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All parks have closed offices, nature centers etc til April 30 (even the big park near me that has no such facilities) RRSP has closed campgrounds 2&3 due to flooding. Other than Montauk I found no mention of lodging or stores closed and no other mention of tags or fishing being closed. Still I doubt I'll be going to any of the parks because even when the flooding is over there likely going to be unusual numbers of users and at best the bath rooms are too few and not well maintained. Damp confined areas ideal for germs to hang out and droplets can hang in air for seconds to hours. The people that don't have symptoms but carry and spread the virus and all those that flat out deny the seriousness of it are dangerous enough that I see no reason to take the risk for fish I won't eat anyway. If the floods ever go down I'll work on the native fish. Anglers living in Italy posting on international forums say they aren't fishing much because any accident may not get treatment right away due to medical personnel and facilities being overwhelmed with flu victims.

in 2018-19 that's exactly how it was, and then he rooted it around a bit, I didn't know my nose was 9" deep til then and my eyes were crossed for hours. But there are more than one flu and more than one test.

Be nice to have them in Elk but the bass would just eat them

and scuds are what they eat, almost transparent they take on the color of the last dinner

I'm surprised the concessionaires are still still selling tags. Park personnel don't really have much contact with the general public. RR has been too high to be good fishing in my opinion for over a week and there is just enough rain forecast to keep it that way for another week, or two. USGS is showing almost all the streams SWMo running at 90th percentile which means minor flooding by my translation. I've never done well in high water.

They are programed to taste anything that resembles food, the brain doesn't think it just reacts. Given the opportunity they will eat far more than hunger would dictate. The same instinct that compels them to taste everything also compels them to focus intently on the things that are food and present in quantity as in a hatch. People have a tendency to anthropomorphize all animals and say things like "see how smart that dog/cat/chicken/pig/fish is" . This anthropomorphization is the very same human feeling that causes people to become anti-hunters or anti-fishers. Man was given dominion over the other animals because man is the only animal that thinks.

Aren't heavily dressed olive scud flies a pellet pattern?

Every thread gets there one way or another. If we didn't start threads because they might go astray, no new threads would ever get started. Open discussion might be a good thing in the end.

Let your welder guide you on what is needed. It is repairable, and reinforcement never hurts.

Looks like that , and there we have the framework for a good conspiracy theory.

are the trout parks staying open through the virus time?

fwiw, that burlap bug in the earlier post was my scud imitation, best in size #16

1/16" to 1/2", they start out small and grow up.

Yes they take in quite a bit of moss to get one or two snails. Snails must be worth the effort though fish get fat on them. Henry Hoffman had a snail pattern made by simply tying an overhand knot in a boot lace or paracord and attaching the knot to a hook. Trout no doubt get some moss when chasing scuds too. If scuds are prevalent in the stream and trout aren't eating them it is likely because they are eating something else, as I said they eat on instinct and they don't come out of the factory knowing scuds are under the rocks or on the weeds, they have to learn that over time of which they don't get much. So what they eat is why you aren't catching them and is the answer to your question. Size of scud varies from about 1/16" to maybe 1/2" in the same water at the same time all the time- they live and die right there, grow from infancy to old age. But as was mentioned already #16 or #18 are convenient to tie and fish and may be the size fish eat the most of. I did know one guy that used #14 scuds successfully. Doesn't really matter where you are if scuds are there they will be about the same as anywhere else. Tell you what, here is an article that covers much about scuds and if you read it all you will see why some scuds are olive and some are orange. http://www3.sympatico.ca/ianjames/scudflyfishing.html

I used to catch some trout on #16 burlap body fuzzed out with a rifle brush. Those fish don't live in the stream long enough to get to know what is prevalent. I think really trout try to eat any thing that floats by, they eat sand to get caddis worms and they eat tree needles that look like caddis worms, they eat a white pebble the size of a grub worm if you toss them in just the right spot. Instinct from billions of years of survival with practically no brain has taught them to taste everything. 'course they can spit mighty fast too.

yes to both, wish it'd rain?

Probably terrified of meeting with the unknown, untested public.

Gauge here is at 3.6 and the sky is still falling. We are trapped at home by flash flooding and earlier the slopping part of the yard and driveway had a full sheet of water about and inch deep over all of it. Great weather for social distancing, eh?

School where my daughter teaches is 100% free lunch and breakfast, she says they throw a lot of food away because the kids won't eat foods provided, applesauce comes to mind. Kids must not be that hungry. Look around at preteen and teenage obesity, lot more kids being overfed than other wise. Where kids are starving, it is much more likely neglect than poverty; poor parents get hungry enough to find food by any means- even work, neglectful parents are probably neither hungry nor poor by world standards simply because we in the USA have been giving them and their antecedents free lunches for several generations. They are conditioned and trained to shirk responsibility. But, the only way to catch those few that are needy is to use blanket coverage, other wise the charity/wefare will end up in the hands of the opportunists.

The size, length and flow in each Park are also factors. But you can get a definitive answer by email https://mdc.mo.gov/contact-engage/contact-us MDC has lots of folks working in Jeff City that specialize in researching such questions, I usually hear back within a couple days on anything I ask.

Restrictions can only restrict. Restrictions can never promote anything.

Morels?

Hard to try stuff out online. As easy as it is to dislike BPS, they still keep some of the money local and they provide a place to hand examine and try on things.

Just creates a "safe space" for the shy folks, I've opposed fly only zones for many years. The bait only area at BSSP makes more sense, especially if spinning gear is "fly fishing". The canal at RRSP is optimized for spin fishing, except the C&R stretch and only in Z3 is there anything like true fly fishing with the stream wild. The bait folks probably say they get run over and crowded by the fly line types.

After I already disinfected my screen!!