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That is very unlikely, most small streams in Mo. have the land under them included with the land adjacent to them as well as any buildings on the parcel and taxes are for the entire holding, so the scenario you paint would be like you paying taxes on you kitchen but not on your living room or bed rooms. The riverine land owner essentially pays more per usable acre than a ridge top landowner. And the government often restricts all use of that underwater land, but they don't reduce the tax load when they restrict access to or use of it.

Part of the ruling in Elder v Delcour is that per previous Federal law every stream must be determined as an easement based on it's own facts, this means that each stream has to be run through a court room in front of a Judge before it's legally a public thoroughfare. We have for a long time just assumed that any stream as big as or having similar history to the section used in Elder v Delcour would automatically fall under that thoroughfare status, they don't legally and the "law" can't be changed, because it's case law that goes back to 19th century Federal Court decisions. I suspect that if I got myself arrested on such a stream and then went to Court with a good lawyer that the charges would be dropped, thus the same action can be repeated many times and the stream is still not a certain public easement. One of you guys should organize a coalition to tresspass on, get arrested for it and take each and every small stream in Mo. through a trial similar to Elder v Delcour. Should get tons of support from the kayaker clubs and open up hundreds of miles of streams. Let the kayakers volunteer t be the tresspasser and the coalition fund the lawyers. There is the possibility of completely closing some though, I guess. I'd donate to such a coalition, no idea how many $millions it could cost or if every stream would have to go to the Supreme Court, but, it would end the ambiguity.

have you used UV goo over them? What glue do you use to put them on with?

@Nick AdamsIt's simple fly, shouldn't need a video, but since you are interested, I dug out Fly Tying and Fly Fishing For Bass And Panfish and copied Tom Nixon's recipes as he wrote them. I never did find the #25 lead wire, I use the lead core from trolling line because it's cheap and 10 colors will tie a lifetime of wet flies one sie its all hooks because the larger hooks take more length of wire to cover them thus adding more weight. So in lieu of video; start the thread (an eye length behind the hook eye so that you have head room at the end) and cover the shank, wrap lead, cover lead with thread, tie in tail, tie in hackle, tie in both pieces of yarn, wrap dark yarn forward and tie down with a couple turns of thread, pull the yellow yarn forward and tie down, palmer the hackle tie down and complete the head. You can build many varieties of wet woolly worms exactly the same with any variations of color or stripes desired. You can also leave the lead out and fish woolly worms as dry flies (think Crackle Back and Griffith's Gnat) centuries ago this type fly was called a "Palmer", fished on top til it sank and then fished as a wet. I believe "palmer" was a British name for a variety of caterpillar

We don't know that, because the percentage of asymptomatic unreported infections could be very high. We don't know and the government doesn't know if that % is 2 or 50. The only way to establish a guess at that would be to continually test and monitor a very large sample of both vaxed and unvaxed over a long period of time, say 1500 of each, biweekly testing for 18 months.

Can't prove anything without data, you can only spread propaganda And your wife or child is the one with the bad reaction that results death after very expensive hospitalization would you still mandate that shot for others? No one is forced to eat peanuts or shellfish. Do you think we should mandate the eating of peanuts? 20 peanuts every day or no job? Must eat this cup of oysters before you can enter the store or go to school? As an anecdotal aside, our niece in Pa. is suffering from some serious heart problems, and related stuff that I don't understand the details of except it's likely to kill a young mother, or, at best require a few surgeries and long recovery. Her sister the RN has told us that her doctor believes it's related to or result of the Covid-19 vaccine she received, but, he is reluctant to say that except in confidence and refuses to put his opinion in writing. So, if this is true, and it is hearsay, but if it's true that this Dr. is fearful of his job or reputation for expressing his diagnosis, don't we wonder if thousands of other Drs. also are? and how many thousands of affected people have gone unreported because policies that endanger the reporting Dr. ? This is at best speculation, we know that the the shot does not prevent people from having the virus and spreading it. It is said that the shot reduces the severity of the infection, with many people being asymptomatic, and those "no symptoms, not sick" people have the potential to spread the disease many times farther and to untold numbers more people than someone exhibiting symptoms and isolating or someone ill enough to be hospitalized. Unknown fully VAXED carriers is probably why the virus is still spreading. Or it could be why, certainly it happens. We could just as es easily and just as accurately say " If more people were vaxed, it could spread much faster because fewer people would know they have it." or "If more people were vaxed, it would spread faster because fewer people would have it and isolate." The point being that past vaccines that were mandated like smallpox and polio were effective in prevention and these shots are not. I have no objection to the shots on a voluntary basis, but to mandate possibly lethal shots that are not proven to do anything, is awful. Even coercion by employers is awful.

I had a pet gray squirrel back in the '50s, raised it with goats milk and an eyedropper. Lived in the house, came and went through the attic, til we moved when he was about a year old. Now i wonder if he was why we moved.

Different approaches, I usually work them in and across the riffles and where the riffle pours into the hole or into root suctions and often pull it under. I seldom fish tailouts for bass, but maybe I should. As far as poppers go, I've never found them useful except in ponds. I know others that have, but popping never works for me, so maybe I do it wrong. that white gurgler is about the only topwater lure I use for creek bass, though. I guess need to try dead drifting one too. Still learning.

what fly for the algae eaters?

I don't seem to miss hookups using 4XL hooks on the 14" and bigger fish, but I've smaller ones hit the fly on 4-5 consecutive casts.

I only make two foam flies, my gurglers look like Flysmallie's far left model, basic, simple, easy to see and Neosho bass love them; my "beetles" look like nothing natural but the RRSP trout gulp them.

You can see yellow in the tail and the belly of this web image (not my tie) I'd have to check the book, it's not in front of me right now, but as I recall lemon wood duck, grey wool body with yellow wool belly stripe over 10-12 turns of lead wire. I left my tail a bit more sparse the image and striped one side of the hackle before winding it. A bit belly wouldn't hurt, but like any fly every one i tie is slightly different.

Tom Nixon's .56%er used to be one of my favorite flies.. I need to tie a few, it's been years since I thought it. In his book or a long ago article it was said that like soap the purest a dry fly fisherman could be is 99.44%, his fly was to cover that other bit of time.

Well this is all just fishin stories then. Except what the politicians said, anything uttered by a politician is apt to either a fib or an outright lie.

I just looked up your Dalmation pattern. In a #14 that would be a mouthful for them. That's a maybe next time, time to tie looks like more than a minute. Not even sure I have calf, it's been a while since I look for it. Griffith's gnat I always have, but I'm not apt to use a one that small with cold fingers, maybe an 18.

Best dry fly tomorrow?

I tried those palsa too and managed to kinda get the line out, but they still distract me and leave the line dead. I saw a young lady a year or so ago at RRSP who had a NZ kind of indicator at the very top of her longish leader that she rarely let touch the water and she was taking fish almost every cast, don't think fly ever got near the bottom. Don't think she ever looked at the indicator either.

Certainly and it was a much worse disease than this is back in childhood days. Not an exact comparison. Rabies being a corona virus and it's vaccine might work better for that comparison, But the fact remains that a real vaccine does immunize. However the problem is we don't have a real vaccine and the virus mutates often enough that we probably never will have. I guess we don't even have a real treatment for it either, my wife's Dr, just said to isolate, rest and take fluids, etc. We loaded up with all the usual anti-cold/flu vitamins and managed to come through with rather mild symptoms. For 70+ we did OK, but it appears that the treatments are only for hospital disease. We need to call it a day and move on. This virus is part of living, stop the politics.

The bobber does a few things, it sets and controls the depth of drift so that he angler doesn't have to time the entry/sink precisely to the trout's position, it keeps the line between it and the fly tight to aid in hookups, it also if allowed to "dead drift" drags the submerged fly that little bit fast than the current is at the fish's depth because the surface moves faster. In essence the bobber takes the place of my line hand. The bobber lets many people catch fish that other wise wouldn't, but it is detrimental to me in that it creates a hinge and a total disconnect between me and the fly, it also distracts me so that I don't watch the fish, and I cannot cast one. I can't fathom watching the "sighter" that is popular today in contact nymphing either, because it is not where the fish is and there is always a delay between the bump/take and the sighter or indicator movement. I can't concentrate on both the fish and whatever indicator. I don't mind if you do though.

Unless your government lied to us again, neither is Covid-19. They said it has to be spat (reason for masks) or wiped on with hands (reason for hand cleansers). CDC emphasized that this virus is not airborne. (reason why they initially said masks weren't useful)

Try that same cast and drift sometime while attempting to move the nymph just barely faster than the water, with the line fully tight, the guys that wrote books way back when thought that little extra tension helped, ymmv

1/4" at a swallow, rest, another 1/4" repeat- as a kid I was fascinated but I can easily see why large predators would respond to calling over a 10-20minute time frame. get the snake too as it would be helpless.

I once watched a black snake swallow a grown cottontail, rear legs first and it took along time, now I know where predator calls got their inspiration. Rabbits have high volume screamers built in.

Smallpox vaccine seemed to protect us all form infection, even though it left scars.

The whole "line must pull/carry/cast the fly/lure/bait" thing is all about mass and line speed, mass moves mass and rod length adds speed; with a #12 line and a 14' rod a person has enough of each to cast a hammer, so if we use that as the definition must we set a limit on line mass per foot and on maximum rod length for it be fly fishing?