fishinwrench

I had an equestrian girlfriend for 8 months. Pretty as hell, crazy in bed, and better than any guy pal when doing manly stuff like building a deck, working on the truck, fixin' boats, ect. I didn't share her love of horses though, just couldn't do it. Sadly that was the straw. Lost her to some tobacco chewing Pettis county rodeo cowboy that drove a Ford. What a kick in the nuts that was. 😢 I sized him up and decided that I might not be able to whoop him...so sad little Wrench-puppy just turned around and walked away. 😔 💔

If you notice, the trails of road apples shows that they won't even allow the animal to stop for 10 seconds to take a crap. Somebody should get behind THEM when they are doing their business and make THEM keep working while they $#!t. No stopping to crap or piss azzhole! You keep raking that hay!

Not a problem below the confluence of the spring branch.

Once it's on the water it doesn't matter. It's how it behaves in the air that complicates things. When hitting the target with the FLY matters, then leader construction matters.

I've never rode a train. Need to do that!

I have close personal friend that is a good one. But if his findings don't fit the goal they are sometimes heavily edited, and if he makes a stink about the editing he might lose his job. I'd love to share some of the BS, but I can't for fear that it might cause him grief. I'll let a small kitten out of the bag for ya though, and tell ya that the big crawdad study that caused crawdads at baitshops to be no-more, was a twisted crock of BS done statewide just to screw over one single little person because of a petty personal vindetta. I suspect the CWD ordeal to be somewhat similar in causality.

Are they an actual species, or just a genetic freak? This one hung around here all day, but haven't seen it again since. Just passing through? I considered shooting it, but then questioned my reasoning of why......so I didn't. Tried to get a decent pic but he wasn't gonna let that happen. Just studied him through the scope at 45 yards.

I've got one around here that is blacker than this one. He/she is jet black top and bottom. I thought it was a baby skunk at first.

I didn't see my first wild turkey until I was 14. By the time I graduated high school they were EVERYWHERE. So 3-4 years can produce a metric ton of thunder chickens. Quail numbers declined noticably during the same time period, and all the old bird hunters up home blamed it all on turkeys .....claimed that turkeys would feast on quail eggs. Coyotes and foxes were thick then too, thicker than they are now I bet. And they couldn't keep the turkey numbers thinned out then, so...... A turkey study🙄 Of course. Because they can't think of anything else to do, I reckon.

Hopefully it's been ruled that speaking to a person who owns a gun or two isn't considered an "armed confrontation".

Well fine then, y'all just keep using the unruly bastards. 😅

Any mono that doesn't stretch reasonably easy and lose it's memory right away is "hard" by my standards.

He liked SanJuan. Hated the others. He's too old and feeble to travel and hike now. Another 5 county man. 😊

I'm not sure that you have. You met my FLY TYING mentor. But he and my fly FISHING mentor can't stand one another. 😅

You can't beat an airgun if your out for numbers. The boom of a shotgun, or the crack of a rimfire puts a hush on a woodlot for darn near an hour. An airgun makes less noise than a twig snapping.

You know what the jacked up part is? Only the surviving driver was tested for BAC. It's like..... We're only gonna test the guy that can show up for court. Sorry, but that's freakin' BS! Test them both, or test neither. Especially in that case since it sounds like the Ranger driver was potentially more at fault.

My nymphing mentor said something once that has always stuck with me.... "I'd rather fish a single fly well, than to fish several flys half-assed". I've never had my butt kicked by anyone fishing a dropper, but if I ever do I'll certainly revisit it.

Eww! I kinda like that! 👍

Yeah ya did. You learned how to set the hook and fight fish. 😊 You probably also learned not to ignore that rough spot on your line that is 6" up from your bait.

The machine tapered leader that you bought off the peg yesterday will probably straighten out pretty good with a few good tugs. But that one you've had since last Winter......forgetaboutit ! You'll have to boil that sumbitch tonight and use it no later than tomorrow.

Hand twisted "faux furled" leaders don't hold water like the furled leaders made from tying thread. I never seem to have boiling water nearby when changing leaders onstream, and to get to my jeans means I have to "disrobe", so while I'm standing there with my pants down....might as well piss on the leader. Ya never know. 🤪

Thanks 😊 The fish in the big backend flats are also the least effected during the dreaded "fall turnover" period. And the fact that everyone is all into playing with their side imaging sonar and livescope these days.....equates to considerably less pressure on them.

The fish in the far backends are likely to be resident fish and are much easier to pattern than mainlake schooling fish, or releasee's that are swimming around completely lost. I don't know about you, but unless I stumble onto something out of pure luck, it takes me 3 consecutive days of fishing to put together any truly good mainlake structure pattern. When pinched for time I always head straight for the big backend flats. Fish live there until the water is near freezing, and the bass that live there are a acting like BASS, instead of like STRIPERS. I'm not telling you that it's the best way to win a tournament....but I am saying that it's the quickest way to avoid a skunkin'. 😊

Again? When did that last happen? He said to take the outside bend, smarty-pants.