Foghorn

The Mrs. has so many stashed in the 5-6 boxes she carries it's hard to get an accurate count. She lost a a box that had all scud patterns in it so now she has pretty much the same flies-eggs,scuds, beads,etc in each box. If she looses one box,she can go to the next one and not be out of her favorite fly. Couple of guys showboating around her at Taneycomo were quizzing her on her gear. "No she didn't normally use an indicator and yes she had somewhere in the vicinity of 7-800 flies in those boxes." They backed out of the stream after about 15" and her having them down 3-1 on fish.

JD, sending out prayers for your rapid recovery. My wife is a two time breast cancer survivor who at 110# might be the toughest person I know. The first round they did the mastectomy and took out the lymph nodes on the right side. She isn't supposed to lift over 10# with the right arm but she fought big king salmon like a pro. The 2nd time , the radiologist seemed more like a used car salesman trying to convince us about multiple doses of radiation after the surgeon was sure he got all of the disease. It might be tough sledding for a while but you can do it. You have a heck of a support group here.

Hey Rick, I always thought you needed a trout permit to fish the winter C&R program too. The local paper posted that it is C&R from 11/1/15 -2/1/16 and upon the 2nd date any bait was legal and you had to have a permit to possess and keep fish. Didn't ask the folks about having a trout permit because that power bait they were using wasn't for trout . Anybody have a good answer on the permit. Jeff

Folks were fishing in Engler Park in Farmington,Mo on Saturday. Wife Susie and I (Jeff Tief) went Sunday after church.Conservation agent checking some folks who were fishing on the North side of the lake. Fish were schooling and finding the school made for constant action. Saw a dozen dead fish-some looked like they may have been there from the initial stocking and some had plastic worms hanging out of their mouth. Had a conversation with a group of people who were fishing nite crawlers and trout power bait. They informed me they weren't trout fishing and the lake has bass,panfish, and catfish in it. The half dozen dead fish floating around their staked out area told a different story. One of the group was the lad who had caught 2 lunkers Saturday and was unaware that trout fishing didn't start until Sunday-strange he had pictures of the fish laying on the bank. After our conversation one couple decided to leave-guess the warm water species weren't biting.