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What about the zones is wrong ?

That right there IS "the thin blue line" and no good cop ever covered up for a bad cop, if they do then they have become a bad cop.

Ought to buy those Greene cops some radios. Low speed chase and road block. If one cop car driving a hundred miles an hour can't catch a fleeing suspect how does having 3,4, or 16 more cop cars chasing one behind the other make things better?

The advertisement i saw last year ( or the year before) said that Simms was the only wader manufacturer licensed to use GoreTex that all other waders had to use other materials. So, it would seem that any wader made of GoreTex would be a Simms product rebadged or a lie. I bought top quality/priced waders 40 years ago for several years and I discovered that for me the loving care was too much, and no wader withstands barb wire or broken whiskey bottles in the water; I discovered that I want a wader that I can put on in about 30 seconds or take off in about 30 seconds and that leaving them wet in the truck was mighty handy, that buying new waders every couple years was cheaper time wise than being in love. That they all leak and that when you are wet and cold and pizedoff because they leaked you don't regret throwing away a $30 set as much as a $100 set. That Simms waders have legs too long for comfort and that most waders are too tight in the calves. Apparently no one currently makes waders with chest/uppers big enough to fit over a coat or vest so the top half is useless. (unless you just want to look pretty while standing in shallow water) For me the Hodgmans boot foot come as close to perfect as any and I can buy the hippers at about $40. But you knew when you asked that you wanted Simms. I might try a set of Caddis Wading Systems soon; they did say they would customize a set. When I asked Simms, they said no to custom work. Don't know if either is still true.

In my lifetime I have owned several canoes and jon boats and built three. I found that each one wasted good fishing time with loading and unloading and rigging and on and on. Arranging shuttles, storing when not in use (most of the time actually). When we have floated a stream, it turned out to be just that floating a stream get from dump in to drag out, look at scenery quick because it will be behind you in a moment. Depressing activity really and no time to actually fish any where. I quit even taking tackle on float trips, those times became just quality time spent with wife or a kid, and thus less frustrating and depressing. When the kids grew up the floats pretty much stopped and my time on the streams was used to fish. I kept the last canoe just so that I won't get too serious about buying another, life is short and I'd rather be fishing.

If they aren't going to check randomly, they don't need to be there at all, save the tax money until the crime happens. But wait, fishing without a license is a crime and the only way to find out if "that guy" has a license is to check him. If these guys were doing their jobs they would check every single angler every single time they saw one. Lazy bums sitting in a boat all day and not issuing tickets as they should be.

One of the big selling points of modern stocking foot waders, as opposed the old style canvass boot style, is that they are more comfortable for hiking in. My answer is the canvass boots are a bunch easier to get out of for hiking. I can't think of why one would want to wear waders to hike in a mile or two rather than pack them in and put them on at the water but the merchants at Orvis and Simms have about made it impossible to find good canvass boot waders, and the thing is the guys writing the ads probably never fish.

Most likely they were fishing for trout; as Al said, it doesn't take much water to cover a trout, I sometimes fish that same thin water for small mouth if there are any chunk rocks for them to hug- but the chest waders pretty much say "trout guy". Every time I go to RRSP, I'll see one or a dozen guys in chest waders fishing from the bank.

That's what I said.

See, no freedom. The right to free speech only means the guberment can't arrest you for talking politics, but they can still get you for sedition or inciting a mob.

Not complaining, it's a thing all forums do at times, but, it appears to me that it is the same thing that started this thread off. It is censoring. There is no free speech, never has been. Saying offensive things used to get people killed, censoring saves lives.

Isn't thread locking the same thing as censoring?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark_Howler

Ask 'em. It really is the only way, with some New Order and some Old Order of each and with different customs in each community within those orders. I went to school with Mennonite kids in the 1960s that dressed in store bought clothes for school and rode the school bus, I've met some since that were as strict as any Amish I've seen.

I don't know that it is a different discussion. If drinking and other drugs are part of the land owner-angler problem ...

Drink the beer faster! It solves all problems. Even the economy, see above.

grumpy old me thinks all boat racing should be on the Interstate system. Any vessel traveling over 15 mph should be on a trailer or in an ocean.

Something about trout brings out the poacher in otherwise law abiding people. Every single time I've been to RRSP over the last twenty years or so I've noticed guys put 4 on stringer early and then continue fishing under the guise of catch and release. Others put fish on multiple stringers, presumably family members" stringers, but I have seen stringers with no visible name tag too. And then the guys I despise that put every fish on a stringer through the gills until they catch bigger one and turn the smaller gill damaged fish loose as they cull out a limit of the bigger fish. Culling is poaching too. (unless you are a pro bass guy)

I bought two cheaper cameras that I thought would make pictures of my out door doings but they are either in the truck, at home or the battery is dead etc. I never got the camera bug much although half dozen of my Navy pals did and spent huge money on meters and lenses and cases to carry it all around. 35mm slides were the craze with lenses a foot and a half long and soft ball size diameter. Ghost images and multiple exposures, time lapse of the stars from a moving deck and so on; crazy bunch of sailors.

No, but I have read stuff by Mikey Spillane and Earl Stanley Gardner, and of course Joe Brooks and Tom Nixon. Sam Clemons too.

That's something I've never learned how to do. How many hands does it take for rod and fish and camera when waist deep in the creek? I usually have the reel under an armpit and one hand each on fish and fly- now I think would be a good time to unzip the vest pocket and get the camera out - but wait that takes two more hands? just for the stubborn zipper and... I certainly admire the pictures others post and have often wondered how they do it. All the keepers were after dark and before midnight. Daylight bass ran between 8-11" and day time google eye about 5-6".

I think laker67 makes a good point. Most of my night fishing is for bass in streams, with flies, black or dark olive or black and olive are usually the best colors. Water displacement creating noise or bubbles will alert them but the dark silhouette seems to be the deciding factor. My best night time trout producer years ago was most often an unweighted black marabou streamer, either on the swing or on short strips- motion and silhouette and above the fish so that sky back lights it . Scuds might be of interest at night since they are supposed to be most active at night, try one in your favorite color and blacken one with sharpie; see if it makes a difference. I think on that lake at night I would have to try a mouse, too. No matter how moonless it is the yard lights miles away cause the sky to be lighter than a hillside, I've followed dogs many moonless nights just by seeing trees against the sky and using no light. As near to town as Taneycomo is it should never get dark there.

Three days of rain here, had to comment on you leaving that pretty piece of scenery to go home in those conditions. Turns out smallmouth don't mind the rain, I got wet but caught some fish all three days.

Nasty weather, ain't it.

Astaxanthin, a keto-carotenoid (yellow, red, orange pigment) produced by algae and passed through scuds and such to the trout gives them color, it can be added to the pellets and have the same effect on farm raised trout- all them super market and restaurant trout ain't wild caught. Truly wild grown trout in an inaccessible glacial lake are easier caught than any hatchery reared trout I've ever seen. They are so naive.