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Hey Billethead, thanks for those links, that is something.! I never knew casting was an Olympic event. 12 yo and beating the champion men casters, wow.

It would be and i found it once on the net and bookmarked it to show others how a girl cast. I can;t find it now. I believe her name was Salvato then or something like that. She made it look easy.

No manly men back then that had to mount fish. I don' t recall a single man in my grandfathers age group that fished as a sport or hobby, when they fished it was done like any other job. Gig, grab, noodle or seine and cook right now or can them. I'm sure there were hobby anglers, just none that I knew of in this area.

I once saw a black and white video of a girl on a stage with a fly rod in each hand and decided right then I would could not learn to cast like a girl. That gal is almost 90 now and can still probably out cast most men. So , that argument is moot. That is one nice fish.

The Ozarks being almost infertile both on land and water might have some effect. Plenty of 13#+ carp for those manly men to catch and I'm not certain I could cast a fly big enough for bass over 4# anyway.

I don't think I've ever seen another area where flies were prohibited, if any kind of fishing was allowed

Why I asked the drainage question, showing up in that many different locations kinda points toward an angler's mark rather than a study in my mind. I would expect a study by MDC or a college kid/group to concentrate on a single location. Nothing I Know of in nature takes rectangular bites. That last fish sure looks tool cut.

A quick bed extender; take 4x8 x3/4" plywood (and rip it if necessary to fit between the fender wells) let the tail gate down lay the ply wood flat in the bed with as much sticking past the tail gate as you want up to 3.5' , if the front of the plywood is screwed down or held in place with wedge board from the bed rails or held in place by what ever means you devise (including guy wires from end of ply wood to stake holes) it will take the strain off that flimsy tailgate and support your boat or a ton of hay. If the load is hay or similar the load on the front of the plywood is all that is needed to hold it in place. Flag any thing that extends 5' past your tail lights.

This is what occurred to me. It'd be useful in determining a recapture, or possibly growth rate or.. . I can't tell from the picture for sure but the notch looks more angular than round, I would expect any bite to be somewhat round. So, are all the bit/clipped/notched fish you see in the same drainage or same stretch of river?

Nice dace and the darters have great colors.

looks long to me, tail almost looks clipped like a marker

I guess I misread his OP , thought he intended to fish the park, on rereading it, he says he fishes the river. So, at that access, what are the factors that prohibit bank fishing? Can it be fished with spinning tackle from the bank?

Well, I was wrong again, I had thought it depended on the accuracy of the cast.

My brain isn't the best, but it says no one can see clearly at night or in fog, I don't boat though and boaters seem to be special so maybe they can see better too. Thanks for answering my questions, it's stuff I never thought about.

Got a link? Did they use special appliances of some sort ? Always amazing what some handicaps can do. There is most always a spot that can be hit from the bank, you only need a foot or two of drift. If we were talking fishing in a sparsely populated stream where the few fish had specific lies, yes I would agree with the need of wading to position. I haven't fished at BSSP in a long time but as I recall it was a hatchery stream that held about one fish per square foot. But, because I'm not the expert, I'll take your word for it an say that on that water wading is necessary.

You have seen legless people wading? There really is no need to wade if the fish are within 40' of the bank.

Well, I am amazed that this isn't nightly or weekly occurrence, then. Would those same people drive cars with no head lights at 30mph? Faster?

Would you consider that safe at night or in fog? iirc, from my Navy days, small craft don't come with brakes nor head lights?

At RRSP all the fly fishing is from the bank. (except the C&R zone) All the fishing is from the bank. Generally speaking, if there is room the spin cast from the bank I can fly fish from the bank. Tippets (end piece of leader) are commonly 3# test and fly lines are ~30# test, I don't know what you call heavy line. It should take between 6 and 14 minutes to learn basic fly fishing and a simple roll cast, but, you have to stay active all the time while fishing; fly fishing requires full time participation, unlike casting a bait and passively waiting for a hook up. Is it worth it? Probably not. If you learn fly fishing, you will then want a better rod and a bigger reel and hundreds of new flies and then you will want to tie your own and one addiction leads to another.

I presumed that he went to a treatment facility at police insistence, where they would have drawn blood first thing and that the charges resulted from such a test. I don't speed boat, but how fast would you guess he was going for the impact to have violently thrown all the boat occupants around or out of the boat?

Really? I didn't see that in the article, strange stuff , running into a bluff; even for a drunk novice.

Will the store be In St, Louis? or Lebanon? Shouldn't you have crickets too?

beds on both are ~72" so tail gates about 5' + (63" sticks in my head for one or the other)

I had read that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, now I understand that. You sayin' ugly babies will grow up to be ugly mama fish? I believe that.

And I thought they put the soap in a sock so they wouldn't drop it.