Brian K. Shaffer

Yeah. I read that above in the posts, that you guys have had it happen. I wondered if anyone in addition to you guys is also having the same problem. Possibly could be a widespread problem with all Bass Pro stores. cheers, Brian

The FlyfishingArkansasMissouri board has plenty of flood pics from March of last year. Here's the link : Norfork Flood March '08 / coutesy of FFAM Some pics of the White which flooded Norfork making it flow backwards all the way to the dam almost. Simply amazing ... Brian

Great story... sunshine.. buddies.. bass & bluegills.. & the winningest dadgum baseball team this side of the Mason Dixon Line! That was a fun read.. I felt like I was right there with ya'll. 200 bass and they are putting on good weight. I wonder what the main food source is. I betcha its damsels and dragons. You guys ever do any looking around at the bugs in that there pond ? So I imagine you're also taking board members anytime we're passing thru too.. eh ? cheers, Brian

Sold one of the S/A 9ft 4pc 5/6wt's. Possibly have another one spoken for. NEW STUFF - Just Added VINTAGE NET Steve Deats 1981 / Old style, very cool $85 Sage 8ft 6in Rod Bag $8 FLY TYING VISE Griffin Superior 1A - $36 Griffin Superior 2A - $36 Thompson Pro Vise - $30 I will also add to the REELs list : TFO model 310, spectra 20lb backing, Cortland 333HT WF5F Retail : TFO reel $225, Cortland line and backing $35 Everything totally brand new. Never cast or fished. $125 Thanks guys. Best fishes, Brian

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JOHN SMOLTZ . Thats what they need to win it all ! Nah.. but still a cool pickup. Neat idea. He is worth something if he's pitching good besides being a cool experience clubhouse guy. I think if all goes well --- we break 100 wins. What do you think ? Brian

Hey Terry - would you happen to have a spare editors copy ? ( by the way, neither of your profile links work ) cheers, Brian

http://shop4.mailordercentral.com/hookhack...?number=WFF4PFL Use that link for the $25.00 'overrun' lines they always have. Usually do not get a pick on color though. They should always have 4's-5's-6's. Good lines... sure beats spending full price on a line (which is something I will never do). cheers, Brian

I'll be honest... I've never had that happen with any beads before except glass. If anything does go wrong it is usually human error (read my fault) and not anything else. That being said - I have never tied with the BPS t-beads.. so I should just shut up Is it happening to anyone else ?? cheers, Brian

Anybody watch either of those ? I can get into the Ice Road Truckers... but the loggers show seems a little vulgar. Kinda like they could talk better if they wanted but do not care in the least. Anyone show I caught on History was Pawn Stars. Kinda cool to see all the wacky stuff they get in. Interesting to see the father of the youngest boy turn down items when they cant reach a deal. Did you catch that Hubbel telescope stuff on recently .. amazing! have fun watching the tube - Brian

Congrats Mike. Any plans in the works with anything at Taney ? cheers, Brian

I just tell people - Hard baits & spoons/Spinners & Jigs That is correct as far as I know. Hard baits... spinners and marabou jigs... I guess if one says JIGS it needs to be clarified that a mister twister tail on a jighead is rubber worm material. That trout magnet .. that thing works really well on below.. up above.. no go! I'm sure it is around here on the site somewhere, no ? gonna go look - Brian

Ahhhh .... memories. Pretty handy with that Flip now arent ya. Short creek and inflated worms... made me chuckle. Brian

Sounds to me like all you have to do is just get here, get your lines in the water... you'll do fine If you do end below the dam in low water, throw some dries. They're are some eager fish are always willing to cooperate. More than likely going to fighing crowds though.. its getting kinda full up there. Not so much thru the week. In the boat is where you can catch that brown. In the boat throw some streamers at Lookout and below. On spinning tackle you could try Rapala's and other stickbaits. All you need is the weather to play along. The rest will just fall right in your lap. cheers and have a good trip - Brian

Got a few things that someone else would probably put to use : Silk Fly Line Cortland HEH (DT5wt) Refinished / full line Vintage Net Long Reach, Old style bag / measured in inches on handle BLANK - GLoomis Graphite 9ft 6in 2pc 5wt BAMBOO 1) W&M Granger Special 7.5ft 3/2 4wt 2) Heddon 'The Pine' 8.5ft 3/1 5wt 3) W&M Granger Victory 8.5ft 3/2 5wt 4) Shakespeare 9ft 3/1 7wt FIBERGLASS 5) Great Lakes 6.5ft 2pc 6wt SOLD 6) Sears and Roebuck (fenwick) 7.5ft 2pc 7wt 7) Shakespeare Wonderod Trout 7'9" 2pc 6/7wt 8) Wright McGill Champion 8.5ft 2pc 6/7wt GRAPHITE 9) Heritage 7ft 2pc 4wt 10) S/A 9ft 4pc 5/6wt 11) Penn Silver Medal 9ft 2pc 6/7wt 12) White River CV2 9ft 3pc 8wt 13) Penn Gold Medal 9t 6in 2pc 4wt REELS Ocean City No. 35 / RH line guide w/ 4wt line S/A 45L w/ 4wt line Orvis Battenkill Click 5/6 w/ 4wt line Pflueger Medalist 1492 '53 boxed with papers & 5wt line Heddon 320 (hardy copy) w/ 5wt line Pflueger Medalist 1494 5wt w/ line Martin Zeus 5wt w/ line JW Young Beaudex 6/7wt with 5wt line Argus 7/8wt White River Conservationist L/A 7/8wt with spare spool + lines Orvis DXR 7/8 with spare spool + lines Billy Pate Tarpon 9-11wt RH only SOLD Wanna ask about something ? Give me a shout. We'll talk. E-mail me for pics and price. Thanks for lookin' in. ozarkflyfisher@gmail.com cheers, Brian

$45 plus shipping unless we can meet up below the dam or something

hey Laker - I think I do remembe talking about.. quite a bit really. I wet waded during it, more on purpose than ever. I believe there are some pics here (on ozarkanglers.com) of me with all the ropes and mumbo jumbo gear the guys had out while they were measuring tapes and jotting notes at the old boat ramp at chute 1. It was rather fun really kinda being a part of it. First of all, you could easily still wade across right above chute 2. I'll be honest I got more wet than I wanted to if you know what I mean, but I wanted to stand in the flow write in the middle and see if it was easy to pick up my boot and step. No harder than crossing the rebar hole at any time really. Just a touch more water. I fondly remember watching everyone else more than I actually fished. Talking with Mike Kruse I believe later he said it was actually a release of more water than actually would be a reality when MF takes place. I believe the final number was over 100cfs.. like 130. A far cry from the 600cfs they were running. I caught some fish... I talked with the crews.. Someone got some pics. I do believe Arkansas even put dye in the water during the test to monitor it. ?!?! It really would be a direct benefit to the river. The bug life would increase - and that alone would be huge for that upper end. The spawn would generally more evident by us seeing more redds and more fishing trying to use them (before it all gets blown out). Red tape cant be cut thru / you can make little holes in it... but SWPA who benefits most from every drop of water that flows thru that thing... they are 100% totally against it. As were some people who own docks up on the lake. I think they had a valid point because the discussion at the time was the CoE allocating an extra 3 feet of head in the lake above as storage for needed MF water. Thinking that - that would mean not 915 at summer pool - now it would be 918 all the time. Consequently, dock owners were up in arms. I dont know. Maybe someday. I do sure like fishing a low 1 unit. That's a rarity. Brian

We did a minimum flow study.. I fished during it -- I thought it was grand! Somewhere around 600cfs is what they ran.. like a kinda dead 1 unit. Which, as some of you might not know, can cause damage to the unit itself. Cavitation occurs and causes small explosions inside the tunnel and thats bad news. So there needs to be a way devised to allow flow that is somehow sold on the grid, or being used as a freebie to power something. Like the hatchery, Dewey Short Ctr. I remember guys talking that they would be against any change to the flow.. as if adding 100-200cfs would really make that much of a difference to thier favorite wading spot. It would make a big difference for the trout. More wetted perimeter means more bugs. Flows means trout look upstream and act like trout, not 'lake' trout. There are 2 in-house units, but they only ever run one a time. They alternate them. I believe they could replace both of them with larger units and increase flow. Thing is - they do not have anyone to direct that where to go. And it costs $. This whole topic makes my blood boil. I would venture a guess I never see M/F here. I hope I do, but I do think there is just to much red tape and funny business to allow it. Wouldnt it be a better fall brown run if they always had 3-4 times as much water being released (( talking about 3-4 times the 55cfs )) ?? Wouldnt that also help rainbows, not that it matters to MDC.. but it would help us up there fishing to them. What do you think ? Any of you. I want to awaken this topic from the dead. cheers, Brian

So I checked the SWPA projected load today and it read 34 MW. 34 lousy mega watts worth of power. Ho hum. One hour of 'fish water'. Without any water running out of the 4 units our tailwater only recieves hatchery outflow water from the 3 chutes and what it takes to run 1 in-house unit. It used to come out to 55cfs. Anyone know why it certainly doesnt feel like it anymore ? Maybe because chute 3 is now different. Maybe cause chute 1 seems to only release about half the amount it used to. Possibly water got diverted to 2.. cause 2 is good enough. But it could be better. Also, I wonder where the topic of minimum flows is lately. I heard Norfork was a definite GO. Then I heard the same for Bull. Is it still in the works ? I remember us hoping it would be a domino effect (if one dam got it we would all soon get it) but I wonder where we stand now ? 55cfs all day... be nice if it was 255cfs. 5 times the flow it is at shutdown currently ? I guess we can all wish. I'm off to fish the slow water at Taney. cheers, Brian

Cute video... kinda made me chuckle. I think it is so slow because everyone is to busy on Facebook or Twittering. nah... not really... its just summertime :-) Brian

I have seen a stretch of water on Lake Taneycomo that you cannot access by boat in any way. There were more carp / bass ? trout ?? in there then I have ever seen in one spot anywhere. It is like flooded land... and yeah, its totally private. All I caught were carp. Then never went back. Probably all just spawners sows anyways on the fly. Chalk it up to just being in the right place at the time I guess. Brian

The links do not seem to work zack...

I made a bulk purchase of these 4PC rods and am selling them to OAF members. Scientific Anglers 9 foot 4 piece 5/6 weight flyrods with uplocking graphite reelseat. Perfect as a back up for you or a new rod for the wife, daughter, son, newphew etc..etc. Ideal with a 5wt line for throwing streamers or with a 6wt line roll casting / nymphing the chutes. Price is $45 each. Thanks for looking. Tight lines and screaming reels, Brian

Me ? I dont use leaders... I use woven hairs of horsetail ! Well not really.. but thats what they used to use on them new fangled fly rods. PETA would love that! ( They probably would be terrible to use anyways ) I use MONO. I've tried all of them out there.. and I always go back to regular mono. Although each different one mentioned does have its special application as was pointed out. screaming reels - Brian