Wayne SW/MO

I might add that any thread wrap at the tip top is for show and you don't need to worry about it.

Thanks Laker. I see a lot of them below Powersite dam and I've caught a lot of them on conventional gear, but I can't get them to eat a fly. I'll give your method a try. I can get them to stay around on deer corn. They're a blast to catch.

The Titanic seems popular, but aside from that Silver Dollar city is probably the best bang for the buck. I've never been to the steakhose in Shell Knob, but I've it was very good and Dannas is good BBQ and its just up the road on old 13, on west side. If you're cooking, Harter House grocery, on 13 at KC has a meat counter and good meat. If you like to grill hamburgers try their Boston burger.

You can replace them yourself or take them to someone. If you want to do it your self, determine the size needed, get the cement made for the job and then remove the old one with boiling water.

The too most common areas to break off are at the hook or the tippet/leader connection. That is the job of the tippet, but the question is whether you're breaking off because you're horsing your fish or because your knot is weak. You have a lot of room with a flyrod and I find breakoffs extremely rare. If your problem is with the leader/tippet a loop to loop with a perfection knot is a strong setup. You also don't mention what the differences are between your tippet and the leader. If they are far apart it's hard to match them up with any strength short of loop to loop.

So if you bailt them do you use a flyrod and bait or work a fly over the bait field?

I was thinking the same thing. Good story, everything won.

We did it in a hot July and we did do some dragging. We put in at Rush close to noon and took out at Riley's about noon the third day. We didn't fish very hard during the day because of the heat, but you can camp on long deep pools and fish them. We didn't see any humans until we were just above the mouth of the White. The James would be Hootentown to Galena. You'll probably drag some, but on the other side is dragging keeps a lot of party canoers away. The James is about 3 1/2- 4 hours exactly for you, by the time all is said and done. James River Outfitters at Galena would be a nice safe place to leave your truck and they might shuttle you that far up if it was pre-arranged.

Yeah many of them are for the old handle with a collet. They could be cut of however if need be. Glass is making a mild comeback, so there may be people who would be interested.

I think as mentioned, the James might be you best bet. You'll have to do a lot fishing to stretch 3 days out of it, but its doable. If you really want to do a 3 day, drive farther and do the lower Buffalo, Rush to the White.

It's been decades for me, but the Washita arm is where we did best. We fished out of Catfish Bay.

That was the story over here, hit and miss and very erratic.

I can't speak to your choice, but kayaking is fun and productive. You may end up with a differnet view, but mine are more about transportaion then fishing. I still seem to do better getting out and wading with the yak on a leash.

I assume you're looking at AR Bobber and I'm sure you've done your homework there. I think knowing CPR and having good insurance would be prudent. Beyond that I would imagine that simply building a clientel that would give you good marks would be the painstaking part. I you could insert your instructor skills and certification in it wouldn't hurt I would think.

I thoought that name sounded familiar, Kelly something? Or did you mean Brian Wise?

Change the color to olive and add bead chain eyes and you have a dragon fly nymph. The DF nymph pattern is a very good trout fly in stillwater. Tht's great that you have them located, I'm sure have a great summer targeting them.

Did they ever really start?

I wouldn't put it past the proponents of stocking smallies in Grand doing some midnight stocking. The argument against stocking Grand is that the Neosho strain needs to be protected and one Northern fish negates that.

That is one consession I make to age, I don't go the water without one and I never take it off.

It's easy to get hung up on visible fish that are on beds or getting ready, but not all spawn at the same time and I think we tend to concentrate on those fish when we should be fishin the areas they usually all. I've come off of water more than once and thought I got hung up on visible fish and lost valuable time because I should have been fishing other areas..

It did bring it back into view.

If you can't get the slinky rig materials you can string 1oz egg sinkers on 100# dacron. Keep them pretty close on the string on the string. I don't think they work quite as well as the chute cord, but they work a lot better than one big crack grabbin' sinker.

While It's been decades since I've eaten one it has also been decades since I've eaten a lot of varieties. I still occasionaly eat crappie, whites or stocked trout, but that is about it. Once you factor out the eating part, carp fishing suddenly becomes a whole different ballgame when you realize they will readily take a fly. I'm sure a person who didn't fly fish could target them with small jigs like Hoglaw has. Under C & R they do fit the game fish format.

I wish I could help you, but I'm only 73.

Jason I generally only target on the old trusty corn them when it gets really hot mid summer. I can drive 8 miles, sit on my butt and catch close to a dozen fish, some pushing #20 on occasions. My preference would be to catch them on the fly. It seems that all the successful carp flies are easy to tie with a minimum of materials and that is another plus. At the risk of being drawn and quartered, they probably average the same size as big LM's and generally outfight them.