duckydoty

You funny!

PUSHER!

Thanks guys. I now have to clean my computer screen and keyboard after reading the last 2 pages of this thread. I burst out laughing after taking a drink of pop and sprayed it everywhere. Can I send the cleaning bill to anyone????

Happy birthday Cheif! Hope you have a great day filled with some tight lines!

Welcome to the forum. We are happy to have you join us here. See ya on the water!

I love the winter fishing. A couple of winters ago I went night fishing on Lake Taneycomo and had the whole place to myself. It was 6 degrees, wind blowing about 25 miles and hour and the snow was falling. I thought I would only be out there about an hour or two. The fish were biting real good and 6 hours later, I noticed my eyes were blinking real slow. On by very next blink my left eye lid froze shut. I determined it was time to go then. That hurt for about a week but I still have fond memories of catching fish on just about every cast for 6 hours straight.

Chicken!

Just as the Missouri Supreme Court has determined that the land owner has control over a non navigatible watershed on his property. Whats the difference in the arguements here?

Ok! You win. That is what I will call it!

It would be interesting to apply this to the fact that landowners do not own the air that flows over the land and duck and goose hunters should have the right to access the ducks and geese that are flying around in the air above the landowners property.

99.9% of us will never own a hunting ranch in the flood plains of the Mississippi River, or a fortune 500 company either. The nice thing about Missouri, we have many access points to navigatable waterway where we can float and fish.

What makes a body of water or non nav. water way any different than the rock or field or hill that god created. Opening a non nav. water way is taking away from the land owner that has purchased the land and water way with the understanding from the Missouri Supreme Court that it would be his and only his to fish or fence as he pleases. This might have been the reason for this landowners purchase of the property with the waterway running through it. Just as some people purchase land with a pond or lake on it. Should we push for a law mandating that the state gain easements to the lakes and ponds so the public can fish them??? There was no mis-understanding in your post to me and it was perfectly clear. At the public right of way, it would be fine to fish, but if the water way falls into the catagory of non nav. waters then access to areas further down stream in my opinion should not be granted for the reason that the land owner owns the land under the water and the person wanting access to this water would have to be standing on the land owners land, which happens to be under the water. Sorry, just one of the perks of working hard to obtain a dream. Like I said earlier, I'm not a land owner, but sure do hope that someday I'm able to own some property with a small stream running through it. I'd like to maintain some control who has access the the property I might own, including the land under the water that might be flowing through it.

I voted no even though I do not own land next to a non navigatable water way. My opinion is (and it is just an opinion) there are plenty of navigatable water ways in Missouri that offer the public many chances at wade or float fishing. These smaller creeks if it is a dream to own give us something to work hard for in hopes of one day that dream coming true. By keeping them private, we the public have to be granted permission to fish by proving and maintaining our own stewardship of the waterways. To take this from someone that has worked hard for it would be wrong.

Ohh! I get it now!

I do not understand what you are saying???? Oh, welcome to the forum!

Yeah....I'm not so good at that. Let's see how it works first.

Here is the fly.

Here is a good one

Welcome to the forum! I have found that the fevor you are referring too is incurable. There is no medicine that will make it go away and never come back. The only hope is brief periods of remission that can be obtained only by strong and intense therapy sessions on the water. Good luck to you and tight lines!

I was fishing with size 32 beaver tail midges at RR yesterday and they were just a little too big. I might have to get some of those #36 hooks from you Chief, but I might need to get a little more tail first.

No, she was casting at my feet and didn't know it. I was the one casting at your feet and didn't know it Didn't work so well for me. Peppy dubbing would be great for those scuds! I wish I would have got a picture of that scud MC and I saw last night. I think it would have been a new state record!

Nice report. Sounds like you had a great trip!

Oh yea, She caught all her fish on the conehead with palmared white mink flies by casting them out, letting them sit, and then a slow strip with a pause down at the Big Hole in the slack water on the back side of the point. I had one of these flies come unwrapped so it was just trailing the strip of white mink and had several bites on it, but due to the fish striking the tail so far behind the hook, I did not make any strong connections. This is why I'm working on the articulated mink san juan worm thingy. Just trying to come up with a combo that has a lot of flex and motion in the mink strip. DD'sMC and I really enjoyed "Trick A Trouting" last night and decided we are going to do that from now on every year on Halloween. Next year we plan on dressing up while out there night fishing

I've been up for a while now. Working on that mink articulated san juan worm thingy I talked about last night. I think I caught 4 fish and DD'sMC outfished us both. She landed a nice bow in the 18-19 inch range. We stayed till 3 a.m. and it never did really pick up. Here is the only one worth taking a picture of that MC caught last night.

I'm with Tim on this one. Big flies. Pine squirrel, mink, both weighted and non-weighted, articulated flies, and articulated 1/8th oz jigs, rabbit strips and marabou in whites, olive blacks, flesh, and rainbow trout colors. I plan on throwing sinkin leaders to keep the flies down while stripping through the holes and rolling the heaver flies along the bottom Polish nymphing style. It's fun to play with the bigguns like that.