David Unnerstall

Yeah...the Fish Stocking Hotline claimed January-Wabash was stocked on Tuesday and Thursday the week before last -- a double stocking. I went there the next Saturday and it was iced over. You can see where MDC broke the ice to dump the fish. My heart was broken. There were more than 800 trout (my tax dollars) underneath the ice and I couldn't do any thing about it. I assume the ice has thickened, by now, but I doubt a guy would be allowed out on the ice with an auger. Yeah I do have cabin fever. I pick up a rod out of my rack and hold it for a spell once or twice a day.

Thanks Phil. I don't know if this is a cure for cabin fever or makes it worse.

Is anyone fishing Brick House Slough, these days? I need to find some spots close to home that I can fish for a few hours in the canoe and still get home in time for chores. I fished there a lot for bass when we all thought there was bass in there some years back but have not been there in a while. I assume one can catch catfish but does anyone catch anything else?

Mitch, If I ever find a spot where I catch fish, I won't tell -- I promise.

Classic Jack Buck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UeheksW6uM "I think it's cold Ray"

Auburn did just beat the number one team in the nation the week before. But this reminded me of the bowl game against Navy where our defense had no adjustment at halftime. But Auburn and especially that running back are a class act.

'Can't help you Corb. I CAN tell you about a dozen places where I don't catch fish.

Worse than all that is the alligators. It just ain't natural to live in a state where there are alligators.

James, dude. It's been two and a half years and I am pretty sure Billfo got it all figured out. But that is great information.

I bear no ill will toward the Red Sox. It is nice to see the two best teams (the best records in each league) playing in the World Series. Home field advantage in baseball is now the most important factor. But if Wacha can keep this up he can neutralize home field advantage. But it is unrealistic to expect him to keep this up. If we can split in Boston, come home and win two out of three and split in Boston.....

According to my observation there is a narrow belt of pink granite rocks stretching east to west. I do like that scenery.

A musical instrument. Even if you can't play it. You will have plenty of time to learn.

I live on a creek that flows into the Mississippi river from North St. Louis County. I had to do some landscaping on it in '08 and was pleased to find a crawdad.

It is only on the MLB network, today. There is MLBTV whereby one can watch on a computer from the Internet and there is the MLB package that cable.satellite providers can offer. I don't know if they are the same. Anyway I am imprisoned in my cubicle watching MLB Gameday. I wish SOMETHING would break in the field so I can get out of here and listen to it.

Is this the accepted method for idenfifying a pre-Rapala Wart? By-the-way; after one and a half innings there is no score. Waino has two strikeouts.

Chief, dude, I took this picture my last trip out with the canoe on the Bourbeuse:

Man, I wish I said that.

And one more thing on this. The stay at Sunburst was perfect! We floated on Saturday but that fish I caught was a hundred feet from camp on a nymph bought from Justin.

I finally got an opportunity to get my May Vacation in, my April crappie fishing trip with my buddies Rick and Kevin and September fishing trip with my buddy Bob so now I am caught up. I took the boat to Wappappello the first of the week. While on the boat ramp the brake pedal when all the way to the floor. The line from the proportional valve to the left front rusted through. Now I have put a boat in with no brakes, before, (you put it in Drive and hit the gas when you want to stop) but I would have to fix it before we left so under the truck I go. By now I had five shade tree mechanics and only four shade trees. I had a 12-inch piece of brake line with a flare on one end and a compression fitting. Two said replace the brake line using the compression fitting, and two said install the brake line on the proportional valve and crimp it shut. The fifth shade tree mechanic did not give a "darn" - that was Kevin. Now I saw many three legged dogs and they got around just fine so I went with three brakes and crimped the new line. The fishing the first two days was tough. The fish were scattered and small. On the third day we managed to find some perfect crappie cover and caught a few all but one exactly 8-1/2 inch. Kevin did catch the only keeper. Later in the week Bob and I got to the NFOW for my first fly fishing adventure. That was a unique experience. I did manage to catch my first trout on a fly rod. No pictures -- I was not about to get my cell phone out standing in that water. I created another post on this, earlier.

I got this reel respooled at T Hargrove and we made our way to the NFOW. That is a tough river to learn to fly fish but I did catch one rainbow on the Heddon. My father-in-law would be happy. To answer the question as to how it casts I really can't answer that having no previous experience. But now the question is: Am I hooked on this?

ness, I don't know how the Heddon casts but will find out a little later than sooner. My trip to Jerry's Tackle in Highland was for nought. They did not have any DT6. It appears a trip to T Hargrove is in the future.

Gavin, I built that canoe a couple of years ago. I needed a white background and those plans were handy. I posted on the canoe at the time. I hope this link functions.

Gavin, Thanks for this information. I am in North St. Louis County but I have no plans on selling these. It is just that I have been dragging my buddy Bob (who IS an avid fly fisherman -- at least he looks like it with all of the gear he has) bass fishing for quite a few years and he wants to fish the NFOW this year. I AM going to put the Medalist on the Heddon. I work in Fairview Heights, IL and am heading to Jerry's Tackle in Highland, during lunch, and go about getting the Medalist spooled. Attached is a couple pictures of the Heddon and one of both reels.

Thanks Wayne. I do plan on buying flies there -- I just want to get setup and work on this before going.

Thanks for this.