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Brian, Is this the Cheeseman Canyon boulder you are talking about? I remember back in 2003 I hooked a nice fish just above the big boulder. I had to climb on top of it to get the line around it, climb back down to land it 100 yards down stream. It was a very nice 20" brown. Later, FFM

I wish I could be 15 years old again.... for at least one day! Okay make it a weekend, what the heck. Later, FFM

Most time I bypass reading some of these posts, but I'm glad I did. fishinwrench... that is some funny stuff!! later, FFM

I have to say the Williams Fork in Colorado. The stream is just over 2 miles long but to me it equals "solitude". Later, FFM

The estimate (according to the news, so take that with a grain of salt) was set at 2 - 4". With that much rain I would guess the river might have limited fishing for atleast 10 days. If is a lesser amount then I would guess about 3-4 days Later, FFM

Bman, It appears that fish needs a Botox injection in its upper lip. LOL Nice Fish. So what were you running as your dropper fly? And what line weight were you using 6x? Later, FFM

Great report PC! When is your next trip? Later, FFM

The few flies that I do buy, I get from Hill's Discount Flies I have used other discount flies, but IMO the flies he carries hold up the best. Plus he will throw in a few extra as well. Later, FFM

Circle J is just above the spring, plus there about 8 others with in 5 miles of BSSP. Later, FFM

Cool story and great conclusion. Keep up the good work. Later, FFM

Brian, I'm looking for a bit of clarification here. So should we be fishin' DEEP or SUPER deep? Enquiring mind need to know. Later, FFM

Chief, I'm with yah, at least they did not stop drinking. Here my favorite line from the story: "It was determined that Steve Jr. would distract the eel because he had drank the most alcohol and believed he was bulletproof" Later, FFM

"Better take a vessel just in case." Eric1978, Is this a fishing vessel or a vessel that contains drinkable liquids? Or a Leonard would say "Specail Coffee" Later, FFM

I saw this story on www.seabreezenews.com. Enjoy! Two weeks ago a group of four men, Steve Hoyland Jr. with friends Bruce, Ken and Erik, set off on an overnight offshore fishing trip. They left at noon on a Tuesday and went about 120 miles out into the Gulf. They were having a great night of fishing, catching big snapper, grouper, ling and kings. About 3 am, two of them went down below to catch some sleep. The two remaining on deck were catching fish and drinking beer, enjoying the warm tropical night air. All at once, Bruce got a big run on his line. This thing went all around the boat and took more than twenty minutes to bring up to the surface. When they got it up to the surface, they could not tell what it was. It looked prehistoric. Steve Jr. put a gaff in it and the two men dragged it aboard the 33 foot boat. As soon the big creature hit the deck, it went crazy, attacking them. It was an eel over 6 feet long, weighing close to 100 pounds. It had a mouth full of sharp teeth and was extremely pissed off. The eel was later estimated to be sixty years old. Bruce said it came at him and Steve, Jr. like an anaconda, rearing it’s head up and striking at them like a rattlesnake. It was highly agitated and quite energetic. In the midst of thrashing around, the creature fell down below onto the floor between the two sleeping men, Erik and Ken. When they heard the thud and turned on the light, the eel raised it’s head right above Ken’s face. Erik rolled over and grabbed his 9 mm pistol. Steve Jr. started yelling. “Don’t shoot the gun in the boat! We’re 120 miles from land!” Next thing you know, all four fishermen were on the deck and the gigantic eel had sole possession of the bottom of the boat. The four needed to work up a plan of action, so they drank beer while considering a strategy. It was determined that Steve Jr. would distract the eel because he had drank the most alcohol and believed he was bulletproof. He opened up the sliding door down below to see what the “monster” was doing. As the door opened, the eel came up the two steps biting at anything along the way. The four brave men then ran to the wheel house like women and slammed the door shut. They never did identify which one of them screamed like a girl. Inside the wheelhouse, they started calming down and decided they would drink a couple more beers. Then they hatched a new battle plan. Steve Jr. went out on the deck to get the beast’s attention. The eel attacked and Steve Jr. climbed up on top of the captain’s chair. Ken threw a blanket on top of the giant eel while Erik and Bruce beat the hell out of it with a steel gaff and a large ice chest lid. After the creature was finally subdued, they put it into a large ice chest, and closed the lid on it. The four brave sailors all got themselves a beer and were laughing at the situation when the lid of the ice chest was suddenly knocked off and the eel sprang out onto the deck and resumed his attack.. Bruce stated that the eel was clearly out for vengeance. The four men each picked up something and the fight was on. After beating the creature with gaffs, ice chest lids and fire extinguishers again, they once more subdued the massive carnivore and put it back into the ice chest. This time, they tied the lid down and put another ice chest on top of that one. Eighteen hours later they returned to the dock and started unloading the boat. None of them was anxious to open the lid to the ice chest, in fact, they did “rock, paper, scissors” to determine who would pop the lid! Later, FFM

Darn schufflers.... They must be migrating North from Taney. I sure he was not planning on eating that thing, as OTF said... Yuck. Later, FFM

Well after a 4 ½ months not being able to fish for a trout, I got a good fill in on Saturday at BSSP. I started a few minutes after the horn and fishing the High Banks area the entire day. This the first time in two years that I have been able to fish in low clear water conditions. So I was excited. I started off with a double rig of my peach color "Sloppy Ball" and a Mercury Black Zebra midge (sz 20/22). With out change a fly for two hours, I lost count on the number of fish, it was well over 30. I was very happy with the size of the fish as well; many of the fish were in the 15"+ range. I caught the same rainbow twice that was 19". At around 9:30, No Luck arrived and we chatted for a bit. The fishing slowed down for about 30 minutes then around the fished started to stage themselves in the shallow riffles, then the "game was on" again. I used multiple flies fishing the riffles and fast water for the remained of the day and every one caught multiple fish. Some of the flies (all were in the sz 20/22/24 range) included: RS2, Buckskin, Yong Specials (sz 24), Mercury Pheasant Tail, Hare's Ear, Zebra Midges, and the list goes on. No Luck and I talked to a father and son (from teh KC area) that are just getting in to fly fishing. That was a nice break. I used 6x fluorocarbon most of the day. I needed up losing 8 flies, and they were all lost when I tried used 7x tippet. I think I need to replace that spool out. As for the stream, I have noticed that the spring flood filled in a lot of the High Backs area, but it did not affect the fishing. I noticed in post earlier this year about lack of the number of fish. Well I only fished one section of the park, but there was plenty of fish to keep me occupied all day long. No Luck, it was great to finally meet you. I will see you on the stream soon. Later, FFM

Britt, Chill out man. I will get-er-dun.... someday Later, FFM

10pointer, Go job of hooking the big fish twice in the same day. Just courious, was a tournament going on? Did you keep the fish or release it? As for Trout Park courtesy, that has been thrown out the window by 50% or more of the people. As for foul hookin'. Don't lett others ruffle your feathers. I was a BSSP on Saturday (report will be coming soon) and foul hooked and landed 11 fish, just in 7 hours of fishing. It does not matter what stream of river I'm in I will foul hook a fish every single day. Also to let you all know I did not keep a single fish that day. I forgot my cooler Later, FFM

That was great. I believe Emily was thinking "Here take the ball back and try to put it in play next time!" lol Later, FFM

I'm going to be at BSSP for about 8 hours of fishing. Anybody else able to make it? Later, FFM

Grandpa OneShot.... 19 and Counting! Congrats to you, Patrick and Patrick's parents!!! Later, FFM

Well the Konrad brothers from Saskatchewan did it again, they beat there last record and caught a 48-pound rainbow out of Saskatchewan's Lake Diefenbaker. Here is the story from ESPNOutdoors: The 36th week of 2009 will forever be known as "Trout Week" in North America. On Sept. 5, Canadian angler Sean Konrad obliterated the IGFA all-tackle world rainbow record with a 48-pound rainbow out of Saskatchewan's Lake Diefenbaker, eclipsing a 2-year-old record held by his twin brother. Four days later, retired construction manager Tom Healy eclipsed the world German brown mark with a 41-pound, 7-ounce monster on Michigan's Manistee River. Two trout, 89 pounds, less than a week apart. Here are their stories: The rainbow warriors Even looking at the photos, it takes some suspension of disbelief to wrap your mind around a 48-pound rainbow trout. The dimensions seem freakish and otherwordly -- 42 inches long with a 32-inch girth -- and the tiny head looks like a science experiment gone wrong attached to the basketball-round rotundity of the belly. It's classic triploid rainbow, though -- enormous girth, wide tail, thick caudal peduncle -- and as of around midnight on Sept. 5, it became the new (certification-pending) all-tackle world record. Just another late-summer night for Sean and Adam Konrad, the Canadian twins who, over the course of the past two years, have ascended to cult status rivaling that of Mario and Luigi. Only for fishing geeks, not gaming geeks. Fishing on the same impoundment where his younger brother had broken one of the Holy Grails of fishing records in 2007 with a 43-pound, 10-ounce IGFA all-tackle record rainbow -- a fish that broke a 37-year-old mark -- Sean Konrad pushed the rainbow record just shy of the 50-pound mark with an amorphous 48-pound triploid that absorbed a Rapala on Diefenbaker, a 106,000-acre impoundment of the South Saskatchewan and Que'Appele Rivers in the windswept Canadian Prairie country 140 miles west of Regina. "Adam had been joking with me earlier, 'You know, man, we have to get you a 40-pounder in the books,' because I hadn't gotten one yet," Sean Konrad said. "Adam already had the 43-pounder. "He caught a 41.2 that holds the 20-pound line class, and a 40.1 that holds the 12-pound record. I kept telling him 'I know, I know, it'll happen. I'll get one.' Well, I got one." The Konrads' mind-blowing success at Diefenbaker -- Sean estimates they've caught more than 300 fish over 20 pounds and several over 30 -- has turned them into the fishing ninjas as much as the fishing geeks: As a necessity, almost all of their fishing is done at night, when they can escape the squadrons of spies and tagalongs trying to ferret out their honey holes. "If there are people out, we don't even try to fish," Sean said. "We have so many locals trying to figure out what we're doing, we pretty much limit it to nighttime now." Consequently, Sean Konrad's first look at his 48-pounder was via headlamp, in the pitch-black middle of the night. After wrestling the big pig into the net and guesstimating that it was an honest 40, the twins loaded the fish into a cooler, iced it down and brought it to a certified post-office scale the next morning. That scale pegged at 40, but it wasn't until they subsequently put the fish on an IGFA-certified Chatillon scale that Sean realized that he'd blasted his twin's world record by nearly 5 pounds. "When we weighed it we started freaking out," Konrad said. "I told Adam, 'It's 48,' and he was stunned. He goes 'WHAT ... 48 ... WHAT?'" Diefenbaker's rainbow production is the result of commercially raised sterile rainbows (triploids) escaping local growing pens in 2000, when roughly a half-million fish entered the lake through a damaged net at CanGro Fish Farm. Because they're genetically engineered to have three sets of chromosomes instead of two, their growth rate is substantially higher than a diploid rainbow because all of their living energy goes into feeding, with no physical stressors related to spawning. Biologists estimate that Lake Diefenbaker's trout could survive for upwards of 20 years, but the lake is almost certainly on the downward side of a steep growth curve that started with the original half-million escapees. That said, Sean Konrad doesn't discount the possibility of a 50-pounder. "We've hooked a couple of fish that have almost completely spooled us before we lost them," he says. "It seems there might be a bigger fish out there, but I do think we're pushing about up against the biggest." Additional triploids are stocked directly into the lake as well, where they immediately belly up to a buffet of forage that includes everything from minnows to crayfish. "We think they eat everything," Konrad said. "We've found crayfish inside of 'em, weeds, minnows, small whitefish ... there's a big forage base. I suppose once the lake runs out of food, they'd die off, but I don't see that happening. There's really not that many trout, and it seems like there's always going to be food available."

ROFL!!!!!!!! I'm hoping somebody close had a gun instead of a camera.

Wanabeflyer, You have a good question and you are going to get multiple responces. Like the previous replies, I agree that the stocking foot style is a perfect choice. To find the waders you like, create a check list to narrow down your choices. The top item is cost. The reason I switched to stocking foot was "comfort". The bootfoot weights a bit more, so wearing them all day can be a factor to evaluate. Also, the bootfoot seam to rub my leg where the top of boot connects to the material. THe stocking foot and boot feels more natural. The items I wear are the Cabela's Dry Plus pant waders and Chota quick lace boots. So good luck with your purchase. Later, FFM

SIO3, You might want to look at this link as well for the Yellowstone area: RockyMtnFly forum Later, FFM