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For me it would be 8'-8.5' in 7wt. for all around anywhere. Using lots of heavy stuff (jigs) might make me lean towards 8-9wt. After 45 years of messing with fly gear only, I'm still not good enough to feel comfortable casting 5wt or below in wind/rain or with large/heavy flies. I'd also want the rod to be fiber glass. Carbon rods seem to break in two (or three) just when I am starting to like one. Knowing that 5wt is the popular (often only choice) size now and in keeping with my tendency to economy, at C's I would be grabbing the CGR 7'6" 5/6wt with 5wt line. Although the TFO Lefty Kreh (8.5'/5wt) is, imo, a very good buy for the $ and I would like to try a Fenwick Aetos (9'/5wt). It almost goes without saying that what ever you buy to begin with you will have to own at least a dozen fly rods before you can begin to know what you are looking for in one. Line type and quality is to me as important as the rod and more important than the reel.

Opening day anywhere is for the one timers that get tickets just because it is "opening day" and must have some special majik about it. More serious fishers will arrive on the following Tuesday or Wednesday. Probably been 30 years since i was at BSSP to fish. Depending on weather and wife's plans, we might hit RRSP that week. But really they stock those places all winter for the C&R and daily for the carry out so any day of the year will have plenty of fish to target. And the pretty colors are past prime now. Big long fly rod and large jigs will get folks off your elbows, try looking reckless and awkward when you sling it around.

I don't gota clue how that works, can't you just post driving directions? thanks

Are used boat trailers also is designed to be in the water, lights, hubs etc, somewhat water proofed? I have cut up a number of them for scrap, a few years ago it seemed every farm had two or three old glass boats rotting down on the trailers. Not worth much as scrap, but, a set of tires and a lube job would have put them like new.

No one answered how these guys protect the odd kayaker on the lake? I have seen that 90* maneuver when they almost ran me over as I was wading, the huge wave from that skidding turn knocked me off my feet. (and they didn't look back to see if I got up) I always remember how crossing the oceans of the world of Government business we usually traveled at 12-18 knots. Seems outrageously silly to think it necessary to travel even 30mph on a dinky lake.

Those are Caps not Hats. Flat beaks not brims, brim goes all the way around. A fedora is a hat. Is ego another word for compensation? sounds a lot like

So do the pro bass guys take over the entire lakes on tourney days and a Patrol gets real people of the lake and keeps them off or is this like Nascar holding a race through St Louis to Joplin on a weekday? I don't much care if they kill themselves off and only endanger like minded people, there is a kind of Darwinism at work, but it appears to me that almost any one could wander out on the water and get run down by these characters. Just how far does it take to stop a boat traveling 70mph? I know on a Navy ship at 30 or so we'd travel mile or three before a full stop. If all other users are removed from the lake how is that accomplished? What I wonder is how are there not many more accidents than I have heard off?

if b equals all miles and c equals total miles then c=(a)(b) is false and c=b (c)(a)/a=(a)(b)/a because all equals total

Any of the wide ridge tops from Siloam to Hiwassee to Avoca/ Pearidge have red dirt that will make ponds, around Centerton and Bentonville the areas used to hold water naturally and have crawdads miles from real water. I'd stay away from streams because of the public they attract.

It is not that they don't want the captive cervids to become infected, the infection started with captive cervids after all, it is that they don't want to admit that the disease exists or that if it does exist that it can harm humans. When I saw a herd of goats get scrapie, that guy and the one next to him shipped all their goats the same week, with no notification to any authorities. If a deer guy gets a dead animal and buries or cremates it before testing there is no way to prove the animal died, is there? Pretty much accepted by some that study it that CWD jumped from sheep to deer in Colorado State University study pens. Captive deer penned with sheep and later some of them released back to the wilds. Late 1950-60s was also the first time scrapie was reported in North American sheep, coincidentally in NE Co.

I wish it was more accessible. I'm not into hiking so much any more. But you are right when you say it all changed considerable.

Pretty sure that I was told they stocked browns there in Dec., my memory isn't always precise but I talked to a MDC guy about the first of the year and best I recall he said both browns and rainbows there in Dec. and just bows in Hickory.

Yeah they all operate off whoever's towers and can be identified and triangulated; but who has that number? can they be connected to a name and address?

I bought the permits, but never hunted this season. Don't really think many ducks got this far south, at least I didn't see enough to get me excited.

How does that work on them prepaid phones? Thought they were anonymous? I would guess though that hot wiring a couple of yard tractors and jacking trailers around for an hour or so they must have left some fingerprints.

So, if you are planning a heist in Mo. it would be good to loan your cell phone to a buddy going to California for that time period; if your phone is not in Mo at time of crime then you weren't either. got it

Quite a lot of resistance from hunters and "farmers" to containing/controlling this disease, many simply refuse to see it as anything but the government messing around with the deer "farmers" "livestock" and costing the "farmers" money. Destroying deer to benefit the the public just ain't popular. Add in that much of what is believed to be true about CWD is actually very hard to prove and that the deer have to be dead to be tested and chances are it will be beyond "too little too late" when the public wakes up. May already be past any real help.

Probably nothing exists as stupid as deer management, period. Car killing vermin. A hummingbird never totaled out a car, takes far greater skill to feed your family on archery killed hummingbirds too.

Doesn't the needle infect? I have read some where that fish may die three or four days after being handled/stressed, so how can any of us say with certainty that we have "never" caused the death of a released fish? Best we can do is immediate release, but, live wells mean that isn't happening so as a second best I sorta like the get there early enough to prep and cool the live well or don't use it philosophy. Thanks for both the video link and to merc1997's information. Keep spreading the word.

Everybody is impacted by CWD, just not everyone is aware of the impact. Probably too late to even contain CWD, might slow the spread by "culling", but the contaminated ground seems to never get better and now they know the prions are taken up in plants and spread that way as well as by contact. Will they find prions are also taken up and spread by scavengers of infected animals? No doubt it originated in penned deer and has been introduced all across the USA by transporting captive cervids and probably by feeding ground antler to promote antler growth. Only hope of containment that I can see is immediate closure of all cervid pens and extermination of all deer within a large buffer zone and maintaining that deer free zone for the foreseeable future, ain't gonna happen and anything less just a "we tried gesture". So far, no CWD jump to humans that we know of. Do penned deer differ from wild deer enough that they can be distinguished as "livestock"? I think that if they did there would be no demand for them. The deer pen folks say "they are live stock" when seeking exemption from game regulation, but say "they are wild trophy deer" when selling hunts. Be interesting to see what the high court says. My guess is the "farmers" will eventually win, they can bring big money to the argument.

fwiw, duct tape will stop a no pressure leak. Just go round and round. But ultimately the emergency services need notifying, call 911 immediately and let trained personnel deal with it.

Seriously? folks down there don't have phones? Really???

last summers crawdad mounds weathered down over the winter? Hard for me to tell much by pictures, I'd have to be there.

If it's gas I doubt there's much lake pollution going on gasoline flashes off fairly easily even in cold temps, so would be an air issue. It does sound sorta dangerous to unaware visitors. 700' of 2" pipe would hold about 140 gallons and if the only shut off is 700' away, it almost sounds like a safety issue at all times.

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