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Really not my concern, Daryk. I'm trying to train myself not to butt in or worry about what others do unless it actually concerns me. It is sorta like starting a nail with the hammer in one hand and then changing hands to drive the nail, but the fish don't know the difference any more than the nail does. There is a guy on another forum that posts pictures of himself with his fly reel up and winding it backwards, but, you know he has a post right after that with that same reel and a big fish. No one chastises him on the upside down rod and reel, many are wowed by the big fish. Lot of the older reels you had to close by hand or break something, I don't know about the new ones.

I'm that way about guys that cast then change hands to reel, well not really offended but it irritates me. And every time it does, I tell myself 'it's his rod, what difference dose it make to me he how he holds it or if he reels with the wrong hand", "maybe he's handicapped" ( I guess the pc would be "challenged"- but when talking to me I ain't always pc)

Many years (~50) ago when I fished for trout with spinning tackle a couple hundred times a year, I would have bet any one that I could take more with night crawlers than they could with any other bait. You can rig a night crawler so many different ways and fish it on or off the bottom or at any depth including the surface. And when the fish bites it likes the taste. However, the things can really stink up a car trunk on a hot day (with a long lasting smell that never really goes away) and often the fish can't be released in good conscience, most will be hooked deep.

Fish every day . If not every day fish as often as you can. Use all your lures and all your methods til you find the bite. Try to learn something every time you fish. Quit before your arm starts to hurt. Can't think any more that aren't covered by these. Disclaimer, these may not apply on Taney, never really been there except as a drive-by; but in general they have been my guides.

yep, agree that is common with the whole fishing community. But, people in general think they are more entitled/deserving than others and rules don't apply to them personally. The sorting/culling thing is just another aspect of poaching. easily justified if you are a special type; If it's ok in a tourney, then it's ok for anyone with a live well, so that makes it ok for the stream (fish can stay alive for quite a while in the stream water), there is a stream in the park so that justifies culling trout. If you've ever spent a whole day in a trout park and not seen someone culling the third fish, you just weren't looking. MoCarp goes on about the wasted rough fish that archers and gig fishers leave by the landing. Tales you've heard about leading the guts of fish at weigh ins or the special ruler used in photos as proof of length. This is not a new thing, think about the the common saying pertaining to a big lie or tall story- most people say "that sounds like a fish story" meaning indirectly that fisherman are all liars, or that enough are that we can condemn the rest by association. Lying, cheating and theft often go hand in hand. Poaching is theft of game. I also see the guys that are serious about catch and release that somehow don't get it that fish can't breath air while they fumble with net and rod and camera. Maybe they don't know how long all that takes. I saw this on a New Zealand site Five seconds is pretty short time. He didn't reference the studies, but that fits with what I see. Generally if I net a fish or take it in hand, it will get a ride in my truck I try to keep them in water if releasing, if at all possible.

Kill the coons off season or camp off season? I don't like cold camping much anymore.

Exactly. For most shooters that need to reload quickly the effective .22lr range would be about the same as shotgun range and shot doesn't pose the ricochet or clean miss miles of travel hazard. (they used say to a mile danger on box of .22lr, I guess that's still true)

The authorities know that happens and expect it. They restock RRSP every couple of weeks throughout the C&R season, I've been told by a few people. Some picture mortality, some stupid about release and some theft, but the numbers decrease at a rate that surprised me. I believe that's the reason we only get 4 days out of each week to practice C&R. For sure I've witnessed hundreds of lethal releases over the years and dead in the water is just as dead as dead in crisco.

Most coonhounds will bay them and make you walk a half mile to find out there is no coon. No the box trapping that I described is not to obtain pets. It is a method used by pros to remove armadillos from airports and fancy peoples lawns. Dispatch is required, but it takes the long range rifle out of the equation and keeps your neighbors safe. Rifles that are accurate at distance are deadly at much greater distance and you have said the shooter is not that accurate (needs multiple shots and can't work a bolt) which means a lot of bullets bouncing around who knows where or how far. Now I have to ask, how is a 10/22 any better than any other 22 semi auto at a hundred or more yards? Ruger's site says they are .22lr? I'm not saying it won't work in the hands of a sniper, I once saw a deer killed at 110 yards with a single shot 22, but, it was said already in this thread that .22lr was no good beyond 40 yards and no one contested that, so my question is how does the rifle improve the ammunition to that extent?

1x6x12' board wings will divert them into any double door box trap (probably even a single door wire box from the farm store) if the traps wood it will hold their odor after a couple of uses, (think they dribble a trail like mice do, maybe) after you've caught a few the smell alone will catch more, no wing boards needed, it you have a wire box trap put a towel, a plywood, a rug or .. under the cage or in the floor to absorb that odor and you be in business. Professional pest control people will do this for you for a few dollars more. Or take a 10 minute walk with the bird gun of choice and any flash light about 7-11 pm on any moderately warm night.(40F) The light is so you can see to walk the shooting is point and pull at 10 yards. #6 is big enough . They really are more fragile than they look we used to have a Border Collie that laid them out in a row by my truck so that I would see them in the morning first thing, lots of times 2 or 3 and quite few times as many as 6 in a row laid out for me to haul off. Little dog probably weighed 30# and killed tons of hardshell southern possums.

Isn't that redundant? Ya gotta admit they both got spots and they both got them adipose fins ( that's how you know they ain't bass) neither has whiskers (how you know they ain't bullheads) neither one is in a can so you know they ain't salmon or tuna- They look more alike than y'all make out.

My rod was designed to throw the line and my reel was designed to carry the line from one creek to next one.

Actually I've never seen a book dedicated to fishing for white bass with any tackle. Maybe I wasn't looking. I don't pay much attention to the boat and lake stories, Billet, no lakes in my three county area and the Navy cured me of needing to ride in boats. Didn't even know white bass existed for most of my life and the ones I ate were unimpressive. Your pictures are impressive but I don't really know what the fish are. I guessed hybrids by the broken stripes? Never seen either of them, so.. I guess they have both in Grand and Beaver but I think the non res permits cost too much for the number of times I might fish there. Who is Charlie anyhow? The vid still don't work on my machine.

The wood, guys, I meant the wood.

So many catch and release trout die from picture taking at RR that they still have to stock it every two weeks or so through the winter, and that is fly only. Observation tells me that only about 5-10% of trout fishers are aware that fish can't breathe air. Those silly rubber nets that are supposed to be better for trout because they don't take the slime off, actually seem to make it worse because no one that I've seen can hold the fish still enough to get the hook out in a timely fashion in the slippery silicon. It's also common for the summer fishers at RR to take more than one limit, so I think the problem is not just at Capp's but may be a part of the Mo. trout culture. Last week a van full of folks at RR told me they only fish there in season and then they use real salmon eggs so that they can get their two limits each early and go home.

Congrats on the new shades and ask at the marina about a Dr. that fishes. Plastic lens might not change the weight that much.

I think at one time maybe 40 years ago there was a difference in brands, and as someone smarter than I said; "anyone that has bought a very high priced fly rod has to give it a good review or he will feel stupid". When I look for sunglasses on the internet, it is all about cool looks and what image you project, very little is said about comfort, length of wear, distortion of lens, repairability, actual glare reduction comparisons or other real reasons that I might buy something other that drugstore glasses. I have no need to look cool and no need to hide behind mirrors, I just want to see 12' deep in the water and not get tired of looking at snow or fog.

I think that is accurate. I have also seen cars parked on the road by the lower bridge, guy fishing the side away from the lot and didn't want to walk, I guess, there for a couple hours and no one bothered it. The corn casters tell me that it's hard to distinguish between browns and rainbows and they think the length limit is just an entrapment so the warden can write more tickets.

butbutbut... ------------------- If they also make the sunglass scrips for every body, then it seems that an online supplier like Zenni would be the smart buy? https://www.zennioptical.com/b/premium-sunglasses-men

what pound test line can they break? Can they pull the boat? What I'm asking is can you not stop or slow them in the length of a fly line? 90'? Are they in the rivers or tributaries at any time but spawning? Sounds like they might be fun wading for. You are right wrench, nobody talks about sandies on fly or whites on fly and I have intended to make an effort to catch them up the Elk or Buffalo some time and rip a Mickey Finn through them just to see what happens, but I always forget when they run.

I always go to the fly rod. period/dot/the end/etc. But the comment was casting gear is better than conventional fly rod for some fishing. My point, whether it applies to you or not, is that for me fly rods make all fishing easier- hence more suitable for my lazy self. I will grant that some people can make any activity harder. I supervised construction long enough to see every job made to look far more difficult than it is. Humans are remarkable in their ability to complicate simplicity. Ever wade out a hundred yards or so in the salt and cast streamers for stripers and blues? I did several/many times and it was always the wrong day or time. The ocean is so big and the fish keep moving. There's supposed to be a place where you can wade clear across Narragansett Bay, ~3 miles at low tide but i never got that far in. Stream fishing is so much more predictable, or one could say easier.

~20 years ago my optician at the time had all these $300-$400 frames for $40-$90 and told me that he bought year old frames that were phased out for "new" models each year, he told me then that most all the frames came out of the same factory. So a year ago I was having a discussion with the guy at the VA optic shop and asked him about the online script glasses- his answer was that by law they all have to meet the same standards that his company had to; in other words no technical difference if you get the same lens material and treatments, coatings. etc. As near as I can tell about all I get by going to an up scale optical shop is that atmosphere. Another thing that stands out to me (and why I won't buy them) is the more money you pay for shades the bigger and more prominent the advertising logo is. I don't do ads for free, never mind pay for the privilege. I do recommend finding a reputable optometrist in your locale that doesn't work for a chain store and taking all you spectacles problems to him/her. Pearle Vision sold us glasses that were totally wrong for the son when he was young, was only after weeks of complaints that we took him to an independent doctor and then got glasses from his recommended optician.

I always hand rub it but that may have health hazards, mixing equal parts of mineral spirits, blo, and Man o war Varnish makes a pretty good finish. I've never seen the rags self ignite but been told many times that it happens.

I was hoping some of the guys that fish there more than I do would chime in and fix mistakes I made, but that should be correct.

Linseed oil has a tendency to get gummy if applied in a heavy coat, ime, I'd rub it on and rub it off and let dry completely then repeat a few times. Don't put the oiled rags in a bucket or a pile in the shop or house; they can spontaneously combust as the oil reacts with air. It's recommended to put them under water. I have put them in the wood stove one at a time.