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A birthday fishing sounds like a dream. Glad you had fun, and Happy Birthday!

And now here's snow on the ground...

12 dead at this point from last night, but there's tonight's storms in SEMO. Clinton had maybe 20 minutes of thunderstorm that knocked a few limbs down and washed the 4Runner enough that the following winds blowing smoke and dust covered it.

It does look good. For me, I'd have to pay homage to my PNW roots and add a turn or two of pheasant rump behind the eyes as a nod to the Carey Special. You, or I anyway, couldn't tie a dragonfly nymph pattern without pheasant rump.

Thanks for the insight. folks. I will stick with the deep vee hull idea (found one I'll look at next week), and I also will be picking up a smaller craft fairly soon. There are a lot of places around here that are perfect for something small. After a few discussions and running the program by the person who looks at expenditures, I'm thinking the Pond Prowler 8 will work well for me. It's stable, has a high weight capacity and will fit in the back of my truck. Another plus, it looks like it will be light enough that I can easily load it myself. I'd almost rather have a pram, but stability and safety are key selling points. I'm too old to swim back to shore any more.

Report from Windsor was -21. And Subby on his weather talk this morning said the long-range forecast was for a storm to hit west-central Mo to hit March 5th and 6th with potential to get nasty--followed by a chance of snow. I'm thinking coastal Oregon is looking pretty good right now. There you only have to worry about tsunamis.

Our "official" temp is -12...

Another question, which I could answer myself if the water wasn't so hard-- I have quite a few of the up-eye, black Atlantic salmon hooks. If I tied on those, the flies would have a down-turned eye. How would that affect the retrieve? Would there be too much downward pull when the fly is stripped? It's not that I don't have other hooks to use, but I would like to use the 36890s for something.

I love these posts; I get fired up to tie a bunch of whatever pattern works well. After reading this yesterday, I headed down to the basement stash to pick up a couple of items--I'm in the middle of tying crappie jigs-- and pulled out some fly boxes to check colors of Clousers with an eye to what was lacking. I was surprised to find what is, probably, a three-year supply left over from fishing for searun cutthroat and chum salmon. I'm thinking I may need to add some local colors and sizes, though. What sizes are you folks using the most? Colors beyond chartreuse/pink/blue that I should add to the boxes? Olive over tan sounds good, so that will be in line over the next two days of being housebound. Thx.

I think I'd need one already tied to the tippet for a #20. Back when I kinda cared about chasing trout, I ran into the PR director for Daiwa who was an avid fly fisherman--Rex Gerlach. He could tie a Royal Coachman on a #28.I wouldn't buy it, but then it was confirmed by someone else.

That was an interesting morning. I wasn't able to find the box/boxes of divers, with the exception of four. The two reds are 0 size, and I have one other without the ring as well. The large silver is the original size. I added two jet divers as well. The fire tiger is a 30 side that is supposed to run 30feet, and the clear one claims 50 feet as its running depth. The interesting part came when I uncovered three boxes full of plastic flashers and several hundred trolling spoons and a large tackle box loaded with pre-Rapala Magnum Wiggle Warts. I think it's time to start unloading stuff.

Great. Will post images later today and see how many and in what sizes.

Before I drag 'em out and take pix and so on, I thought I'd ask first. I have quite a few divers-- Dipseys with some diving rings, Deep Sixes and some Jet Divers-- all Luhr Jensen products. Since around here they are mostly used for spoonbill snagging, I wondered if someone here was interested in them. If so, I'll find out what and how many I have and post 'em. I like the Jet Divers used on a sliding rig for depth control while trolling, but the rest I'd like to get rid of. Thanks.

Geez, Louise-- It makes me glad I'm not into trout fishing any more. But I can't help but wonder if an Octopus-style hook wouldn't work as well. They certainly would be a lot cheaper, and the two major differences would be the barbed point--easy to fix--and an up eye. I guess that hook price goes along with what I've noticed recently. I did a quick look at an Orvis catalog the other day and was astounded at the prices I saw. Over $1,000 for a fly rod? Really?

Just read a report on Newsbreak that says there is a split in the polar weather system and a vortex may be heading our way, which will result in another plunge into the freezer about February 10th. Of course, that is a weather prediction, and that means it also could be a load. Time to stock up on bread, whiskey and toilet paper before it all disappears. I usually like winter, but this one hasn't been fun.