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Neat, when word gets out, all the boats will be lined up there knowing that all those were contender fish in previous contests. Neat too that when they do that they aren't relocating new fish. I like it. Just a little bit more technology and the tourneys may become so boring that they will fade away.

Those schools of lost bass stay pretty well near the release spots?

Immigrants, hogs IDK. But why let me take fish home if I can't keep them? AFAIK there is no possession limit on cats and they are nearly as good as hogs at destroying the evidence.

Possession limits are why I feed the fish to the cats, can't can them, freeze them or dry them for future use there's not much point in dressing them.

https://mdcgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=aa720aaaf06b49269b355b5a6e049d28 I think I'd hit the 4 or 5 MDC access points on the Osage Fork ~6-15 miles from Lebanon. But the interactive map I linked will let you search and zoom in and then you can google any places you see of interest. Edit- I typed this and clicked post Monday, but for what ever reason it didn't post, so one more try..

Chip/snack bags with mylar interiors slice up to make "tinsel" in any width you want, but in that type of fly, I don't care if the hook is left bare, as it's hidden. And of course Christmas decorations are often where my "tinsel" comes from. I may still have some French tinsel but I've not used it in years. The heavy weighting interests me, because I always associate dace with top water as surface dwellers/feeders.

Or it may be where you stand, I've watched bees returning from 'out there' to the hive traveling a "bee line" fly right into something or some body that wasn't there when the "bee line" was established. Disclaimer, I'm not and never was a bee keeper, but I have coursed them through the woods. Don't know how the bee line works but they seem to have precision flight paths. The pinged but not stuck makes me suspect you blocked one.

~1700 miles of coastline

I keep a single edge razor blade and a naked utility knife blade on a magnet at my vise base, when I bollix a tie up, I slice and scrape until the hook is clean and bare then start over. Some mistakes can be fixed with scissors like turning a dry into a nymph, but others require full overhaul. I have never owned a real hair stacker, having learned to use fingers and palm before I ever saw a stacker. I have improvised spent brass, various tubing, caps from markers and such and I've bought at least a dozen tubes of chapstick/lipbalm with the express intent of making a stacker and never did. Sitting here now looking at a bottle spray eye glass lens cleaner and thinking the top cover of the spray pump would work. Honestly, I just don't like working with deer hair and the hair wing flies aren't "all that" in my opinion. Sure it's a skill one should have, but it's not one that I use often. lipbalm stacker from web

There is a vague memory in my head that says they were more or less the same country for about half a millennium, with power being swapped around among a few oligarchs. I kinda think most of the tiny countries that used to be USSR are offspring of the Ukraine. Bunch of different Rus (red, white, black, etc. Rus) and a Greater Rus. I think the last outfit that owned both was the Russian Empire, whenever that ended, but it wasn't long until they were rejoined as parts of USSR, then again separated. So they want to be reunited, and then again they don't, depends on what day and who you ask. kinda like if St Louis county were to be separated from Mo. by some foreign power , some would want it back and some would shrug. Most European countries are not quite big enough to be states in the Western Hemisphere. Their wars are like NJ bickering with DE. or Pa. annexing WV - USA always gets involved though because we make trainloads of money out of anybody's war. Our potential involvement explains the media interest. After the way we abandoned all our allies in last years jackpot though, I don't see us mixing in this one.

Falling down, learned as a toddler and I get better at it, I've fallen from bikes, wild horses, trees, house roofs, ladders, skate boards, ice skates, back of a moving truck, scaffolds, canoes, boulders, tame horses, level ground, rough ground, ice, and a few others and this is just the sober list, I don't recall the drinking stuff. but the falling down skill is easy when compared to the getting up skill. The other day a Crane I nearly fell twice, but I was afraid I couldn't get up after so I didn't. String tops, I can still spin one, cause I showed a grandkid how a year or two ago, but I can't spike one like I could in the early '60s.

I've seen a crazy cowboy rope a mule deer by the antlers, that turned rodeo real fast. But if he'd been on a trained roping horse I think it would have worked out. That sort of stuff is more about the horses ability than the man's, the actual roping doesn't take any more skill than roping a wild cow. Grey was a prolific writer and after the books started selling it's said he fished 300 days a year. I'll give his fresh water book another try one day. HaigBrown too, maybe.

Never was a picture taker although over the years I have bought several fairly good cameras with the intent to use them. You've all seen little fresh stocker trout any way and we know that's all there is there. They averaged ~7.5" and still par marked, though I missed a few better ones and had knot failure on a hefty fish that might have been a trout. So, my first fish of the year was bait. Wind right at the ditch wasn't bad and it was shirt sleeve warm, but the trees were howling til the noise drove me away. I'd planned on a Capp's Creek stop on the way home but the legs had had enough, so I'll do that another day. I need to lose fifty pounds, give my joints a rest. p.s.- get better soon Brian. I almost tumbled twice today.

Well it was windy, but the trout were friendly. I was late, 7ish, but fished a bit each at Wire Rd, Park and Grisham Ford; didn't see another angler until I was leaving at noon.

I think "Fisherman's Winter" was in Argentina, it struck me that if it was winter in Canada that a fishing trip in South America should be titled My Other Summer rather than winter. But like I said I don't remember much besides the numerous airports. I know I never finished it. I may have ADD of some sort but if you are going to tell a fish story tell the story. Some Zane Grey stories are like that seven pages describing a man on a horse, and another ten pages to describe the view the man sees, I loved Zane Grey stories sixty years ago and not so much anymore. I didn't finish his fishing book either.

Your wife? I've never heard of it. Search engine found it though and those look bolt on, so a mechanic should be interested at least in the attachment and operation. TV has never been worth the effort to me. Beats any pill for inducing sleep though.

3 three pounders (or any size) makes a nice day and one of any kind makes a boring day "Cripples and Spinners", "Modern Streamers for Trophy Trout", "Modern Streamers for Trophy Trout II" I don't have enough patience for most videos, I did watch most of one of Galloup's on choosing deer hair because it was highly recommended and deer is material I dislike using, so thought I might pick up a clue. I didn't.

I haven't read Galloup's books yet and probably won't because his ties are more complicated than I need. I'm kinda a Rhode, Gartsides or Nixon fan when it comes to big streamer design. Really big streamers ain't something I use often anyway since all the bass in my creek seem to be <5# .

I can't get into his books, he has too many words, and uses them all before getting to his point, if he ever does. It's like a 27 minute video of how to tie a two minute fly. Two weeks trying to read "winter" and he had yet to reach the river. He did a grand job of describing the airports as I recall.

Once they stop selling pigs in local auctions the numbers being "stocked" into public land decreases dramatically because the supply is reduced and the prohibition of hog hunting on MDC land would have also been a deterrent to hunter "stockings" because even if successful the access is gone. I bet that aerial gunning is a lot of fun but given the tiny brain and small heavily shielded heart, I wonder if they kill any? I have read numerous accounts of western aerial gunning for coyotes that observers said did nothing to reduce the numbers, regardless of kill claims. Moving targets and unstable moving shooting platform, any hit on an egg sized target would seem accidental to me.

I'd expect all of them to catch a fish. You might want to set a couple of them back to compare with what you are tying a year or ten years from now.

A good resource for beginning fly tyer is the http://www.flyanglersonline.com/ click on "Fly Tying" in the left edge menu and in the drop down there is beginning and intermediate tying course of ~52 lessons each building on a past skill. Lots of other fly fishing info in that main menu too.

I thought "festival" was a synonym for "free, no charge" ?

Shanty town gals in the city park. This guy could become president.

How's that work on a hike or float trip? has it got handles?