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The last two times I have fished the Current I and my friends have done well. I have been consistent as far I am taking numbers and size wise better than earlier this season. The smaller fish may have spread out and fattened up a bit. They also seem to be coloring up for the fall spawn. I have been using the beetle to great effect. Bill

What part of the Currant? It has been fishing well but has slowed considerably in the last four weeks. Bill

Looking forward to your report as I am anxious to try my hand at Colorado trout. Or any western trout streams for that matter. Bill

The red ribbon trout area is definitely canoe, kayak territory. I know they use jet boats down below Two Rivers but they can go higher. there used to a limit that limited how far upstream you could go, and there were horsepower limits. Get ahold of the Park Service to see what the limitations are now.

I have no idea if it's true, apparently, a warm rain is responsible for the absence of large browns on the Meramec today. I was told this by someone that knows one of the biologists responsible for the trout in that river.

Look at what has happened on campuses around the country. The students decided not they did not want to give a venue to people they found offensive. Majority ruled.

I just posted in the general discussions board. NPR had a report of the state may possibly sell three state park land as there is no money to develop them. The eleven Point was one mentioned. The scary part to me is the talk of selling it off to a lead mining company. Some will say this would bring badly needed jobs to the area but so would a state park. And the state park doesn't include mine waste washing into the Eleven Point.

NPR ran a story about the state selling off some land bought to be used and developed for state parks. Two of those mentioned, the Eleven Point site and the I believe the new Current River site and a third one I missed the name. Supposedly the budget would not have money to develop these sites. The problem I see arising is one of these sites was mentioned as a site for a lead mine. I think the Eleven Point site. wouldn't that be wonderful? I know that jobs in the area are badly needed but tourism would be better than lead tailings and the inevitable toxic mess the taxpayer would be stuck with.

You may or may not know that the students study path, once they are enrolled and the tuition is paid is up to the student. My wife has had several instances where the parent comes in and wants to change the student's classes. By law, you can not make that decision. As far as freedom of speech. If I don't like what is being said I will tell that person so. If the majority of a group says what is being said is inappropriate then majority rules. 1

Since June I have done well with beetles. chernoble ants and hoppers. Small Adams a Griffeth Gnats are good almost any time. I have some Tricos in size 24 but with my fingers, they seem too much trouble to tie on.

Thanks, fellas, I stared at that map for quite a while before posting and completely missed the depth chart. Feeling like the slow kid here. Bill

If that stamp was to be responsible for the removal of the algae eaters destroying our waterways I would gladly buy that stamp.

Two of my cousin's, extremely intelligent ladies, and graduates of the Journalism school at MU both tried to talk one of their kids out of going to MU because they feel the academics have suffered. Not just because of what happened but because the focus was more on the non-academic. As pointed out in a previous post, enrollment is down on campuses thru out the country. Students are terrified that they will be in debt for life, and or will not be able to find jobs. My wife has worked at a small university that thrived until 2008 and enrollment have suffered ever since. Blaming anybody for what happened at MU is pointless. If you want to blame something blame politicians and politics.

I started back into fly fishing several years back and recently found out that you can wade areas of Taneycomo. Is there a map of public access areas where I could wade. I know I have to watch the water levels and I probably need to learn how to read the generation charts. Can anyone give me some advice on this? Is there any other obvious dangers to watch for. Thanks, Bill

I believe that using gigs, bow, and spearfishing is sometimes too indiscriminate. Often times the people doing so either, don't know the laws governing what they are practicing, just don't care, or don't know enough about their quarry. Bill

Thanks for the post, Billethead. I have been showing some of the posts and she is impressed with your pictures and story.

Ahh! Conspiracy theories. It's gotten real up in here.

Thanks for the post, Billethead. I really enjoy them. After the wife retires maybe we will do a little traveling out west.

I like wine. Do you ever introduce those guys to the art of fly fishing? Bill

I didn't fish an ant on the Current this week. Only because I didn't have any with sighters and I was having a lot of fun with the hoppers but several times I had ants crawling on me after holding a limb for stability and laying my vest down during a break. Definitely, have to put them to work. Bill

Back down to the Current Wednesday at Tan Vat. There were two cars in the lot and as I was arming myself another pulled in. I headed down stream, he headed up. I started with the Flying ant pattern as my supply of beetles is low. I went fishless for about four cast. and had a smaller trout take it. as I moved down stream I picked up a couple of smaller fish. I then went to a hopper as the sun was up and there was a little breeze. As I got to the head of a run I caught a decent 12-inch trout and then a 15-inch, another fish in the 14-inch, and a fish in the 12-inch range took the fly fought him in and then he broke off. That was in the same spot at the head of the run. After that, I moved downstream but it just seemed to stay shallow. I cast to the deeper spots but with the sun beating straight down the fishing seemed to slow way down. I headed back up to the parking area and two other fishermen were coming down.They were hunting for big browns and had one sighted. I continued upstream and managed to catch several more on some different flys. A red Humpy that has been in my fly box since a trip to Yellowstone in the early eighties was responsible for a 17 to eighteen-inch fish. This is the biggest trout I have taken on a fly. Caught another of 16 inches as well. I didn't catch the quantities of fish I had been catching, but overall these fish were more quality and I enjoyed having to think about setting up the cast and trying to pick pockets. It was a fun outing. Bill

Jester, are you eating these sharks?

Stick with the fly gear. You will catch on. I personally find Maramec hard to fish because of the weeds but it can be fished. Try San Juan worms, Wooleybuggers and Crackle backs in size 14. They work but you have to stick with it. Bill

I believe that to get a bad meal in Louisiana you have to hunt for it.

Made it back down with a friend on the 24th went back below the cable as he wanted to fish that area. I started with the beetle since it had worked so well last time and picked up a few but my buddy was doing well with a soft hackle. As the day warmed up the fish started to get more active and it was on. I switched to a hopper and they liked that better. The fish were also bigger. I guess because the hopper was larger than the beetle. After they tore the hopper to shreds I tied on a Chernoble Ant with huge white sighters. They looked like sails on a schooner they were so large. And this thing had a sparkly purple vest like glitter on it. I was calling it the purple Chernoble Prince fly. but the trout liked it well enough to keep it on. We caught loads of fish despite people wading right past us to fish the water we were working and a couple of kids that were bow-fishing suckers. I don't know the season for this but it sounded like they were chucking boulders in the water. and the one without the bow was throwing rocks in near where we were fishing. I kept it together and we still caught fish but that kind of rudeness is beyond the pale. It was still a great day despite everything else.