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ACA events Plug Accuracy Summary 1/4 (7.5g) & 3/8 Oz. Plug Accuracy descended from stream and lake multi-species angling. It's good practice for all light tackle spin fishing. The one thing it demands in particular is distance control. It's easier to achieve good line-up than to stop the plug exactly on the mark. 5/8 Oz. (18g) Plug Accuracy is mainly associated with bass tackle and fishing. The only thing it lacks are obstacles to make it realistic. The hardest thing to acquire is the proper tackle that allows feeling the rod flex and a fast free running reel. Then it takes hours upon hours of practice to perfect. Plug Distance Summary 1/4 Oz (7.5g) Plug Distance Single Handed requires a spinning reel and has a rod length restriction of 8'2". This event represents fishing medium sized bodies of water with small lures or bait. Most casters use fine monofilament line. Casts can approach 300' in length. 5/8 Oz (18g) Plug Revolving Spool Distance, Double Handed resembles tackle you'd use for surf fishing with bait. Of course, you'd jetison the bait this way! The rod length is unrestricted and both 5/8 games require line no thinner than .010". This event produces the longest of the ACA casts in the 380' range! 5/8 Oz (18g) Plug Distance Double Handed is the finese plug distance event. Backlashes take you out of it! Matching reel lube viscosity to air temperature is only one important factor. Casts in the 350' range are goldworthy. yeppers, same club

The international games have plug casting events, so they exist too, I just don't know who's in charge of the USA team. The fly contests have accuracy events as well as distance.

farther than that, but I wasn't paying attention til the mid '60s

I used to fish with guys that could cast, it never rubbed off on me. Ol' Jean had a way of shooting line while roll casting, he could lay out a full DT9 all day long. Harry was the only guy I knew back then that back cast but he used backing on lots of casts with a DT6. Me, I'd wade to the buckles on the suspenders. 45 years and dozens of fish later I still can't cast and now the wading is reduced.

I don't think the average protester has ever known or cared about the exact reasons of the protest, largely they are part of the herd. Instinctual involvement. Having seen cops defend bad cops in situations like this, it is a wonderment that that those cops were arrested at all. Typically they should have been fired in keeping with PR and immediately hired by a neighboring PD. Wanna bet the instigators are being paid?

I need to pay more attention to perch identity, I'm sure I've caught several species of sunfish, some of them even big enough to eat.

Not this year maybe but it has been a thing for a long time, as long as I can remember, it just doesn't get televised. Many (most?) of the fly rod designers in the last fifty years were champion casters rather than engineers.

http://www.americancastingassoc.org/ https://www.icsf-castingsport.com/

Contest fishing is the biggest reason there are hordes.

Sure that's likely it, for sure that's what the angler wants to believe.

I always wonder when i read these things, maybe the fish was dodging the first fly and swam into the second. Logically if they are deliberating eating the scud then they will try to eat as many as possible and the more you use the better your chance. If that isn't true then maybe they aren't actually eating the scud?

tilapia, no one at that party will know it's not bass.

I think if MDC had any concern about our fish they would ban contest fishing, but that is an unpopular notion. 25 boats each on small streams if equally split or more (all 50?) on one stream will scare the fish bad enough that few should be caught?

Since it is an attractor, it would be similar to the bare hook and bead, these might help; http://forums.ozarkanglers.com/topic/14817-anyone-ever-used-trout-beads/ http://forums.ozarkanglers.com/topic/64416-fishing-beads/ So yeah, a toothpick or plastic broom bristle to peg the bead, or just maybe a tippet ring just below the bead? I don't see an advantage over using two scuds though. (maybe I'll learn something here)

I am curious what the bead is for?

Won't be much reason to go there after all the fish are cooked, they must be going out of business?

I like it. if all competitions were run this way they wouldn't be so popular. It would stop the lost fish 75 miles from home syndrome instantly. Following the rules there should be little or no culling of fish, another upside. I believe that if everyone had to keep and eat all their catch, it wouldn't be long until we had a better fishery because most guys would play other games. Of course it can easily be derailed by simply buying it out, get 40-50 "teams' to sign up and not show up or mob the gas station to prevent orderly sign up and jam the campground with 'tourists' looking for directions and blocking traffic and access.

You're smart to have a caution. There are always "terms" to consider.

I've never seen that creek and it's been ~25 years (and 1700 miles) since I was on real small trout water, so don't put too value on anything I did. Have fun learning, it's the journey that counts.

The creek in the picture doesn't high or particularly murky, but I've never been there, so I'll take your word for it. @ThisFish please disregard my previous posts in this thread. Al is experienced there and knows this creek follow his advice.

A different approach. start near the head of that run on the low bank and cast across and up a little, 5'-7' and let that drift along the current a few feet, then take two steps down stream and repeat, do it again etc.; let the cast swing across to your side so that the new cast is a pickup and a dropped back cast or a change of direction, so no false casting is needed. I suspect that if you are hero casting the fish are put down by the shadows of the false casts. It may just be me but I never catch fish after false casting over them or on really long drifts.

Back when I was exploring new water and hitting about 35-50 small streams monthly, my tactics on the first few visits to each were to leave the rod & reel in the truck and wade quickly through a long stretch ~mile, purposely startling the fish and noting how many and in what locations they were, carry a paint strainer and sample for bugs, turn over rocks and count caddis, mayfly and other larvae, etc. then return to truck eat lunch/rest the stream and go back with tackle, working from down stream up. Never casting more than 1 1/2 times the stream width (approximately 45* across and up or down) and using a short leader that brought the line into the cast for accuracy (often helps to have some line in play for mending purposes too). This let me fish only water known to hold fish and to stand where I could easily put a short cast in the right place. [If that stream pictured is as small as it looks, with 12' of leader I would never use more than 2' of line. ] At this time I was also often fishing old mill ponds on these same small streams, where I used 50' casts, 16' leaders and #24 flies; none of this was applicable to the N.E. brooks. It took me many months to learn that. Eventually I stood belt deep in freestone streams with trout hanging inches away in the ''wake'' of my legs and caught trout a rod's length away from where I stood. For many years I have said the fishing should be done before one strings up the rod. Change direction, I'll pose a question related to the "strike indicators", not one that wants an answer but to stimulate thought, "Doesn't the "leader" end at the float?" I've watched a fellow fish very successfully by tying his 3'-4' tippet directly to a loop end on his fly line, when I questioned him, that is what he said. His float was the line and his idea was that the tapered nylon between line and bobber was just wasted, (bobber kills the taper and the plop on the water makes line distancing irrelevant) by eliminating it he was also able to eliminate the bobber. He went on to say long tapered leaders were invented by dry fly enthusiasts. idk, but he caught lots of fish.

Can they still make electricity under those conditions?

Just how big is that creek? It doesn't look 12' wide.

I'm kinda confused, i think, but are you guys saying the Powersite Dam gets completely under water? Like a ripple in the flow where the dam is?