Wayne SW/MO

True and in fact I've hunted in small areas of natural stands of Pondorosa that had fires go through the area and while the trunks would show signs of the fire the trees would be healthy. Again though the government was the fly in the ointment. The FS moved from clear cutting to sending cruisers in to mark for thinning, but unfortunately the money swung around to stop all cutting because of the bad tastes left from clear cutting. It all revolved around money, thinning is expensive when compared to clear cutting and dries up political contributions. Just that simple.

When I make my own jigs I add a few strands of highlight along the bottom of the skirt. Some crawdads will have chartreuse along the bottom edge of the carapace. Red is another color seen, most often in the spring. I'm a believer in highlight colors in anything fished where crawdads are fish food.

That's sounds like lots of fun.

Cajun have you been hitting the HT to Marble a lot this year?

Billethead are those Native Watercraft?

No. It does show some possible McCloud ancestry however.

I agree!

Sounds like a worthy adventure.

For color it's hard to beat a Redband from the McKenzie or Deschutes river in OR. They're wild and the rose stripe on the side can be close to 2" wide on some.

So it's alright then?

Besides the wooly's I would add clouser's, gray over white and chartreuse over white. A couple of popping bugs wouldn't hurt, yellow is always good. The crazy dad or foxee redd clouser would be another. With the above you would have all the water columns covered.

I would consider camping in Zone 3 and then walking from the new whistle.

If you look at the whole picture you see that as usual it comes down to a mix of little or nothing for the target, but a lot of petting of the noise makers. trees can be harvested, it just has to be done the right way. The beetle killed trees have a value, but envonmental groups resist havesting them. I don't believe all the fires in CO are in pine forest though and drought and scrub bring hot fast fires that only normal rain and humidity can contain.

Yeah it's a long way to the NFOW to do just a little of it.

I can't speak for SOH hatchery, but most hatceries continue to bring in new fish.

If they survive very long in the river they do change their appearance.

I think that's a stretch to include development of renewable energy in there. Virtually every effort that is seen as viable has serious problems. Electric cars, expensive and few will be built, electricity generation is #1 and transportation #2, what am I missing here? Wind farms are wiping out bats and birds at alarming rates, how long will that last? They build solar farms wiping out vegetation and incur transmission losses, but can't seem to find a way to put them on rooftops that are already deserts and heat producers. Why is that? I think that government intervention is progressing about as expected, with most of the money going somewhere else. You have to love science. I read this yesterday about the decline of the Wooly Mammoths Northern mammoth populations grew after the Last Glacial Maximum, but then dipped again during the Younger Dryas period about 12,900 years ago. Although there is controversy as to what happened at that time, "there was certainly a very rapid and profound cooling of many regions then, followed by rapid warming," MacDonald said. "Did this cause the extinction of the mammoth? And we just came out of a mini ice age??

The sure fire for me has always been the midge hatches. If all else fails a Grifiths Gnat in a midge hatch will rarely get turned down. I'm not saying to concentrate on them, but to be ready.

I'm sure there is a ton of dry rot in the plywood and like Wrench said it probably has spread. If you put a lot of money in it and find later you have more problems you have no way out. Used boats without a motor are generally cheap, but you'll probably have to advertise on Craigslist or the like to find one.

A collection of Wooly Buggers, Clouser Minnows and something like a Foxee Red clouser or Crazy Dad will take you a long way.

If you're going to dedicate it to worm fishing I wouldn't worry about sensitivity because virtually any higher end graphite will have all you need. More imporatant is having the power to drive a hook through a ball of plastic and in to the hard mouth of a bass and having enough length to take up any slack and still acheive the above mentioned task. Looking at the rods you mentioned I would go with the heavy extra fast in 7 or 7 1/2'. If you talking river smallies then I would go a different route, because they and the baits tend to be smaller.

I use Renew once in awhile and it slicks the line up some. Russ Peak line dressing is pretty good also. Armour-All is everywhere. Dish soap and water does wonders though.

Bass tapers are heavier in the front and have a shorter taper. This helps in driving wind resistant or heavy flies out, but it also makes it easier to load the rod with less line out. Shorter cast means less line to strip in when necessary, but it also makes less line in the air and makes it easier to keep the backcast above the water when you're sitting. Uplining one weight also puts more weight out with less line out and makes short casts easier.

You should probably just try it. I've never had a problem with it, but everyone has different outlooks on what is doable. You do want a rod long enough to guide a fish around the bow or stren of the yak if necessary and if you have something like a Clouser or bass taper line i would use it.