jdmidwest

I am enjoying my new "tax break" addition. Pop pop now, nice and quiet with subsonics. The device was on sale for $159, the tax before 12/31/2025 would have added another $200. Rimfire only. Before, with all of the radiation damage to the head and years of shooting, driving a nail with a hammer sets me ringing and hurts even with a 22. Now, painless. Wish I could have started with one of these in my youth.

Dumping a large number of trout in increases the chances that all will have to forage more for food that is in limited supply. I have noticed in brown trout areas, the larger fish come out of the hiding holes to compete with the new ones for food.

Looks like he may have bombed on the record. https://www.outdoorlife.com/fishing/california-bass-misses-record-transport-law/

Does that count as 2 birds in your bag limit? The Fed warden would have a hard time doing the math with that one if you were checked.

One of these nights we should all sit around a campfire and bring this up as a topic of discussion. There was a homo that came up next to me at the Bayou access one time holding his rod against his privates "because they were sensitive and could feel better". I let him know that my belt held 5 rounds that did not shoot blanks.... Same access, I rolled up on a couple of fellers keeping alot of trout, and just wanted them to leave. I pointed to the bluff above and told him the Ark Game and Fish were watching when I drove by. The conversation with an undercover MDC agent about trout in the trophy area below Baptist access on Current and he did not recognize me from the town he lives in and shops in my store. He had to drag his rule book out and learn something that day. Only after I was making fun of a bunch of kids that spotted a game warden and he better watch out so he did not get caught man handling all of the freshly stocked 8" trout he was catching on a spin lure. Sitting in the back of the boat listening to my buddy trying to educate a guy with a family about rolling in to a area we were bass fishing with his pontoon load of family and actually tossing over my buddies line and lure reeling in from a cast about ethics. I was just standing by with my mouth shut as they were butting heads with Karen wifey recording it all. But when he said "even your buddy knows you are wrong". I had to respond, "No, I have to avoid confrontations, I conceal carry and can only respond to a deadly threat". I just wish I had more time to fish so I can have more of the "good times".

Looks like one of those spear fishing guys off the other thread

I can recall being shot at several times. Never knew if it was locals trying to run me off the stream or road hunters. A few quick rounds in the air from mine let them know someone was downrange and it was over. But bullets whizzing thru trees above has a distinct sound. I do remember a spot on lower Norfork where the sign hung in a tree at the stream bank stating it was a firing range. I walked by it a few times. Never met the owner, but was told he felt the need to display property ownership into the river a few times. With a gun.

The guy in the Blue Polo about 3/4 way thru at the pavilion looks like a local Mexican Restaurant owner I know. I will have to pull this one out and ask him about it. He has good English and always been conversational. He is a good guy and food is good. His staff seems to be suffering from the CO2 fumes in the trunk they came in on from time to time.

A couple of quick practice rounds with the carry pistol at the gar floating between me and him would have give him the message. But that was college, and we were on a bridge shooting gar when someone decide to fish our hole. Then there was the time we were diving around under the same bridge looking for my .45 that fell out of the shoulder holster jogging out of the way of the oncoming train. Some guy was wondering by and asked what we were looking for. My response "I dropped my good rod with a Zebco 33 on it". His response "You are going thru all that trouble for a Zebco 33?". Mine "It was the last gift from my Daddy dying of cancer". We found it next day with a strong magnet from the Physics Lab. People are drawn to other people when they fish, its just human nature.

I think it may be same contractor, not sure.

It's taken 2 years to attempt to build a new loop in campground at Montauk. Still looked like it was in Sept. 2024 when I was there last.

Hablo de Fis Fry?

Its hard to find the perfect boat. I have had a few and still want something better.

Sweet. Thanks to the lazy boat mechanics at the box stores that just want someone to sell a new boat. Is that carbon build up normal, or from running hot and poorly?

I thought you retired, the back yard looks pretty busy up there for this time of year.

Used to camp there and drive around it to get to the river, a access that is now blocked off. It was deep and clear. Plenty of fish then too. Last time by, campground was a ruin, roads were crap, and NFS was neglecting it. Lake was 90 percent covered with moss and coontail. I walked out the levee and caught a few on the fly rod. That was probably 2023

Are they skating out, drilling holes, and taking massive amounts of fish out of the lake? Or just having winter fun on ice?

When did they drain McCormick? I has been a few summers since I was there, but it needed a good clean out.

I made some crease fly streamers, you folded a piece of weighted flash tape over a hook in a minnow shape and it made a flashy spoon sort of fly. I don't think I ever caught a fish with it, but it was a thing to sell fly material one time years past and I made some. Looking at this one, you make the fold high and air trapped or foam balances this one out with the tailing material. Wrench has alot of time on his hands to experiment. But I like the way it looks, probably casts well because it is lighter than a popper of that size.

I beg to differ, there was a battery that fouled somewhere...

Looks even better, rides good in water. I assume that is just foam folded over and glued to hook for body.

That's a good looking fly, kind of a Crease Fly. I assume it floats, any pics of it on water?

That's what ya get for saving the planet, I would never buy a battery operated hot water heater. Its a bad idea.

The lack of fish is caused by the fall floods that wiped out Montauk and Meramec hatchery fish I am sure. And the dry weather and low flows probably keep the migrators down river.

There was a guy with a goat in a diaper at Rural King back in the summer. Carried it like a baby, one of the small goats. Was in front of me and another guy. Held up the line for a while rambling about it. I was looking for the paddy wagon and straight jacket to put him back in place where he belongs. Funny thing about mental illness, they did away with Institutions for them. Now they just wonder around on the streets on meds and vote.