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That's kinda what I thought, I suspect rat is no more repugnant than beef or mutton, if you are disgusted by meat.

how much difference between rat and treerat? Which would a vegan chose?

Those fish were so eager to eat that big rabbit foot fly that I'm sure a competent dry fly angler with some tiny BWOs could have taken 50-100 right there. When my son interviewed the Pros in both shops they recommended nymphs and eggs and it looked to me like that's what everyone else was using. I just used what was on my vest from a trip to Capps last month. It was more fun because it was the first time out with a new to me late 1950s Phillipson made rod that looked previously unused and the first cast took one of the larger fish.

Update- turns out that the trip was postponed until yesterday, got down there about 10ish and he had the business done in a bit, we stopped into two fly shops, looked over the river at the Cotter walk in access and decided to move on to the Norfork area. Fished a couple of hours to very cooperative rainbows, I basically stood ankle deep in one place not far from the ramp and caught several over a foot long and a couple of ~3#ers plus broke off a nice one, and of course missed a number of takes. Most of the action was on a poorly tied #12 Usual with the other fly that I used being a #16 soft hackle pheasant tail fished like dry. Son fished just below where the little side branch runs in and caught several, not sure how big the fish or what kind of flies he used. He did come up to where I was standing just above the riffle, about 3pm when he was ready to start home; and after looking at the water, told me that it would have been the last place he would have chosen to fish. Well that must be what all the other guys thought too, because no one else was there when I got rigged up, which is often my criteria of where to start. Was a good day for it, with overcast and not too cold, and no rain while on the water; but I'm not sure I want to spend that much travel time on so little stream time again soon. Guess I'm gettin old. Whatever the flow was yesterday, minimal (?) I guess, it was just right for me, although I did wish I'd brought a staff when wading the rough mossy bottom. Sorry, no pictures, I didn't even think about that while fishing.

They sure can get stacked up in the thermal over Town Center during migrations. I think the Black Vultures have completely displaced the Turkey Vultures here. At least I haven't seen a turkey buzzard in a few years.

Edible honey 3000 years old from tombs and butter 4000 years old from peat bogs make a 27 year old Twinkie or a 14 year old hamburger seem fresh. Food spoilage isn't about biodegrading, spoilage is about bacteria, mold and other microbes growing in the food substance and causing decomposition or fermentation. Refined sugar doesn't spoil either. The foods that spoil fastest are things that are highly contaminated with microbes, those are the foods to avoid, not Twinkies.

But it took 14 pages, we should be able to cover all that in 3-4 pages.

I doubt that the cold kills the bots inside the warm host animal, the cold just might coincide with the maturity of the larvae and their leaving the host to pupate underground. Sources say the bot/warbles/wolf worms don't affect the meat and the larvae won't infect us, although there is human botfly. Different species of bots for different species of mammals. Cooking would kill any bot larvae that is a rabbit or squirrel and still to small for us to notice. We are probably most likely to contract tularemia from tick bites or deer fly bites than from rabbits, but using preventive measures when skinning and handling wildlife is never a bad thing. The only person I've known that got rabbit fever thought it was from a mosquito bite.

Buddy Ebsen Denver Pyle Both appeared on the Andy Griffith show, so maybe one of those B&W episodes. Although I only recall bait casting gear on the few shows that I saw. There was a documentary or movie shown at school about 1960 that had two guys in a boat in some south eastern swamp fly casting what looked like ~80' and taking large mouth bass, that I'd like to see again, but I have no idea what the movie was called or who the people were or what it was about other than the fishing scenes.

Someone (a non-angler) that knew I fly fished, gifted me that book when it first came out, long time before the movie was made, I think. And when I read the book, the fly fishing wasn't what I thought the story was about at all. It seemed to me to be about the psychology of a totally dysfunctional family and how hanging out with, possibly cheating or stealing from, crooks could get you killed after they broke every bone in both your hands. Sad story start to finish, that, as I recall, the author escaped by taking a job far away, Chicago maybe? The river was just a part of the book though and I found the parts about an underage kid (14-17) working for the US Forest Service and the author's friend Jim that ran prostitutes when not logging rounded out the poor (imo) description of fly fishing. I never saw the movie until about a year ago and I didn't think it followed the book very closely, Redford changed the focus and left out parts that didn't suit his ideals. Or maybe I don't recall the book so well as I think after all these years. I certainly would never have guessed that it would become a movie. Without a doubt the movie has had a strong influence on fly fishing as a whole, that I wasn't even aware of at the time the movie was made. I only became aware of the movie on forums like this. No doubt it will continue to as future anglers see it again and again.

Looks like nylon?

It could be a painter's easel for stretching a large canvas. Might also be a quilting frame or a hand loom?

their feathers sure make good fish bait. (best use for almost all birds)

You just need a bigger basement and a supply of large labels. The local fly tying club, scouts, etc. might get more benefit from your clean out than a thrift store would.

Grays are all I've seen in this area for 15-20 years and when I was growing up the fox squirrels outnumbered the grays. I suspect continual logging has played a part in that change.

Thanks @BilletHead I feel better about cache now.

Why are you offended by someone else's God? Is it because you don't have a God or because you feel that your God is inferior? and why would a Fish God care about Cancer? that would be on the Cancer God, wouldn't it? If your God is so superior to someone else's God, wouldn't you just smirk and turn away? isn't the very act of being offended petty, self centered and selfish? One can only be offended if one expects everyone else to pander to his beliefs and sensibilities. On the other hand if any God was looking at tournament fishing wouldn't He/She simply sink all the boats? Protect the fish?

Vinegar will eat it's way through a handful of pennies just by being in contact with them, yet it is good on many foods and some folks drink it. The hydrochloric acid in our stomachs doesn't poison us yet the vapor from it in a sewage treatment facility will eat through steel beams.

Do you have source on the toxicity of Elaztech?

https://thefishingwire.com/z-man-elaztech-lures-solve-a-conservation-dilemma/

No dates on the map, it was maybe an early return to QC. I've seen them headed north in Feb./Mar.

BPS has this for <35# mounts bow or stern https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/jon-boat-trolling-motor-bracket-for-bow-or-stern?irpid=27795&irmpname=Sovrn Commerce&irsharedid=6080654&irgwc=1&hvarAID=impact&cm_soc=Sovrn Commerce

Some of those drop downs have lots of drawers, and either lets you close up the actual work space, but I can see the rolltop's attraction. It might use up more floor space though.

aka as a fly tying desk?