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If threadfin shad were established in Deepwater Creek by 1975, and several places in the lower Osage drainage by 1983, what is the theory why they wouldn't be in LOZ?

He's a roofer?

don't threadfin have gold fins and tails?

I always think flathead = square tail

Wrench, what is the head coating on the last one?

Pretty weak wrist if 1/4oz tires it. I guess that is why I never thought of balancing a rig until I saw it talked about on the 'net, I see no fun in making things more complex than they are. I am still interested in the tip heavy causing line waves though, that could be a breakthrough in casting theory. The most common answers when I have inquired about balance on other forums is that when you are walking the tip doesn't tilt down to the ground or that when you high stick a heavy reel keeps the rod angled up. That could be the answer to your problem, use a 3.5+oz reel and fish the rod for high sticking.

I really don't know. If I don't understand how to keep the rod balanced in use, then it's hard for me to see the point in it being balanced when in storage mode. I don't think fly fishing was as complicated fifty years ago as it is said to be now. I know that back then I believed it was simpler and easier than spin fishing is why kept using the fly rods and abandoned the others.

idk, Marketing? too much time, too few real problems? I'm really interested in the science of how weight in the reel changes the mechanics of the rod taper and the designed in damping. I did a couple of searches just now and so far am striking out. I keep looking. Perhaps the weight helps prevent a "snap". I think I've read that a cast should be " a smooth acceleration to a stop" or something like that. I always just used a dynamic roll and never needed real distance casting methods. But that balance is gone with the first foot of line out the tip top isn't it? So at that point the rod becomes tip heavy and begins to oscillate/bounce? maybe I'm overthinking this but it seems like the more line carried in the air the greater the unbalance would be. Does a two handed rod need a really heavy reel? how do they balance?

Have never read that before, can you refer me to an article or page where that is described? That then brings up the question of, it the rod is balanced with all the line on the reel, isn't it way tip heavy when carrying 30-50' of line before the "shoot" ? I have read that the longest casts could be made with no reel simply because the weight of the reel is an energy loss. I've never really thought about balance until I read about it on the 'net. Fished for years switching between reels weighing ~4.5 & 7.8 oz empty and it never seemed to have a noticeable effect. I had never though of weighing a reel prior to interweb either.

Isn't TR a border lake? Put in on the Ar side and fish it like you know it?

What is the importance of "balance" on such a weightless rig? It's rather like balancing a cigarette or a pencil, isn't it? And do you really need backing on an ultralight?

1/2oz? or 5 oz?

The buggy whips I recall seeing as a kid were about as rigid as a stick except for the short very soft tip/lash, I've never seen a fishing rod like that, interesting concept though. Competing against yourself? I'll guess you're right, you know your capabilities best. It'd be no contest against me, over ten years since I last picked up a spinning rig and that was taking my older brother bait fishing, I managed to chuck a whole shrimp 20' or so to where a catfish could find it. Three or four outings with him are about the only casting I've done since ~1980. I imagine a kid with a 303 could out cast me. Let's look at it another way, say you are tight line nymphing, will you pick a 6'6" rod or a 9'6" rod? why?

light lures farther? steeper angle of line entry and better bouncing of bait? sure the 9' spinning or casting rod would do that as well as a 9' fly rod but in my case I'd never seen a long spinning rod, maybe your guys hadn't either. I also think that with the line under tension of the flying lure the line will be against the snake, but we'd need a slow motion film of it to see that or rod cling. I'm sure that snakes do cause some drag even with fly line tho, because when I've replaced snakes with Fuji guides it increased the cast by ~20%, but I've seen arguments denying that too.

It seemed like I could throw lighter lures farther with the fly rod, but that was 30-40 years ago and I at least had never heard of slower or faster rods (I still think that in the same vehicle they will go equally fast) so I put it down to a longer lever. I don't recall any line cling on the rod or that the snakes hindered the line at all, of course I wasn't looking for that especially.

Do you pay cost of shipping or does the receiver?

I think the rod tip has about three times the travel arc of what you're used to, that should make the cast motion quite a bit shorter. I learned how to do it fairly well with a fly rod and I've seen live bait fishers that were quite good with one.

That will depend. If the trout see that you are using a $20 rod they will shun you. As I recall from using a spin reel on a fly rod years ago, the timing is a lot different than a short rod and the stroke is a lot different than fly casting, so it may be a learning experience. I've never used 2# to cast with and rarely use it as tippet, but if that works you should be OK, trout do eat jigs. I think half the flies used in the parks are jigs. Are you going to use an indicator?

I'll make a guess that red iris might be due to diet, or to one fish being more nocturnal than another. In our eyes purple pigment is said to help us see in the dark and there are claims that minerals in our diets can change our irises appearance or "color". Red irises could also be lack any pigment and blood vessels showing, again possibly diet related. Some youngun ought to do a thesis or dissertation on fish eye color.

The boot thing is stupid, the guy that started that came back later and told the world he was wrong, only one state repealed the felt prohibition. But it is no more stupid than fly only regulations. Any unenforced regulation should be removed from the code. Especially those that are not defined well enough to be enforceable. Barbless hooks? just the one in use or all the ones in my vest and car? well dang that one just broke off

I find it pretty easy to skim over topics that I'm not interested in, and if I were set up to only watch what interests me most, I might not see a post for months, and then ... I'd quit looking. As I see all the posts made in the last day quite often something catches my interest that I would not have sought out. Probably 3-6 new subjects in any given week so not hard to keep up with some and ignore the others. I guess if I only wanted to see posts on one river, that I would bookmark that sub forum and just check it monthly, or book mark each of three or six sub forums. Hope you get it worked out so it works for you.

I just bookmarked "unread content" (top right of this page) on the PC and the latest postings (in all categories) are all I see when I open the site unless I want to look for other stuff. I'm guessing there is a bookmark on the phone browser. About the tapatalk, I know nothing, except that on other forums it has caused enough problems that they have discontinued it. IIRC the reasons were lack of updates in tapatalk's software causing clashes with forum platforms and/or the included advertisements with tapatalk raised objections with forum owners.

It doesn't even need feathers etc., all it needs is "any material" except bait "permanently attached" -any spoon or any spinner with a single point hook fits that description, if taken literally.

I think the parks are run by the concessionaire, on a max profit basis and tickets would hurt profits, I've only seem the Ranger out of the car during C&R. There's also an overlap in enforcement responsibility between Parks and MDC and I wonder if each lets the other take the lead. Sell the tag and look away. Pure profit for the concessionaire, and he probably objects to enforcement messing with it? No one looks at limits, used to see guys carrying a dozen or more fish to the cleaning station and chucking all the fillets into the same bag. Maybe that's why they took the cleaning station down. Makes it less obvious.

Taken at the Chicken Ranch?