flytyer57

Fished it this morning. With all the talk about how good it is, I was the only one fishing the stretch right in Yellville. This stream is well known. I'm not afraid of letting someone know what they already know. Or should know.

Point, game, match. You hit it right on the head here. If you're gonna post, describe what, where, when, how etc. If not, then don't post. We are here to help each other, not brag about our lucky days on the water. See my upcoming post under Crooked Creek.

That kinda reminded me of all the trees I caught on my back cast.

I was once out wading and some clown decided to step off the bank and was fishing not more than 20 feet from me. Pissed me off at first, but he wasn't catching anything, while I was hooking one on every other cast. He finally had enough and left. In order to catch fish consitantly under pressure, you have to know the water you fish. You have to put your time in and learn where the fish hold in that particular section. What is there that is attractive to the fish. If you are not familiar with the stream, you will just be hunting instead of fishing. When I start learning a new stretch of water, I'm sure I step into some fishes homes. Then I learn that little pocket or hole and learn where it is. The next time out, I just might catch the fish that lives in that spot if my presentation is to it's liking.

Just wondering what everyone else has been tying lately. I've been tying up some panfish flies, some Gurgelers and some Double Bunnies.

If your looking for personal water, get away form the boat launch and park areas where the bank fishers congregate.

The water I fished is someplace I used to go quite often. I probably knew every rock in that stretch of river persoanlly. The only thing that really changed is the log jams every spring or flood and the silt bars (no gravel, jsut silt form the dam removal upstream.) Straight Creek is fine with me. Same stretch? Or something a little different? Snow err... Rain to the slab err... bridge?

Leave without him and don't invite him again.

The biggest threat to good fishing is not fishing pressure. It is the environmental factor and those who want to take away our right to fish and hunt. Take a few pigs out of the gene pool and those dinks will eventually grow into pigs. They all carry the same genes. Take a few dinks out of the gene pool and those other small dinks will grow into pigs. As for fishing pressure, I've caught my largest smallie while wading a river and it was being pounded by bank anglers all day. In fact, I had to wade to the other side of the river to avoid being pounded by the heavy metal they were all tossing. You just have to know where to be at what time. It is skill that the best anglers have for catching the big ones and every now and then, some just get lucky.

Water temp peaked at around 85° today and got down to about 76° last nite.

If a watermellon fell off a truck on top of you, would it hurt?

1. Throw a remote at someone and see if they bleed. 2. Too many people have gotten drunk on Bourbon and got hurt. 3. Cancer. 4. Too mnay idiots pulling Bart Simpson stunts getting hurt. And any drug is harmful, although some make you feel real good.

Hmmmm... It's legal to hunt dove in several states...

Name one thing man created that didn't in some way harm man.

Fishing Shell Lake in WI, I had an bald eagle dive after my topwater lure. Jerked it away just in time. While trolling around the island on Pine Lake in Waukesha County, WI, I once had a bird fly low to the warter and got tangled up in my line. I reeled in to cut him lose & it flew away. Another time I was fishing the shore of Lake Michigan and seen a gull with a jointed Rapala in it's beek. All attempts to catch the bird by me and several other people were for nill. I still wonder if that gull is still alive and if that lure ever got off it's beek.

Greedy selfishness.

What is the strangest thing you ever caught while fishing? This angler caught a coyote.

If your selling, post this in Buy-Sell-Trade. If you are looking to just give it away, why not donate to the VA or some organization that works with wounded vets getting them into fly fishing and fly tying. Casting for Recovery comes to mind.

I guess somebody bought it out of sympathy to my "trashing your post."

I don't know what the problem is either. Before you found it, somebody else found it. And after you're gone, somebody else will find it. There's always a chance that anybody who comes across a stream is a poacher. That is what the poacher hotlines are for. If you see it, report it. I'm not afraid to give up my faorite fishing hole. I know others know all about it. If it's on a county map, you can bet your sweet butt somebody else knows about it. Hell, I'll even give you plain and simple directions. Take Hwy 62 east or west depending on your location, to Yellville, AR. Turn south on Hwy. 14. Go across two brides and there will be an entrance to a park on your left (across from the gas station.) Crooked Creek. Some of the best darn smallmouth fishinig in the Ozarks. But god forbid, just don't tell anybody. I don't want it full of poachers next time I go. And yes, I am being sarcastic in return to your ignorant thoughts of "secret streams."

For those of you who spend too much time fishing and not reading about fishing, this is not a woman. This is a real picture of the dude who tied the world record bass over in Japan. (yes, they stocked bass in Japan.)

Your yak is turning out pretty nice. For a wooden tandem I don't think 65 lbs. is too much. My solo sot plastic cheapie probably weighs 40. As for the yak in your link, that kinda reminds me of the old Adirondack boats.

To me it says somebody really messed up. That bass was caught in Japan, not Table Rock Lake.

Hwy 10 may run through St. Cloud, but the interstate running through MN is I-90/94. I-10 is the southernmost interstate running across the country from Jacksonville, FL to Santa Monica, CA. Been on both too many times not to know that.