Trout Commander

Bump for a good seller. You aren't planning on unloading on any streamer launching 6 or 7 weights are you?

Looks like someone was reading it backwards.

PayPaled.

Can't beat that!

I'm sure your Niangua smallies enjoy eating trout just the same as all of those smallies you guys stuck on the NFOW on rainbow colored Rapalas.

No real speakable size in this "throw it down" post, but some personal accomplishments. My first smallie on the fly (yeah yeah I had to have the fly rod in the pic ): This fish wasn't even our biggest fish of the trip but it was a TON of fun on the 4 wt:

Let me see if I can't just register it on line before you spend you time and 44 cents. I sure will. That reminds me I need to post a pic of the smallie I caught on my 8' 4 wt last weekend.

Rod received, as promised and in pristine shape! Did you never fish this thing or did it just clean up that well? If you cleaned it do you mind letting me know what you used? Thanks again, Zack.

:lol: :lol: Someone feels the heat.

"Written by Clint Johnson and Don Peters" :lol:

Cricket, I am glad to see you are on the road to recovery. Admittance is the first step and you are headed in the right direction. Be strong and one day you will be able to post about fishing only. Oh, and could you put your disclaimer at the top of your post, it would help us weed out the non fishing posts before we waste our time, which is too valuable, on such posts. K thanks.

The state regs state it is allowed in a sanctioned tournament.

What do I think? He's a snagging hoosier... And aren't the regs 1/day not 3/stringer???

When my line breaks I check to see if it was my knot that let go. I usually give it a look when I have moss or vegetation from the river or leaves from a tree on my hook that I have to remove anyway. I also check it after I land a sizable fish, when I remember. As far as too much velocity and not enough finesse goes, you are probably right. I still catch myself forcing it too much. One thing that really helped me was to challenge myself and see how slow I could go and still throw a good loop. It really opened my eyes to how little effort it actually takes if you do things right.

Don't mistake me for an expert either, but if you are popping flies off of the end of your line it is more than likely because you are not letting your back cast roll all the way out. If do not let your back cast lay out all the way the line will have to pass its self. As it does the short portion of line that is overlapped goes slack. Then when it catches tension *POP*. This description isn't the best but you get the idea I am sure.

Amy and Justin Spencer, at Sunburst Ranch will treat you right. You could do Hammond to Sunburst, about 10 miles, in a day and a half if you fish it hard.

And more functioning and successful habitual users than you could even imagine. Users that have done so for decades and never "progressed" to anything more. They're out there, man.

Did'ja get your monies worth? Just kidding. With the type of people like you described, I think it has more to do with their (addictive) personality and wanting to get into the hard stuff for whatever reason than anything. I've seen just as many make the same transitions but with alcohol/pills/huffing/whatever and never even touch the weed.

I got my hopes up that this was going to be a Taneycomo Nights post.

What kind of shape would you be in after 3 or 4 12oz cans of complexity? Point. And. Match.

Some people can't handle complexity...

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I don't think it took any rum for Scott's technologically challenged butt to upload the wrong (2nd of the 18 instead of the other 15) picture.

Not saying your story didn't happen, but the two pictures posted are undoubtedly the same fish.

Word.