fishinwrench

Awesome business going on here! I love it.

Danville 6/0 is some weak stuff, I use it only for thread midges. Even the spring on my whip finisher will break it if I get in a hurry. Builds up nice though.

When I was a pup we had a network of trails and shortcuts that crossed through roughly 40 different peoples yards or property that led to various spots all over town. We rode bicycles, motorcycles, 3-wheelers, and noisy modified lawn tractors. Even had makeshift ramps built to jump fences and ditches. Not once did anyone EVER throw a fit about it. It wasn't uncommon however to get temporarily abducted to help carry in grocerys or lend a hand with tilling a garden if you we're passing through at the right time. I am SO glad that I grew up when and where I did. It must suck to be a kid now. Sad.

X2 As long as you stood still and didn't move they we're fine, but start moving around (casting, bending over, or anything else) and the water got pushed right through them. Miserable POS they were. Are the waders made from the same crap?

Geeze, what did they do, waterboard that kid to obtain all of those voluntary confessions? Sounds like he was TRYING to get himself jailed.

That ain't a wild boar,ya nimrod, it's a frikken pig. And You shot your neighbors mule? WTF? Just for that I'm gonna swat the next bee I see, and I hope your neighbor does the same. LOL

Wow! LMAO! This place is getting too big to just horse-a$$ around in...isn't it?

The summary on the Osage river makes me wanna cry. Yet amazingly fish still swim there.

Good point. Just because a fish was released in one spot and caught in another really doesn't indicate anything, except that the fish wasn't tied to a log. Evidence that fish ping-pong back and forth seasonally is just an assumption. A tagged fish captured a year later from the same area where it was released hasn't happened yet. Or has it?

LMAO Classic! Ness, I'm pickin'up what you're laying down, but it's the only way I know of to get even. They pummel me in hairspray man ! Every-Freakin- Day! So I fully intend to be a major PIA when I prepare to croak. But I promise not to cost any innocent health conscious premium payers a dime. J/k I'll give them up one day soon....as if it's not already too late anyway.

I was the one saying "calm down, relax, chill, everyone doesn't need to be trained to kill, especially children"...... Yet I am the one who went off the deep end? WTFever ! Y'all enjoy your soldier games. Hope you manage to stay out of prison.

Dude! Good score!

Woah! That was sweet.

I'm not sure which owl or hawk it is, but one of them makes a noise (sometimes) that sounds exactly like a cougar scream off in the distance.

Excellent! Kinda hard to sit in a tree waiting on a deer when the fishing is that good.

Shot at him 6-7 times with the closest hit being 20 yards away? Pretty pathetic for a possible assassin. Probably someone goofing off with their assault rifle (given the number of shots fired) and didn't check to be sure nobody was down there. Chalk up yet another one for the soldier of fortune gang.

"Unassessed/Condition unknown" I assume that it is a work in progress? Data for the ones I searched are available through mostreamteam.org so the info IS out there. Accuracy is questionable though.

Well there's obviously no blanket answer, it just depends on the individual body of water. Hell I know of a cove here in LO where crappie can be caught in 2-3fow all Winter, no spring influence, no massive amount of cover, nothing special that you'd ever recognize....but for some reason they are there. Next cove over...same water temp, same N-S-E-W orientation, same bottom composition....but no crappie. Crazy! It's like trying to figure out why your wife sits with her legs crossed, and your girlfriend sits with both feet in the floor. Ooops! Did I say that outloud?

News to me too. With the mindset of crappie anglers they'd have to stock like crazy...unless more reasonable limits apply in the areas where they plant them.

No, because we've already hashed the mere CCW stuff out in the past. It was the composition of the OP that riled me up. If he had accentuated(*****) Safety at least once during his description of his families fresh new training excersize instead of drilling on terms like *Combative*, *Tactical*, and *Weapons* then I probably would have assumed more towards the responsibility aspect of it all. But all I see there is an inexperienced young man with a family who is all goosed up on preparing for bloodshed and heroism. And I figured that saying something to calm him down just a bit could do no harm. That's all.

I am reasonably certain that the Smallmouth in the Lake O tribs do not leave the creeks for the Winter. And these are small shallow creeks wadable in all but a few isolated spots. They find somewhere (some little niche or crevice) to sit it out just like the frogs, salamanders, longears, punkinseeds and crawdads do. I do think that the availability of these "waiting it out" spots probably determines the overall fish population in these creeks.

Oh, you are in a good area! Congratulations, and welcome to "the lake" Laker is the guy you wanna hear from, he has the scoop on the Ni-Crappie bite. Can I offer a suggestion though? The cheesy real-estate mile marker designations are total bunk. You are at the 45MM ON the Niangua. Period. After you've navigated the lake awhile you'll understand why that's a big deal. Why they ever started that "13mm of the Niangua" type crap is beyond me.

I love that story!

Teachers fail as often as they succeed, same with soldiers. Do I think the same results could be had minus extensive tactical training? Possibly.....Probably. A 1000 yard (known range) shot with the proper artillery? Probably, but why would I choose to? Me protecting squirrels? You lost me with that one. You apparently only recognize two types of people as they relate to guns. There are more. So in the presence of a nervous semi-paranoid (but TRAINED) "weapon" carrier I am expected to provide for my own margin of safety ? This is why I'm sounding off long after I apologized for saying anything in the first place, and said I was done..... and it makes my point better than I could have myself. Thanks. Remind me to ask you in 3 months if you're still training daily. LOL

When a gun is defined as "a weapon"....then yeah, you're right it does. Good idea though, I'll contact St.Croix and see if there's any interest in producing a "tactical" line of fly rods so I can keep the "Thugs" from stealing my non-tactical rods. You guys are a POW. What 'stuff' do you have that you're willing to kill to keep? Nevermind, don't even answer that.