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She would have lived longer if some researcher would have let her go instead of ripping her eardrums apart to age her.

We all have our theories on how things happen in the world.

Others in his family may have been from out of the states and was a carrier. One little wet fart and the poor guy took one for the team.

Me too, and I have been thru Cancer 2x times. Take an antihistamine every once in a while and Tylenol or Aspirin for pain every once in a while. Prescription Drug free here. I do take some Vitamin B 12 oz to deal with the depression of the day, maybe a dose of good whiskey for the bad ones. But Walgreens does not sell that anymore I think...

My job takes me to the treatment plants. Those little plastic tampon things float all around. One lagoon a few months ago was chuck full of water turtles, they seemed to like the warm fermenting waters....

They don't normally stock the Greer to Turner Section, it was the area that they thought might have reproducing trout. There was a time when they did put some in December to over winter. I am sure they are hanging upstream to the colder waters. And the protected trophy area.

Amoebas are real, I studied them in High School, single cell organisms that reproduce by dividing in half. Watched it under a microscope. They have come in many forms and caused diseases in watery areas. Especially ones contaminated by human feces. LOZ is a cesspool from septic runoff. https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/amebiasis/index.html

Not enough brain to tempt a zombie anymore. Thank God for AI...

They doubled it this year here. Maybe that is why they want to freeze it, no gobacks....

Decent trout fishing will be a thing of the past for the next few years until the Montauk and other hatcheries resume normal production from flooding last fall. Recent reports from the last few months are no stocking events have taken place this summer from what I have heard. Few trout in the area from Greer to Turner, the wild ones. My September trip to the 11pt this year will be lower part for bass around the State Line. Cane Bluff to Greer is always kinda iffy that time of year. Anything below Greer is solid water to float any time. Running a jet boat is a different story.

Poor little amoebas are on brink of extinction from starvation.

Wing nuts work better with my thumb and leatherman tool. I have never floated them, normally they just fall off into that area of no return under the deck out of reach.

Amazing it found someone to attack.... That place seems to have a lack of brains.

Treatment free let's bees take care of problem. Miticides just make stronger mites.

What's the solution, run outboards? You can only vent stuff so much an keep it quiet.

It was foggy down there.

Mites are like ticks to humans. Except the tick is 10 times larger and it rears itself in the brood chamber with the bee larva. Brood breaks are my method of attack to them. Queenless splits give the hives a few weeks without brood and mite load drops. I usually get 2 to three years out of a run of bees until something gets them. I run my hives without any chemicals. Defeats the purpose of nature's honey when you add chemicals to keep them going. They have been breeding stronger bees that seem to bite the mites and kill them off better. My brood stock was from a keeper that tends to selective breed for that characteristic. Small Hive Beetles are a mess too, they waste the time of worker and housekeeping bees and cut the productivity of the hive. Then, if the hive gets weak, they swoop in and foul the hive and ruin it.

Brown and Black bead head nymph was the only takers. I tossed some terrestrials and tried for a topwater bite. I saw a few random risers. I probably saw you upstream of the gaggle of the black headed buzzards hanging below the outlet. Not too many fly fishing that morning. I left shortly after the fog started lifting, had to get to the motel and check out. I was wondering where the C&R area was, but I was flies and barbless. And not keeping.

It does not weigh much more than my 1 Ounce HLS 4 wt 7 ft rod. It has the cork reel seat with lightweight hardware. 1 oz rod is cork and rings. I remember the selling point of the 1 ounce, weight of 4 quarters. Balanced well with a CFO from England. Since they started putting alignment dots on the joints, its a smooth assembly, put the 2 dots together. Never have an issue with one coming apart or working loose. But most of my rods are slightly used compared to some. One thing that has always aggravated me is the long part of the exposed blank in the joint between the sections. I have always thought it looks goofy. They are leaving off the rings to store your fly rigged up. Notice that I put it in a reel hole. Never been one to screw up good cork.

T Feels about 2 Oz lighter than my original 2 pc Far and Fine. Casts good for a 7'9", but I really needed a 9' rid with more umpfh.. I needed to shoot about another 20' to hit the active ones on other side. Outdoor Life did a piece on best rods of 2025, and it was highly rated. I don't use my older 2 PC rods much any more, switched to 4 PC. Nice cork, sweet looking rod with rod bag and tube. Nice soft action with just enough power from graphite fibers. Tossed a few beetle and ant dries and it did fine. It's a small stream rod like the original. I came home and was going to order one in 6wt, but 5wt is max. I need a 6wt for tailwater, my buddy left my last one leaning against a fence at Jim's Landing on the Kenai in 2000.

I went down back in June to scout the area around Heber Spring. Rainy weekend and not really expecting to fish. I had been there one time long ago when I was doing Point of Sale systems and meeting with Orvis dealers. It was hot this weekend and my hay guy was finishing out the hay. Farm was caught up, wife and I took off Sat morning for a drive. Spent the night in Heber Springs and decided to see if I could squeak in a little fishing this morning. Last time down, spring floods were still keeping the river at full generation except for a few hours early morning. This weekend was better, only generating in the evenings. Water was still stirred up and milky. Started in Kennedy Park by the outlet. Had a nice flock of teal in my hole to start off. Beside the teal, a hoard of the black headed buzzards was hanging around the bank upstream from me. 3 trout off the bat, 1 little cuttie that flopped off before I could take a pic. Played around for a while and pulled out and went down to end of campground. Walked upstream and had a few nibbles. I was going to fish till 9 and pull out. At 8:45 the sun hit a rock I was casting to and they turned on. 2 Brookies, a Brownie, and several rainbows. Nothing of any size but all fun on my new Orvis Superfine Graphite 7'9" 5 weight. Good morning to be out, crowds were thinner early on. We went back an hour later and it had picked up. Going to have to do it again. With Missouri trout streams suffering from the lack of trout to stock, Spring River the same from the flood, I need to broaden my travel range.

Usually a good time to be there, crowds are low and fish are turned on. Do a float on Jacks Fork would be my suggestion, prettier river.

The visitor center was wiped out years ago at Powder Mill, but I think there is still gravel bar access. No boat ramp last time there a couple of years ago. Fall 24 flood may have took that out too.

https://www.fieldandstream.com/stories/fishing/fly-fishing/aquatic-insect-guide Certain flies are designed to mimic the nymph and adult stages of insects. If you have time on a nice quiet stream to watch fish feeding naturally, it can make more sense. Insects rising or settling on water to lay eggs are dry fly imitations. Nymphs floated below the surface or on the surface as emerges.

Not fly fishing friendly because the bait slingers are crowding your casting room. My first trip there was spin fishing with rooster tails and little cleos that my fried had used mastering the 11 pt river trout. At that time, the trout seemed to like mini marshmallows. We did not have any. I did eke my first trout out with a sonic yellow roostertail, probably more of a snag.