flytyer57

Wrong.

met snaggedinoutlet3 to do some trout fishning today. Of course he outfished me 100-1. What can I say, I don't usually fish for trout and it was a learning experience for me. Anyways, here's a couple of pics of snaggedinoutlet3 and my 1 fish landed.

Forget Palin. Her daughter is hotter.

Not really. As of 9 PM. the level has only risen .39 feet since 11 PM last nite. Now Crooked Creek has really risen. That is up almost 2 feet and over 3000 cfs and still climbing. Care to fish Crooked Creek tomorrow?

Having driven past many wind farms, I can certainly say that those blades are not moving any more than 15-25 mph even on a very windy day. Now unless you're talking about tornado/hurricane force winds... Seriously, they do not turn as fast as you are led to believe by the coal and oil industries. If you want to find out for sure, drive by a wind farm and look for yourself. If wind turbines are killing birds, bats included, it is most likely because they are flying into them not being chopped up by the blades like some make it sound. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Edited: The speed of a wind turbine is no more than 15-25 rpm not mph.

Ever see the smoke coming from a coal powered electic plant? I mean that orangish/brown stuff?

Next time you fish there, leave us a note where you're going and if we don't hear from ya again...

I've NEVER seen a wind turbine turn fast enough to hit a bird. If a bird got killed by one, it must have been pretty darn stupid and flew into it.

Norfork @ 2PM was still more than a foot below the top of power pool or as some would say below flood pool.

No we need to go back and study whether or not ketchup is a vegetable.

Crooked Creek and the Buffalo are still wadeable, but the water will me muddy and rising quickly. Lake Norfork and Bull Shoals are still below the top of power pool, so I doubt they'll generate round the clock. But the way the rain is coming down now, who knows what it will be like tomorrow or Saturday. We've already gotten 2" of rain. Sure we need it, but not in time to ruin the weekend.

Blame it on the hurricane. Now they are predicting rain right through Saturday.

Good. More room for me.

The new bridge should have no effect on the flow. After a few storms and high water it may cause some log jams though. Only time will tell.

It's been fun. At first I thought; "WTH?" Then it dawned on me. Thought maybe you was losin' it.

Now that would be funny.

If they take the slab out, it should return to a normal stream. The slab is nothing more than a dam. The only thing I would be concerned about would be the silt piled up behind it. With the culverts it shouldn't be too bad though. They took a dam out on a river I used to fish a lot for smallies in WI. There was at least a ton of silt built up behind the dam. When they took it out, all that silt went down river for miles. Kinda screwed up the fishing for a while too. Weeds started growing where there were none before. Pissed me off at first, but then as time went on, that silt started to get washed down stream and things started to return to normal. Albeit, not as quick as I'd have like to have seen.

Probably didn't have the canoe registered. Even an electric motor qualifies a canoe as being a "motor boat."

Sounds ok but the smallies usually quit biting in the late morning. But then the waters cooling off, so maybe the PM bite will be ok.

I'm open to any kind of fishing, except noodling. I never fished the Norfork and the White only once. I've fished Crooked Creek for smallies a lot. Only a few times on the Buffalo. You say you want to camp at Norfork? RV? Camper? Tent? You can do an overnighter at the Snow access of Crooked Creek. Not sure if they allow campers tho and it's a narrow gravel road a mile or more to the access. That's where gotmuddy and I caught some nice 18" smallies the last time we went out. Pick where you want to go and let me know what's up. I'll be more than happy to meet you and do some fishing (flyrods, spinning, casting) and beer drinking around a fire while shooting the bull. Here's a pic of the 18 incher I caught.

I just checked the gages for Crooked Creek and the Buffalo. They are up, but in no way are they up enough to stop anyone from wading. What kind of fishing are you looking to do?

Where's Eric???

I was catching trout in Crooked Creek earlier this year. They move up from the White when the water is cool enough.

No problem. Kinda like reading several different fishing magazines. Eventually, the same article or a version thereof, ends up in all of them.