Devan S.

I'm getting to the point I'm starting to risk clothing items as well.

Wife and I have almost switched everything over to online when it comes to large retailers. It has to be awfully convenient to get me to stop and go in some place when you can order online, free 2 day shipping, and prices within expected tolerances of a box store. You don't have to be hounded by sales people, upset about the lack of knowledgeable sales staff, lack of staff at registers, store hours, or have to deal with all the other buffoons walking around in their PJ's in the middle of the day.

Dodge the questions, change the subject, insert MAGA hat.....so predictable. Sad part is I hope that in 50 years we look back and laugh at the "climate change" theory. If its proven wrong the opportunity cost was minimal. If the "climate change" deniers are wrong then we're toast.....but hey you wont be around so why should YOU care right? At the end of the day, its a politics game because we run this country 2 years at a time chasing the next vote.

Do you even realize the contradictory statements you posted? You use snow in May, Joplin record cold, San Antonio being cold and wet to describe why global warming is a hoax.....then immediately turn around and openly admit that the earth is warming because the general consensus in the scientific community agrees the earth is warming. You are right we ultimately don't know if man if the "big" contributor or not but we know for an ABSOLUTE FACT that humans are the worst thing for the longevity of the planet as it is today. We know for an ABSOLUTE FACT that people that throw trash out back or along the highway, dump chemicals in rivers, pour excess CO, CO2, NOx, and CFC's into the atmosphere. We also know how to mitigate and/or stop a lot of those actions so please give someone a good reason why we SHOULDN'T be looking to improve things? It is absolutely irrefutable that any one of those actions are bad for the environment, irregardless of if you believe it makes a difference on a global scale or not.

Go find a tire shop.....they all have paneling still.

I would assume they would need to keep stored separate in their own bags, dated, and with their out of state license # on the bags.

This is a great point....I was at RR one time and working my jig back and a sculpin came out to investigate.....I was pulling a Folly and trying to catch it and a very large rainbow came darting out after it.....totally ignoring my jig just on a bead to get the sculpin. Maybe the way to a real monster is drifting a sculpin or shad under a jug. I can just see it now waves of jugs like on grand floating down taney.

wouldn't "catfishing" with a hook loaded with livers be a good method too(assuming out of restricted areas)?

I like the idea of the arkie heads...cheap and easy to find....I guess they are light enough to bend out a snag? Are the hooks big enough for a larger size swimbait?

I think I'm going to buy a couple small 3 wire a-rigs for whites and bass. What is everyone's favorite light wire jig for rigging?

I'm certain the sound can pass from air to water. I don't have any clue how it translates but I'm certain it does and someone probably knows. Off the top of my head I think water allows higher frequency more readily. I've never been really close to a running boat scuba diving but you can hear them underwater among the ambient noise that's present. I do know you bang a knocker on an aluminum tank or bang rocks together and often bluegill and smaller fish come running to you. Additionally wave action is energy passing too and that also makes an ambient noise underwater.

First of all sound underwater vs. sound we hear are vastly different. Sound is basically just energy travelling through a medium(air or water) and how our receptors(ears) react to that. These waves move much faster underwater. For a human it sounds completely different than it probably does to a fish(especially since they don't technically have ears). It also doesn't help that the human body uses bones to pick up the energy. How a fish hears will likely be entirely different than how we perceive just based on this alone. None-the-less I always think of it like living right next to the airport or train tracks. Provided your not directly next to the plane or train and your remotely close you eventually live to deal with it. You eat, sleep, play with your kids in the yard, heck you even learn to watch TV differently when the train or plane goes by. This is probably seasonal to some degree for a fish as well. Sure in a 8' deep river or lake and you run right over him he might spook but at the end of the day it happens fairly often from May-October. Its an inconvenience probably sure but not the end of the world. He may have a different reaction in December though. The other is the duration of sound. A plane taking off is high energy long duration like a boat travelling overhead. A gunshot is a similar level of amplitude of the noise but its relatively a short duration like stomping in a boat or dropping something in a boat. Different expectation, different response. Does it really matter...maybe or maybe not....does it hurt to be cautious....not one bit.

You almost always suggest destruction of property, threatening, and harm as a means to level the playing field with someone you think did wrong. Does that really make you any better than them?

I don't pay attention to the daily lake level all that close but I know for a fact up the kings I can get well past the MO/AR line in a prop boat. Here's the thread in which it was reference that it works much farther than pool levels. Certainly seems to be a grey area. Is there a marker up long creek/yocum creek?

When you say up the middle do you mean any fishing style boat even say a larger bass boat or is that reserved for jons, small v's, and trout style boats? Obviously the bass boat on plane is pretty shallow but I just don't have the guts to blow all the way up there way up on plane.

I have a farm in the area. There are loose dogs all over that area, call them in all the time hunting predators......shooters name is already public. Prosecuting attorney is not filing charges as far as I know. They protested and stopped traffic for several days outside court house, intersection at Ball and Prier to no avail. I'm sure civil suit will happen but anyone can sue anyone these days.

http://www.4bcaonline.com/protesters-gather-demanding-justice-for-dogs-shot-in-eagle-rock.html You can actually....it was done here locally. No charges filed at least to date that I know of.

I took it to mean the same thing.....I.E. on Kings river you could only run up to normal pool. I believe @Bill Babler confirmed that there were guides, guiding on the kings much farther up stream than normal pool with clients on the border lakes permit. However its doesn't seem explicitly set forth in the rules and seems to be somewhat of a grey area.

So by the same token that its your property, you should be able to burn millions of tires on your property? Dump hazardous waste on your property? The fact is YOU follow the rules. Many more do not with the rules in place as they are currently. Landowner tags catch a lot of people every year due to abuse. Remove any restrictions/tracking and things only get worse. How would you feel if a large multinational corporation bought 10,000 acres surrounding you and literally killed EVERYTHING that moves?

I go down every year and watch the horn go off....feel like I'm apart of the circus for 10 or so minutes and then go get breakfast and off to work. I live and work close enough that its cheap entertainment. To my story....Last year in the pool directly below the first real bridge(not the low water pull across by the hatchery but the bridge below the hatchery). There was a gentleman with what had to be a 10' heavy CATMAXX style rod and reel trying to fly fish with it. I'm not sure if he was joking around or being serious but there's enough clueless people wandering around that someone could get hurt with something like that being flung around. I gave him a wide pass and went on down the river on my stroll. See things every year that I just shake my head carry on.

Jerk baits work so I would recommend taking one....standing at the head of a pool, cast down stream 15 seconds after horn. Work it fast and aggressive, you want the biggest trout in the pool to see it. The circus is only fun for the ring leader or people in the stands. The above method will ensure your the ring leader.

Probably the best suggestion out of all of them.......I started with a 10ft flatbottom paddled/drug a lot of miles on the Kings river. Never knew how much easier it was until I got my cheap 10' Ascend sit in kayak. Put many miles on that thing all over from the lake to class 3 water. Never knew how bad it tracked and how slow it was until I bought my tandem buffalo. Also never realized how nice it was to be 6'+ tall and 250lbs and be able to stretch out, stand up, and carry a lot of gear. Never realized how slow the buffalo was until I got the alumacraft aluminum canoe that's built for canoe racing. Now I'm torn between a paddle board and a solo canoe. I have days now when I am solo in the canoe that I wish I was in the kayak, days I'm in the kayak and wish I was solo in the canoe, days i'm in the kayak and wish I had a buddy or wife in the canoe with me instead. There isn't a right or wrong answer(unless you count paddling a flat bottom jon boat). Try a few out, get one you feel comfortable in, one you can haul/load, and use the fire out of it because it will likely be one of the cheapest form of entertainment you have over time.

Media requirements, sponsor requirements, travel.....Its like a full time job plus fishing on a long 4 day weekend.

I have a 10' fishing kayak, 10' rec. kayak(for the wife), 16' or 17' buffalo tandem, and 16' alumacraft canoe. The 10' is too short for anything but a 6 pack and day drinking on the river(both were bought cheap enough that I don't view them as a loss as they make great backups). The 16' can be run solo reasonably easy or tandem if we don't get crazy with gear. I'm of the opinion a 14' solo would be the best of all and when one jumps up and slaps me in the face I will pull the trigger and buy it if funds are available.

We use Harold Ensley batter for commercial variety. Its about the only commercial product we can really stomach more than a time or 2. I have been unable to duplicate the shore lunch batter we had in Canada but if that day ever comes......that may be the only way we ever eat fish again.