kjackson

Yes, plus deer and turkey. Fishing (not trout) and small-game hunting are freebies.

And if you're over 65... it's even cheaper. I love having my driver's license being enough for a fishing and hunting license.

I'm recovering from my second surgery/removal, and both were kind of a pain at the time. Neither doc suggested using drugs to remove or change the the cancer. It was always the knife. I would definitely get a second opinion. I am surprised chemical treatment is an option...

Wrench showed an image of a Clouser he ties with a spinner blade acting as a tail. Now my question is--to Wrench or anyone who has tied something similar-- what material do you use to connect the swivel to the hook? I'm thinking a certain boat mechanic recommended 20 lb. fluorocarbon, but as I couldn't find the post, I'm not sure. In the past, to connect a trailing hook to a fly, I used heavy superline in a loop. I like the ease of tying that, so would that work with the LGC? Thanks in advance.

Here's another fly I like--the Miyawaki Beach Popper--it wasn't a popper, but that's what the originator called it. This is dressed a bit fuller than the usual tie. It was a good topwater on the salt beaches for season mostly, but the occasional salmon and bull trout/Dolly Varden would hit it. You tie the fly on a long-shank hook with a trailing loop for the Octopus hook. Then you cut the first hook at the start of the bend and slide on the foam head. I'll have to try it this year.

I tried to find my Letort Hopper, but I failed. The trip through the old fly boxes was memory lane, though. Here's one of my favorite Clark's Fork flies--the Kolzer Dark, a good fly during the Pteronarcella hatch--kind of a junior varsity salmon fly. The thing floated like a cork, and the browns ate it up. I don't recall catching a rainbow on it, though. But I took it to Washington's Olympic Peninsula and caught a really nice 18" searun cutthroat on the Elwha. I should point out that Kolzer is the orange-bodied fly that has palmer-hackle over the body. These flies were tied in the early '70s.

Possibly the strangest and certainly the most disconcerting sight I've seen was a jon boat. I was fishing below the Beaver Lake dam and saw the boat. It was maybe 10 feet up in a big tree wrapped around the trunk. I still have a hard time imagining what the river was like when that happened.

This thread reminds me of the Letort Hopper, a pattern I first saw in an Orvis catalog back in the '70s. Since I was having trouble tying quill wings, I opted to tie some of those, which were basically a yellow wool body and a wing of deer hair left long after tying the deer-hair, Muddler-style head. It could have been the Montana creeks I was fishing, but it was deadly. I'm thinking I'll have to dig around in my fly box stash and see if I can find one.

Sorry to hear that; those things are not fun... My wife had a minor stroke 16 months ago, and it's changed a lot of priorities. Take care of both of you, bud.

Clinton has missed all of the precipitation, which is fine by me. We are cold, though. Reports show that Truman is pretty much a sheet of ice with the only open water reported at Long Shoal, not that I'm in a big hurry to go fishing at the moment. I've done enough of that in the past to know I'd rather work on the list of things that need doing than go freeze body parts. Another couple of weeks, and that may change.

Thanks, but I'm afraid free time is one of those issues keeping me from participating. I'll have to wait for the next one. I do appreciate the offer. I thought about tying a tri-wing leech pattern that I tied back in my Montana days, but I'm lacking the right marabou and the time. If you run this again next year, I'll make sure I'm ready.

I wanted to participate in this, but my tying skills are pretty rusty and along with a couple of other issues they kept me from embarrassing myself. I hope we will get photos of the selection, though.

Thought I should add this...

FWIW-- Brian Wise will be tying at the Three Rivers expo in Clinton in March.

I'm drooling as I write this; I really miss shellfish. Geoduc steaks... Oysters-- the last place I lived we were a 15 minute drive to a spot where it took 10 minutes to get a limit of Pacific oysters--half of a five-gallon bucket. Razor clams Horse clams turned into fritters or chowder Dungeness or rock crab--had a couple of local places where I would wade flats at minus tides and scoop he buggers up with a pitch fork, kinda like hunting. The only problem is that between the pots and wading, I pretty much got tired of crab.

Old Timer's strikes again. Redfish is definitely on my list, and so is black drum.

I grew up in the PNW, and I'm partial to the fish there, and here's my list: Spring chinook Blackmouth (immature or feeder chinook) flounder halibut walleye steelhead or searun cutthroat winter bluegill Gulf grouper Lingcod Pacific cod high-altitude trout hybrids white bass

Don't know about Mr. Jackson, but the oars are waiting.

Since my FB account is getting daily pings trying to sell me divers for spoonbill "fishing", I wondered if there was any interest from OA members here. I have, at a guess, maybe 20 divers of a couple of kinds and sizes that I'm not going to use. If there is interest, I'll dig 'em out, take some images and post them here.

Venice is a start. Don't know about headless shrimp, but you can buy (or could three years ago) shrimp for $10 a pound.

I'm thinking of wearing a beanie, so if you see a tall, old guy wearing a hat with a propellor on it... In another thought, this would be an excellent time for someone who wanted to pick up the bow-mount trolling motor I have way back of the sale/transfer subforum, the expo would be an ideal time to do it. Or if you could take it to someone who needs it...I really would like to see it go to a good home. I probably should go through my rods as well. Saving the $30+ shipping would pay for someone's gas.

I was there last year and likely will be there again. I was surprised by the number of exhibitors and that most of them were from out of the area. However, it was a pretty good venue with lots of space.

https://www.tri-cityherald.com/sports/outdoors/article270201357.html They started this program after I moved away. Sigh. I could use a summer on the Columbia. Granted, it would be hard to ignore the walleye, smallmouth, steelhead and salmon fishing, but I could do it.

Ran into a guy on one of the boards I follow who also is named Polly. He's Welsh, so maybe the name is a UK thing. I pulled out the two Rosborough (finally checked the spelling) books to look again at the flies. The second book has quite a few emerger patterns and some good general-use flies. There are several I'd tie if I was fishing for trout. Looking at the first book (published by Orvis in 1969), Rosborough did a good job on dubbing and collecting of same. He had a section on shearing and prepping a muskrat hide for use in dubbing, and he mentioned how he would go to a pet groomers to collect poodle hair for dubbing.

Yes, that is a Polly Rosburough pattern-- I think I have a few tucked away. He was innovative, and I think he developed the dubbing loop. Most of his patterns were a bit too fussy for me, but he did result in me picking up a lifetime supply of Nymo thread.