fishinwrench

HR, you need to warm up to Fishincricket, he's got the OF pawned and he's an entertaining character to fish with.

LMAO ! You think that's funny, you shoulda seen my double-take when I reached down to land him. I was like: "Woah, PIRANHA !" and pulled my hand back real quick like. I wonder if he was born that way or if it is the result of a childhood encounter with a roostertail and a pair of pliers. Poor guy, I bet his schoolmates pick on him something terrible. That's ok though, cuz I've named a fly after him so he'll always be remembered.... The Bubba stroker URL=http://img37.imageshack.us/i/pa190022.jpg/] Maybe someone will catch him again in a year or two and bust Micheal Kyles balls

By "Bridge hopping" I meant: Accessing by road and fishing within wading distance of the bridges (or accesses). Rivers of that size actually fish a little better like that, or by fishing your way upstream and using the canoe/yak only to paddle across the deep holes. You're right, 4.0-4.5 is the magic number for the LN. 4-6 inches, one way or the other, makes a big difference on certain stretches. If there's not enough current to move the snake-grass you won't find many decent smallies around it.

So I'm out playing with a new fly pattern today and I catch a talking White bass, he called me by name... He said "Mr. Wrench can I ast you a querstion." I said um...yeah. He says..."you wansta go in the shrimpin' bidness wif me ?" I said...Ok

I lost that pic when my computer crashed. It was a bear track...I think. Didn't I post that pic on here ? It was the Summer of 09 I'll admit to being a little "on edge" every time I fish that stretch now. There's a heron rookery just around the bend from where I saw those prints and those herons go nuts for no apparent reason sometimes, that always freaks me out because it is such a boggy creepy area anyway. And then there's this: http://www.mid-americabigfoot.com/phpbb3a/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=302&start=0

Mike, Welcome. I take it the fishing was kinda tuff ? Did you float it or just bridge hop ? Do you fish the Little Niangua much or was it your first trip ?

Well I've met you so let me save you the trouble.... you ain't got a chance with the cowgirls

Sure, but if you want an accurate result why not solicit participation from everyone that purchases a fishing license every year ? If I wanted to get an accurate assessment (via survey) of "angler attitudes" in regards to Spotted bass should I only ask Al A and Eric to participate ? "Black Helecopters" ? Dude this ain't the Drake, take off your designer buff and drop that BS, cuz I know where you're headed with that comment.

Do you suppose that if everyone that is chosen to participate in the survey checked the box that indicated that they kept smallmouth rather than releasing them, that it would have a bearing on the regulation decisions they are "supposedly" trying to decide upon ? Seems to me that they have chosen a specific caliber of anglers to send these things to... a target audience if you will. I probably got it because of my Stream Team affiliation and because of my personal inquirys to specific biologists in the past, but none of my neighbors recieved it, and they "fish" all the time, all over the place. Don't you think MDC already knows what the results of this survey will indicate ? I do. It will indicate that smallmouth are targeted frequently, and that they are almost always released. Duh !

I recieved the little blue card and put it in its proper place. I filled out a multi-paged survey a year or so ago and got a big warm fuzzy out of it....So what's the strategy here, are they just gonna keep repeating the "survey" until they get the results they are looking for ? I have a feeling that my input on that issue is about as significant as your input on an election ballot, and not even worth a trip out to the mailbox. Just someone trying to justify a cush little phoney baloney job. Fire away

Yep, that's where I first heard about it. I was buying a bunch of it because I was using it to make miniature sparkleminnows (crappie killinest fly you ever tried...let's see what I can start there LOL) and Bob said "ya know there's a guy up by you that is tearing up the carp with a fly tied out of that stuff." Well at the time I couldn't have cared less about flyfishing for carp, so that tidbit bounced right off me. But apparently since then several guys have scored well with it because everytime someone brings up flyfishing for carp here on L.O. the "ice dub grub" gets mentioned. You started a legend ! That's some funny dung !

I love DO cooking. My g/f has perfected blackberry cobbler, cornbread, and pot-pie, but we still can't pull off decent biscuits.

Holy Smokes !

That pearl IceDub Grub has quite a following, I'll have to give it a try.

Anyone considering themselves competent to compete in a sanctioned tournament should know proper navigational rules. If they met head on and both corrected in the same direction then one of the drivers apparently didn't know what he was doing. Just for an easy to remember refresher: Consider your bow light (one side red-left / one side green-right) Never turn your green side to an approaching craft, and always give the right of way to a craft that has its red side towards you. Red-left-port Green-right-starboard Two boat meeting head on each veer RIGHT/starboard (just like on the highway), which puts thier red-left-port side towards the approaching vessel. I agree, and that incldes PWC's jetboats, and even canoes on rivers. So...just to make sure everyone is paying attention....When you are passing (overtaking) a slower craft, which side do you pass on ? (remember the bow lights)

I have been experimenting with it some while waiting for the white bass to start busting in the evenings, but I haven't got the carp figured out by any means. My best catches so far have been accidental. There are still plenty of big bruisers cruising and tailing on the mud flats at L.O. and the water temp on the flats is running from 65-68, not sure how long they'll stay up in there. We've been having a big midge hatch every evening lately, although it seems weird calling them "midges" because they are huge (3/4 inch long), but that is what they appear to be (either big midges or or small craneflys). I have to assume either those midge emergers, or Zebra mussel larva are what the carp are rooting around for up on the mud flats. If you fish the flats at Lake O be sure to wash your boat when your done..... This is just from one 5 hour trip up in the shallows. At the rate the zebras are multiplying they should have this pond filtered out nicely within a few years

In my opinion the right distance to have a bobber from your fly, regardless of depth, isn't measured in inches it is measured in miles.

I dunno but I get them all the time, sometimes 4-5 times a day. I'm on a biz rate though so it shouldn't be costing me anything. I assumed they were either a collection agency or a sales call. They never leave a message on my Sony secretary.

The spots in the lake O tribs all have the grubs in their shoulders, but oddly enough the ones caught in the lake itself do not. You can thank the herons for the grub...Or so I've read.

Snap ! beep-beep Crunch !

Rest easy SB, They do that every Fall. Those carp are just making a migratory run(of sorts)right now, they'll clear out when they are done doing whatever it is that they do. They are running up all the L.O. tribs now also, it is a bowfishers paradise and happens every September-early October. They'll be gone, for the most part, by next week probably.

If you are going "full tilt midge fishing" I'd suggest buying a 2-3wt and Rick Takahashi's book. But if you're just gearing up to cover the occasional midge-only bite between "real fishing oppurtunitys", some thread midges from 22-18 (lt. olive, brown, cream) and a dozen #20 griffiths gnats will get you through.

Tell me about it ! Dr. James henshall (noted writer of days gone by, and since he called himself "a doctor" every word he wrote was considered infallible) was quoted as saying that "smallmouth bass were the gamest (is that a word?) fish that swims in freshwater". Well, I love Smallies in a big way, but the "Doc" obviously never had his dung crushed by a White bass of equal size. And he's just lucky that Hybrid Stripers came along after his pen ran out of ink, because a Wiper could pull a smallie twice its size backwards against the current. Maybe the disclaimer on that is in the definition of "gamest". LOL

Both seem to be about equal in length, so which fought hardest...the tailwater rainbow, or the Hybrid in your avitar ?