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Wow, I was first in line for it. After working in West Africa for years and taking Hydroxychloroquine for malaria I still jumped on the chance for the vaccine. I know 2 good friends that died from Covid and it was a horrible death. Imagine slowly drowning over the course of 4 days and then they put you out and put you on a ventilator, which is the last straw.... And then to top it off the family could not be with them during their last days, hours and minutes...

I'll try to post a picture of it tomorrow morning if my camera will capture the detail. It is really not a true crackleback as it does not have a peacock herl on the back.

Here's mine...and it's for sale

I took the boat up to the Dam and had a good morning. I caught 3 on a sulphur dry fly early and then switched to a sulphur colored crackleback and that was the hot fly this morning. I caught a dozen nice ones on it including this fat one in the picture. I probably missed as many as I caught on the crackleback by setting the hook too early. It is hard to wait for them to turn before setting it when you see them come up and take it from behind. Then you end up pulling it right back out of their mouth. Still fun to watch them take it even if you miss them.

Very nice!

If you have a good day, share it. That is what "Fishing websites" are about. Not all the other drama queens.

I thought this was a fishing website... Guess I was wrong. Don't know about you guys, but I am going fishing tomorrow and might even post a fishing report if it was good... Who knows???

I caught this poor guy at Rim Shoals this morning. Apparently another victim of the Boga. He was close to 20" and probably didn't weigh 2 pounds. Please folks... don't use your Boga's if you are going to release the fish. It is kind of hard for these trout to eat with no lower jaw.

If you want to catch a Bull Shark (or Tiger, Black tip, Sandbar or other species) simply take a trip to the Padre Island National Seashore south of Corpus Christi Tx. We used to see some big ones just cruising down the beach in 2 feet of water. I had lots of those Blacktips steal speckled trout off my stringer while wading the surf. That will get your attention. Heard there was a 13" foot 7" Tiger caught down there this past weekend. Here is a report from the Texas coast just north of Padre Island from this past weekend... Just when you thought, (dosfrio.com)

The user "ignore user list" under your user profile on this site is great to ignore these trolls. I just lifted it and guess what just reactivated it....

Cool. I have a breakover but another question. Are there gun shops that will charge it without forking out $300 for a compressor?

Hey BilletHead, how many shots will the high pressure charge last in one of those??

Mostly C&R. I usually keep a couple once a week for a fresh trout dinner.

Went back to the same area this morning and it was pretty much the same as yesterday with the crackleback being the hot fly. This was the best one today....

I have been seeing fewer sulphurs each day over the last week. I fished an area this morning that was covered with sulphurs and hungry trout over the last few weeks, but there were still a few coming up and the trout were still looking for them. Caught a few on a sulphur dry fly but they really wanted a sulphur colored crackleback stripped in the surface film. Caught a couple dozen including these 2 rainbows.. Biggest was 21". Sulphur hatch was great this year, but appears to be about over. Guess the hopper bite will be next.

Sorry, not much in to baitcasters anymore. Gave most of them away to friends when we left Corpus Christi.

Nice fish but looks like the guy was next in line for a root canal.... fishing is supposed to be fun?

The heaviest one I have is a 6wt and it works great.

Also here is link to the reels... Aventik Fly Fishing Reel CNC Aluminum Trout Large Arbor Freshwater Fly Reel | eBay

They used to be $30 bucks, but with China prices going up I just checked and they have gone up a bit to $39 (free shipping too). Here is link... still a good fly rod for a reasonable price. Maxcatch Fly Fishing Rod 3/4/5/6/7/8/10WT Graphite IM7 Fast Action All Sizes Rod | eBay

The wrap one on that rod is 17" to the end closet to the reel so the brown was between 19 and 20", not huge but great fun on a small dry fly. That is one of my $30 China rods, which by the way casts great. I had a friend from Colorado up last week and he flew in so I told him not to bring any equipment. He has Orvis and other high end rods and reels and he was very impressed with the rods and $17 reels. I do have one Orvis Battenkill Disc reel that I found in the trash can at Cotter access a couple of years ago when I was dumping some trash the idiots left behind.

I launched the boat at White Hole this morning and the water was quite a bit lower than it has been. It looked to be around 2 units so I ran downstream to the Narrows and got the waders on. There were lots of small tan mayflies coming up along with the usual midges. I tied on a size 18 tan elk hair caddis and had some good action for a couple of hours and then the water came up and the bugs disappeared. I switched to an egg/midge combo and caught a few more. Ended the morning with a couple dozen rainbows and 3 browns. Here's a picture of the biggest brown on the elk hair...

Wow, that sounds like combat fishing. Glad we are on the Bull Shoals tailwater of the White where there are no "outlets" and plenty of room to spread out. Very rarely have anyone wading within site of me unless at the dam C&R area and there everyone respects your space.

How about some details???

I launched the boat around 7:30 and headed upstream to a shoal that has been producing some decent dry fly action. There were lots of small mayflies and a few sulphurs coming up when I first got there. Got the waders on and had some good action on a size 16 parachute sulphur dry fly. That shut down around 9:00 so I moved to another shoal and switched to a ruby midge under an indicator. The midge worked great for the rest of the morning. Strange thing was I caught more browns than rainbows this morning. Usually its mostly rainbows with a few browns in the mix. Here's a picture of one of the better browns with the ruby midge in his jaw...