Devan S.

couple more added.

I figured I will join in mine aren't high quality(most are from a phone) but they have some good memories attached.

Fished from daylight until the snow really started coming down. Threw jerk baits exclusively had probably 10 follows from browns, 4 hookups that pulled loose and one to the net. No big browns but maybe 17-18" was the biggest follow. No generation. Fished from the end of the big exposed gravel bar upstream to around the bend downstream. Only one other vehicle in the lot.

From your previous stories....sounds like you needed someone extra bony.....just to keep you home.

My employer requires us to wear a masks.....not a single person has quit yet because the corporate world is infringing on their rights. Half a dozen+ of them piss and moan nonstop because "They have to wear a mask" but NOT A SINGLE ONE has the guts to say forget this I quit. $$$ talks.....BS walks. I hope their "personal freedom" seeking propaganda isn't this weak when it comes to the 2A.

I am the idiot driving around with my mask on in my car. Its nothing more than just forgetting it for me.

I use Pline CXX on most of my stuff. As far as the jerk baits I think it does fine. I'm sure Flouro might be better but Pline for me is tough enough. My biggest problem is just fishing all day or days without a retie(until I throw one off of course).

99% of the time when I lose a jerker I break it off on the cast. They sure are hard to find way up in the woods. I need to retie more often.

I've got a single mcstik 110 that I have used for several years and I would bet its caught several walleye over 5lbs and countless others smaller. paint is darn near gone on it....its old trusty and when I'm in a spot where I know they are....its what I throw when nothing else is working. I'm sure its dumb luck and 100% confidence but its gone through heck and back a dozen times. Megabass....just based on price alone I end up losing them before I can tear them up.

Fished out of Cricket Creek Saturday morning. Fished between the shortcut in the bluff and the Yocum/Long split. Spent most of the day throwing A-rigs looking for bass but didn't find much of anything. Picked up 3 bass, all between the no wake buoys by the marina. They all came on the transitions between the bluff and some chunkier rock.

https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/data-summary/index.html#:~:text=In 2018%2C state and local,Reported Tickborne Diseases%2C U.S.&text=Reported Tickborne Diseases%2C U.S.,-Lyme Disease (confirmed The CDC reports confirmed tick borne illness just like COVID, flu, heart disease, heart attacks, basically anything. And no most people don't get a tick bite and run to the hospital they generally have to actually fall ill from it. The same can be said about a lot of things COVID included. Believe it or not you were likely a statistic whatever year you were tested. Again my point being tick bites would be a significant issue IF we were seeing 200k+ new cases of tick born illnesses everyday but were not.

Your missing my point. There is not 200k+ new cases of tick borne illness everyday. I'm not making the claim that tick borne diseases are more or less deadly. Only making the claim that the frequency with which they happen is magnitudes less (on average there is only 50k cases a year).

2-3,000 people a day are dying. 200k+ new infections daily. EVEN if those numbers are wrong and its actually half then its multiple magnitudes larger than tick bite deaths.

I know a probably 20 people that "duck hunt" about 5 actually like eating them. None of those guys that say I love duck hunting but not eating duck have any desire to go out and shoot some crows with me. Frankly I cant believe crow hunting is not way more popular.

I'm gonna need to bust out the kayaks a few times too. I think the best chance at good trout exists farther up than I can get in my boat. (the island below spider creek is my functional limit in my Xpress) Rumor has it paddlefish in the spring can also be found below the dam and there is regulations that allow snagging. May have to add another opportunity if things play out well.

Nope not me. I was never really taught how to fly fish....more or less just bought a cheap ready to fish combo and made it work. I figured the leaders like I was doing wasn't much different than spin fishing and it seemed to be a lot easier than tapers and the like.

Woah woah woah.....you mean your supposed to use something besides that? My simpleton brain works like such.....dry flys I use 2lb mono from fly line direct to lure maybe 3 ft. Sub surface- 3x to 7x tippet from fly line straight to lure maybe 3ft. You mean there is another section/sections of line supposed to be used?

Fished between houseman and the island below spider creek. Spent the whole day dragging a shad rap or throwing a Megabass 110+2 Ended the day with one nice 17" rainbow and 1 keeper walleye. I plan on focusing on this area more in the next 6 months have a goal of catching some Arkansas master angler fish. Thinking when the timing is right the opportunity exists for trout(fairly slim), Walleye, and white bass as decent opportunities coming in the next 6 months.

That's impressive....you covered several genres.....

I got out of Tesla right before it really started ripping higher....win some you lose some.....except me I mostly lose. I really ultimately wonder how much of Tesla's valuation is based on pure fad(the robinhood effect) vs. the actual results as a company. I mean do you really think the valuation of the company exceeds that of EVERY other car manufacturer?

You'll have to forgive my base knowledge of micro-organisms.....I'm sure someone can pop on here with the actual logic.....but Its the micro-organisms(bacteria) that consume the 02 to convert the decaying matter into Co2. If I recall these micro-organisms are HIGHLY food dependent meaning if there is nothing for them to consume numbers are relatively low but with ample food they populate at alarming rates as numbers increase O2 decreases and Co2 increases again at rates dependent on population.

you know humans(the most conscious animals on the face of the earth) actually die occasionally from accidentally crawling into something like a tank void of oxygen. Or god forbid a situation where they breath too much CO from a gas heater and die to lack of oxygen. If humans do it what even makes us remotely convinced fish are smart enough to not do it? Do fish have internal O2 meters?

They look pretty cool. If you look at the roaring river live cam, you can see the cages in the raceway they are held in. I figured they were there just to keep them separate .....never thought about them really standing out in the raceway to predator's but makes sense. I think it would be cool to be able to fish them in RR if they turn them loose. I'm not advocating full blown usage but a 40-50 fish novelty during CnR. In the couple weeks after Mar. 1, I would assume they would quickly be fished out. By my recollection this what they look like or very similar too.

Honestly I don't technically know what they are......they look like a yellow colored rainbow.

I don't have a clue RR has been getting trout from Montauk(and a private hatchery I believe) while the construction was on going. I noticed 5 or 6 in a cage in the raceways back several months ago. Now there is probably several dozen in the cage. I am not in the "know" but heard they did not stock any of the goldens during catch n keep season but had heard a rumor they would be kicked out during CnR. I asked about them on the facebook page....several people on there are in the "know" and didn't get a good response. Again just a novelty mostly but I would like to catch one and right in my back yard would be cool.