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I just looked there and though they have some short rods, it looks like <7'11" is 3-4wts. I'm not sure I can even cast a line that light .

Yeah, I had to laugh at the two Bandaids in the medical supplies that one had, things have never stayed on me more than about three minutes and never did anything to keep a cut closed or clean. Any cut that a bandaid will cover is too small for a sailor to even be aware of. A guy falls out of a broken airplane in enemy territory and you give him a bandaid?

Drinking from it might be a little far fetched.

That's not what the Navy Doc said. But just out of curiosity, how much water can you carry in one? seems like it spill out easy?

Just think how much less hassle the picking would be though if every participant had to buy a permit at city hall during regular business hours, a $1 permit would keep 2/3 of the home owners from setting up, just the act of going to city hall and picking up a free permit would discourage the ones with three items and a truck load of old magazines. The thing I hate is seeing the sign, following it around three corners to the yard, finding a place to park, walking back 50 yards and when you get there there are a half dozen items for sale. I have driven through a couple of these towns the day after and the "merchandise" is on the curb for pickup. Who makes a 7-7 1/2' 6wt these days?

I used to really like yard/garage/T.A.G. sales, have met interesting people and bought quite a few bargains, but I hate the "town wide" things with all the streets blocked, all the parking spaces double full and all the "for sale" items clothing or geegaws that appear to be discards from a thrift store. People set up a display and watch it all day with six items and a total value of three dollars. When people have to get a permit they don't bother to it for garbage. The old wife still likes to go so I sometimes go with her if a daughter isn't available, but I bet I've walked 50 miles through 1000 "yard sales" on those town wide days and never saw item that I wanted that wasn't priced at three times it's value. And in this area never much good fishing tackle, especially fly gear.

I was given the fishing part of a survival kit once a long time ago, nothing really but a curiosity thing, but the flies looked like in the video and were poorly constructed, first fish would have mangled them, I think. Several survival kits listed here Interesting that some contain condoms. But also interesting is that some kits had gold coins and gold rings that could in theory be used to buy safety.

Short fly rods are scarce too, if looking at new stuff, but eBay has some barely used vintage stuff daily. People are getting taller perhaps or believe bigger is better in all things. When you find a shorter rod it's almost sure to an ultra light. Janns Netcraft used to one piece blanks that could be shortened at the butt before cutting for the ferrule, or made up as a one piece. If you look at the St Croix supplier- rodgeeks.com they have 5.5' & 6' blanks, but the ones I saw were UL/

Just about every single thing the federal government does maintain it's power is unconstitutional, including the way they collect taxes, yet we still allow them to do it. I think it was a former president that said the Constitution is just a piece of paper, outdated and invalid in these times. It is used like a placebo to reassure the public that it is not being controlled when it actually is.

Unless MDC is experimenting with palamino trout, at least some of the RR fish for the past few years have come from outside sources. but on most of the days I've been there 14-16" fish were too, maybe the same ones each time because I rcycle them. Around the holiday weekends they seem to stock really small fish, so that the same poundage would equal three times as many fish, keep the numbers matching the tag sales. I do wish they'd make the Neosho bass get bigger before stocking them, I keep catching them 10 1/2" kind, talk about dinks. What ever happened to 10# smallmouth? I know I've heard stories about big bass, but ever since MDC came out with length limits all the fish are too small to keep.

I was thinking Kansas, but its all about power and politics regardless.

Most skillets are 10-12". Trout are meant to be pan-fish. Carp are meant to be lunkers.

It's not a gun issue, it's a control issue. Similar to some states not enforcing Federal laws on marijuana. Local police should never be enforcing Federal laws unless those laws are duplicated by state laws, Feds make a law Feds enforce that law and bear the cost of enforcement and prosecution and house the criminal in Fed jail. It's basically a state's right issue, although most state's right have been traded in for Federal money. I think I read that one state made it a crime for local cops to enforce Federal gun control laws. Not that any of this will in any way affect the way criminals use guns or drugs or violate the laws, it's a way for lawyers to earn a living and it keeps them off the street.

Yeah, I found that in the web is why I mentioned them. I had no idea what "FFF pattern book" even meant. I had forgotten there was an "FFF". With writing and publishing 12-20 books running three or four businesses including selling the flies they tie, I think she sells embroidery work and he does photography, I don't when they'd have much time to fish. You are right I think, about creative fly tyers not doing a lot of fishing, but if I had days of labor in a fly I might not want to get it wet either. I seldom spend five minutes tying a fly that will either be lost or destroyed by the fish. There are fly tyers that don't fly fish at all but sell or gift their creations as works of art. Especially in the traditional salmon fly category.

We played with mercury in grade school, roll it across the floor or a desk, break it into small balls then get them to rejoin and made lots of "silver pennies" Broke a few thermometers to get more of the stuff. Maybe it's no wonder all them other boys have passed. My younger brother collected several pounds of mercury from bedrock pockets in small streams out west in gold and silver country, part of the mining process back when. Heavy stuff in pint Mason jars. He said it was kinda valuable. "Where did the radiation come from? I figured the sulfer was the coal" - Lots of coal deposits contain radioactive minerals.

I'm just an old amateur tyer, but I believe orientation and location of materials makes or breaks any fly. Did a web search for "FFF pattern book", it should be a good resource. Al & Gretchen Beatty have illustrated and written about nearly every tying technique known to man. Oddly though, in the 9' or 10' shelf of fly fishing and tying books I own, not one of theirs. I also did a web search for the "Hopping John fly pattern" which showed a lot of food recipes and a single entry for "Hoppin' John" fly, which must be what I saw some years ago- https://frontrangeanglers.com/hoppin-john-cricket-version/ Yours will catch a fish.

I thought "Hopping John" was a foam cricket.

It's a question hence the "?" The last time I shot an air rifle was about 60 years ago. I do recall reading something about alloy pellets. And I imagine all the alternatives cost more than lead currently, but it's a matter of time til lead is gone. Probably not from a prohibition but from production restrictions and pricing.

Bismuth/tin pellets?

I think technically a sowbug, not a scud. But I use the same flies more or less interchangeably.

Copper some of them, I didn't open all the pdfs listed on that page. Maybe bismuth. I think lead is still legal there for target practice, in air rifles (not legally a firearm) and to shoot people.

First passed in 2013, I think, phased in, it became final in 2019 Certified non lead Ca. banned trapping too and most retail fur sales, as I recall, and they have coyotes eating pets and bobcats on patios looking in the slider- Oh! so cute!

Certain sure that if no one looked for fish in open water, no one would see them there and because no one saw them there no one would look for them there and circle around. We grew up with books and magazines telling us to look under the stump, so we do, and often enough there is a fish there so why look where there ain't no stump?

Are those green/hybrid cars' batteries made of lead? I had guessed they had something to do with lead shortages and escalating cost.

Is that kind of lake natural anywhere? The lake he's on and the lake you're on are both artificial, so in fact unnatural and all that goes on in them may also be unnatural.