I have been posting this for a while, but this happened to me in 2009 while fishing Nebraska State at Lake of the Ozarks. Here is the original post.


I literally just got back from LOZ.

I did not do very well, only 5 keepers in 3 days of fishing. Caught tons of fish, but just most were shorts.

I lost a fish of a lifetime, I don't want to talk about it.

But I stayed at the Town and Country hotel, right on highway 54, about five blocks away from the Public Beach #2 Entrance.

It was a nice cheap (money wise) comfortable hotel but they came in everyday and clean the room, new towels, wiped everything down. Well, I went down there and I brought $500 in cash as emergency money if I lost my wallet or something. I put the money in the Bible so nothing would happen to it.

After 5 days of hard fishing and being in the tournament mindset we left this morning and I forgot to take the money out of the Bible.

500 CASH!!!!!!

I called them up and told them what I had done when I realized it in Kansas City. Linda went up and looked in our room and sure enough she found the Cash. She is mailing it back to me priority so she has a tracking number so she knows for sure I got it.

If you ever go fish LOZ you should definitely stay there. Great area, nice part of the town and the parking lot is very well lit and VERY VERY BOAT FRIENDLY!!

The owners very well could have just said, nope don't have it, but they did the right thing and I did not loose my 500 bucks!

THANK YOU TOWN AND COUNTRY!