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Definitely check what Tom said above. If you have a line on the monitor, then it could be the unit itself or the video card in the PC. It could also be the video cable, not as likely. Do you have another monitor you can plug in and try? However if you don't want to mess with it, I think Best Buy will give you a diagnosis pretty reasonably. Does the PC have a warranty of any kind?

OK Joes (even though the original location seems to get more out of hand all the time, that line can be 45 minutes long sometimes!) Haywards Woodyard BBQ(in Merriam) Rosedale (hands down my favorite) Zarda Gates (second favorite) Smokin Joes (before the downtown locations shut down, I would still eat there even if I knew they had rats. Every restuarant downtown probably has them) The other Smokin Joes in Olathe Bryant's (the only one I like is the original location down on Brooklyn, I have had bad luck with the one at Legends and Ameristar) These are all great places to eat IMO. I think I spent to much time thinking about BBQ, wow I am not a fan of Jackstack or KC Masterpiece, don't really care for them. Not big on Danny Edwards BBQ (SW Blvd) either and their parking situation is horrible

I have actually found the graphite/plastic reel seats to hold really well. I see that Eagle Claw is putting them on the feather lights now. I've always had issues with the metal reel seat on mine coming loose. The plastic seats don't look as cool but IMO they are functional

Is it just me or are the ticks worse every year?...or maybe the just really like me

I agree with Brian, any credit card setup can have draw backs. There are times when people can make claims and start investigations with regular merchant accounts also. However just for using Ebay, I guess you wouldn't need a full merchant account and could avoid any problems by doing cashier's checks and money orders, but Paypal helps you get your money quicker and opens you up to additional buyers. I know I don't buy anything on there unless I can use Paypal. As stated above some businesses use it for their e-commerce exclusively. I think it is better since they made changes allowing buyers to pay you without needing a Paypal account of their own (this has been quite a while ago). I have never had a problem and use it quite a bit but I am sure I'll encounter a headache at some point. It also makes purchases really easy and gives you another "paper trail"

Taney has become really crowded, crazy sometimes. I haven't fished it much in the last couple of years but when I do it is usually down below the "Rocking Chair hole" I think that is what it's called (the last walk down stairs below the dam). Way to many people in the upper part on weekends. I have found less crowds on the C&R section at Roaring River however I was practically run out of my spot by a father and son last friday. They were casting right on top of me. I could give the sport up about any day at this point. The Smoky Mountains was a completely difference experience. The guide I was with said he would try to stay a couple of hundred yards up or downstream from any fisherman, and that was common, but then again, there is 700 miles of water inside the National Park. We have been looking at relocating and somewhere within driving distance of the Smokie's sounds pretty good, but who knows if it will actually come to pass

I agree with this, it seems there are as many careless boat drivers as there are PWC riders. I have owned several Seadoos and finally got rid of them after having to many close calls. I was on the Pomme once and some idiot who was driving his boat with the trim set wrong (could not see where he was going) pulling a tube almost hit me, twice in one day (two different parts of the lake). One of the times I was sitting in two feet of water on the bank near the Nemo bridge. Any idiot can buy a watercraft and put it on the lake. I also had problems at Perry Lake KS with giant boats tearing down the lake not watching for anyone, throwing 4 ft wakes near shallow areas, and that type of thing. I've seen the other side of it also, where the idiots are on the PWCs. It comes down to the fact that people need to realize how dangerous it can be. Think about it, you have a big open body of water, no roads, no directions, you can go whichever way/direction/speed you want. People need to be careful

I got a chance to stop by your shop on Friday, never been there before....very neat place. Exactly what a fly shop should be. I'll be back for sure. On another note, I am going to miss the nostalgia of the old park store. The new one doesn't have the same "vibe" to it.

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I don't get to do alot of Crappie fishing but there was an interesting article in the Kansas Wildlife and parks and magazine about a guy fishing the hottest part of the year to find lunkers. He was talking about 3 feet of water and submerged timber, maybe only finding a few fish at a time, but lots of size. Does anyone else get the KDWP magazine?

I found a bunch of Lamson Radius and Velocity reels on Ebay that say "new in box" in the $130-$160 range. Seems like a really good price, not sure if they are cosmetic defect, closeouts or what. Several different sizes as well. Just and FYI for anyone looking. I know these reels have a nice drag system on them.

I am looking at an 8 or 9 wt for warm water, spillways mostly (lots of water running up here lately). I need to be able to do lots of roll casting with heavy flies. I've been using my 5wt fishing for Wipers in the Perry spillway but need a little more backbone for the heavy sinking flies/leaders. looking at possibly a 9'6" 8 or 9wt TFO Pro or St Croix Avid. I would like to know what others use for this type of fishing (roll casting) and if a faster or more moderate rod works better. I was looking at the Redington Predator series (7'11" and 8'3") but don't want to give up the length(I also don't think this is the right rod for what I am going to use it for). I also thought about a switch rod but won't be using strictly on moving water. Any ideas?

I agree on the serrated scissors. That seems to make the difference. I have the 4" from Bass Pro and they work great. I also use them to cut larger fly tying materials (deer hair, etc)

Cross Canadian Ragweed

I got to fish Thursday before the storms later that evening. Nice weather. The catch and release area was actually clear enough to fly fish. I caught a dozen or so using 1/80 ginger micro jigs and olive/black sculpins. Three of the rainbows were really decent. I got a picture of one with my disposable camera (it was a camera that has been in my vest for a year, so hopefully the picture comes out). It was 16-18". Friday was a different story, that same lower area was really muddy and high. I fished in the park for a while and caught a couple more on ginger micro jigs, but that was it...wet and rainy. Lots of people fishing/camping though. I found one area where trout were rising (right below the second bridge up in the park, right after the stream makes a bend). I tried everything I could think of (midges, soft hackle, dries, etc)...any ideas?

You might try Bolle. I have a pair of Meanstreaks that I have had for 4 years (wireframe, not snowboarder glasses) and the lenses are great. You can find them online for just over $100. The nosepiece wore out on mine and they discontinued the model so I had to stop wearing them for a while but then I made another stop by the Bolle/Bushnell shop in Overland Park just to see if they had any new parts. Luckily they started stocking the nose pieces so I bought 3 of them. They do a good job with their lenses. Glasses are a pain in the A$$, sunglass or otherwise.

This is actually fairly common. They are correct about an outside user with your email address in their contacts/address book is likely infected. A virus/malware on their PC starts kicking out network traffic that is essentially a bunch of email (even though they don't show them as ever being sent). The messages then go to other email domains where are seen as suspicious due to a few different reasons 1. the email address doesn't match the provider's email server or domain from where it was supposedly generated (ie your email abc@hello.com but the domain that is actually sending the message is @somethingelse.com, therefore doesn't match, then gets rejected by a spam filter 2. these messages are getting generated to email addresses that don't even exist (all depends on which bug/virus etc is causing the problem) The reason you get the messages back in your inbox is because they are seen as legitimate email messages from you that were just rejected for some reason or sent to a bad address (email rejection notices are rarely considered spam, which is why they don't get filtered) If the infected user is in a business setting, it is likely that there are not proper network traffic controls in place, allowing this to happen. If it is a home user, most of the time the only solution is for the virus to by removed. There are companies out there with controls in place to stop these messages from coming through and the technology for spam filtering is changing all the time so there could be a different solution by they time I write this message. I see this happen within specific business communities, and it lasts a few weeks and then subsides, more of an annoyance than anything else. (something like this has happened within the legal community a few times in the past year, causing tons of law firms to get these emails for weeks at a time). Hopefully this helps you with an idea of what is going on.

Don't forget the Little Cleos

I have been using the Orvis lightweight flyboxes for few years now. They have a magnetic catch and are fairly water tight as I have dropped mine a few times. I carry two of them on the water usually. No rubber gasket though so if they spent enough time in the water I'm sure they would fill up. BPS does have the "Fly Pod" (used to sell it anyway) which is identical to someone else's midge box (LL Bean maybe?) and it IS water tight, has separate compartments, magnets in the trays. Works good for tiny flies.

http://store.theflyshop.com/catalog/produc...roducts_id=3744 This is kind of cool. A hinged cap for making your own rod tubes. Not a bad price. I have made a couple with regular plumbing parts, but I like this idea. I am not sure if the cap is padded or not. I am going to send them an email and ask.

Thom, that is one of those issues I usually have to see to figure out what is going. One thing you might try, go to www.ccleaner.com and download/run the cleaner (watch the options on the install so it doesn't install any extra items you don't need). This will clear your internet history, cookies, and a ton of internet content files that build on your PC over time. Sometimes your virus program will keep these under control or you might make a practice of deleting this stuff manaully so you might not notice a difference, but sometimes this utility will run for 10-20 minutes, removing a TON of files. It is harmless to run. It will delete your history though, unless you tell it not to. It will also erase any saved logins you have on websites, ie ozarkanglers, banks, email, etc. I hope this helps, but like I said, it might not be what is causing the problem, just a good starting point.

that is kind of what I was figuring. They couldn't be that hard to find. I pretty much stick to the same areas but it is a nice thought to scout out some other water when Taney isn't wadeable and Roaring River is closed. I guess it is good marketing on his part though, seems to attract a crowd. There are only so many creeks in the area unless they don't show up on Google earth, but you can usually make out the features pretty well. I have wondered about the creek that runs south or southeast out of Hollister. It seems some fish would move up into those areas. I have caught rainbows on Roark as far up as the tennis courts in the park (small stocker size)

Does anyone read Brett's fishing reports on www.charteredwaters.com? I am not sure what to think

I think the majority of the Toyota trucks are built (and mostly designed) in the states now. Mine was built in Sacramento, so an American got paid to build it, spent their paycheck in the U.S., and paid taxes in the U.S. That is how I look at it. When Toyota came to Nascar, Darrell Waltrip made a good point at Daytona last year. They were the only ones representing a car that was built in the U.S. (the Camry) I know all the race cars are similar and built in the U.S. but they are still representing a brand/nameplate. The Chevy, Ford, and Dodge models were all made in Canada and Mexico at that time (even though that might have changed by now).