tjm

yay! it remembered me today! the three signins each visit was getting kinda old.

that's what happens when invasive species get established, both the fish and the prey https://lake-havasu-sports-guide.com/fishing-reports/5-years-after-world-record-redear-sunfish-catch-invasive-quagga-mussels-considered-a-likely-contributor-to-monster-sizes-of-these-sunfish-at-lake-havasu-duh/

same issue two or three logins required and unsecure site warning then error code

Yep some are gone, don't know if all are.

Horton's? I didn't think they still had that open to fishing. Seems like 20-25 years ago that I was told the fishing was poor. My older brother used to like fishing there and was friends with the owner.

I've never seen one of those that I know of, all the pickups I've owned or used were either ~8' (+ 1"?) or too short to be of any good. Learn new stuff even at my age.

rather unusual isn't it? I would have guessed 8 foot.

Funny, I never heard of any of these shows, except the Dance guy, saw one of his shows at the brother-in-laws about 40 years ago, and laughed at him over and over. The hero would make make a cast wearing one shirt and seconds later when they show him setting the hook and fighting he fish he'd be wearing a different shirt. Bil never noticed it til I pointed it out, but it happened a couple times in that show. Guess i was either at work or gone fishing when those guys were on. That was the only time I saw Dance on TV.

Get a map, I can't recall all the roads- Places I used to wade fish in NWA, that might still be accessible or that you might get land owner permissions for- Lots of development over the past 20 years and I don't know current status- Spavinaw Creek near Gravette and Gentry; Little Osage Creek and Osage Creek near Cave springs-Elm Springs; Flint Creek north of Siloam Springs; Illinois River - parts should be public in Weddington WMA off #16 highway or US-412 Other places near you you should look at in your area - War Eagle Creek; Clear Creek; Lake Sequoyah Park; Lake Fayetteville Park; White River south of Sequoyah Park

Oil works on ponds for sure, but a large leaf can hold enough water for mosquitoes to hatch. What those people need is "herd Immunity" to the disease.

I want to see the filleting contest that follows after all the limits are weighed in. Fish fry to follow?

You never know where the fish get stocked, fish scheduled for one creek might end up in another, the guy unloading fish in a place I didn't think was meant to be stocked told me he was in a hurry to get home that day and it was on his route.there. Those "Secret Creeks" don't have trout naturally, somebody stocked them. I'm pretty sure they stock at Walleye Rd bridge? For sure the numbers are not like they were in the long ago, but I'm guessing the bait guys still watch for stocking dates and clean up for a few days? A bucketful is still the limit?

Motion lights just make it easy for them to find the good stuff. Infrared gun sights are thing to get, leave the lights off so the target can't run so fast.

The park is open to public use, but I don't think it is public. It's only public if it is owned by some Government or another, Feds, State, City, County etc. My research shows the Jolly Mill Park Foundation, a private entity, as the owner. So it is private but open to public use, and I believe the Foundation can make and enforce whatever rules they want, I know I have been told to leave the park property right at sunset. Twice, by different park persons.

A Landowner there told me that we could wade in the creek but could not use boats, unless he granted permission. It's not about being able to run a steamboat on it, or a canoe, it's about the stocking of fish and how that does or does not open up private land to public use. A statute that I can quote to those people please?

Can you show me that in the law? They used to stock 1000s of farm ponds and public was denied access to most of them, IIRC MDC stopped the pond stocking when they found out they could not force access on the land owners, but, I may be mistaken. In any event the park allows access during daylight, they just charge for parking. I'm not sure the landowners above the park have ever allowed access, and that would be about half of the ~4 mile Management Area.

Here in the sticks too. My house is 1/4 mile off the county road where the mailbox is, up a lane and across a washout, and today the USPS brought four packages here from as far away as Maine and Pa. Three of them were early, tracking scheduled them for next Tuesday. I recall growing up and mail order taking 30-90 days was standard. Order Christmas gifts in June or July for them to get here before the holiday. Zip Codes and hub shipping fixed that, even if it looks like they are zigzagging around the country. I can order from China nowadays and have it sit out a Covid quarantine and it will still get here faster than a package from KC used to.

In the '80s all of Capp's Creek was private, MDC just had an agreement with 2-3 of the landowners that we could fish there. The park changed management to a restoration group in the late '80s and MDC acquired the dairy farm in the early 2000s and developed the CA. The park should be open dawn to dusk everyday but they charge $5 to park there, have for many years. I don't know if MDC is still stocking the Park area or not, but having to pay, and having been hassled there a couple times, I think they shouldn't.

poke many people mix up to, two & too or there, their & they're - ignorance is at least as common as wisdom I bet the guy that put that video up never picked poke to sell to Allen Canning.

"poke sallet" because it's cooked

That's sounding more complicated and more like work the more I read. But your creeks may be slower or deeper or wider than I'm used to, in my mind's eye I see most of the current near the only bank with the slower water on the beach side.

My picture of this is you hold the rod in one hand to cast, crank the reel with the other hand and paddle the boat with your third hand? Or are you just holding the rod and paddle and kinda trolling? I've never been able to figure this out.

yep I've caught the same trout three times in about an hour too, and on the same fly. Two trout in a pool , catch one twice and the other three times. Fish don't have very big brains and I've read that they don't feel pain from the hook, so there's not a big incentive for them to learn.

Those were just humans, humans ain't on no endangered list.

The simple and correct thing to do is eliminate FFO areas. There are no scientific or logical reasons for those fly only regulations. I participated in a forum discussion once on a forum with a large international fly fishing membership, and after many pages and hundreds of posts the members could not define what makes a fly a "fly" nor what makes fishing "fly fishing"; it can not be readily defined and any definition that the non-fly-fishing office workers in J. City come up with will be wrong. The nearest we came to an acceptable definition said that fly fishing had to be done with a "fly rod" and 'fly line." Which of course calls for more definitions.