Wayne SW/MO

Coming from a guy I thought would never throw anything but a hand tied jig, I can believe it.

It's an outfit in Dallas, I believe, with a large selection of lure making materials. http://www.barlowstackle.com/

I don't know about the Shad rap, but the original story was true. The hardware only got something like 5 (?) a month and of course they were suppose to be deadly. I remember the Big O story and I believe it was true early on, but they were all handmade then.

That makes no sense. If you filled the trunk with beer how did you sneak people in?

I don't think they'll stop it all. Notre Dame was notorious several decades a go during Parseghian (sp?) rein for sending QB's and RB's to the bench. They didn't do it on the hit though, they did it in the pile.

For me personally it just adds a lot more dimensions to fishing. I think I've done virtually all methods, even some illegal ones, but between the flycasting, the matching of line and rod to the days flies and the endless work on developing the perfect fly it just means a lot more too me. The other methods generally get set up quickly and then its just buying lures that look good. I don't do it 100%, but when I think it can be effective it's first on the list.

If you haven't checked out Barlows for material, you should.

When I was a kid and the Rapala hit uptown small town they were $25 apiece. For reference O got $5.50 a week for for a paper route and 50 cents for an 18 hole caddy.

Interesting. In all the years I've lived in Missouri, close to 50, the only times I've seen them has been in the Warsaw area. Are the more common in the Osage basin?

I would call the MDC in Jeff City and ask them. Just be sure and get the name of the person you talk to. Aside from hat, if you have to make a distinction a net bag might work.

I think there are several things that could improve everyone's fishing and experience, but not necessarily change attendance or Roger bank account. I have a hard time with all the youngsters fishing from the bank with mom sitting behind them in a chair. It's not just the fact that it can disrupt what Bennett is about, but they never catch anything! My first change would be to set aside an area where only kids with one parent could fish and stock it so they can catch fish. My choice for this would be the spring and the the 50' or so above the whistle where they would build a boardwalk to make it easy fishing, neither would be open to adults or kids alone. They can do the wading thing when they get old enough to know what they're doing. The second thing would be to designate the stretch between the dams as C& R and enforce it. If the present trend continues look for 6" trout and an amusement park above Larry's.

I don't think you'll have much trouble with floaters that early that far down. Maggard might put a few in going Oldhams, but if so they will likely be adults looking to miss the party. There is some nice water below Barclay. Wish I was going with you.

I used to see them in OK fairly often, sometimes several at one time, but they were always small ones. I use to see them around the Osage or the Grand above Warsaw when we would turn over rocks looking for worms. My friends mom got stung on the belly in bed and she wasn't a happy camper as I remember. Never saw anything approaching 3", that would be an unusually big one, I would think.

Generally though the only ones you could get a hold of were the small ones, the bigger ones didn't stay up long.

Red headed Baby Lucky 13 was the first. I only had ponds and streams to fish in then. Later when I got older it was the Creme purple firetail. They're still effective today.

I saw the crane and wondered what its purpose was. I spent more time around the park this year than I have in several years and there are changes. I could speculate as to why there are so many small fish, but I suspect it's a combination of things. No culling, deliberate reduction in size, and some escaping in the flood. I was told that there was a meeting where they said they would reduce the size in July and August to keep up with demand. I wasn't at the meeting and neither was my source, so take it for what it's worth. I do know that in past years if the water got high enough they would lose a few. They don't lose too many because the hatchery fish tend to hunker down during high off colored flows, or so I've been told by some employees I knew. There has been a move as far back as the 80's to increase the attendance at BSSP without any regard for what the main attraction can handle. I know that in the 60's, 70's and 80's there were crowded days, but most people moved around and one only had to move with them. Today it seems that few move because they fear they will lose their place, or there are people fishing from the bank who never move. In the end it will only get worse I'm afraid. They didn't tear out all the campgrounds and build condos, put in canoe rental, and buy up the hollow above the park and put in trails to let the park rest on trout fishing.

Glad he change the name so no one will know what creek he's talking about.

No, in rethinking your question after more information, it isn't clear. :lol:

That's only partly true. Most of the police and fire department in NO was gone long before Katrina hit. There was no one who went and checked on critical areas. The bottom line is much of the local government didn't do their job. It has absolutely nothing to do with party affiliation because it wasn't a party problem, but a local administrative one. You can second guess the Governor all you want, but she clearly blamed Nagin and his administration for the lapse. Many didn't leave the 9th ward because it was considered safe and that turned out to be a whole different set of circumstances. The deaths in the nursing homes and hospitals shouldn't have happened.

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One size doesn't fit all. Not all the people had the means to evacuate, the nursing home comes to mind. In a real world Nagin would never had been reelected, a real media would have picked him apart.

Well that doesn't help much gator, they're all Casa something.

Many decades ago a sycamore came down right below the bluff hole at Bennett. For some reason unknown to me black ants were all over it and every so often one would take a swim and be taken almost immediately. The fish wouldn't touch anything that wasn't small, black, and with legs. I had to put together something at camp to get them to take a dry. I don't think anyone could tempt them, but I did after bowing to their demands.

I can recommend TUF XP. 4/15 best line around.

You need a cooler in the Yukon during moose season?? :lol: We aren't talking Yukon OK, right?