fishinwrench

What he said.... unless you plan to haul it in the back of your truck, and row it.

"Hidden Valley".....LMAO. Boy, I hope they didn't spend too much time coming up with that name. Talk about being buried on google, is there not at least 14 Hidden Valley's in every county in the USA? I'm surprised that the area has missed out on that after all these years. LOL Oh and Mike, get some dang 4x Rio FFP in there would ya?

Reservoir tribs are your best bet, you can get into them pretty good after a good gullywasher. They'll run up the creeks as soon as it begins to fall out, and will stay as long as the water remains off colored. If you are going after them with flys its hard to beat a strip of rabbit fur (white or pink) Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Only when it has to do with fishing .... I still can't operate my microwave, DVD player or landline phone the way I'm supposed to. I have selective ADD.

The Google maps app for android does it all for me nowadays, you can switch from map to satallite, shows both road and river milage....and if you load the area image before you drop off into the hollers and loose signal you can keep it in the background and pull it up when you need it...it remains functional even without service. Pretty darn cool!

No I haven't, I've never been out West....you got me there. What is the average river temp in that part of the country during the Summer?

It's Summer for $#!T sake. Wet Wade!

Being basically a native of LO I agree with your pluses & minuses. I'd say that you are close to "spot-on". And apparently the pluses outweigh the minuses for the majority of people....since the population is still agrowin' round heya Kinda reminds me of a camping trip I was on recently, we picked a nice secluded spot during the week in a very large campground and was enjoying the solitude. Then come Friday afternoon folks began filtering in and even though there was plenty of room, and areas with even better river access than we had, they chose to pitch their camp within 25 feet.of ours. It's almost like dumping a calf at the far end of a field that has a few other cows in it....the calf feels safer when in the direct company of others I guess. It seems that people who seek solitude are usually imposed upon by those that are afraid of it. And so it goes for Lake of the Ozarks...Moooooo!

OTF, They are the same people that package the food you eat, sell you insurance, teach your kids in classrooms, and help hold down the pews at your church most Sundays..... If you can't share a river with them, then who? LOL

My home PC puked the internet driver while opening my PM folder on OAF. May not be connected to this issue at all....but figured Id throw that out there just in case. (I know nothing about crap like this). I swapped modems because it was saying that the computer couldn't communicate with it, and now ATT support claims that the driver ( which supposedly can't be deleted) is mysteriously gone. It is/was XP. IE. I hate computers when they do stuff like this.

Solas props are fine, you may need a different thrust washer to convert from OEM though.

Killer, Brian! No hook-up footage of the striper though...dang! Did you get to see your backing?

You're wrong, Jack. Lots have gotten ill. They just don't report their names and illnesses to the Lake Sun Leader because they are busy fighting infections and feel like sleeping all the time. Pull your head out of your butt!

Get her fixed yet?

Pull up google earth and take a look at the water within paddling/dragging distance from Muleshoe. There's some deep holes there and they hold some nice smallies... "Nice" is anything over 13" on the LN though, regardless of the stretch your fishing. There are several heron rookerys along the. LN river...those bastages make some pretty spooky sounds too.

There's something about Bandit crankbaits that stream smallies like.... but I seldom throw them. I have a Bandit 200 custom painted in the heddon frog pattern that never fails to get hammered. Tossing crankbaits really isn't my style though, except on big slow rivers with dirty water.

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LMAO! I bet. Next time you see him at the pond I dare you to say.... " Hey, I think I can help you iron out that flawed rollcast pickup".

Yep, the walking crease flys have been accidents, and I think what makes it happen is a little too much epoxy towards the rear. But everytime I get one that does it I fish it until it gets shredded without studying it much. LOL Oh well, the flats machine will be ready in a few weeks...come up and we can put all kinds of crazy ideas to the test.

Yes it does...quite well too. So does about one of every 5 Crease flys I tie, I haven't figured out how to make a Crease that walks ON PURPOSE....but one out of 5 or so do it really good. Hey Ronnie, ya think we could make the Klansman walk? Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Bass (LM and SM) wont hold on to feathers and fur like they do plastics, so knowing when the fly is in the fishes mouth, and having quick enough reflexes to get him stuck is the trick. The best way to know you've been bit sub-surface is to see it happen, try flies tied with a little bit of highly visable material (pink, chartruese, white, ect) and fish it in the zone where you can just barely keep an eye on it..... When the little pink, chartruese, or white light disappears, set the hook immediately. An olive rabbit strip leech (unweighted or lightly weighted) with a collar of bright material makes a deadly sightfishing fly for smallies, as do muddlers with a white or chartruese head. You may be getting tons of bites on those crawdad flies and such....but you'll only be aware of a small percentage of them if you can't see the fly. Because of what i call "the ol' Suck and Blow". Even soft spun hair bugs like the one Ronnie posted wont get held onto like you'd expect...they'll rush over to it, suck it in...and blow it right back out, and this takes place in a half a mili-second unless BY CHANCE the hook momentarily hangs up on his lip as he's trying to expell it.

Don't eat the wedding cake! Just sayin'. Good luck, man.

I think I can help you avoid most of these type of encounters.... Try this... The next time you find yourself fishing in a well groomed community hole, ya know, the type of spot where a fat guy could sit on a chair along the bank and flyfish,...... go ahead and just walk to a slightly more remote spot. If you hadnt specified where this confrontation took place I could have easily guessed either the outlet or the apron.

The owner of a truly good flyshop should be a "genuine character"..... that's just the way it is supposed to be. Charlie Reading is a legend. If you don't believe me, just ask him

Yeah , but I can translate for ya.... its San Juan'ian, meaning. "Little fluff of duck butt fished with heavy tippet". (at least it had BETTER BE!)