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I'll try that out, but mine is trout focused. Looks something like this, but I add different tails. It really a simple tie.

LOL... well that's not helpful.

Many years ago, my wife bought me a beautiful sit on top kayak. Then I got sick and was not allowed to lift anything heavy. I'm good to go now, but don't have a way to cart it on top of my car (it has one of those end to end, side to side sun roofs). Anyway, enough is enough. I want to get a trailer for it and get it on the water this spring. Anyone have any suggestions on a trailer for a large sit on top? Needs to travel on the interstate.

Is Cardiac Hill dead. It is worth the heart attack and something I should try?

I've had really good luck with this recipe. It is a fast riser, so not one to leave unattended or at least without an alarm. This is the closest to soft store bought white bread if found in 10 years of bread making. Great for sandwiches. Sorry about the font, don't know how to fix it. 1.5 teaspoons of salt 2.5 cups (13.7 ounces) of bread flour (optional) start with one to three rounded (cereal) spoons of wheat flour and bring to 13.7 oz with bread flour. All white flour gives you a very soft loaf. 2 teaspoons of yeast (instant or rapid) 2 tablespoons of unsalted melted hot butter (to mix with cold milk) 3/4 cup of whole milk 2 tablespoons of honey or agave 1/4 cup of beer or water (reserved) In your mixing bowl on scale (if weighing) but leave off…add salt Turn on scale or zero Optional… add wheat flour Add bread flour until to 13.7oz Melt the butter and then add milk to hot butter; you can also warm milk to skin temp if you like… add to flour Add honey or agave Mix ingredients… you should have a dry mix with loose flour. Add reserve liquid in small amounts until all the flour is incorporated and dough has a wet sheen. Then add just one more splash. Rest for 15-20 minutes. Knead on medium high for 6 minutes (check with pull test) or by hand until ready. Form into a tight dough ball. I use wet hands and unfloured work space to shape the dough ball using the circle method. If you have one let it rise in a rectangle shaped container. Rise until doubled. I averaged 1.25 hours. Cover or grease the top with cooking spray. Grease a 9x5 loaf pan. Make sure to get the top also. You can hand shape also if needed. Flour your work space and drop the dough. I put the pan at the top of the work space. Flatten the dough and shape in to a rectangle that is 9” wide. I use a rolling pin and pound and roll to size. I fold in the top corners like a paper airplane and the role down. Seal the edge and tuck in the ends to make a roll about the length of the pan. Set in pan. Set timer to 35 minutes. After 35m, turn oven to 450 The loaf can have a very large oven lift. Need to keep an eye on the pan. About 30 minutes after turning on the oven, look for the the top of the dough to be 1/2 inch above the top level of the pan. If you have a bakers razor blade, score right down the middle and cut deep. If not, try leaving it alone. Sometimes the loaf will grow and fold over to one side. Ugly but tastes good. Put the pan in the oven and spray in water. Skip if you don’t have a sprayer. VERY IMPORTANT… turn oven down to 350 degrees. If you forget, don’t worry. Crust may be a little more crunchy. Start checking at 30 minutes, but I normally go 40m. Looking for a brown crust (like a store bought loaf) and internal temp over 200 degrees. Let rest for 15 minutes and then de-pan. Let completely cool.

You may have a seen my other threads below on a Book, Simple Flies and the peacock hurl fly. That has been my go to fly all summer and fall. Anyway, I was telling the owner of Reading's Fly shop about it. He told me that was a hot fly in the early 70's, and they called it the Peacock Killer. I forgot to ask why it died out. Anyway... I was wondering if any of you old timers remember the "Peacock Killer"? Do you remember if it had a tail? Anyway... I love the name, so that is what I'm going with from here on out. LOL Tight lines.

Nice... This was before the cold front right?

Due to kids mostly, this is my first C&R weekend in years. I made it down on Sunday and Monday. Both days were light in traffic, and if you searched it out, you could get full sections to yourself. I didn't make it on to the sandbar below the park like I normally do. Sunday... it was one of those great days. I probably brought 25-35 fish to hand. My two best setups was a simple peacock hurl nymph on the upper half and olive woolly on the lower half. I even caught some on small dries. I was surprised, I got nothing on midge flies. I gave up after an hour of nothing on a double nymph setup. The woolly's work best casting over and down across the riffles. I caught a mix on a dead drift and stripping. Monday... it was a lot tougher. I caught a few on the peacock nymph, none on midges, and got most on the olive woolly. Afternoon was better then morning. I will call out one hole, but for safety. I did fish right below the darn bridge on the river side of the bridge and road side of the hole. There is a "standing spot" covered in leaves. I took a careful step into it and found a perfect 45 degree rock under the leaves. Down goes Fraser. It wasn't bad. I only got a sleeve wet, and I always bring back up cloths. So if you saw the white car with cloths hanging from the windows... that was me. Anyway... Two days on the river and not at work. Tight lines.

I grew up in Kansas with family around. In general terms, what area of the state are you hunting?

Very nice day.

Is this the one you recommend. For $40, I'll try it. https://www.scientificanglers.com/product/aircel/

Do you tie or use any with bead heads?

FishnDave... are you catching these in someone's Koa pond or a park somewhere?

I wonder if he was talking about a fly line like this. A couple of sites agree with the marketing that it is a good roll casting line. https://royalwulff.com/products/triangle-taper-classic-float.

Yesterday was really nice in Highland IL. So I went out to the winter trout pond with a new rod and high hopes. I tried a woolly with no luck. I then went to a size 14 crackleback with no luck, until! I was reeling in my line to move to a new spot and caught a trout on it. Of course, that was the clue I needed. I switched to fast short pulls, and I lost one and brought two more to hand in about 30 minutes. I'll try it out again and see if it was this day thing or maybe a new fishing pattern. Now I just need to tie some more up. I also wonder if I should try some winged wet flies. Tight Lines

Well I got it on the water yesterday on a winter trout pond. Once I figured out to slow down a little, it casted like a dream. I was getting distances that I used to had to have to push hard. Probably not related, but it did bring in three trout also. The roll casting was just ok, but I'm learning so it was probably user error. The shop owner recommended that I switch to a diamond five weight line if I planned to roll cast a lot. Don't know what that means, but he is a master caster. If you know, let me know.

Losing great dogs is tough, but you probably have a ton of great memories. The rod sounds like a lot of fun. Let me know how the fly works.

I checked out your blog in the link you have below your post. First, very good looking dogs. Two, did you try that 3 weight yet; looks like fun. Three and back to the topic, have you fished that trout blues fly yet? It looks fishy.

I took a leap of faith, and bought a Greys four weight, 10 foot, medium fast flex rod, the Streamflex . I got it at 40% off. I also got to try it out in a casting pond before buying. They appear to be a rod company in England, but I had never heard of them. It has a lifetime warranty, but was warned it takes time because it goes back to England. I have been practicing with in the yard. Based on that, I think I will really like more then what I currently have. Anyone have any experience with these rods? Anyone know anything about the company? Greys Fly Fishing Rods - Pure Fishing

I'm in an all day planning meeting and trying to focus, but its not working, LOL. So here is the question: Do you like to find new patterns, tie them, and go test them out? Do you always use the same set of flies and just tie what you need? The Ozarks are a day trip for me, but I like to try new things. So, I'll spend a couple hours trying new stuff and old favorites the rest of the time. If you are local to the trout water and want to try out new patterns for me, drop me an IM. If you don't tie, don't have to have pitch perfect flies, and want some flies in exchange for hooks and weights, drop me an IM.

Trash and dumping, letting your cows walk all through it, etc.

First... then why have a threads on them here if we can't talk about them. Secondly... I buy my license and pay for my trout stamps to support DNR. I would like to have knowledge of the public areas. Thirdly.. my experience is this is overblown in Missouri. Most people I talk to lost five flies in the trees and didn't catch anything or one four inch fish and never come back. There is only a small group of people who like small creeks, got to hike to get anywhere, and fishing with flies. Those creeks get more damage from road trash and locals to don't love it enough to enjoy it.

It was a good game, but in the end the Panthers came up short. They had two big mental mistakes and the other team didn't. That is all it took in a great pitchers dual. Still second best team in the state and your only loss was in the championship game... that is a great season. I'm very proud of my little sister and her "ladies". I'm maybe more proud of this... one of her girls was struggling in school and life, but my sister got her to play ball and really got her education turned around. Just proof that great coaches/teachers can still make a difference.

Very nice

That sounds like a plan. I'm normally rushing so leftover beans in the microwave and eggs on the stove.