Quillback

I believe Phil sells it in his tackle shop.

I had one bad CA sea lion encounter while salmon fishing in Puget Sound. Brought a sub-legal chinook to the side of the boat, was reaching over to unhook it and let it go when out of nowhere a sea lion BLEW UP on that salmon, maybe 3 feet away from my hand. Just about gave me a heart attack, I had no idea that thing was in the area, and BOOM! He did not grab the salmon, I'm guessing he wanted it but didn't want to get too close to the human.

Nice, congrats!

Not a fan of them for sure.

Save them from the pikeminnows and then they get eaten by birds. There is also bird management (see link below). There is so much money spent - about billion dollars per year, and so much research and management that goes into the Columbia river steelhead and salmon runs. Employs a lot of lawyers too. Annual update on avian predation in the basin highlights emerging challenges

Thanks - it's a neat looking plant.

They started that program when I lived there, I don't know if it has had any effect at all as far as helping salmon.

There have been a bunch of trails built here in Bella Vista and around NW Arkansas. Read about this one in the local paper so took a walk this afternoon. Trailhead is right off HWY 71 in front of the TH Rogers HW store. Trail goes underneath HWY 71 1/4 mile walk through the timber to this bridge over the creek. Trail goes along the bluff Little Sugar Creek - it has smallmouth, next time I am bringing a rod. Trail runs by a cave entrance, goes back about 50 feet then it is gated off, so I reckon it goes back further. You can also mountain bike this trail, but it is rugged for biking, not bad for walking, but for a bike:

Some of these were growing in the moss on a steep hillside. I'll send up the bat signal for Marty, but maybe one of you knows what this is? @BilletHead

Cold front moving through, 10 degrees tomorrow night! Doesn't look like any snow however which is find by me.

How about tyre instead of tire. And thankfully we don't call trucks lorries.

Not being a fly tyer myself, it would be neat to see it done so I have at least a base idea of what it takes should I ever decide to take it up.

What can I say, I love to fish, it's great to see everyone, but that is a nighttime activity. If it's light out, I want to be fishing!

If you lived on the east side of Rogers near the HWY 12 bridge then that would put you really close to the Prairie Creek launch and you'd be 20-30 minutes from the Mercy hospital and all the satellite health care specialists that are in that general area. From there you could trailer your boat to the dam end of the lake or to the south end of the lake at Hickory Creek, about a half hour to each. Rogers is a busy area, stoplights and traffic. Of course you can say that about all of NWA, it has grown a lot.

It's hard for me to get motivated for the cold trout fishing. If the weather forecast looks decent, I may show.