flytyer57

Bass Pro Shops sells those keel weights.

Ever try using an inline keel weight like the Great Lakes Salmon fishermen do? It's a lead weight on a bead chain you put in the line between the rod and lure. Will get you down a few feet more. They come in several sizes and weights. Shouldn't alter the action of the lure either. At 15' deep, I would just get out a jig and plastic grub and vertically jig over them. Don't think the boat will spook them at that depth.

I'd rather put my face in the bra of some 400# 72 EEEEE !!!!!! What were you ever thinking!!!!????!!!!

Over the course of 20 years of fishing, I have gone through many batteries. Some only lasted a season or two up in WI. The last battery I bought was an Optima Deep Cycle/Cranking battery. Cost me quite a bit more than the cheaper batteries I had purchased previously, but it lasted quite a bit longer too. In fact, I sold my boat in 2008 to a friend of mine and when I went back up to WI this summer to visit, he was still using that same battery. I'd say spend the money, you wont be sorry.

Down here in Arkansas on the Norfork River, the water temp was 58° yesterday and the air temp was about the same. The fishing was slow and the fish didn't fight much either. Probably had to do with that nasty cold front that came through here.

Smallmouth were pushed out of a lot of streams, namely the White River when they built the darn dams and stocked them with trout.

Actually, I have worked for many corporations and it really pisses me off how much money they have and the guy on the floor busting his butt off everday is the first to get screwed over. As for those farm subsidies, a lot more of those family farms would have survived had they gotten a chunck of those subsidies. They mainly go to the corporate farms. Just like tax breaks for oil companies to produce alternative fuels? Government, both sides, has their heads up their asses and their hands in corporate pockets. Earlier somebody posted about who does the genetically mutated salmon farmer know at the FDA. My response of course was the cashier.

You don't want any part of a river fly fishing only because you don't fly fish. Yet. You mean "barbless" don't you? No "hook points" would be kinda useless. I still think they should go back to "artificial lures with single point barbless hooks" though.

And of course it is the corporations that laughing all the way to the bank while the family farmer is trying to just get buy spending tons of money for this genetically mutated seed.

Odd how someone always has to bring up religion, politics and such... And it's not even the atheists, liberals and such...

At $6.99 a pound for salmon, I think the Ethiopians are gonna starve. The only way to end world hunger is to reduce the population of the planet and quit messing up the eco-system in which we live.

Doh!

Rack of lamb? People been eating goat and sheep for centuries.

I do beleive that is a ling cod.

Maybe if the CEO's of these fish farm corporations would be held personally liable for any and all fish escaping from pens, we wouldn't have to worry about these genetically mutated fish escaping and destroying natural fisheries. The CEO's would worry more about fines and jail time than just saying they'll move on to some other corporation with their multi-million $$$ benefit package. And what about the genetically mutated veggie seeds that somehow get blown around in the wind and pollenated by other genetically mutated veggie pollen? Can the corporate farms planting genetically mutated seeds be held responible for destroying the naturalist farmers crops??? If genetic mutation is going to cure world hunger, I see no sign of that happening now. Food prices are still sky high and getting higher. To end world hunger, these genetically mutated crops must become lower in price, not higher.

No thanks. I'll stick to the Rain-X. And Turtle Wax on a plastic paddle will probably turn it white like when you get wax on your plastic trim on the car. Unless you spring for that new turtle Wax Ice which is 2-3x as much as regular wax.

Hmmmm... Turtle wax on the windshield... Me thinks I'll stick to the Rain-X. Specially formulated polymers help keep the windshield clear. The Rain-X I have you mix with water and pour into the windsheild solvent tank in the car. Wonder how it mixes if it's just wax...

And I thought I had too much time on my hands. Thanks for the laugh tho.

Got me a 16.9 oz bottle of Rain-X for less than what I paid for a 0.5 oz bottle of Watershed. When the Watershed is gone...

No I wasn't. That was Ashley.

I was wading and didn't see any log jams but you might want to bring a saw just in case. The creek is fairly narrow below the bridge in Pyatt so a log jam or a downed tree could pop up anywhere along there. And wait for the falling water to clear a bit after a rain. Twelve and a half to thirteen feet on the gage at Kelly should indicate a good time to go.

Good info. I'll have to try to remember that the next time I'm up that way. And I thought I saw a stonefly on the bill of my hat for a few seconds there at Sunburst before I launched. I'll have to bring some stonefly patterns along next time.

Pyatt to snow is probably about 5-7 miles. Floating that stretch now could be an all day float if you fsih every hole and drag to the next hole. In the fall, I would definately be wanting some rain to float that stretch. As low as it is now, I would only consider wading. I fished Pyatt last week and waded down about a ½ mile. Water was clear and a little higher than it is now, but I would not have wanted to float it then.

So is Kelly to Sunburst better than Sunburst to Dawt? I've floated Sunburst to Dawt twice now and never once seen a trout or a smallie. Only sunfish and suckers. Maybe I should start the float above Sunburst?

Will Rain-X someday make "Watershed" obsolete?