fishinwrench

My God, would ya look at that list of phoney baloney jobs !!! What'll it cost man, what'll it cost? !!! Pardon me for my ignorance....but are all of the$e people nece$$ary ?

Thanks man. The neighbor has apologized up one side and down the other, I am gonna send them a copy of the bill to see how sorry they really are, but I'm guessing that we will forever be non-speaking neighbors. JD, River was on their property because he got a sniff of the dead animal, my guess is that he was fixin' to freaking roll in it. Everyones dogs run free around here, even the guy that did the deed, we have no leash laws and we like it that way. Nothing moves around here at night without getting barked at or chased....and that's worth a few torn up trash bags and missing boots.

I'm not worried one bit about mountain lions being around, but what does hack me off is all the people that are freaked out and trippin' about it. And here's why.... The real thing was supposedly spotted in my neighborhood, it had killed a goat, and one of my neighbors was told by MDC and the Morgan county sheriff that it was ok to bait it and kill it. They left a dead goat in their field within sight of their house and shot my best friend with a .30 cal. Luckily (if you can call it luck) he was a piss poor shot He is healing up ok, but I now, because of all this f---ing cougar paranoia, have a 800.00 vet bill and a gun-shy best friend. So please....no really, PLEASE don't loose your minds over all this mountain lion rhetoric. Chances are if you ever do see one it will be his hind end as he is running away. I'm no COUGAR.....I'm a BALLCHINIAN !

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Hell, I've seen guys run prop outboards in zone 1 Cricket, you ain't got a hair on yer a$$ unless you run the dam at flood stage in that toon. Truth be told.....if I was gonna do it that would be the craft to do it in.

Mad Skills, all around ! Perfection achieved...... Next level?

The old timers call them "celery flys" but they are actually just a pale olive baetis mayfly. A #22 X-caddis dry is a dead ringer (I'll let ya experiment with body colors yourself though), and a #18 primrose pearl midge fished 2' under the surface does a pretty good job on the fish that don't wanna stick their noses out if the water. They hatch the thickest around the weedbeds.

Sounds good, bro. See ya soon.

I wasn't suggesting anyone should use any of that stuff, they were just some considerations I had myself when I was trying to make an old line fishable for another week or so until I could scrape up the coin for a new one. The reel grease worked like a charm, just sayin'. As for being concerned about the fish smelling it... Nope, they told me before I released them that they never even caught a whiff.

I rubbed an old 333+ line down with Garcia Silicote reel grease and it really brought it back to life. I knew it wasn't recommended but I had nothing to loose by trying. I'll probably do it again in the future. I have used WD-40 and Armor-all too in the past, but the white silicone grease worked best and lasted longer. Has anyone tried Vasoline, vegetable oil, or hand lotion? Really the only time dirty line bothers me is in the hot Summertime when the heat makes the line feel sticky.

Why Scotch Guard, did you think the line was soaking up water? What kind of line WAS it? Even if it hadn't ate it up I would think that SG would leave a gummy sticky coating on it.

Typical Winter park arsenal: #18 thread midges #16 scuds egg patterns #10 Wooly buggers #12 leeches #20 Griffith gnat Of course there are others, but if you at least have those you shouldn't get skunked because of a lack of fly patterns.

It has a coated steel frame. They are made by Outcast and marketed through BPS. This one has been down the NFOW once and down the Niangua about a half dozen times, the toon covers are barely even scuffed, so I can't imagine what it would take to actually puncture one ( which I think is everyones fear, at first).

Could someone please take this thing off my hands.... quick, while my daughter isn't looking Not a thing wrong with it, the toons dont leak a bit and are tough as nails. Includes a 12v air pump. 250.00 should be fair enough.

I'll see if I can edit the SBS to post here. The original SBS I put together wasn't OAF friendly.

I'll never go after anything with "bass" in its name ... without a Charlie's Airhead, it has fish mojo in spades!

Which came first the Balls or the Wads?

Waytago, Todd ! "a black scud" hu? Hmmm, you might wanna keep that under your hat Thanks for the report, bro.

Its not "nymphing" but I have done well flippin' rootwads using one of two techniques: 1. Use a slingshot (bow&arrow) cast to shoot a leech pattern right next to the densest part of the ball ( there's normally a calm water eddy there), let it sink out of sight, then give it a little snap every few seconds to see if something has hold of it. 2. Cast a streamer (I like muddlers ) past the rootwad and strip it fast and erratic past the wad. Don't give them time to look at it very good, you're trying to get a reaction strike. I once watched the Trout Commander do a kamakazee drift into the center of a massive rootwad with a copper john and save a nearly fishless day. You wouldn't be doing much of that in a days time though, unless you had about 4 dozen nymphs to spare.

Lookin' good ! Everyone loves the EHC and I guess it's ok, but I have been won over by the X-caddis in cream/tan, and green apple/ tan (#20 and #16) X-Caddis: TMC 100 or 101 #14-22 Tail: antron or Z-lon fibers Body: thin strip of craft foam ,wrapped. Wing: deer or elk hair, stacked Head: wing hair butts

Looks to me like the Powers That Be are doing more harm in the name of "didymo" than the algae itself will ever do. What a shame. I suppose that future statistics will claim this as " Death due to didymo".

"Studded condoms"...... now there's a stellar redneck idea! "No, we don't have to buy you new boots, Honey ....just put THESE on your feet".

You're wasting your time, you can't learn advanced nymphing techniques while levitating over the water ....you actually have to get in it.

Swans don't have those long marsh-bird legs, do they? When you say "big" do you mean big in the body.... or huge wingspan? Sometimes birds look enormous when in flight, but after they land and fold their wings in the mass shrinks alot. If not a crane/egret/flamingo I cant imagine what else it could have been. We had several pelicans early (October) in the Gravi, but they seem to be gone now, prolly be back in Feb. They fly eith their necks tucked in though, and dont have those stilt legs. Hmmm

This guy? He's an Egret