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But at this time we could use a shower, the crik is low and the spring's gone dry...

This page can help find which similar species lives in a certain stream, https://mdc.mo.gov/property/watersheds

Sun?? even sheep shade up when the sun gets hot.

True, I only fish about 50-60 days a year anymore and rarely more than 3-4 hours at a time. Don't have the stamina that I used to. But other than the first line that I wore out beating rocks and trees with and one that went bad really fast from fishing a polluted river, and/or using line conditioner, I've never had lines go bad in less than several years. I think that is because I don't cast as much as I fish.

If you figure in gas and lodging there wouldn't be much savings. I have a theory about companies that come out with "new" products every year and that is either their old product was crap so the new product won't be much better or the old product was wonderful so they made a new package for it and changed the name. Either case those companies are suspect. If you have a top product R&D to improve on it will take years not weeks, and getting a celebrity to endorse it won't make it a better product. Having been fly fishing a few years, there's not much that I need that I don't already have three of... or more. I should upgrade my lines, they were new when 444 sold for 24.95, (just saw one of the boxes the other day) but they still work fine and why fix stuff that ain't broke. There are a few rods out there that I'd love to cast, but in the end I'm kinda liking the stuff made 50 years ago and I'm either not good enough or not smart enough to appreciate the latest improvements or packaging. All the "last years package" stuff can be found on eBay as rule and delivered to my driveway. Still if the vendors do a show in NWA, I'd be there as that falls within my 5 county area. Saw Kreh (nice guy) do a performance in Springdale Ar. many years ago at a fishing tackle show, but if there have been any recently I missed them. BSSP seems an out of the way place to draw many vendors or market much product. Enjoy the camping and catch lots of nasty trout.

Oh, if it was something exciting enough to get me out of the five county area, we'd stay a few days and fish. Anything over an hour from home I usually want to make it an overnighter. Guess it's been twenty years since the last time we went to Bennett. Of the four trout parks that is my least favorite.

I don't know what a "film tour" is but it doesn't sound like it's worth the 5 hours of round trip driving, even though I am interested in most things fly fishing related.

I never have and I used to fish where they were all around me, could hear the wing beats. I always thought that I'd get one eventually but they can turn very short and seem to know fly lines are dangerous or at least not unoccupied airspace. I like evenings after dark better than mornings.

What is this?

So, Remington dying won't have any effect?

Speculation on Remington being dismantled and sold piecemeal and some of the purchasers not being interested in firearms and ammo as much as in the real-estate. If you can't ban the manufacture of firearms, you can force the manufacturers into bankruptcy. Ammo should go crazy real quick too.

Heck, if we are gonna die next week from "The Virus" why should we worry about the "small stuff"? Those people have always been around, this just means more of them have disposable time at the same time, so it looks like there are more of them. When the economy falls to normal levels they will all have to find some kind of jobs again. Probably with long hours and low pay, because companies of all sizes have learned how to do without as many employees.

If you don't fix what ain't broke, you don't need a new rod at this time. Wrench's advice is pretty good though if you insist on buying another before you learn how to tell what works best for you, I almost always over line graphite rods (because I believe they are usually rated wrong) and the lines he mentioned are both over-weight lines. Where I'd differ with him is in choosing a moderate action in 5wt, but that gets into individual styles and taste. Two things which you apparently have not yet developed. I'd also probably look for shorter rods, since I like them better. I'd encourage you to get some personal casting instruction and not from YouTube, although there are some great You Tube videos, there are just as many crappy ones, imo, and, regardless of quality, none of the video instructors can see what you are doing right or wrong. I learned from books about 45 years ago and have thought many times how cheap instruction is compared to time lost in self instruction. There was not any available to me back then so books were my best/only choice. I fish RRSP fairly often and my guess is that not more than 10% of the fly rod users are competent casters. If most could see them selves cast they would seek instruction, which brings me to another option to determine why you that is have someone video you while you cast or set up a tripod and self video, you might see for your self why this happens. One thing I know after owning over fifty rods through the years is that a new fly rod won't make me a better caster. A better fly line might though and given your present rig, I personally would try an AirCel (or equivalent/better) WF6F on the 5wt RLS. Or even a WF7F.

I don't think that's legal in Mo., unless the hole is under water. We have 5"X5" maximum on land. A 220 in a hole is considered a dog killer. and could cost a feller his hunting and fishing privilege.

Use a funnel for bait. Set your box trap and run wings out from it like a fence in a vee with 6-8" boards, the armadillo will follow the boards and they will funnel it into the trap. Best box traps for them are wood and once one pees on the wood floor the rest will feel at home there. With a used wood trap you should get a new pet every night.

Lakes almost always have water cool enough at depth, I guess, then it becomes an O2 concern. Both those lakes get continuous re-stocking of both trouts from upstream, so yes there should be some survival up to the lifespan of the trout. I think only the piscivorous members of either species could survive long term, but that is just a guess.

Remembering what I've read, as fry I think they do (maybe 10*F), perhaps as adults browns can stand a couple degrees warmer water but both are in trouble between 70-75F, best I recall, below 68F is better for browns below 65F is better for rainbow, maybe.

I missed the key words, "I don't know" and I forgot that ole oneshot is a bait fisherman. carry on

One shot one, are you saying that other countries have/are admitting culpability and are paying survivors?

https://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/identifying-wildflowers-desmodium-or-beggar-lice#:~:text=The seeds are edible for humans as well%2C,iron skillet and use them as a snack. https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/desmodium/ Wild life from butterflies to deer feed on beggar lice, I've probably eaten a couple bushels over the years while hunting or working in the woods. The skin splits and peels off when edged and bit like other seeds and like a pumpkin seed the kernel is edible. The fish are edible too but require cooking.

See any insect hatch? Try surface fly?

They are kinda like eating sun flower seeds, if like that sort of thing.

sun dials I've seen were easy to read when the sun was shining- not so good for an alarm clock though as they quit working at night

grand daughter (15 at the time) stayed with us and asked my wife what time it was on the big clock with hands, she had no idea how to tell time if it wasn't digital, gets good grades in school too they say. I don't think of the grandkids can do long division or find a square root. Their phones do all their thinking for them.

3572A they can still use, that's 5 1/2 square miles of hiking trails and play ground equipment be a park DNR can sell the 625A to MDC or the Sierra Club and it won't become a pig farm. It's less than a section of land anyone of you who are worried about it could jump on it and put it in a forever trust so that it never gets used. I don't think it takes much to create a non-profit "friends of 11P woods" and have raffles to pay off the mortgage. Didn't they buy that from some friend of Jay's to start with?