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SA now sells "Tri-Color" tippet for that purpose, color change every 10", or something like that. Although I suppose that more people use "Amnesia" spliced into the leader. I recall as a boy driving fish for the men to "grab" that they all preferred white as a sighter color.

Try a constant tension oval cast like I used to use with spoons and crappie jigs. I also used to carry a couple yards of line with a heavy lure in a constant tension circle overhead like a bola or a lasso and then taking the cast out of that circle. Neither cast is elegant or pretty but I never had one of those heavy things hit me or the rod.

That's true and if we print/publish it, we can call it science

Your Lake Expo article Like I said, I wonder if anything in that article is true. It reads like it was made up on the back porch. It's obviously intended to make the tourists feel good about playing in the pond and spending their cash there. It is true though that the sinus are closely enough connected to the brain that a sinus infection can pass to brain, so it is possible that the nostrils are the route to infection, it just seems far fetched.

Ahh, no doubt, but the article states you can't get the amoeba orally so drink up. The theory seems that to be exposure happens if the water gets into your nose, which i can see happening if washing your face or taking a shower, also times when one would be exposed to water over 80F. Rolling in those fresh cool rain puddles and ditches might expose kids to other bad stuff but apparently not the Brain Eater. And the idea that it is in all warm puddles world wide would suggest that the seeds/spawn/eggs for these things must be on the ground waiting for the rain to come or in the air? but if in the air they would get into the nose, so they must be on all the dry ground just waiting. Or that Tourist Reassurance Propaganda sheet is full of lies? Journalistic Science: you make up what you want to believe, we make up what we want you to believe. No need for truth or logic and we don't need no stinkin facts.

I think this is the most interesting part of the entire discussion- And I wonder if that's true. For if it is, it's dangerous to take shower.

Or maybe the word will get out that it's meant to be "Operate the Blower" rather than "Blow the Operator" They might even find out who changed out all the signs?

that probably accounts for those 9 explosions on LOZ

Ate a lot of squirrels as I was growing up (nearly all cooked on a "Home Comfort" wood stove) and camped out hundreds of times but I don't think there was ever a time when Mama cooked a squirrel over a campfire, and I don't recall her ever cooking anything on a Coleman. I would want a deep bed of coals and a cast dutch oven. Interesting contest. I might go just to watch. Will you be participating?

I think they did the right thing, there really is no other alternative other than accepting that the invasive ha won. I do wonder if there is an alternative poison that wouldn't have left overs in the river. It's a shame that native species got killed off too, but those species were doomed already if the invasive multiplied.

You must think the fish think like humans?

The only cause of ignition of excess vapor is excess vapor. Fix that and the sparks will be safe, no?

But how would they know that? wouldn't thousands of years of ocean life set their programing to head deep or deeper to find cool water?

It does sound like the newer boats are designed to explode. I would put the blower a duct work away from and outside of the compartment, pushing "fresh" air in ... but then I'd seperate the fuel tank from the engine compartment too, so I'm not smart enough to be a boat designer. So, how often do the fuel docks catch fire or explode? every boat there must have starters and pumps? I had thought that spreading the fumes out over much larger areas served to dilute them to the point of becoming non explosive, thought that concentration was the danger.

I don't know much about bass, but it is my belief that in a stream less than ~8'-10' deep, most of the time it doesn't matter if the bait is creeping across the bottom or floundering on the surface, the noise and motion will attract some of the fish, often SMB, and they will take either, if in a taking mood. I often let the light conditions influence my choice between jig and gurgler. Other times I just go by my mood, and it's been rare that I've gotten skunked even when my choice of fly was pure whim. I would like to know how you all get those linesides in the deep holes to hit? are they strictly nocturnal?

Lot's of people not trained as mechanics are smart enough to open the hatch and take deep breath or two before lighting up the boat. And I'd bet a doughnut hole that a bunch of technicians are dumb enough not to. Venting should be built in though, but if it's not $100 would go a long way towards a duct and a blower.

Crazy reporting first says the boy is 14 and the girl 18, then says girl is 14 and the 18 year old was injured. Five sentences and can't keep it straight. Makes one wonder if any of it is correct, the boat is Colbat, not Colbalt? I bet they could design in forced ventilation that would be required prior to startup. Isn't I/O the same principle that is used on whaleboats, yachts and ships? An electric blower isn't very noisy, they run them in bathrooms and kitchens of most houses. Ships and yachts have vented engine rooms. Forced fresh air would likely give better engine aspiration too? I don't know boats, but this kind of accident does seem kinda like premeditated stupidity.

I've been to the Sedalia show twice, both a long time ago, about 50 years since the last time. Saw a pair of mules drag a huge tractor backwards on a bet, a fantastic machine for picking rocks out of a field, a hog weighing about a ton and heard Little Jimmy Dickens perform "Cold Tater" among other stuff like the bearded lady etc. The time as a high school kid and the time years later with wife and small children kinda run together. Every year, I think "we'll go this year" then August rolls around and other stuff is happening. With 4 hours travel, we need to plan accommodation and all that. Everyone should go at least once in their life.

Early on, when I was still using 12'-16' leaders, I learned that bringing the leader around the reel frame and back up to a guide would keep the kink out of the leader that they develop when folded over the tiptop, and often keep the leader-line connection out of the tiptop as well. I have never hooked a fly into the cork (don't understand those that do) and I don't think that I've used a keeper ring since about '76 or so. With those Mason Hard Nylon leaders a tiptop kink was almost a permanent kink. The fly line tip doesn't seem to hold a kink that bad and with knotted leaders it's just handy to have them all outside the guides. I've walked a lot of miles with the leader snugged over the reel that way. I've seen fellers bring the leader around the reel foot and back up, but the foot is almost as sharp cornered as the tiptop, coming around the pillars or case gives a nice radius. I think I prefer rods with a little bit of weight to them, 2.5-4.5 oz. have never bothered me and most of my lines add an ounce to the reel's 3-4oz, as long as it all adds up to less than a cup of coffee, I'll manage. I like the cork seat spacer better than the fancy woods that many rods get, but then I'm happy with a plain aluminum reel seat too.

Only 5/8 oz. without the reel and line then? I looked all over the web once trying to find a published weight on Orvis' new rods, all blanks that I found. But if memory serves the early F&F was 2 5/8oz., my old All 'Rounder #7 is only 3oz. I always seem to like lighter lines that Orvis recommends on their rods, so that's my 6wt. I use lots of two piece rods and feel like the fewer pieces there are the fewer pieces I can lose. I'd look for one piece rods if my car was bigger, because with most casts being some form of roll or oval, the rod joints tend to work apart. It took a few rods breaking for me to learn to keep checking that single joint, and if i had two more joints to keep watch on, I'm afraid that it'd be a full time job. I suppose that means that I'll have to fish "vintage" rods from now on, because the short sections have taken over the industry. I suppose shorter the piece is the cheaper to manufacture and or replace.

So, is poaching an extradition crime or did these geniuses go back to a country where they were wanted? We know that they are all geniuses from the video posting of a crime in progress, but the crime went down in March and the investigation didn't even begin until August, which should have been enough time for the poachers to escape back to the USA.

Do you test each purchase to be sure it's ethanol free?

I don't think that's true any more, all common engines have been designed around ethanol at least since 2007 and most carb kits are too. It's also apparent that whatever they put in the non-ethanol gas (it ain't Tetraethyllead) separates/deteriorates just as fast as the ethanol does. The key is use all your gas every month, month old gas is starting to rot. All unleaded gas sucks in carbs and engines built for leaded gas, but that's been being phased out since the mid '80s and engines/carburetors have been designed for unleaded gas since the '90s. Yes there was a time when two-cycle oil (16/1 mix of Phillips 66 Unique) didn't work well with ethanol, but I haven't had that problem in over a decade, we get better oil now and use less of it.

Mayfly duns also called Subimago, spinners called Imago, Mayflies are also called "shadflies" or "fishflies" in some locations/literature. Mayfly nymphs are the larval stage, mayflies skip the pupal stage, and nymphs are sometimes called naiads in literature on mayflies because in Greek mythology naiads were nymphs associated with fresh water. You may see the stages of an insect's life called "instars". The transformation between instars/stages, "molting", is a time vulnerability when fish find it easy to catch the bugs. Small Griffith's Gnat does not represent a single midge, in the way that Zebra Midge or Rootbeer Midge does, but, rather a cluster of adult midges with each fiber of the hackle being a single midge. Clustering is a common midge behavior as the new adults adjust to a new form. It's why I can use a size 18 rather than size 24 or smaller hook. But in larger sizes #14 might better be used as a caddis, #12 as a spent mayfly. The most common caddis larvae that I see are the tiny cased worms in their sand built houses on bottoms of rocks and I've never tried to imitate them, imo, the caddis pupa as it rises is the most vulnerable stage and the one I imitate most often, with sparsely tied spider/flymph/soft hackle flies. A couple of sites that at a glance I suspect are AI generated but seem to have good pics and cover most of the entomology that an angler needs to be familiar with https://flyfishcircle.com/entomology (Images are links to more details) https://minturnanglers.com/basic-fly-fishing-entomology-bugs-flies/

Just because you didn't see them doesn't mean you weren't close to them a few times. Their camouflage is near perfect and they are so fearless that you can be within feet of them and they won't flush like most critters do. I've seen a few, skint a couple and walked within ~25' of one standing in my backyard, without seeing it until I had passed it and then it just walked away unhurried. Had hounds tree several when we hunted at night and those were the only ones that acted fearful, often jumping from the tree and running again. Coon hounds were not encouraged to run the cats.