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    Bead chain eyes can also be bought at the hardware store. Copper wire for ribs can be had from old lamp cords. I don't like buying hackles (feathers) from craft stores. They tend to be inferior and twist a lot.
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    While checking out the yak fishing web sites, I came across this pic. I'm gonna have to give it a try sometime.
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    Think twice about buying beads at the local craft store. Beads for flytying are counter-drilled on the back side so they have room to slide around the bend of the hook. Craft store beads are not and may not fit around the bend unless you buy extra large beads, which will fit sloppy on the hook and look like crap. The only thing I really use craft store beads for is when I tie tandem hook flies. I use them to keep the wire/mono used to join the hooks, together and add some color.
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    This is probably the biggest smallie I have ever caught. It measured 18" and only weighed about 4 lbs as a guesstimate. This is a nice healthy fish and as you can see, it's not a skinny litte thing either. I find it real hard to believe an 18.25" smallie would weigh more than 7lbs.
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    I've never found a pair of scissors with decent points or sharp enough at a hobby store. There are kits out there called "Tie A Fly" for tying a particular fly. They have all the materials needed and include at least 16 hooks in various sizes for that particular fly. Plus they have instuctions. Amazon has some here
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    Oklahoma 7 lbs 12 oz 18.25″ Lake Texoma I wonder if this fish was checked for lead weights stuffed down it's gullet.
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    That's what I was referring to.
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    Not worth a crap if it was modeled on St. Louis.
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    Clobbered

    flytyer57 replied to eric1978's topic in General Chat

    Ain't that the way it always works?
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    Clobbered

    flytyer57 replied to eric1978's topic in General Chat

    That is one area (Eureka Springs) that I would NOT want to drive in the snow. At least not into and out of town. And being from WI, I usually don't have problems driving in snow.
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    Yes. I've tied zonker strips and twisted yarn to hooks to make bass sized worms. For the "bullet sinker" I use a cone head type bead on the front of the hook. Here's a good worm for fly bassin.
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    There are also only a few small areas of catch and release on the White and Norfork rivers with many more miles of catch and eat.
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    My best guess would say no. You were probably the only one at work without a computer at your desk or you actually had something to do. I've noticed a lot more posting goes on between the hours of 9-5, M-F.
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    Did Arkansas always have the catch and release areas? Or did they implement them at a later date leaving the "catch and eat folks" to scream bloody murder?
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    I had an old spinnerbait that got chewed up by a northern pike so I discarded the silicone skirt and tied rabbit strips to it. It had two white tails and a collar of red. That thing never caught another fish again which was kind of odd since red and white are good colors for pike.
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    Yes, very much so. Wish it would hurry up and warm up so I can go fishing!!!!!!
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    OK. Arkansas trout are strictly restrcted to the tailwaters below Beaver, Bull Shoals and Norfork. Missouri has their own tailwaters below Table Rock, LOZ and others. Why do they not have the incredible fishing that Arkansas has? Only can be one reason. Trout management. And why do they not (or do they I'm not sure) have catch and release only on some of the more popular but smaller streams like almost every other state that has trout fishing?
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    Yes, the Aluetian Islands do stretch across the 180° longitudinal line so I guess in that sense it is in the "Eastern Hemisphere." As for the "International Date Line" though, it's in the "Western Hemisphere."
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    Too cold for me. You can get generation schedules here. Just click on the day over on the left. They update around 5PM for the next day except on Friday you can get Sat., Sun., and Mon.
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    Yes I am. You guys aren't typing fast enough.
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    Just to check on what your typed here, I looked it up. Technically, you are wrong. See image of International Date Line in attached photo.
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    I usually use Tiemco 8089's in size 10-6 for my worms. Oh wait, you weren't talking about tying your own here were you?
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    Thanks. I also liked the lighting in that one. The pic was taken in the late afternoon and the sun was going down. Gave everything that "orangish" appearance. Believe it or not, this stream (Oak Creek) actually has an annual run of steelhead and salmon that come up from Lake Michigan.
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    Where were those fish taken in Michigan? Lake Michigan. Which has a completely different bio mass than any stream. Those fish are going to grow LARGE. I know WI has stocked the seeforellen brown trout in Lake Michigan and I'm sure Michigan has too. Those fish are known to grow big real fast.
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    flytyer57 posted a topic in Photography

    Here are a couple of pics I took years ago in WI. The bridge pic was taken with an Olympus 2.1 megapixel digital. The moon rise over Lake Michigan was taken with a 35mm Yashica point and shoot film camera and scanned. Sorry for the noise in the pic. It looks old and faded since I was using ISO 800 film. My mom has this pic hanging on her wall in an 8x10 and it don't look as bad as this.
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