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A big juicy dry fly. Snagged

I don't know if it's still there but my kids loved the exotic animal park. We were driving through and the giraffe came to the van for a snack. It was on my wife's side of the van and she was feeding it out of her hand through the open window. When he had eaten all she had I threw a handful of the feed corn between my wife's legs and had a great time watching the giraffe go after it. His head was in the window, down between my wife's legs and my wife had a hold of it's horns while his foot long tongue was trying to get at that corn in between her legs. The kids and I loved it but mom was pretty mad at me. The giraffe seemed to enjoy it too. Snagged.

Flows over 20,000 cfs, boat wouldn't hurt. Snagged

You lucky dog. Enjoy! Snagged.

Got on the water around 6AM Sat. Morning. We fished the stretch below Rebar, The Gauntlet I believe is what they call it. Caught 3 rainbows and a brown before they cranked up the generators. We hung around all day wade fishing the edges and picking off trout here and there. Then they got serious and ran 4 full bore. Went to the room and took a nap then went to dinner. Sunday we walked in above #2 which was shuffler central. Caught 2 quick rainbows then they blew the horn. We hightailed it to Bennett which is on our way home. Report to follow on the Bennett page. Shufflers, empty corn cans and an endless stream of cigarette butts floating by. Gotta love it!!!! Snagged.

I live in St. Charles and don't go to casinos but don't care how many they build. Build a hundred if you like. I haven't seen the crime rate go up or any of the other things detractors talk about when casinos come to town. I frequent Main Street quite a bit and I didn't notice any change after they built the casino here. If they build one please keep it environmentally friendly. I would be interested to see statistics about older folks at casino's. They seem to go to casino's more than anybody else. Stay off the Blanchette bridge around 11AM because the blue hairs are headed to the casino. Are they gambling away money they should be keeping in case their pension fund goes belly up or some other unforeseen catastrophy? I grew up visiting Rockaway Beach as early as 1965 or so. The problem I see at Rockaway is what my children said to me when I took them there. No lake activities like on Tablerock. The lake down around Rockaway isn't really swimmer friendly. They didn't upgrade anything. All the rooms and cabins were old and run down. How about a pool? My kids love the Branson area but Rockaway was too far from shopping, no lake activities, no places to eat out. Snagged

There are several. John Gulley is friend of my family so I recommend him first and I believe he has been guiding on the White longer than anybody. Jimmy is in Alaska right now but he'll be back soon. http://www.flyguide.com/ http://www.flyfisharkansas.com/ http://www.flyfishingarkansas.com/ You can't go wrong with any of these guys. I put them in order of my preference. Good luck and post a report when you get back. Snagged.

Hey Freefall. I understand your concern. You should bring me along and I'll go ahead of you to check everything out and make sure it's safe. After a thorough inspection that may take an hour or so I'll call you in. Snagged.

Phil, wouldn't a surplus drive the price down? Headed your way this weekend, Finally! Any predictions on generation? Snagged.

whew!!!! I thought I would get crucified for my post. I quess what I'm trying to say is not that the govt. should lead but maybe just stop hindering progress. When we impose tariffs so high as to completely keep an alternative out of the market while with the other hand subsidize companies that clearly don't need it our govt. isn't helping matters. E85 here in St. Charles is actually higher by 4 cents a gallon than regular unleaded. How could that be? That's my point Phil. We could have spent the subsidies we gave to big oil on incentives to solve our imported oil dependency. Somehow in this country the little guy pays the bill. "European oil giant BP (BP) said its second-quarter profit climbed to a record $7.27 billion, thanks to rising oil and gasoline prices. Refinery earnings rose by 46 percent. JPMorgan Chase & Co. estimates that the world's six largest publicly traded oil companies shared $36 billion in profit from sales during the quarter -- a 23 percent jump." (Yahoo Finance, 7-25-06) Their 23% jump cut my fishing trips in half for the year. I have always wanted to start the "Lobbiest for the Little Guy LLC" That way maybe we could get a voice in Washington. Good debate. Snagged.

I've curbed my usage drastically but the price continues to go up. The Chinese and other emerging countries like former Russia are gobbling up oil and other commodities at a pace that we could never fathom. Even if we curb usage they are picking up the slack at an astronomical rate. If the price of oil declines we are still using it and are held hostage by those that have it. My point is that we need to get away from imported oil completely as a means of our main energy supply. Not just get the price down but get away from it totally so we aren't held hostage by it. We wouldn't have most of our geo-political problems if we didn't depend so much on oil. If you read the article it explains that Brazil spent billions in government sponsored incentives to find alternatives to importing oil. Heck we still subsidize refiners in this country even after they reported earnings that blew away anything any company had ever earned in history. Conocophillips earned 22 billion dollars over the last year. Do we really need to subsidize these companies or start putting our money to work to find a permanent solution that allows our independence from oil. The government will have to be involved sooner or later as the infrastructure will need to be modified to handle whatever the alternative might be. I think an old saying went something like "Lead from the top down" Snagged. PS I may regret posting this.

google poison ivy. Pretty interesting stuff. Rubbing alcohol will cut through the oil. Cortaid has a new product that looks good. 2 step process removes the oil that causes the rash and treats the itch in the second step. You can get poison ivy from anything that has the oil residue on it. Clothing, shoes and anything that rubs against the plant and retains the oil. They found poison ivy vines in a 5000 year old tomb and it would still give you the rash. Snagged.

I saw a show called Frontline that was titled "Addicted to Oil". Our government isn't helping us get off the oil merry-go-round at all. I can't believe we are still held hostage by oil after everything we went through in the 70's. Look what 30 years of effort has done for Brazil. We should have been leading the way to oil independence. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/10/world/am...;partner=rssnyt Snagged.

I just got done cutting the grass, IT'S HOTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Snagged

It didn't open "Pandora's Box" in Arkansas.

I... I... I... I can't even respond to shuffling threads anymore. Outlaw it already, like Arkansas. Snagged.

Good wading? No. You can fish the edge up around the dam where the kiddy creek comes in with the crowds but that is about it. The rest of the river fills up with no place to go. Don't get me wrong, sometimes there are real nice fish around the parking lot at the dam. But not alot of area to fish. Snagged.

I live in St. Louis so the only fishing near the house worth going to is the carp hole. After that everything to do with the almighty trout is a pretty good drive. Had to give it some thought because there are some great places. I voted other. Mountain Home is the destination. Taney would get my vote except for it's small realive size. Mountain Home because of all the choices. I know The White and Norfork are choices, but when I go we stay in the Mountain Home area and fish both rivers depending upon generation and what sounds good at the time. Sometimes the dam area's, Rim or McClellans. But mostly I fish all of them when generation allow's. Stay 3 or 4 days and fish a new spot very day. I think Mountain Home should be one of the choices. Snagged.

Hey Mo. Yeah we had a great time. We caught two kinds of carp, one was was long and slender and the other had shoulders like a drum. In fact my buddy commented that it loked like a carp-drum cross. Oh I forgot. Med. Wt. 6.5 ft spincast rod loaded with 10 pound Vanish flourocarbon. Green Giant corn on a scud hook with a 3/16th oz. weight rigged carolina style with a bead and swivel and a 3foot 3X flourocarbon leader. Busch Lite and Macanudo's rounded out our weapons. Just before we left lightening lit up the sky so bright it spooked a school of carp on the other side of the slough. Must have been 30 or 40 of them schooled up. Not our best trip but not bad. I found sign that others have taken to the golden bone in my honey hole. Snagged.

Went up to the slough last night wtih a buddy to chase some carp. Pulled up to see water pouring in from the recent rain shower. Chummed and threw out the first line only to have it nearly jerked from my hand within a minute. Missed him. Buddy landed first fish at the 7 minute mark and we caught 3 fish in the first half hour and 3 misses. Both of us caught a couple nice eating sized channel cats and a bullgill. We didn't eat the cats we are C&R. Switched spots because they shut off and my buddy landed 2 within the next half hour in the new area. Started to lightening and I landed the last fish of the night. Total was 9 carp, 2 cats and a bullgill in less than 3 hours. Did this within 10 miles of the house which is pretty good when you live in the St. Louis Metro area. $3 gas is cutting into my fishing trips. I just can't afford a $140 round trip to Taney just for the gas. I'm buying a tent and a Toyota so I can fish like I used to. Snagged.

No fees. I agree with John, Rim Shoals has to be the most beautiful place to fish in Arkansas. I was bringing in a small rainbow stocker that took a bugger and a 27" brown wacked it. Caught em both. The picture of the brown is just awesome. My brother and I chased him down river and I got him in a slow pocket near shore and landed him. Quick pic and he's in there today eating stockers. It's not the same as years ago, black topped the road and the place is packed all the time now. 20 years ago we would start at the top and spend all day fishing down to the 2nd island and never see anybody. Oh the good ole days. Snagged.

If your chain doesn't have an automatic release with a bouy attached I wouldn't drag it. You're just asking to get yourself into a hairy situation. It's not worth it. McClellan's is now $5 per person. Be very careful if it's your first time on the White or Norfork in a boat. Good luck. Snagged.

Yeah Phil great job. I hope you reap some busines for all your work and dedication. I've appreciated this site since it's inception I think. I can't fish as much as I would like (eneryday) and it helps to get away so to speak. For guys like me that live in St. Louis or other urban areas it helps to check in and read about other's fishing trips and just talk fishing. Man I wish lived down there. Again, great job. Snagged.

Spoonflies. They catch Reds better than anything going. Gold ones are my favorite. I don't even bother with any other flies anymore when chasing Reds. Snagged.

Man that world record fish is freakish looking. Snagged.