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Does it need to be since it's not a retail site?

Had not heard of it, but I'm not surprised. I'd guess that if you settle out of court that you sill have to fix the site or another suit will be waiting.

Above (D) is the definition you want. I included the other portions because they are referenced. doesn't have to be barbless, unless you want it that way, and it's basically anything except scented or natural bait or soft plastic, so long as it permanently attached to the hook and per section (52) you can rig up to three flies at a time I've caught a few hundred fly rod fish there over the years and most often use 6# nylon as my tippet, even on the small flies. I can't remember the last time I even used 4#, probably back when I could still tie #22s. So, I always get a smile when the spin guys say one must have 3# test or 2# test, more so when they say it needs be fluorocarbon, so thanks for the smile.

I don't like kiosks for anything, avoid them whenever I can. But, the alternatives might be a much higher day pass charge to pay for the manning of a booth, or closing the access when the booth is not manned. Might not be worth the $40 if time is also counted, but, I'd probably make a fishing trip out of it.

There should be an office in Branson on or near the dam, look up "Table Rock Project Office" Springfield, Stockton and KC are in a different District and a different Division than Little Rock, Bull Shoals, Table Rock and Tulsa. Little Rock office- General Questions 501-324-5551, recreation 501-324-5418 a phone call could solve your problem. or

we used to have a female agent that spent more time in court than in the woods, she checked everyone she saw on the creeks and wrote lots of citations, check me three times in one day as she left and came back a couple times, she got transferred and the next guy I saw once in 6-7 years, Recent years I've seen agents checking others and walk right past me. I prefer they check everyone even if i get checked more often, but they are understaffed and one guy can only be in one place at a time.

Egg has the same general shape as beetles and grubs, bass don't know that you think it's an egg. Honestly I've never thought that egg patterns looked like fish eggs either. they say bass don't see color the way we do, mistaking chartreuse for white or vise versa etc. That egg may have looked black or yellow to the fish. I have caught smallmouth on almost all my trout flies from #16 up. Never caught a large bass on the small flies, but, I wouldn't rule it out.

It's taken me ~50 years to learn what little I know, and I own a couple dozen vintage fiber glass rods, 4-5 each of graphite and bamboo, and besides that I must have slammed car doors or trunk lids on another dozen, all have been used for whatever my whim was at a time. Maybe some of them are meant to be streamer rods? I don't how to tell. Your 8wt should work with about any streamer up 6" or so, I fished only an 8wt for several years, from size 24 to 4.5" streamers. They are heavy in the hand when you fish all day, but they handle wind better than light lines.

Appoligize to @eknapp for a slight thread drift, but, What do you guys think defines a "streamer rod"? I've seen this term many times on the web and I'm always curious, because being self taught I've always used used the same rods for dries, wets, nymphs and streamers. Same lines too, although I do cut and splice to change the leader for different applications.

Depends entirely on the streamer, and conditions, streamers can run from a #10 marabou to heavy articulated Galloups to 4/0 Clousers. the streamers that I would use at RRSP or Crane Creek can be fished with a 5wt and probably with a 4wt. Streamers that I used to surf cast with need a 9wt. And also how big the water is can govern how far one needs to cast, the White River above Beaver Lake I might use a 5wt and below Bull Shoals I'd want 7-9wt. Might make difference if in a boat or wading, in a boat you can sometimes get closer. And if the wind is blowing I might fish an 8 or 8 wt line on a 7wt rated rod. On sinking versus floating, I typically fish full floating lines in water less than 8-10' and when using a sinking line I use one of the Jim Teeny T series. The shooting head mass dependent on the rod casting strength, and current speed, but the T-130 is a handy line to have.

No doubt, but the non trout wouldn't be counted as part of the trout sampling. They might have been recorded as part of another species study. But I'd say that you are right in that all the sample trout came from a very small stretch of the river. Whatever they could cover in given 1/2 hour and from that they'll extrapolate.

If my arithmetic is good that means that a single cutthroat makes up 3% of the sampling, so a total of 33 fish with 14 browns and 18 rainbows, that's not nearly as many fish as I would have thought they would collect over a 7mile stretch.

The article states that they did-

All that reel cranking, all that time loading and unloading a boat, driving miles from where the fish are to find a ramp, boating from ramp to fishing area and back are things that I don't have patience for, but I can fish the same pool or run for hours or until it seems that I've caught most all of the fish in it at least once. I can fish the next hole on another day. Perhaps patience is expressed in different ways.

I'm sure you are doing it just fine. I've been around enough people to know that my definition of "very patient" is way shorter than most other people's. So perhaps we have different interpretations of what constitutes patience. Or perhaps I'm doing the swing wrong, I've never seen it demonstrated. Perhaps my ADD is higher than yours. I'm good for about 10-15' of swing or or that many seconds, whichever comes first. If the stream is narrow enough and fast enough, I can get a full sweep, before the need to "do something" kicks in. The reason that I quit spinning tackle all those years ago was because of the time lost reeling in line after the lure passed the productive water, I had no patience for that, with the fly rod that line can be rolled or flicked right back to the starting point when there is still 20, 30, or 40' of line out. But, I'm posting way too much on your thread, thanks for showing us your flies and that is great photography.