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I can't think of any reason for me to have any fish or other wild life stuffed/mounted. Just pile up that money and burn it and save yourself the hassle of dragging it from place to place when you move, constant cleaning of dust off it, dealing with bugs that want to eat it or live in it, especially the having to look at the ugly mount and think how that money could have been spent on a new fly rod or a rifle, or a trip to a far away hunt or fishing adventure. Honestly I have never seen an attractive mount of fish or game. They don't bother me at BPS or in a cafe or lodge, but every time I see them in someone's home it makes me wonder about that persons sanity. And if I wanted a stuffed critter or twenty, like mentioned above, they are $5-7 at yard sales, free on the curbs sometimes. All that said, if you have a reason to get your food mounted , what difference can it make whether the fish is 10" or 100"? It's your reason and your dead fish . You shouldn't even ask someone else opinion. Be your own person. If you start asking, someone like me will tell you "buzzards got to eat too"; and uncluttered walls are easier to repaint.

As easy as that!

I mostly use a "Belgian cast" for spoons and jigs, it keeps those things out of my hair. I'm not sure I can do an open horizontal loop with heavy stuff, I'll have to try that.

@TerriermanNot many land marks out there. But you know I had a dry place to sleep every night and hot meals most days. I wish I knew how those old time South Pacific sailors navigated those canoes from island to island and even to S.America. No compass, no sextants, no GPS, no charts. And they found their way home after. When we had Marines aboard the AOE we let them camp out bivouac in the cargo handling area. they could set up after Taps and be packed up before Reveille because it was usually a busy area. I always felt sorry for them out on the flight deck doing calisthenics in the dark of predawn.

Maybe ... But I've not seen it from that angle. if it's where I think. I believe it had kids "swimming" in it last summer and there is a bridge either under you feet or jut behind you.

I was, as Dan'l Boone said, "mightily bewildered" on two occasions and both on ground I was familiar with, once in a snow storm in a cedar swamp back east, and once night hunting on a heavy overcast night. Since I eventually figured it out and survived I wasn't ''lost'' as they say when a ship sinks.

I suspect any baitfish or crawdad fly would work, if you were where te fish is right now, I have never been interested in Walleye but here is an article that might help- https://flylordsmag.com/fly-fishing-for-walleye-how-to/

But maybe I'm all wrong and it is a yeller mountain painter. Panther- Chupacabra hybrid cross. But the tall guy could be· Sasquatch too, that would explain the ghosty look. it just occurred to me that I don't want to go hog hunting with none of y'all.

did you guys blow that up to 500%? I couldn't get that big without blurring on the forum, but I had to download the original file to convert it to jpeg and as soon as it was on my monitor in the game-cam format I could identify the horse by it's shoulder shape and see the out lines of the people. Nearest horse's left shoulder is quite plain. The second horse's rump (on right in image) is lighter in color. In the image as posted the standing human looks treelike in the middle of the horse and his arm is extended to our left and up almost like a limb.

Do the 23andMe thing and you might be surprised at who you really are related to.

You can open that on Win 10 to look at. When I zoom in it gets kinda blurry, my best guess is a boar hog. Or a burro looking away from the camera. That critter should have left tracks. edit- But, when I mess with it more, it becomes two horses or ponies one hidden behind the near one and a faint outline of a rider on the the hidden horse and a figure standing beside the nearest horse with his arm on it's shoulder. The ghosting of the people make me think you are being played with. On my machine the people became ghostly visible at about 500% zoom,

No, I didn't either. My surprise was that three different search engines took that search and returned page after page of bass tourney cheater with the walleye cheaters mixed in. The links you posted were the top tier returns no matter how many times I put the word "Carp" in the request. without going into it too deep it appears that cheating is considered normal in the bass circles and some guy (s) that have been caught after stealing $1000s were just quietly told not to come back, but were never prosecuted. Sponsors managed to keep the appearances up so the spenders keep spending. My assumption was that any competition attracts cheaters, so, it was also a minor surprise not to find a few carp having ice funneled into them.

Good question, I searched "carp fishing tournaments USA cheating" and I was surprised, try it.

Steady pouring rain at 30-40F whatever it was Sat afternoon keeps anyone with good sense off the river, it's why I didn't go with him. In past years on nice days even if cold I've seen RR crowded like summertime all through C&R and all those guys saying how they don't fish there in season because of crowds. I usually don't fish on weekends, so don't see too much of the park during C&R, so maybe I was just "lucky" to be there on crowded C&R days. I like the Park at mid day, mid week and mid summer, always seems to fish well then for me and I don't get cold. I probably won't tie many Galloup flies, but I did eventually see all his video. My attention span barely lets me finish a Woolly bugger. I like two minute ties. Little flies are so much easier to be done with. Soft hackles suit my abilities better than anything more complex. My definition of "streamer" is Seaducer (or as I learned it "Homer Rhode Tarpon Fly") or Blacknose Dace.

Do it, and post the pics, report back when yer well enough to take them fishin.

Didn't plan on competing, I stopped counting fish when I quit carrying a stringer; just wanted to see how windy it was and if there actually were any trout up there. i never seem to catch them there. I did visit with the white haired guy before I left and the fish he was asking if legal looked like ~18" to me. I'm used to getting skunked at that location so another no fish day doesn't bother me. But after seeing trythisonemv's skinny little streamer yesterday, I may have been using too small flies. He caused me to suffer through a Kelly G video on how to tie the thing, too, even though it took an hour and a half and I woke up three times. 33+ minutes to tie a marabou streamer, may have been five times I woke up. may have taken over two hours to watch. Still have the crik in my neck from sleeping sitting up. It's a nice fly though. Had the weather been nicer, I would have tried for some of the chub, they sometimes like my flies. A fair weather fisherman, I like warm days and afternoons for trout, although going by the number of browns caught, that place might be better at night. The oldest son wanted me to join him at RRSP on Sat. in the rain, I passed on that and he said yesterday that it was a great day in the park and that he thought he was the only one there. Wonder why?

Not something I've ever wanted to do, but on a fly tying forum, some years ago; suggestions were milk jugs, plastic bottles, the irritating hard clear plastic that stuff gets packaged in and a hole punch from a craft store to cut rounds from the plastic and a guy whose screen name was " wiggleminnow" said that none of them worked right for him until he came up "Todd's Wiggle Minnow"

Sad to hear that. I am surprised at the 30 years, seems like more.

Someone shot one of my burros during gun season one year. Not even a clean kill either, gut shot and still alive when I found him about three days later. That deer wouldn't be safe if it was standing in a herd people never mind just cows. Trespassers will shoot at anything.

He did but I don't think many of the ground nesting game birds roost in trees, and nesting is kind of an extended "roost" . I may be wrong on that, because I haven't really thought about where an adult duck sleeps. I changed his question because the birds greatest vulnerability is in nesting and the week or three following hatching. Quail are not alone in that vulnerability, and they have adapted by high rates of reproduction. They typically produce enough offspring that the predators can eat some and some will survive. If that was not true for the past zillion years we would not have them to talk about. They are not evolved to deal with man made habitat changes, and possibly not fully adapted to survive climate changes. It also occurs to me that we started hunting ground oriented birds eons ago primarily because they did not escape to trees.

For what it's worth I favor fletching and a cock feather. Crossbows go back in history (3000? years) a lot farther than the refrigerator we keep the "harvested" critter in, although I prefer a recurve, I've always thought it was silly to say "a crossbow isn't primitive enough" while using an automobile to get from the climate controlled house to the shooting woods and the heated blind. I don't have any need of a bass boat nor a ski boat nor even a wake boat, so they all fit in one basket.

Not game birds but What game bird doesn't nest on the ground? Only wood ducks and doves that I can think of. And crows if you count them as game birds. Game birds nesting on the ground include ducks, geese, grouse, prairie chickens, turkeys, pheasants, rails, partridge, snipe, woodcock, chukar, ptamigan that I can think of. Other ground nesting birds; killdeer, whip poor will, larks, sandhill cranes, sandpipers, plover, warblers, meadowlark, bobolink, native sparrows, yellowthroat, towhee, nighthawks, chuck-will’s-widow, most shore birds (I think) And there are also the under ground nesters including kingfishers, burrowing owls, bank swallows

Technology is technology, 100HP engines or electronics that let you count the spots on a fish and estimate it's weight are equal in eroding the primitive hunting skills. There were likely guys around that objected to launching spears with atlatls instead of throwing them by hand. And the fletching on arrows detracts from the clean streamlined look of a bare shaft. Some technology can be hidden or disguised in an attractive package, but it is all obnoxious to the Luddite. In fishing we can either prohibit all technology, embrace all technology or ignore it, but to embrace the shinny plastic hull and the fossil fuel guzzling engine and then to balk at the electronics seems as hypocritical as embracing arrow fletching but balking at having a cock feather. It's easier and less confusing to just condemn all boats and go fishing on foot, the old way.