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Sims Check out the Cliff's Day's Worth Boxes....they have foam and magnets in them. I have the small one. Dano http://www.bearlodgeangler.com/fly_boxes.htm

Sims, I tie them in 16 and 18's...and what you are describing is the distribution wrap. Here is a video tutorial about it...Dano http://www.troutflies.com/tutorials/nest/13.shtml

Bobber, where did you put in? 412 Bridge? Not sure where that is. I missed your original post, wish I could have joned you...Dano

Taken on Dry Run Creek in Arkansas by Tom A. Shows a giant bow with a lamphrey attached. Dano

Welcome Bill, nice to have you here...Dano

Here's the AGFC newsletter article. I got it yesterday....Dano AGFC to begin stocking Florida bass into Brushy Creek ARKADELPHIA - The Fisheries Division of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is planning to roll out a new project to introduce Florida-strain largemouth bass into the Brushy Creek arm of DeGray Lake this summer. The project calls for an intensive stocking of fingerling bass over an eight-year period into the 900-acre lake arm, according to AGFC chief of fisheries Mike Armstrong. "We'll do before and after evaluations to determine genetic introgression of the Florida genes into the resident bass population and resultant changes on bass growth rates and size structure," Armstrong explained. "The goal is to increase the individual size of bass being caught without incorporating more restrictive harvest regulations," he added. Armstrong said the stocking will begin this June. "We will start collecting fish from DeGray in March to determine the genetic makeup, growth rates and other population metrics of the existing bass population before introducing the new Florida bass," he said. Armstrong noted that the agency in the past has resisted stocking Florida-strain bass into large, clear, upland reservoirs like DeGray Lake due to the need to stock large numbers every year to effect a lake-wide change in the bass population. "Recent research emerging from Alabama and Texas has demonstrated that heavy localized stocking into an arm of a lake can deliver the desired genetic introgression within a fairly local area of the lake. This project will test that idea over a eight-year period in DeGray," he said. DeGray was chosen because it is the southern most lake of the large U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoirs, it contains the aquatic vegetation habitat preferred by Florida-bass, and it is the smallest of the Corps' hydropower reservoirs. "We deliberately chose not to use Lake Ouachita since we are already trying to establish Tennessee-strain smallmouth bass into that lake, and it has been suffering from a relatively poor forage crop," Armstrong said.

Brian Were you able to have your Roaring River event this year? I saw an original post on it, but didn't see any followup. Dano

We saw a couple in trees on our way out 86 toward RR the other day...Too far from the roadway for a picture though...Dano

Nice Phil, were you using a long lens or just zoom to capture that? How far away were you? Dano

Typically when you see that kind of designation 78 or 7/8 that would mean it will cast a 7 or 8 weight line. And to go even further, it's designation can also mean that it is designed to cast a 7 wt weight forward floating line, or an 8 weight double tapered line. Either way it will probably cast a 7 or 8 in any design and configuration. That would be an ideal smallie rod. Does it have a brand name? Dano

Packman I think he was fishing below Beaver dam, not Taney....Dano

Mizzou, let us know how you did??? Dano

Sam, thanks...Dano

Congrats Michael, kept her in the slot didn't ya? But I bet you are gonna keep her. Dano

I carry a cheapo 8wt rod in the canoe, I use a 7wt line...I think its a bass bug taper, I can't remember because it's been on the reel so long .. I just add some 6lb pound mono for a leader and it works great. It throws wind resistant bugs just fine..I have just never gotten to technical smallie fishing...Dano (the frugal fly fisherman)

I did lose a black gravel guard on Friday. Should be on the North side of Rocking Chair...or maybe at Phil's by now Dano

Thats sound and very logical Phil. Dano

Hi Joe, welcome, you will enjoy the trout in Taneycomo during your Branson stay...Dano

....and sounds like a great project for the TU chapter, and might even mean more than coming from Government.....Dano

Mizzou...I can't even see a size 26 hook Dano

Mizou I am basically just talking about red thread heads. I do have some clear glass beads that I use some, and more than that a multicolor translusent bead called peacock color. Dano

#1 Gurglers or Dahlberg Divers? I know #4...is the Fergus "strung out in San Juan" worm... Mizou...I don't know about that one...but you are right, I do like it!!! Dano

Its seems that I have more luck with any pattern on Taneycomo if it has a red head. Any idea why that is? Do you notice the same thing? Seems scuds, soft hackles, even woolies are more productive if tied this way. Dano

Jeremy, good to see you again. I will check out your class one of these days. Dano

Brian, Let us know about the ones above, did we get any right???? Dano