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Since the US fish commission first built the McCloud river hatchery in the 19th century, rainbow trout have been stocked every where in the world with the presupposition that they would be harvested. It's always been "put and take" the few places where they naturalized were accidents. But I'm guessing that if the invertebrates were scoured out in the flood that 6" stockers might mature and spawn before reaching 12", if the water is even cool enough for them to survive with no shade. If they grow faster set the minimum length longer.

Fingerlings! what an idea, they have pretty good survival rate when dumped out of aircraft into alpine lakes, and must be a lot cheaper to produce than full grown trout. Stocked in the upper reaches or near the springs, I'll bet the things would do fine. in fact I've wondered for many years why MDC didn't stock fingerlings in the better of the stocked steams. That is how those naturalized McClouds got to Mo. way back when. At first glance it seems more economical to let the fish forage than to feed them daily. They could even stock 6-7"ers and set the limit as 12" minimum.

What to know something? It doesn't do a thing for me to have any trout in that watershed. Trout are sorta invasive there and if they die out, there is a fair chance of that river becoming a premium Kentucky fishery. Might even get full of sandies, but the chances that I'll ever fish there are slim and slimmer. I do believe that the way to saving any fragile resource is to leave it alone and not trample it or sell tags to kill it. I am opposed to all dams and any that fall down or get torn down are the best of kind. The only good dam is a broken dam. Let MDC spend their money killin hogs and harassing boat mechanics, fcol.

So, there are springs, that means cool waters at those places and trout will find them. Will the large predators follow all the way to the cool waters? The difference between these stream born trout and new stockers is not in the genes exactly but in the gene expression. A single generation of domestication alters hundreds of gene expressions and it takes more? generations for those differentiations to revert. A study here that shows 723 deferential expressions between wild/wild offspring and first generation in the wild of hatchery/hatchery offspring. https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms10676 The easy way to salvage the wild trout population in this stream is quite simply to close the stream to all trout fishing until it either recovers or reverts to a native fishery. It would also help if it or sections of it were closed to floating and other fishing. Any activity in or on the water has negative effects on the more fragile parts of the habitat. A single footprint might destroy many micro invertebrates, a few macro invertebrates and cause erosion of the bottom. Of course it will be more popular to throw money at any fox that does not curtail use. But recreational use and conservation are most often in opposition to each other.

glass windows that big were pretty rare in 1894, it looks like the picture is of a sculpture in front of the window or is a picture of a picture.

I'd guess that excavation of old land fills would reveal millions of pieces of junk made in USA, the merit of an item has to determined on an individual basis model by model. The old Imperial knife company in Providence made the sorriest knives that I have ever seen and they also made some very good knives. Manufacturers in every country make what can be sold at profit.

Most used- top water Gartside's Gurgler, Tap's Bug; subsurface Woolly Bugger, Calcasieu Pig Boat, but there are dozens of others that work just as well.

Kast King is international with products from China, Korea, Germany, USA, Japan, Italy etc. - a video & article on them here

It's not about the size, a Deceiver built with 6-8 saddle hackles can be pretty large, it's more about KISS in designing. (and in fishing) I don't mind if others like complicated patterns or patterns that require unicorn hair, I just said I'm not a fan. I do admire the workmanship. I try not to fix what ain't broke, I used to tie lots of more complicated flies, subscribed several flytying (all of the ones sold in early '80s) magazines and was always buying new materials to try the latest invention, but starting in the early '90s I began simplifying and have since thrown out over a bushel of crappy materials that were purchased for flies that after the initial dozen I never tied again. I don't tie as hobby and never have, I tie only for fishing and keepin it simple is a rule. An ideal fly would use three materials and take three minutes to tie. I also have a short attention span and if I started on something that complicated, by the time I got finished it would have wheels and a propeller.

40 years ago in the north east the two favorite perch baits were shiners and shrimp, shiners there were flown in from Arkansas they said and the shrimp I saw used was the ready to cook super market kind. Folks fished for them just like I would for blue gill or crappie near the bottom, in <10' of water, as best I recall. I suspect in these lakes they would travel at a temperature level rather than a depth, coolish water. I also knew one guy that caught 7-8" yellow perch by the bucket full on trout flies and used them for pike bait. They were in common in old mill ponds on streams marginally suitable for trout, the perch liked the edges of submerged weed beds as I recall. They also were in brackish water at the mouths of streams. I never really targeted perch so stuff is vague in my memory, but I seem to think that the schools swam circles around those ponds almost constantly on the move. If they come up into the creeks here, I'd think it would be through the spring spawning months.

That's what I do. Robins follow the fruit mostly, when it's gone in one area they move, but they have been planting tracking devices and studying them as climate change monitors. Lots of birds also have groups that winter here and summer in Canada or winter in the south and summer here, causing year round populations but with different individuals; partial migration? How far does a species have to move for the move to be considered "migration"?

Some robins do migrate and some don't. From Alaska to Texas and back is migration, I think. The science folks track them but don't know why some stay put and others don't. Just had a thought, if bluebirds don't migrate, they would lose protection under the MBTA ? Source of fly tying feathers and hat decorations?

I'm not really a fan of any of Galloup's patterns, or any very complicated ties; I'm more of a Blonde or Deceiver type. The only deer hair fly I tie is Tap's Bug. Even though I laughed at Dutch, if you search "sex dungeon" you'll likely get houses for sale or rent ahead of the Slide Inn listings.

Would Sydney be any better off if Cabela's just died?

Like Cabela's, Sprortsman's was in financial difficulty, so, in your estimation, would the consumers be better off if the pair just died natural deaths or if BPS bails out the remnants of them? I saw that SW's stock is up 37% since the announcement.

Over about 6 weeks of early summer I think I talked to 30-40 kayakers that had just floated about 4 miles of the creek I fish and every single one of them had caught 50-60 bass. I haven't floated that stretch in years but as I recall it took about an hour the last time, so double that time for fishing instead of just floating and you have the makings of a 200 bass day. More remarkable is that thirty minutes later another couple kayaks would show up and they had caught 50 some each. No one kept any though so I say no keepers outta all them fish.

You keep a hundred fish???

This is what it means to me. If you didn't keep it, it obviously was not a keeper and is just a fish story. But as they say, if it's your story you can make it up any way you want to.

If you had longer arms it could have been 21". Heck they are only fish.

Good enough for me. For about 30 years I had marks painted on my fly rod for my own measurements. I've had "between several and a good many" over the 18" mark, a few that were over the 19" mark and never a picture of even one. I quit using that rod a few years ago and haven't measured a fish since, no point in it because I am my only competition, my memories the only record needed. Whenever I hear about fish measurement and weights being called into doubt, I'm always reminded of a story from my childhood; the gist of which, one angler was bragging to another about the twelve pound bass caught in Deep Hole a few days ago, then the second angler told of fishing that hole two consecutive nights, losing a huge fish and knocking the coal-oil lantern into the creek at the same time, then the next night accidentally snagging the lantern and when it was reeled in it was still lit. After a moment, the first guy said "say, I'll knock five pounds off my bass if you'll blow out your lantern" - I guess there's always room in a story for a lantern, but between me and myself it ain't necessary.

Do you haul them back to the habitat and location you took them from? Or from the other point of view why does a non-tournament angler have keep fish as his bag when not released immediately ? Hauling the fish and releasing them in a distant place is why you have the spots where you don't want them.

It's not the tournaments that are dumb, it's the hauling and releasing of fish. Every single fish caught in a tournament should be eaten by the taker at the weigh in. Lake or river, if you haul them you eat them. Anybody any where that is not in a tournament has to release every fish immediately or make part of the bag, that law should apply to all, period. Change the law so that only dead fish can be weighed in for any tournament.

No. The sky and air are colorless gases. The color you think you see is caused by light absorption and scattering. Blue light is the least absorbed by the air. When the air is dirty you will hawk up and spit black mucus and blow black snot from your nose, I went to Basic in San Diego and every morning about 8:30-9:30 the air would become dirty with smog from LA. Makes my nose itchy just thinking about it.

I haven't been down there in about twenty years, back then every time I'd make the drive and they'd run water about the time I got waist deep. Got deep fast once or twice.

But you had to ask her, and get a license, and find an officiator, and, and etc. which all sorta sounds intentional rather than accidental. My older brother married 6 or 7 times women he couldn't live with, but none of them was accidental. A couple of them were either strange or crazy, but he still done it on purpose.