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All it takes to make them good again is dry them. We used aboard ship around electronics and reused many times, oven dried. I have a jar full of the blue ones now to dry my hearing aids and when they lose color a minute or two in the microwave restores them. Not a rust inhibitor at all though.

There was a thread not too long ago about catching clipped river bass and wondering if it was done by whom and why, Meramec forum possibly. Culling buoys should be banned, keep them or release them immediately.

Oughta be law banning kayaks.

So, how many times have the local cops chased dangerous felons up to that property and were forced to stop at the gate?

Good time to start is when you can. That fish is embarrassed to be seen that way; look it's blushing.

Good reason to begin with not putting the line back there. My kids must have picked up 10000 brand new flies from the grass a RRSP. One of my major objections to rods over 8' is the number of times you hit trees with the top foot of rod. Or have to skip a hole because the only way to use that long pole is to dapple/tenkara with it.

I guess it may depend on the goal, casting or fishing. While they aren't mutually exclusive and both can be fun, they are not at all the same thing.

Even old pics of sculpin and chub would be great, if they are native and from the Ozark region. Billet, I knew as soon as I opened that video how this would run to carp, I just thought you had joined the euro-fly-fish carp-god movement.

That ball of white Bernat chenille comes 256 yards long, that should give you about 380 12" worms (when doubled back on itself), if you don't waste a lot. ~$9 plus the hooks, eyes and adhesive. Travis yours are much longer than the one I found at RR. It is about 1 1/2" over all, back twisted like in wrench's movie. I had no idea what it was when I picked up. I'm still thinking about trying them, so will expect a report on how they work for you.

I don't even like using 9' rods, they have too much leverage against me. For my oldest son, who wanted to fish more than I did, I made a 5' 6wt rod for his birthday when he was five and never taught him any cast but roll cast and how to tie knots. His first outing he got two small 10" trout from a shady brook. He was soon managing 25' casts. On a small to medium water it isn't necessary to cast 50'. I put the kids on blue gill in shallow ponds more than I did tough to fish waters or hard to catch fish, it has to be fun for a kid to learn. The other kids started at later ages as they had desire to give it a try. Started them with what ever 7'-8' rod that i was using that day/week and for the ones that showed enough interest, made or got them their own tackle. Again I stuck with teaching just basic roll casting and knot making. The two boys and the youngest daughter sill use fly rods and the other girls don't fish. Even the ones that quit fishing as they got older really like the involvement of tackle making and fly tying as kids.

yes, worth the time and thanks. More impressive when I think that it was done on film, not with a phone. huge investment of time by talented film makers.

so they tore it out; https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2017/02/27/excavators-tear-out-dawt-mill-dam-where-springfield-girl-drowned/98477324/ https://www.ozarkradionews.com/local-news/dawt-mill-dam-removal-finished-over-the-weekend Question now, what happened to the invasive Trout? did they get eaten to extinction by the invasive walleye and stripers?

Not to take away from the value of that child, but, You may not realize this , but every single person that ever died was someone's child. It turns out that death is part of life, it will happen to us all.

It's a job. I suspect most people don't have fun on the job.

"If" is a much bigger word than it looks. "if" cows could fly, well.. I know nothing about boats, motors, bots or websites-but, I do know that if I deal with a local and he screws me I can kick his pants off; that's hard to do with an offshore dealer.

As I understand it algae/phytoplankton make much/most of the available DO when the sun shines, but on cloudy days and at night consume more oxygen than they produce. Any algae die off hurts DO in two ways- lack of production and greater use by decomposition. Wind is also a means of adding DO and of mixing it throughout the water. Interesting stuff to read, but too complicated for me to translate and report. list of O2 required for some fish Lowest Oxygen Level for Life Lake Trout 8.3 ppm Brown Trout 7.8 ppm Perch and Walleye 6.4 pmm Large and Smallmouth Bass 5.1 ppm Sunfish, Crappie 4.7 ppm Bullheads, Carp, Suckers 4.0 ppm Might note that many science papers will list mg/L - metric measure that is ppm. Behavior when in low DO Becoming sluggish to (an instinctive behavior) conserve oxygen might explain why fish get "trapped" in a pocket of low DO, the fish probably doesn't think "this is just a pocket of bad air, I'll swim 30 feet to a better place"; I have serious doubts that fish even think at all, at all.

I don't know the area, but logic says find the normal pool elevation and look at a map where that elevation crosses the river, you would have to be close.

iirc, I was hitch hiking on an USAF Learjet from some place in Utah to some place in Maryland, it was almost a no go for me because the flight was specifically to move a general's wife's potted plants and it was getting close to max weight. (I've always wondered if they weighed each of the 200? plants and added or weighed pallets with several on it or weighed the plane after loading) I'd already been bumped off a ride in a fighter by some desk pilot wanting to qualify for his flight pay that month. Some place in Ohio we stopped for 2 1/2 hours to refuel and re-tire, they said they get new tires often. I did know an Orville, but he wasn't a golfer.

😁 haven't flown since about '71, not real likely to either. I built a shopping center next to a golf course once and from the stuff I saw I shudder to think of a golfer pilot.

Back in my Navy days, I twice lost my wallet and had it returned through the Post Office, some one just dropped them in a mail pickup and the postmaster packaged and mailed to me, but the one time I left my watch on the sink it was gone 2 minutes later. People are strange .

wow, are you saying golf is required to get a pilots license?

Were there a lot of sunfish/bluegills at thermocline depth? Interesting thought that just maybe the fish in the kills are fish associated with that thermocilne level and most apt to encounter low O2 , or does the low DO happen at the surface also?

See, that's something I didn't know- not having fished lakes much, I would not have guessed that bluegill went down to 30' deep. I always think of them in shallow water.

Don't blame you, I wouldn't want to fly with a golfer either.