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It'll happen in the USA sooner or later. AR activists are relentless, and science has no place in their world.

Uncle and his friends used to fish for gar with a 6-8" piece of frayed nylon rope and teeth tangle them. I wonder if a fly rod model of that rope couldn't be made with frayed Bonnie Braid?

Does it matter what kind of sawdust? green from sawmill, seasoned from cabinet shop, hardwood or softwood? My past experience with saw mill waste showed a huge difference in pine and oak sawdust, and it was long enough ago that I can't recall details, just that I killed some plants.

Over watering will leach some of the excess to deeper in the soil where your plant roots aren't reaching. Don't water to the point of standing puddles though or plants will drown. Adding sulfur will increase your acidity (lower pH) and the sulfur might/should combine with the calcium, magnesium and potassium making them more soluble. Elemental sulfur is slow though and I might use Aluminum sulfate instead. Seriously though with numbers that high on phosphorus which doesn't leach out, you probably should talk/correspond with a MU Extension soil scientist. If I'm right it might take about five years of treatment to get that right. That is perhaps results of the compost, depending on what was composted. And I think you will have an ongoing shortage of nitrogen caused by the excesses, but I'm not a chemist. Peas and beans both fix nitrogen in the soil though.

I asked that because the one time I was fueling while a tanker was dumping and it took three tanks of gas and a whole can of Seafoam til my engine ran right again. I thought it was tanker related, but could have just been a crappy pump.

I don't know about that, never been there , but the son that lived there for about twenty years and moved back to Mo last year swears that every thing from living expenses, to electric, to taxes costs more here.

The mile by mile map published by MDC starts at highway 19, so you're already up a ways past where the map starts, but maybe you'll be interested in the map any way; https://www.floatmissouri.com/plan/missouri-rivers/bourbeuse-river/ or https://missouricanoe.org/bourbeuse-river/

I don't understand wanting to stock invasive species. Carp are an example, brought here by the government because there were no native fish as good to eat, and no real game fish; now few fish for them and very few will eat them. I think it's wonderful that those things die in cool weather, they belong in Africa.

Maybe? IDK, but I've bought water at the gas pump in the past, pre-ethanol days. Alcohol absorbs and burns a lot of water, which is why Heet (methanol) was so popular in days gone by. I don't think water is the problem with Wrench's liquid though or it'd settle out in his alcohol testing. Non-ethanol gasoline has all those old problems that all gas used to have. I was just speculating, based on a time when I filled up while the tanker was unloading, never gave it a thought at the time, but the car stuttered and sputtered until I added some more gas and an additive. My mechanic at the time thought "tank bottom" was the problem, problem went away with a couple tanks of gas, so I kinda thought he was onto something. The other thing that occurs to me is that the non-ethanol at that station gets so little use that the gas "aged out" from setting there for months. I don't think the stuff they replaced "lead" with stands up very long in storage.

Reckon the guy got to the pump just after the tanker unloaded and he got a lot of churned up tank bottom sludge?

Different feathers have softer or stiffer fibers and tied in dull side up or dull side down determines whether the fibers slant towards the hook eye or towards the hook bend. I like my woolly buggers (and most wet flies) tied rather sparse, kinda like the one on the right. Others like them full. I don't think there is a wrong way to tie a fly, let the fish be the judge. Once upon a time I read an article that suggested using oversized hackle on woolies then using scissors to cut the hackle fibers to length, removing the tip 1/3 of all the fibers, before tying the feather in, when wound on this made the fly appear to have stubby blunt legs. The idea was that it'd look more like the hellgrammite that Russel Blessing intended it to be and less like a minnow. The ones I tied that way were ugly things but they caught fish. I tend to tie and fish them more as crawdads.

This guy has a fishing helmet. I usually wear one similar. But a good open loop will prevent most noggin knocking. imo, tight loops are for movies and casting ponds with pointless flies. For really heavy stuff, like spoons or crappie jigs, I use an oval cast similar to this- https://midcurrent.com/techniques/the-belgian-cast/?msclkid=745dc1d5ced511ecbdffeddb57b2cb87

I suspected early blight, but you posted no pictures, so I posted links to sites that have pictures and descriptions of the likely diseases that you can compare with. Personally, I'd cut and destroy the affected leaves in an effort to keep it from spreading, bottom 10-12" of the plant should have the leaves off anyway.

Dry ditches are still flowing so the streams are still being fed storm water.

Dontcha think anyone capable of thought processes wears a helmet without being told to?

The karst will continue discharging for several days after this rain ends. Every hillside near me is making water. We've been 'trapped' at home by flooding "dry ditches" since Wed. evening. "Low water bridge" on the county road has been impassable since Monday night, Little Sugar went from about 400CFS to about 15,000CFS. I think of it as normal for the area and the season.

Isn't FEMA is a part of the Homeland Security? and as such not subject to the Constitution? our version of Gestapo.? I'm not sure that any Constitutional Rights even exist any longer, didn't GWB cancel them? didn't a more recent president declare that the Constitution is just a piece of paper and irrelevant? haven't "We the people" repeatedly voted for "security" over freedom?

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The surface fly I use 80% of the time and have probably caught more SMB on than any/all other flies- https://www.jackgartside.com/step_gurgler.htm The foam sheets I use are from Dollar Tree, Walmart , etc. I don't think color matters too much, but white is easy to see, for me and for the fish. This is also pretty easy to tie- https://www.jackgartside.com/step_bass_bug.htm The only other surface fly I use much is Tap's Bug, but it's deer hair and for that reason can be frustrating at the beginning. http://www.flyanglersonline.com/features/panfish/part97.php and https://midcurrent.com/videos/how-to-tie-taps-bug/ I've never had much luck with standard poppers, as in 46 years I have never caught one bass on them, so have no recommendation. I probably don't have the patience to fish poppers correctly though, because they are popular. Your Clousers and Woolly Buggers are a good start and with a Gurgler might be all I'd fish for most of a season. The SJ worm is like the poppers, in about 30 years of occasionally trying them have never caught a single fish. I also use a simple white or yellow marabou crappie jig in 1/32 oz in places where I can stand on a bank or riprap and flip rather than cast it into a deep hole, fe, bridge abutment.

Taper has a couple of purposes, first is dissipation of energy so that leader and fly don't crash into the feeding area of the fish and scare it dead. The other is "delicacy of presentation" which to me is the result of the first. The heavier line always transferring it's energy to lighter line ensures smooth turnover too. And leaders are tapered for the same reason. These considerations are especially important in presenting dry flies to spooky trout, less important when serving up bulky streamers to aggressive bass or in the salt. I can't imagine they have any importance when the delicate taper ends in a dobber, but what do I know. If the WF Weight Forward and the DT Double Taper are made by the same company and are in the same series of lines the first 30' should be identical, taper the same throughout a series, the weight/mass the same because they meet an AFTMA (American Fly Fishing Trade Association) Standard that was set back about 1960. https://affta.org/page/IndustryStandards http://www.flyanglersonline.com/features/readerscast/rc150.php WF typically has 30-50' of "head" or "body" that is exactly the same as that much of the same series of DT, then is reduced to very small "shooting" or "running" line. Think cut a DT in half and slice one half to monofilament, which how shooting heads began. While the DT is essentially two WF lines with the running line cut out and the bodies spliced, so one taper is toward the reel and the other is toward the leader. In the silk line days, after a few hours of fishing the silk would become soggy and sink, if you had a DT you could reverse the line on the reel and have a fresh dry line, in plastic lines this is no longer needed but if I have a DT and I step on the using end and cut it I can turn the line and have a new line without leaving the stream and driving who knows where to buy another. Since they cost the same I'll always pick a DT. I'll also go to a DT for longer roll casts because the running line simply can't cast. WF has a big advantage if you are a good enough caster to shoot lots of line on every cast, I'm not so WF has nothing but disadvantage to me. Other opinions- https://midcurrent.com/experts/why-fish-double-taper-fly-lines/ 444 Peach from http://www.carlinbamboo.com/essays/wfdt.htm some non standard lines are called WF because there no separate categories for them, many are described as "aggressive" in that the mass distribution is heavy at or near the tip, like adding a shot near the hook. A non standard "WF" SA Mastery Trout WF5 fly line taper profile Another nonstandard "WF" the Wulff Triangle Taper "Tippet" is the section of a leader that attaches to the fly, typically the smallest diameter section of the leader. Tippet Material is usually a monofilament that differs from 'fishing line in that it has a higher break strength for the same diameter and often a harder finish. Every fly leader has a tippet if it has fly on it. The tippet is often sized to fit whatever size hook the fly is tied on. Tippet discussion Printable chart Two "rules" for sizing tippet to hook size. Rule of 4 and Rule of 3. Hook size divided by 4 gives a useful "X" size of tippet, or hook size divided by 3 will give a finer tippet "X" size for more delicate presentation. So for a size 16 hook 16/4=4X for beginners, rough water, discolored water etc. and 16/3=5X for experts, super-clear water, still water etc. I've never been happy with store bought extruded leaders, so tie my own tapers that can be streamside modified as conditions change, the butt needs to be thick enough and stiff enough to match the fly line in flex and energy transfer, the tippet needs to match the fly, the taper just steps the diameter down to get from butt to tippet. Famous hotelier, fly fisher, and fly rod designer Charles Ritz said a leader should be "60% of strength, 20% of decrease and 20% of point" his example for trout 60" of 0.018", 6'' each of 0.016", 0.014", 0.012", 0.010, and 22" of 0.008" for a total of 9' (which shows that he wasn't great at math and he used a larger tippet than most of us) Most extruded leaders claim to follow the "Ritz formula" yet they start out quite a bit larger and taper the entire leader. I prefer an adaptation of Ritz's leader in that my reduction takes bigger jumps and thereby has fewer knots. Gary Borger determined that smooth energy transfer would allow up 35% reduction in diameter rather than the traditional 0.002" reduction regardless of size. So the trout leader can be 5-6' of 0.017, 18-20" of 0.011", and a tippet of ~24' of 4X- for my bass fishing the leader is shorter ~4-5' of 0.918" and ~2' of 0.011 tippet. (Trilene 20# =4' + 8# =2') another opinion on leaders- http://www.rackelhanen.se/eng/10058.htm

I recommend 8'6" #7 moderately fast rod - floating line - <7' leader tapered to 8# test - #6-2/0 flies - Gartsides Gurglers, Tap's Bugs, Clousers, Marabou jigs, Woolly buggers, Calcasieu PIg Boat - wet wade , bank fishing won't usually get the best angles to reach under roots or slab rocks or get the current tongue correctly Take a casting lesson if you can and ask specifically about dynamic roll casting, I'd start asking about stuff at The Gadget Company 1207 S Lewis Ave, Tulsa, likely your nearest/only fly shop. I agree with those that said a #5 line will cast any fly that I'll use for SMB and I'll also say a #5 rod doesn't have the lifting power I want to get a 3# fish out the structure before it tangles up. 9' and longer rods give the fish too much leverage against my sore shoulder, I use 7'6" 7wt, but doubt if you can find a short rod these days. I doubt that I'd go for the cheap Orvis rig, if going for cheap, I'd likely look at buying TFO, Redington, MaxCatch, Avid Max etc. The Orvis Clearwater I had was a pretty nice rod. Probably better off to pick a rod, pick a reel (Picifun might be best bang/$) and pick a line, I like premium double taper lines, but truly the taper doesn't matter much when bass fishing. I use this as often as any- SA Level line (it was their premium line once and still fishes fine) Elk, Spavinaw and Upper Illinois I've fished in Ar and Mo., but not in Ok., I think Elk is only a few miles long in OK, maybe one access, before it turns into Lake. Flint Creek might be worth looking at too, 50+ years ago it was full of SMB and snakes. Any creek that has a normal flow of 100CFS to 1000CFS should be easy wading fly fishing fun.

The pupil centered in the eye makes me believe the trout is quite dead. I know of trout caught in four of the Elk River tributaries years ago and reckon all of them were escapees from private rearing springs. Back in the last century lots of folks tried to turn springs into pay to fish deals or to raise trout to sell for food. Some of those springs connected to creeks, at least in wet weather. Rainbow trout travel thousands of miles from the mountains to the salt and back, not that far fetched at all that a few might find their way to that lake especially over the winter.

Maxima makes several kinds of line, I like the Chameleon nylon mono, which one are you using/recommending?

I had thought that most science was pointing to them being hybrid coyotes. With the five subspecies of wolf in N. America being Eastern wolf, Great Plains wolf, Mexican wolf, Northwestern wolf and Arctic wolf. Lots of red coyotes in some areas, or so I've read. coyote crosses

Does it say something in the Rules of the Road about paddle craft yielding to fishermen casting or is that just a fisherman's wish?