Guide,she gonna treat him to her incredible duck and andouille sausage gumbo and as fate would have it,Rodney told us bout fine barbeque joint,KT's Smokehouse and Wifey and I had great lunch there and even picked up package of smoked andouille sausage,can't get no better than dat!!Gonna hit White River few more times before leaving and we already know of some great bank-fisning spots and on today's trip,found yet another great bank-fishing spot.Having incredible time up here,weather fantastic,probably in low 40's at night!!!
Mandevillian
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