fishinwrench

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

Shaker, If your ok with dumping 350.00 just upgrade your current cell phone to Android and download the GPS app. You'll be gaining way more than just gps capability..... these things are freakin' amazing! Lake levels Real time river gages Gps Google Earth/ and maps 10mp camera/video recorder Phone Online web access Fishing journal MP3 tunes Police/water patrol scanner ..Plus whatever else you could possibly want... ALL IN ONE COMPACT UNIT !

Aaaand another one bites the dust ! Ah well, there's still hope....alot can happen between now and Fall 2012. After that though, it's over for you. Not even the Mayans can save your a$$.

Yeah well, it might only be 60 bucks for YOU.....but I have 3 sets of feet to cover, and two of them are females with extremely anal footware preferences. If you knew all the crap I had to go through the last time you'd just hand me a firearm and bid me farewell. LOL

Doubt it. I would hope that it is still legal to wear whatever you want on your feet....as long as you are not standing in a trout stream. Better check the wording though, this might be one of those "laws" actually designed for something else. LOL I know it would please my G/F if they outlawed wearing socks with sandals.... she has a hissy fit when she notices someone doing that and will darn near wreck the car over it.

Halting the manufacture of felt boots and basically allowing felt to "phase out" is understandable, but a full out ban with a future effective date just seems retarded. If it's that big of a deal then how can they afford to wait until March ? I just dunno, the whole thing is as rediculis to me as the ban on lead, and the ban on 2-stroke engines.....except THIS ONE is actually going forward. Whatever. And of course farmers are still allowed to let their livestock do their business in the streams, and various other DEFINATE dustructive acts are overlooked and never acted upon.

That's true, I haven't. I have been to a few places where they were really worried about it.... but I found the fishing to be as good as it had ever been. I have kept checking on the productivity of those tailwaters where didy was said to have taken hold ever since..... and they are still considered destination fisheries, people report stellar catches all the time. So the doomsday effects are kinda hard for me to realize. Has it ever shown up anywhere that wasn't a tailwater? And what waterway that was once a productive fishery ceases to be so today because of didymo? Not arguing, just curious.

It's fishable now. Ive had some pretty good days at 4.0

It's like deja'vu all over again. "What's your stream worth to YOU? "..... What a pitch! LOL as if it ceases to be "a stream" if someone wears felt in it. Nevermind the turkey/hog/cattle farm, and human development impact, for now. This is way more critical. Sorry, this one is gonna take me some time to get my head wrapped firmly around it.

No first hand experience with that contraption but I bet the poor reviews are pretty accurate. Since you still have to reach down to on/off and adjust speed control. A simple extended handle that you could nudge with your elbow, knee, or foot seems alot more effective (quieter and trouble free).

Thanks, Annoying-mouse. It's good to have someone with internet mojo watchin' my back.

The best cold water gill fly (technique) I know of is suspending a Cap Spider under an indicator, and fishing it with slow pulls and pauses.... pretty deadly. Basically, if you dont get bit doing this you arent fishing where the gills are. Here's a link, and there's tying info on YT. I've tried all sorts of colors and combos but I'm convinced that all black is the only way to go. Cap Spider Edit: I tried inserting a link, but it isnt working...... just google it.

Good Lord..... that sounds like torture! Glad it worked for ya though. 9 bass over 4lb...one right after another? Wow! I've never pulled anything like that off before. Kickazz! Where do the catfish, gar, whites, crappie, and drum fit into this scenario?

Ok this is getting increasingly interesting to me now that you mentioned the Big Buffalo stocking. I personally knew a person that was involved in that project, he has since passed away and I never knew that they were Redbands....just assumed they were "just rainbows", and I'm not so sure that he even knew exactly what they were or where they came from originally (he didn't even fish, ever).... but all of this ties in together because he worked at the Neosho hatchery before taking charge of the fish breeding at Troutdale ranch. Your info (excellent by the way) shows that the Meramec and Big Buffalo were the only "study areas" but I know (almost 100% certain) that a little spring creek known as Alcorn hollow in Camden county and the fenced-in Spring branch in Gravois mills also recieved fish from that very same batch that was put into Big Buffalo. Whether those were considered "study areas" or not I can't say, but I remember when that was going on. I guess what this boils down to is that undisclosed, or unrecorded stockings have and do take place. There are trout in HaHaTonka spring that nobody seems to know anything about also....supposedly no recorded stockings since the castle burnt down.