ColdWaterFshr

3" in about 3 hours and still raining here in Ballwin. Tornado touched down near the old Chesterfield Mall and went NE towards Creve Couer Park. No word on damages

Nice Meramec fat pig! No disrespect on the genetic make-up whatsoever, at least not on my part. I would be thrilled to catch a fish like that. Congrats!

Fantastic job! Looks very fast, and maybe a little tippy? I'm surprised there isn't a thwart to help keep those gunwales from flexing inward. I'm sure that its fun to paddle.

She has a smoltry, burnt out motel sign quality about her. Like something out of a bad dream. Oh yeah. It was either Forsyth or Rockaway Beach. I’m pretty sure the next morning we shared a stale plate of pancakes with cold boysenberry syrup at a diner near swan creek over bad coffee and some half crushed out menthol Pall Malls she found in the parking lot. She had a filthy mouth, and I could not resist her charms.

Impressive build! And quite the wood shop, too. What kind of coating is that on the bottom? I'm not much help on Taney flies. Conditions in a few weeks will likely be heavy flows of running water. All the usual stuff that can get down deep.

Renzetti Traveler is all I have ever used. Would like to get one of those fancy clamp levers, but like Ness, I have the old school dial tightener. That first fly, the Walts Sexy Worm is a killer pattern, especially with a tungsten bead-head.

Sorry I had to bail out on this swap. Been traveling too much for work.

Got a buddy that is planning to join. Please put in a placeholder for him. He needs to set up an OA profile

I was an early pioneer of the sport, in the late 80s when bike shops had 1 or 2 Mtn bikes, the rest were road. Competed in the first Mtn bike races and trials at Ritter Springs and Busiek SP. did well, but there was maybe 8 of us. 🤣🤣 I’m old

I’m in.

Those look great! Now have her start tying some #22’s….or triple articulated!

I could see that trailer getting all kinds of tangled up in the rest of the mini flies. Just not conducive to fly-casting.

Merry Christmas!

Yes

We didn’t go in the park at all.

Parker

Spent this past Friday thru Sunday on upper Current, Baptist to Cedar Grove. River was still somewhat milky, but visibility to bottom was about 5 feet. Destruction was evident upon arrival at Baptist. Though it had been cleaned up, huge piles of gravel and sand were everywhere. Sand covers the whole river valley. 15 to 20 foot trees and larger, …. (6 ft me holding 9ft fly rod, 4 feet short of debris overhead, standing 5 feet above waterline) ….swept down at 45° angles through both sides of the river corridor up to 20 feet vertical from the rivers edge. Large trees down everywhere. Parker Hollow was unrecognizable. Needs bulldozing and lots of chainsaw work, though it is accessible in high clearance vehicle. Fishing was good for 10-12 incher hatchery slicks, if that is your thing. I fear the sand deposits and major gravel shifts will take years for the riverbed insect population to recover. parking lot at Baptist was jam packed on Sunday at noon, fisherman looking for easy targets.

Amazing what doctors can do. Glad you're all healed-up!

Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats with Gregory Alan Isakov last week. Great night!

Iris Dement was quite a show the other night. She can flat out play that piano and sing. The 2 other gals that joined her were amazing talents in their own right. Ana Egge who has done work with Ron Sexsmith, Jason Mercer, and Liz Draper, upright bass, with Charlie Parr and also the Cactus Blossoms.

She’s playing in Springfield Sunday night at the Gillioz.

Seeing Iris Dement tomorrow night at City Winery.

Robert Cray was in rare form last Friday night

I saw it a couple weeks ago here in St Louis. It was okay. Little but underwhelmed. Was expecting more action and visual. It went more heavy on stories, all of which were good. A good fundraiser for Gateway TU. Raffles were very good. I encourage anyone to go.

Yes, the letter is what makes this 100 times better than just a painting you admired from a random person who did a book cover. A John Gierach book cover no less, but that you talked to him, and he took the time to write such a heartfelt letter and yes, that second to last sentence kills me. Just ordered the book on Amazon. Thanks.