fishinwrench

If your top end RPM is still 5000+ then you can help by moving some weight forward. Otherwise, dropping down a pitch on the prop is all you can do to help it.

That theory has been shown to be 100% true. My great aunt proved that when I was a small child. My mom told me not to eat it because it had liquor in it.

I think that is actually what it was first designed to imitate. Called either a Traffic Jam or a Train Wreck. Ultra chenille, black thread, and a grizzly hackle. Stockers can't pass it up. Works better fished like a nymph than it does as a dry, or at least it has for me. Color of chenille pieces is optional. (I had to tell you that, right?) . Pink is good, Worm brown is good, Red is good.

Yeah that's the brochure that falsely showed Berry Bluff as a river access with a boat ramp. Also caused a stir about a little creek south of Kingdom city. I have it somewhere. If Gavin doesn't find his pile of them I'll go looking

I'll be all over, probably won't be in the park much, if at all actually, but the river is low and 1/2 the fish in it have been gigged so we may come up with a creative way to fish the park one morning or evening unless it's assholes to elbows in there.

Is that the ---- from last year ?

Tell them there was 2 handguns and a 8-ball of Cuban snow in the tackle bag, that'll get them to look into it with a bit more enthusiasm.

Trout parks are a superb place to practice honing your skills in strike detection and hook setting techniques, because stocker fish bite the same way that wild fish do. You'll never learn or get better at the game though unless you take your stupid bobber off, step away from the hatchery outlets, and actually try to learn and practice. It is where I experiment with different hooks, leaders, casting angles and stuff. It pays off big because you can learn there in a day what might take 3 months or more to learn on a stream where you're only gonna get a fraction of the bites. There's no quicker way to learn how to be good at swinging soft hackles, stripping buggers, fishing drys, ect. So if you use your trout park trips as sparring matches instead of just standing at the outlets trying to catch 200 fish as quickly as you can you'll get alot more out of it. Talking about this has inspired me actually. My daughter and I will be on the Niangua this weekend and I think I'll coach her through a walk down Bennett. I'll tell her that between the spring hole and the whistle bridge I want her to catch 3 fish on drys, 3 fish swinging a soft hackle or a bugger/leech, 3 fish nymphing a fast riffle/run, 3 fish by sight fishing, 3 fish stripping a streamer, and 3 fish drifting a Midge under a bobber. That'll be a good excersize.

Hu? What? Did you say something? 😎

This is the ned rig of trout fishing right here. Dry or Wet.

Does too! 😝

I have only financed a boat twice in my life, and regretted it both times. But that was mostly because my income was not stable. Too many months of eating eggs and potatoes and stressing out over it. Never again.

Me? Not at midnight on a Sunday, unless you're talking about my part time job testing headboard fasteners. Hey my posts are usually short and to the point.

So what are they bitin' on? Just any old nymph? How much weight do you have to use out there? Another buddy (customer actually, I've never fished with him) just got back from Yellowstone and he had some pretty impressive pics on his phone, they caught all of theirs on a big drowned Adams (#10 or 12 fishing it like a nymph). I had a guy spank me bad doing that at Bennett once, many years ago. He was using a little one, but still... Pressured fish never see drys near the bottom, and apparently sometimes they like it. I need to try it more often when the bite is dead.

Hammond not Blair, right ?

Lots of bass suspended under docks and breakwaters on the main. Backend bite is still sketchy but you can't afford to ignore it because the one or two bites you get are likely to be good ones. The Crappie guys out trolling cranks are still picking up 4+pounders routinely so there are still alot of suspended bass hanging out in the middle of nowhere. That's all I know about them right now.

Depends on the amount financed and the value of the boat. If it has a new Evinrude with a 10 year warranty, and you have 5k+ for a down pmt. then it shouldn't be a problem. Realize that insurance is gonna rape you all along the way. Absolutely do NOT do it on a used rig.

They're afraid if you die they won't get paid ?

Actually I think I'm against it. A handle should be like a tattoo, you'd better think long and hard about it because you're stuck with it for eternity. Otherwise this stuff is never real. Mrs. Silence Dogood

Let's all do it, and see how long it takes to figure out who is who. 😎

"Get a goddam job before sundown, or were shipping you off to military school with that goddam Finkelstein chit kid. Sonuvabitch!

Actually you don't. You buy left handed Baitcasters and "right handed" Spinning and fly reels. I never understood why a spinning or fly reel with the handle on the RIGHT was considered LEFT HANDED, but it is. That's probably why you sometimes see some goonhead holding it upside-down and reeling backwards.

I cast and switch (reel with the same hand I cast with....the same as I do with baitcasting gear), so I just close the bail as I'm switching hands. I don't even realize that I do it unless someone mentions it. It's all fluid and I seldom have any snarling issues. I don't understand why most people cast/retrieve differently with spinning gear than they do with casting gear. Makes no sense to me. Keep all of your reel handles on the same side and you won't cuss spinning gear all the time.

Did yours work? Mine didn't. Paper burnt up/weed fell in lap.

Sure am sorry to hear that. ☹️ Feed Jake.