Devan S.

I don't know....my point was ever media outlet picked up on the girl raising her fist or turning her back "protesting" but the alternate was basically ignored. To me its just a media driven frenzy.

Didn't the women's basketball team decide as a team to not protest at the Olympics even though they do it all year in the WNBA? Guess you don't see that plastered all over the news.....not nearly as divisive I guess.

If your going to restrict the treble hook theory then we should make the entire area off limits. The people pushing this regulation are literally the same people playing fish to complete exhaustion on 5x or smaller tippet. If there is anything that is going to kill a fish dead its a 10 minute plus fight on a lightweight fly rod on big water with subpar conditions.

Happens pretty often to me....not pitbulls but neighbors mutt dogs. Excuse is always they have a little working cattle dog in them and they ain't harming anything. 1st mistake you can make is saying anything to the owner or calling the cops....just puts a target on you. I just keep quiet....catch the dogs in the act.....video...then solve the problem. Load up the dog and give it a ride several miles away. Pitbulls I don't deal with thankfully but anytime someone says "their dog is trained" its bologna. I haven't seen a real trained dogs in years.

RR?

The fly rod deal kind of blew my mind. Looks like they were basically fishing straight vertical of course that could have just been the way it was portrayed.

Awesome film work and such a cool fish. Thanks for sharing.

Didn't RR get rid of their pool too?

I'm sure the Taney fish are spill overs from TR, think about all the times the gates have been open the last 5 years. Now its like 920+ and you get spillway. Happening much more often than historically(think about all the smallies, whites, shad, ect) TR always has had a sizeable population. Beaver has a good population too but the striper really fills the "other" fish niche over there. I think the bulk of increase can be attributed to social media. Guides have a real benefit to post on facebook. Historically the Walleye thing has been fairly secretive. You may tell people you caught them but your not gonna tell where.....even if they know where you fish. As long as I have been alive there have been guides up the white on TR fishing for walleye. These guides operated by word of mouth and weren't blasting on social media and still aren't. Now with the slide of my thumb I can see guides posting to multiple facebook groups with pictures of baits and locations clearly in their photos. The unfortunate part of all this is when people are paying 2-400 bucks for a trip they are keeping every fish over 18". Walleye just don't have the stigma of CnR that Bass do.

Pretty cool....I tried and tried and tried to confuse it by dropping on 2 ocean pass in Wyoming. Best I can tell it just goes ahead and jumps it one direction or the other.

I thought I read somewhere that the guy trying to grow the bass in TX is the owner of Tecomate Seed. In a sense he has spent his life "growing deer" so just moved onto bass.

those guys crack me up....last September I ran into one of those guys right after that big brown that was caught on fly rod and posted and ultimately died. whomever he was informed me that we shouldn't be targeting big fish "that time of year" and ultimately playing them out and killing them. We had spinning rods with 6lb test and jerkbaits and here he is flippin a fly rod......morons.

Except it wasn't.....they did it again this year.....and my assumption is they will do it into perpetuity. 9,000+ this year so they made $90k instead of $190k.

I don't know about the bear deal....didn't put in for it but I did the elk. Thought it would be cool to be the first group to kill elk. That being said the fee is what rubbed me the wrong way. Its only open to in-state hunters and has no bearings on later "Draws" other than if you're picked you can't win again right away. I pay my fair share of taxes along the way and still buy deer tags even though I qualify for landowner and often don't kill a deer. I believe in funding the department even if I don't agree with every expenditure they make. That being said.....19,000+ signed up for the first elk hunt @ $10 that is $190K for nothing. I hope it pays 2 or 3 MDC wages but I bet it ultimately doesn't. Personally I think the fee for the tag after the fact is a joke for 5 total elk killed. It wasn't/isn't about the $10 most of us easily blow that in day on stuff we want; its the premise for me. Honestly if I got a preference point(even though it wouldn't really increase my statistical odds) or a hat or a pin or something tangible I'd be more forgiving. It doesn't at all change how I feel about daily fees, tag costs, ect about the normal options residents get. I am thankful that MDC is funded top 5 in the country in funding and the state takes reasonable care of its residents. I would personally like to see lifetime tags come down in price and the out of state tags go up but everyone can find something to complain about.

And how is that any different than cancer, heart attacks, strokes, car accidents, boating accidents, bee stings, snake bites, or anything else that might kill you.

Yep unless you get a preference point or something similar.

Their paying on COVID? So if I catch it I get another stimi check? How does this payment system work?

My wifes office is paying out insurance policies on COVID deaths.

I don't think this is a chicken swap issue.....sounds more fitting to a horse auction.

I checked another box that I've always wanted to but never had a good shot. Even though the opportunity was in front of me almost daily. Catfish on the fly rod. A bit of backstory.....at the farm I have a pond that "use" to be stocked by my dad. Dad kept gills and channel cat but we fished them out about as fast as they would get eating size growing up and he would restock. Since his passing, it has not been stocked except for some random catfish, bass, and carp(stupid teenage years/bucket biology). Its fairly small .3 acres and needs to be intensively managed to prevent overpopulation of anything. Shortly after his death my grandma allowed some neighbor kids and co-workers access which was immediately abused(fishing 7 days a week and keeping everything they caught). I finally had enough and 10 years ago put a stop to it for no other reason than an insurance liability at the farm. Fast forward to 2 weeks ago....we took our daughter to Centerton fish hatchery for their kids fishing day. She was overwhelmed by the number of people to the point of not being able to focus on fishing. On the way back, I mentioned growing up having the catfish pond and my wife says go for it. So I called MFA and lucked into fish day being that week. I ordered 200 channel cat and a grass carp and bought 50 lbs of feed. I've been feeding everyday since. I have a handful of 4-6" channel cat coming up and billions of 2"-3" bluegills. Friday I had 3 channel cat show up that were much larger. 2 probably in the 2-4lb range and 1 in the 5-8lb range. I can only assume they are hold overs since they came to pellets so fast but who knows. They are wise....they hide in the moss or under the dock and just slurp their chow but they come every feeding. Yesterday I had my fly rod in the car so I pulled it out.....strung it up and put on a pellet fly. I really did not expect to catch catfish but was expecting to catch some of the larger bluegills. After about 10 minutes I hooked a catfish and landed it. It is one of the 2 smaller fish. I released it because until I can make a reasonable effort to clean them they will be my pets. Good news it was back slurping pellets this morning. I did not cheat and throw pellets and then fish but still feel cheated but fun and a check mark none the less.

Head south.....hot and dry.

Might check shortstop in Garfield.its a longshot but you never know.

I think the Dam store had a tank of minnows last time I stopped in.

Sure if your into that kind of thing.....lots of wars been waged over religion across the globe. My point was we can find universities all across the country that cater to "niche" ideals all of which have at least some level of bias built into the curriculum. Again not many witches and satanist going to Evangel because they don't agree with the curriculum. The Alabama thing was a joke......at least in part.....sure Alabama was a space race hub at one point. Doesn't mean they all went to the University of Alabama. Just like SpaceX isn't full of rocket engineers from UCLA necessarily. Yes a certain amount of engineering is offshored......generally speaking its been my experience those jobs are the specialty jobs(electronic layout, software design, electronic design, mechanical design/modeling) Most of the customer facing/management positions are left stateside.

EMan is good. Been there done that.