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Will be down tomorrow (Friday) shooting for between 8:00 and 8:30, will have my boat with two streamer rods and two nypmhing rods if a couple of folks want to fly fish.

Give it a shot now, I think I had it marked private... Let me know if you can't see it. Sorry about that

@Phil Lilley turned me on to this pattern. I fish it a lot in all conditions year round. Rolan Duffield designed this fly and according to a video Phil made, material was from his dog, I use Awesome Possum. It's an interestingly simple pattern. In my experience it performs better, or at least as well, as a more realistically tied scud patterns. Rolan indicates that the longer fibers "breath" in the water. It's a very quick ty, Phil pointed out to me that trimming can be eliminated if the dubbing to about 1/2", making it an even quicker ty.

Looks good, might pick it up too. thanks!

Yes, I'm still planning on fishing Friday will be down early. Would love to stay, but have to get back Friday night, will plan better next trip. Looking forward to meeting OA folks.

Reading all these posts made me remember a tip. If your fishing in a boat in really cold weather, make sure you wipe down your trolling motor when you stow it for another drift, because after you make your move it will be frozen stuck. You'll have to kick it loose or pee on it .

Low 20's actual temperature for me, had the place to myself, guide ice was a pain, but fish were eating.

Will have to give that a try, double the pleasure

Playing around with editing software and put together a tying video. I love this pattern, fish it with sink tip in low to moderate generation. Anybody else throw this?

I'll be down Friday a.m and will fish and stay for dinner, but will head back to my place in Branson after dinner, should be able to be back for Saturday too. I can take two folks fishing in my Towee, if anyone wants to fly fish and does not have gear, let me know I have plenty. I'll bring a desert for Friday night dinner.

Glad for your recovery. Nice job on the PT. Thanks for sharing

Thanks, you can post pics, I'll just not look, but will read the next chapter Thanks!

I looked quickly, then scrolled to read without seeing the picture, bad idea, the quick images with your rapid fire description made me a bit nauseous Did not look at the picture again, scrolled it out to the like button, then replied.

Nice Job!

Have not caught many, but man they seem to be very aggressive predator.

That's a bummer, had a chance to take a fly fishing trip in Chesapeake bay, got caught in a wicked storm on way back to the boat ramp, very Nautical, giant swells. We where in a 20' skiff, new it was dicey conditions, guide had to work the throttle to handle the swells and following seas. He was cool as a cucumber, kind of like when you check out the body language of a flight crew when things get wonky on a flight. That is until we got back the ramp, where he admitted he was a bit worried, we where all soaked Other than that, very beautiful and fishey place.

@Daryk Campbell Sr Thanks, isn't funny how much bigger they look in real life, pics don't really do them justice unless you "long arm" them

Fished the Dam area early last week. Water was off in the am, then cranked it up after lunch. I've never fished the Dam area at minimum flow out of my little skiff, It's a prop so had to be a bit careful. I got a little over confident and put a nice ding in the hull from a shallow rock. Fishing was pretty good to a little slow, best bug was a size 22 midge. Small gray scud also produced. When the water cranked up, we tried banging the banks with a big Bangtail Streamer, had one take a swipe at it, but not much else. Made a video of a good size brown caught on the size 22 midge.

Just missed you, fished Monday and Tuesday, love the White.

@netboy What size, color and style of scud did you throw? Apologize for being so nosey

@Daryk Campbell SrInteresting, thanks for sharing.

@ollie Love to hear about the trip, especially how you targeted them.

@BilletHead Thanks for watching, It's hard to beat the hybrid tug

It's the time of year where Wipers start to put there feed bags on, here's a video of a recent trip to Clinton Lake in Kansas.

@Quillback I did not find much info either. Did take a tour and found out they have lots of fish farms for Trout and Salmon and they are the leading export of trout apparently the US imports a lot of it. The fish farms are in the Fjords with big circular nets that float on top and attached at the bottom. The water is brackish with salt water on the bottom and fresh on top. It's cool and gin clear everywhere. Took a train through the mountains, the water was unbelievable, reminded me a lot of the pacific Northwest. Train stopped at a high mountain rugged cabin and hotel catering to hikers/campers/bikers, right by an alpine lake, asked one of the conductors about fishing, he said yes, it's good 4 months of the year. Arctic char and Grayling are also prevalent. I do think it could be a hidden treasure, just need to do some more digging. I don't know if you know who Mike George is? He is a master fly tyer in Kansas City, works at K and K fly shop in KC. World renown for his deer hair creations. Was talking with him before we left for Norway. Mustad Hooks are from Norway, and in the mid 2000's they had fly tying contests where anyone could enter. He entered and won like ten years in a row, so they invited him over. They rolled out the red carpet and took fishing, he said it was great. No official guides, but took him to some places to fish, said it was great. However, could not really remember where. It's hard, the names of places are long Here's a link to Mike's site, it talks a little about the contest he won. http://www.deerhairsculptures.com/