jscheetz

You are right, you can find them anywhere! But the last few years I haven't had as much time to hunt them as I used to - but I have found a "patch" that produces a ton of shrooms every year! It is in the same place! About a 1 foot square area - and there I find enough mushrooms for several meals every year. And the best part about it is - It is right down at the end of my lane...... in my mailbox...... My blessed Mother in law sends me a big box of 'em every year She has a farm in Ill and they are thick there. It is the most consistant patch I have found them in for all the years I have been hunting!!! Sure - it takes a bit of the "fun" out of the hunting and the walking in the woods part - but in the last few years going to this particular "patch" I have never had a tick on me or had any run ins with snakes! Happy Hunting - JS

Hey Kevin - thanks! Glad you like the stuff! Copyright's can be confusing (and expensive) - The reality is that by law as soon as you "create" a song - and then record it (either by making a tape, cd or some kind of physical recording of it - or by writing it out in standard notation) it is copyrighted. So you don't have to register it for it to be protected by the copyright laws. However, if it is registered at the Library of Congress then if someone steals it you have a better chance of proving your case that you wrote it prior to that. Sometimes guys will mail a copy of their songs to themselves and not open it - then it has the postmark on it etc etc - this seems a bit dubious and has limited protection according to most legal experts. I think it is $45 to register a song - maybe $35 if you do it online. So that can get expensive - - - but here is the way around that, and what you need to look up. If you have several songs - you can register them all together with one fee if you register them as a "collection of works". So I would take 20 songs say, and register them as "Jeff's songs volume 7" or whatever. This works as long as the songs were all written by the same writers. The only time you would have to deal with this is if you were to sell the copyright for a song (bad idea anyway) that is in the collection - then I believe you have to go and re-submit the collection without that song and register that song by itself??? Not for sure how that works - have never done it - but have registered collections of works many times. Anyhow - hope that helps - go to the Library of Congress website and search a bit - I think you need form PA for songs or collections. As for BMI or ASCAP - you really only need to register songs with them if they are going to be published. For example if you put out a CD and try to sell it. BMI and ASCAP are the ones that make sure that if one of your songs gets played on the radio, or used in a movie that you get paid royalties for that. Most of the time you won't know it - until you get a check. I just got a check for $175 for a song from a CD I put out 10 years ago being used on a tv show in Sweden last month for example. No idea what the show was or how they got ahold of this song that was 10 years old - but the point is if I wouldn't have had it registered with BMI I wouldn't have gotten paid. So even if you put out 100 CDs to sell to friends - you should join BMI or ASCAP - but until then, the copyright office is really all you need to worry about. JS

Hey - I never look at the other forums so had to be poked to get me to see this - guess I should chime in -sorry it's so late But - yep - I play, it's what I do for a living so if anyone needs any help/advice etc etc I will do my best to answer. You can see what I do here - www.jeffscheetz.com Glad to help out fellow fishing/picking hybrids - Good to see so many people here with more than one expensive hobby!!!! JS

Trav - something about your humble nature would have led me to guess you were a singer. JS

Trav - I am shocked... and speechless to find this out about you. Interesting topic - I get asked the same thing all the time by guys who want to make a living being a musician. I would think a lot of things are the same - Have some talent, as others have said be bold and market yourself non-stop, get a little lucky along the way, meet lots of people and make lots of friends, and if it is what you believe you were put here to do - never give up and never let anyone tell you that you can't do it. SOMEONE is going to do it - might as well be you! I would think that just getting to go around and fish the big tourneys and make big money is a hard gig to get - but just like with music - Everyone wants to be Aerosmith - but that is kind of like winning the lottery. However you can make a living by doing enough different things - Like for me, I record and sell CDs - dvds - T-shirts - hats - instructional books, I tour and gig live, I do session work for other artists, I teach, I write columns for magazines, I produce other bands in the studio, I teach recording seminars, I demo gear for companies at trade shows, I record instructional CD-roms for a company, I do guitar clinics in stores and schools, I write and sell songs to be used on TV, film and commercials - even on the "All my children" soap opera, - and sometimes when things go right I get to play onstage in front of 20,000 people opening for someone like the Scorpions, or ZZ Top - - But it takes doing all these things and MORE to allow me to make a living with music. If I was just sitting around waiting to be Aerosmith - I would have to be digging ditches or flipping burgers to pay the rent. So if you will get out there and hustle and do a ton of little things, then the big things start to come, and you can be indeed making a living doing what you love instead of being miserable like many, many people are. But the further you are away from it (like getting a job at a bank instead of at a rod manufacturer) while you are waiting, the more hazy the dream becomes and the easier it seems to just let it go. Once again - figure out where you can "shine" and then pursue it. I mean - who would have thought a goofball like Mike Iaconelli would be a huge star? But He had some talent and found a good way to market it and there ya go - - So you just as well be next! ... Someone's gonna be! JS

Yep - for me the more it warmed up that day the better the beetles did - JS

OK - enough of the arcane music references in my posts already! However - just got back from RR and wanted to thank Tim of Tim's flyshop fame for the beetles and advice. I stopped there on the way down and Tim said the fish had been tearing up the beetles - so I got a few and headed off. The morning was good and caught quite a few on wooleys and midges - then around noon found an area with a lot of fish in it and started giving them the beetle - With a beetle and 7X tippet - fish on every cast most of the time - caught five in a row - then missed a couple - then another three etc etc - it was pretty cool. But with that pesky 7X and my heavy hand I kept breaking off and losing my beetles. If you went to 6X, you would get one every once in awhile and have lots of "lookers" but go back to the 7X and - every cast. Finally lost my last beetle - so I figured "how smart can these hatchery fish be?" So I tried things that looked like a beetle (hoppers, bees) no luck - then I went for the black color - tried (black gnat, black caddis, black wooley) not the same. So I quick jumped in the car and found Tim - got some more beetles and the fun continued - although by late afternoon there were so many people there you really couldn't find a spot to cast in without being cramped - kind of looked like opening day pictures!! Anyway - if you are heading to RR - stop at Tim's and get some magic beetles and 7X and your trip will be a better one. On a bummer note - was fishing just down from a gentleman who fell and broke his leg - so be careful out there!! Heard him hollering and went over and his foot was pointing in the wrong direction - ouch. Helped him get his rod reeled in and got his vest off and someone ran to get the ranger - then the ambulance came so was not a good way to end his day of fishing. That is the one good thing about lots of people around I guess - not nearly so much fun to break your leg like that at a high mountain lake! On a final note - you guys who live close to RR or Taney - I hope you say your prayers and give mucho thanks for living that close to awesome fishing. Driving 3 hours from KC - fishing for 9 hours straight - then driving 3 hours home makes for a long day - and a real commitment! Of course you don't get to take advantage of, or enjoy all the things that a big city like we have up here can offer - like constant traffic jams, high crime rates, long lines at all restaurants all the time, noise, pollution.... wait a minute JS

Way to go Leonard! My new shirt for next taney trip Phil - it did say "to cast for 20 pound trout" didn't say anything about catching any Heck, I'm casting for them with every flip of the stick. JS

Not to worry - all those Salmon River folks are welcome to come down to Taney. It's crowded - so they should feel right at home - They can shuffle and catch fish right at their feet so they don't need to cast much - and if they miss their home river they can stand knee deep in outlet 2 and snag fish all day. Actually the Chuck and duck issue is kind of like the snaggers in the outlets - while there is a legal way to use it as a method to catch fish - just like floating a fly down from the outlet - it can also be used to snag the heck out of em - and we already know there are plenty of "fishermen" who don't care how they get a fish on their line. So the few idiots make it tough for the people who are tying to do it the right way. Wish we could get some enforcement of the regs here. Cause without enforcement of it the idiots will still be doing it - kind of a "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" thing. The laws will stop law abiding citizens from doing something but the unethical types will be prone to continue with their behavior regardless. JS

soggy - per NPR policy - that's just assumed in all articles. Goes without saying. JS

Here is an interesting story on "Rock Snot". Having seen a stream completely covered with this stuff it hopefully won't spread all over. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...toryId=17523153 I know...I know... it's on the NPR website so you right wingers just hold your nose and read the article. JS

Last time I checked when you shoot an animal and take it home and stuff it or eat it - it is dead, You have "killed" it. Why do you have a problem calling it that? Trying to hide behind the word "harvest" as a more PC version of it like some do just seems to me to be skating - like calling a housewife a "domestic engineer". Just gets silly at some point. It's all perception - some think the mag is against hunting - I could use less hunting articles. But I realize that it takes us all to keep the wilderness that we all love functioning in this crazy world we live in - so - I cut you a little slack - you cut me a little slack - and maybe we can figure out a way to work together to save what we have left. You call that lady a "lunatic" - but in my eyes it is more "lunacy" to kill 5 browns over 6 pounds each on one fishing trip and post the pics here on the board as one of our own sportsman members did recently. So once again it's all perception. JS

First off as others have said - a beautiful report! It has inspired me to do better reports myself! Second - I have fished Crane a few times from the park in town going upstream - or from the access roads (two different ones) above or upstream from town. Is there another access downstream? Or do you access the downstream section from the town park? Thanks again for the report - JS

Nice pic meister, Was at RR on Fri and Sat morn. Friday was much better for me - with the cloud cover it was pretty much fish on every cast for quite awhile - was below the f bridge. Sat wasn't bad - just seemed they were more picky - different areas wanted different things - but caught plenty anyway in the am - (sorry I missed you Leonard) - People started getting pretty thick by noon on Sat so..... Then spent the afternoon at Crane. What a great place! Only caught a couple of fish and walked for what seemed like miles - over logs etc etc - but it was a beautiful day and a good outing. JS

This may be almost completely no help - but I can say that Tybee Island was pretty cool when I was there. It was several years ago and had the wife with me - so I didn't fish, so I can't attest to that (they said they did a lot of redfish and trout there) - but as far as a beach kind of trip it was really laid back. I found that we would get up and walk the beach in the morning and we were usually the only ones there - it was much less crowded than the average FL beach or CA - so that was a nice change of pace. There seemed like lots to do there and things to see - so for what it's worth, if you want less crowds and laid back vibes - Tybee seemed to have it - You planning on fishing inshores like reds etc - or fishing the wrecks? I heard there was a lot of good wreck fishing along that stretch of shore as well. JS

Hey guys, I was planning on coming to RR this weekend on Fri or Sat. Did you get weather there yesterday? And does that effect the river? Not familiar enough with that aread to know if lots of rain causes trouble there or not - anyway, any thoughts would be appreciated, as well as suggestions for first fly/first area to try. Thanks JS

Hey OK, You can't go wrong with MT. But you might want to decide what kind of waters you want to fish there - Mountain streams, high Mountain lakes, the parks, or big rivers like the madison etc - I personally like the smaller streams, but it's all good! Here is a report I posted this last fall - http://ozarkanglers.com/forums/index.php?s...ic=8212&hl= See if that works - if not search for bighorn river - that is certainly a place to go in the fall. Like Al, we love it up there as well, and spend a couple of weeks up there in the spring and fall - fall is obviously the better fishing when the rivers are low. I have a place close to Red lodge, 26 miles from the border of Yellowstone so I fish a lot around that area - the Yellowstone, and Stillwater are close by - but really, everything is close. Fishing inside the park is awesome as well - you just have to go after labor day to avoid the crowds - but Slough creek can be killer - especially if you can hike up to to top meadow, and all the rivers in the park have been good to me - Soda butte, Lamar, Firehole, of course the Madison and Gallatin etc. Of course the added bonus of fishing in the park is all the wildlife you get to see. (Last time I was up Slough creek I got to sit and watch as a pair of wolves harrassed a mother grizzly and two cubs - so that was worth the trip by itself!!) Also, there are tons, and I mean tons of really good lakes in the Beartooths, if you like mountain lake fishing - you just have to hike a bit. Livingston is a great base as Al said - the paradise valley is usually good, but can get pretty crowded. Then you can go further NW to Dillon and hit the Bighole and of course a little futher to the Blackfoot - but there are so many smaller streams in between that sometimes I think the "famous" rivers are more crowded and you can catch just as many fish on other streams. But I suppose they are famous for a reason. As for guides I don't really know cause I usually just go it alone, but I can say that almost every little town has a fly shop or two so finding a guide of somekind should be possible. Anyway, if you have any questions I would be happy to share any info I can - JS

I might rent it just to make me feel like I was targeting bones on the flats ) But actually, while I am sure a few guys would be able to get the hang of it - standing on that poling platform is not as easy as it looks. Have done it while there was a bit of chop on the flats and it takes awhile to get the balance. You can see an awful lot from up there - but just don't know how your usual rental clientel would be able to deal with balancing up there and manuvering the boat in the current etc - However, if you get it and have a spare few days and feel like road tripping to Key West - just pm me JS

Nah, not TOO bad - I would only post that cause I know Trav has a sense of humor Plus I actually look forward to his posts cause they are always interesting - albeit sometimes completely crazy, but always interesting - life would be pretty boring without guys like that! JS

hehehehe - Trav got his own section. Phil, does that mean if I start posting reports exclusively about the rebar hole, and talk about all the 10 pounders I pull out of there, and scoff at others catches, and tell you how I am the best-coolest dude, and provide a typed list of whackos to justify my behavior, and generally start arguments and make everyone mad, and tell em they can't even fish if they don't fish the rebar hole and that everything past that is just "cheese" trout - - - Will you start a seperate section for me called "Taney - the rebar hole"???? JS

Simple explanation to me is something that I have brought up here before. With the red light on it doesn't bother anyone, but they can see you. When it is dark you can't see where everyone is like in the daytime and there is nothing worse than walking all the way down to the big hole and finding 10 people there. So for guys like me who can't see in the dark, I am grateful when someone flashes a light occasionally so I can see where to go. This didn't used to be a problem, but this fall there were nights that seemed almost as crowded as normal days used to be. JS

Hehehe - Trav, I have finally figured out who you are!! It's the guy named Frisbee on an old Twilight Zone episode called "Hocus Pocus and Frisbee"!! One of my favs - where the old guy gets taken into the space ship - anyone know that episode???? If not - watch it and tell me that isn't our very own Trav!!! Every once in awhile I read one of your posts and it makes me think I have heard that before - ahhhh - now I can rest easier at night. Anyway - sorry for the interuption, now back to the debate... JS

Yep - the article mentions Atrazine as well - I have been following this and posted here about it - there is just too much money behind pollution to stop it - but I certainly agree with PHW - if enough of us send some $ to groups that fight against these entities it seems the best use of our resources. DC, your suggestion to put money into recalls?? Seems kind of like an extreme long shot to rally folks for that. Whereas if you look at a group like the Center for biological diversity - http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/ Their legal methods have won many battles against those with no concern for the environment. So the legal methods work - it just takes a ton of money to keep it up. The prozac thing is also something I have read many accounts of - it first started showing up in bluegills in Texas - in surprisingly high amounts, seems the filtration systems don't do much to stop it at the sewage treatment level. But it all goes back to this - everything we do here effects something else. JS

Yep - must have been revenge for earlier in my life transgressions against them. I mean what were they going to do with a few little squares of wader material? Waterproof thier nest? No question - pine squirrels are now my favorite fly. The good side of course - valuable lesson learned for future reference - if you are needing to squeeze some new waders past the wife, just lay yours out to "dry" with a few peanuts scattered about, and maybe a couple hid in the legs..... Since my wife actually feeds the squirrels and keeps them in our yard, she did first blame me of course for putting the waders outside - like I should have known that those innocent little varmints didn't know better and would just be chewing and having fun.- but then she eventually decided to keep peace between me and the squirrels with new waders. JS

OK, so just to start the new year off right I had gone fishing and left my wet waders to dry on the chair on the deck - like I have done for the 12 years that I have lived here. I go to bring them in and squirrels chewed holes in them!! My 1 year old Orvis waders!!! DOH!!! Thought I would share that with you all so you can take precautions if you ever let your waders sit outside - plus I am sure it will be funny to someone besides me. Oh well - you live and learn right? These waders have been on many streams and thorny trails and have performed like champs and haven't leaked a drop - but on my own deck they were vulnerable. Enough to even make a non-hunting guy like me consider a spot of squirrel stew to ring in the new year. JS