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  1. swellcat
    Gorecast Anyone have ideas or educated guesses about what Lower Illinois conditions might be like the weekend of 01-02 May 2009? Muddy, raging torrent? Not all that much different than usual? How do higher flows affect the striped bass fishery?
  2. swellcat
    Nice, Quill.
  3. swellcat
    Y'all were productive. Thanks for the report.
  4. swellcat
    Not much of a dry fly fishery, then? If you were going to tie on a dry for (mostly) an indicator, what would be your top choices for March and April? Is Gore Landing one of the stocking locations? -------------------- "It's clearly Cree time, Baby!"
  5. swellcat
    — http://www.lake-link.com/articles/read/art...m?ArticleID=519
  6. swellcat
    A coot, a water snake, and a cottonmouth?
  7. swellcat
    Why? Water safety? Concern about criminals?
  8. swellcat
    Steve: You're the hybrid king.
  9. swellcat
    Anybody know of a hatch chart? I've searched some, and haven't turned one up. Did find this for the Lower Mountain Fork area's Spillway Creek: http://www.flyfishingcommunity.com/mvc/vie...cfm?bow_id=1908 Are these hatches, by any chance, in the ballpark at all for the Lower Illinois?
  10. swellcat
    That shiny shell back smokes — no wonder the 'gills want to eat it. Lacking turkey breast feathers, I think I might try with rooster pheasant. Maybe I'll even dub the body and really ruin your fly. Thanks for posting the pattern.
  11. swellcat
    COFly: Do you tie? What weight gear will you be using? Here's a site in case you've not yet found it: http://www.pommemuskieguideservice.com/ My hat's off to anyone with the walnuts to pursue "the fish of a thousand casts."
  12. swellcat
    Nice sauger.
  13. swellcat
    Nice fish. Challenging day.
  14. swellcat
    Striped bass feeding tube?
  15. swellcat
    Congratulations. You handily beat the Curse of a Fish on the First Cast.
  16. swellcat
    The walleyes are exciting. Jigs?
  17. swellcat
    Looks like fun. Not exactly the crowded season, either, is it?
  18. swellcat
    Thanks for replying to this thread. We caught some pretty green sunfish on the fly last Summer in Smithville. For three inch fish, they sure were ambitious. Eagle Mountain Lake just west of Fort Worth has longear sunfish. They hang out in the dam rocks and will hit at night. Discovered that while drifting cut shad for catfish. Kept getting machine gun runs with no hook ups. Switching to a tiny hook on one pole revealed the little red and blue culprits.
  19. swellcat
    Bluefish? Spanish mackerel?
  20. swellcat
    What a great, comprehensive thread. Thanks, rps and others. To the thread originator: You know Smithville has walleye, right? (Not that I'm looking to get plowed over out there by the SS Minnow.)
  21. swellcat
    Unless you use an eight weight for bluegills, you don't need a 10 weight for ladyfish . . . or flounder, pompano, croaker, small to medium sized redfish, mangrove snapper, or spotted sea trout. There is more fun to be had with a mid-weight rod . . . maybe a five, six, or seven . . . or whatever you need to throw your flies.
  22. swellcat
    Steve: Thanks for the reports on the excellent urban fishery you folks have there. Great looking fish. The presence of sauger there knocks me out. Do you ever target them? Next to February, isn't January about the best month for the toothy perch? Do you suppose that hybrid is a natural one, or is he a stocked fish who exited his designated water body? Did he outfight the stripers?
  23. swellcat
    http://www.trashonthefly.com/suckerpunchtie.htm
  24. swellcat
    Please view the animation at this link: http://www.animatedknots.com/perfection/index.php. Select Slow or even mouse over the step by steps.
  25. swellcat
    Wasn't someone just saying how uncatchable brown trout are there? For a while, it looked like that's all you were going to catch — you seemed dangerously close to having to troll a drive-thru for filet-0-fish. White is something, isn't it? I almost wonder if we need any other colours. (Kind of regret the piles of purple chennille in my material bags.)
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