Gavin

Fun spot usually stop on the way to the Black R. Try the Arcadia Academy for lunch & home made bread & ice cream.

Our you could take it upon yourself and buy a good flashlight instead of stumbling in the dark.

Stopped by Hargove's fly shop this afternoon and tried to recreate with a 1/120 oz jig off the peg and materials laying about. The Heat shrink tubing was wrong. They use it to plastic weld loops in fly lines for customers who like a loop connection. No bite to the hook shank with that heat shrink. It would slide after shrunk, think I need the Aircraft grade waterproof tube with the glue layer inside to stick it to the shank. Thinking saddle hackle butts with a few barbs of webby saddle hackle fine barbs for the feathers. Left over Wooly Bugger feather butts mostly. Thinking 2 feathers. Fun project so far. No success yet but this puzzle has a solution.

dunno, got weigh a dressed jug and one that is spent (bare jig head). Thanks CW, hope you can make Slosh's trip, our lets go soon when you have availability. Can't do JF this weekend. Midweek day trip possible, tell them you are mole whacking or playing golf.

Think you have it.

Superglue might work better than wire, glue, wrap fuzz, clip stems, collar, shrink it.

Thinking the tubing goes over the hook eye after the fuzz is wrapped and secured a wrap of wire, wire removed at some point.

Yeah, I was wrong. looks like a ton of work to replicate. His jig molds, & remaining inventories might be available if you could locate & purchase. Would tell you allot if that's all he tied.

Great read! Think the collar is polyolefin heat shrink with a heat activated adhesive. Used to use something similar when I worked on aircraft wiring in the service.

I'm sure they are easy to recreate. Just a ball of dryer lint, feathers, and a jig head. I'm sure that Doty could dissect and tie, he is a good tier.

I remember Fried “Jack Salmon”as the feature item at most STL area church fish fries in my youth. Think it was Sauger from the Mississippi or Pacific Whiting.

Avoiding the canoe floatillas makes for a better day: Fish early below a popular acess,then move down to the next put in and fish up, go do whatever while the crowds party then go fish the put in after 4:30 or 5. Most of the floaters will be gone by dinner time.

The CG is upstream always from the spring confluence and you can access the warm water section of the river Or wade down past the spring confluence to fish for trout: Dought that many trout are above the spring confluence in this heat:

you could camp at Meramec Springs and have trout and smallmouth within walking distance. Adventure Outdoors down at Scotts Ford usually puts a ton of folks on the Hwy 8 to Scotts Ford float. Would call Green's to see if they can set you up on a float above Hwy 8.

I see no reason for MDC to collect SSN's. Name, addy, and DL number should be sufficient to track down child support deadbeats and felons. DMV should do that check, not two agency's creating another data theft point. I'm sure that my full ID info has been compromised by some government agency at some point. My SSN, PTIN, CAF Number, DOB, home & work address are on file all over the place. I have to give the IRS my SSN and DOB to a complete stranger every time I call the IRS now (Usually twice a month) plus waste 2 minutes repeating my CAF and PTIN and various other details. Wish the pols would fund them. The IRS sucks as an organization in its current form. MODOR is allot better.

Oar rights size small. Fits 1-3/8 -1 5/8th inch shafts. Should work for a small cataraft or jon with a small set of oars. Brand new, does not fit mine. $25 to pick up in STL area, $30 shipped to your door.

Good on you Scott. You might have to go visit him in MN, the rivers receive very little pressure up there, a good time can be had.

1.1 at Akers is dead low, up to 2.5 easy wading mostly. Dicey above that if wading. NPS will close access points at 4' at Akers. Not much wading around Welch. Still fish able at 4' and a tad higher, but you aren't gonna cross w/o a boat. They won't be in their low water spots at high water though. Fish the slower moving water in the 3-5' range that is normally 18" deep.

Spoons & Silver buddies are neglected lures. Catch everything that eats a baitfish, fresh or salt. Will have to double some up for vertical jigging.

Debarb all trebles. Makes it easy to release the fish or get a hook out of you. Have retrieved most floating baits that a fish broke off after waiting a couple minutes. First thing I do after removing a lure from the package.

Good for you guys!

The larger bass sip a popper mostly. Usually when it's sitting still or dead drifting. Let the rubber legs do all the work.

Keep your chin up, It can only get better...Glad nobody got hurt.

They eat a ton of 2" olive colored craws down there, big stones too. Deep craw cranks, & 1/8 oz jigs should do well.

Would be a good song to fish a popper or a jerkbait too.