fishinwrench

Good luck, Mike. Lemme know if ya see any whites in the backend of Buck creek or Cape H. , been thinking about dumping in at Millstone just to check it out, but with the Soap cr. bridge being out it's too far to drive for me just to check out a hunch. Tear'em up!

Outstanding ! Were you guys fishing mainlake structure or concentrating moreso on the flats? Flyfishing on a windy lake is a bitch.... flyline everywhere and your feet are your worst enemy. I was waiting for footage of the famous "Jumprope Double-haul".... I know you each did one

You don't wanna know, trust me. Hearing that there are umpteen thousand trout per mile just makes you feel worse when you have a slow day. LOL Nothing worse than having to trudge 2 miles upstream back to your truck thinking.... "geeze, I suck! "

Hmmm, and you think BASEBALL is gay ! LMAO, I couldnt resist. I tried, I really did

Oh c'mon now Ronnie, didn't you ever play with a lariot when you were a young cowpoke? With all those girls in the house you should be a jump-rope master by now....Criss-cross applesauce, man. Same deal.

When you are casting dryflys try to make your forward cast straighten out parallel to and above the water surface at eye level....then smoothly follow the line (and fly) to the surface of the water with your rod tip. Keep in mind that a "perfect" dryfly cast will result in the fly being the first thing to touch the water. When done perfectly you'll actually have almost a full second of "hang time" when the extended line hangs in the air over the water before gravity takes effect. Once you get the mechanics of that down pat you can start practicing in-air mends (reach, tuck, or snake presentations). One way to "cheat" is to purposely overshoot your intended target and pull back a bit just as the line is straightening out in mid air on the forward stroke, that will usually straighten out even a very limp leader or an overly long tippet, but doing that kills the hang time and doesn't allow the opportunity to do in-air mends.

Bitch creek, Montreal whore, Sex dungeon, Cock & balls, and a Go to hell variant.

No title = Nightmare. You'll only do it once...guarantee ya that.

I know what you mean, Al. I've stuck some enormous flatheads while bass fishing and after awhile Im just done, I do usually try to get a good look at them first though. They were lucky that the sharks didn't get after that Marlin after all that time. And the snagging it with multiple lines thing..... not cool in my book, and kinda spoils the story of a potential record caught.... but whatever.

I strictly flyfish for the whites, but I gotta confess.... I am having a poor Fall thus far. I keep blaming the low and falling water because everything was going good for me until they pulled the plug, but truthfully I'm not sure what my problem is. I'd either like to have a 3 day frog-strangler, or to have the 82° water temps back....cuz Im strugglin' out there. The stupid crappie bite seems pretty consistent now though.

Im not sure why this works...or better yet, why it works in the Fall better than any other time....but a "deadsticked" large tube bait is deadly in the Fall. Just pitch it into a hole where you think a bass oughta be, let it glide to the bottom, then tighten up on it.....and just hold still and wait a full minute. If you don't get a bite reel it in and try again in a slightly different spot....but in the same area. No matter how bad the leaves are this still works...and it works well. I'm not sure if a specific tube is better than another but FWIW I use the Case big Salty tube in Roadkill color and a 1/8 insert head on 8# line. Try it.

LMAO! Exactly WHERE in the Glaze could a person possibly be without being......"in or around coves, or points" ? Probably the easiest way to find them would be to speed-troll the 8-12ft. contour line with one rod rigged with a SR7-SR9 Shad rap, and the other rigged with a 1/4-1/2 oz Rattle trap or Red Eye Shad.

Congrats ! Labs are easy, they just wanna please you. Sending one off for "obedience training" just seems wrong to me. Spend as much time with the pup as possible and everything will fit perfectly in the end.

I just happenned across this thread, very interesting, Al. In regards to the Lake Ozark and Oceola run walleye, I have heard from the ol'timers around here that there was a major boo boo done by the COE back before the LO walleye stocking efforts....and it was probably what started the process to begin with. As the story goes, in tbe early days of Truman dams existance they used to backpump water (or back-flush) at times during heavy flow periods either toclear debris from the gates or for other reasons. Anyway, they allegedly did one of these backpunp episodes durung a time that the walleye were stacked up heavily below the dam and decimated an insane number of fish. The way it has been told it sounds like dead walleye were scooped up and hauled off by the tons in dumptrucks. If this is true...and im pretty sure it is given the source, I bet those walleye were the ones that used to migrate to Osceola.

They just did a stream team float after Labor day weekend.

A little old lady decides to join the local flyfishing club to find out why they were holding stock on the world supply of craft fur and doll eyes. So one day she knocks on their clubhouse door and a long-haired bearded hippie pokes his head round the door. “I want to join your group she says. Amused, the hippie humors her, claiming she needs to meet certain requirements to be part of their group. Do you have a boat? he says. “Yup,”” she replies. “It’s right over there.” Both of them look round to see a nice Clacka on a tilt trailer in the driveway. “Do you drink?” he continues. “Oh yes, like a fish,” she says. “I’ll drink any man here under the table.” “Do you smoke?” “Smoke?” she hoots. “darn right I smoke. I smoke like a chimney. In fact I smoke three packs a day, as well as three joints, and a couple of cigars in the evening, just before I get online and raise hell on the OAF forum.” “Wow,” said the hippie, impressed. “You sound like bad momma. But tell me: have you ever been picked up by the fuzz?” “Nope” says the old lady, “but I’ve been swung round by the nipples a few times.”

A 14 footer with a 60 had BETTER BE a jet..... Otherwise, YIKES ! LOL

They just sucked a foot if water out over the last 3 days for some reason, not sure why because the mild temps should have had everyones a/c off. I know the guage at Bagnell only reports a drop of less than 6 inches...but trust me, it was 10-12" and that hurts the pitchin/flippin' bite up river. On the lower lake there are lots of scattered suspended fish on the 12-15ft flats that wont bite. The fish hanging around cover at the same depth are pretty suceptable to a reaction bite if you slam a DD-22 (or equiv.) into the cover and keep it moving....but if you do alot of pausing in the retrieve you'll get fewer takes. A good rain...enough to start bringing the water back up. and pump some life into the shallows would be a game changer...but I don't think we'll get it this week.

How'd you slip that F-bomb past the filters? I am more proud if you for that than I am the successful outing.

Tell me about it

Tie a perfection loop to the end of the 12# mono....then do loop-to-loop connections with your tippet material...... same way that you attach the leader to your line.

Throw in a paddle and you got a deal.....I'll use them as canoes, or maybe rig a small outboard on one of them.

Oh don't kid yourself, a keeper sized brown faces certain harvest in the river too.... and during more months of the year than in the park.

Is there anywhere to buy flies down there, Scott ?

Well alright then, I'm watching the Buy-Sell-Trade but nobody is coming up off them yet. I have checkbook in hand and promise not to wade south of I-44 in them. C'mon y'all, don't wait for the ban you know it's the right thing to do. Quality size 10 and 10 1/2's still in good to excellent condition.... talk to me!