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If I read this right, MDC has just approved a ban on felt sole waders. The Commission also approved: • Banning the use of porous soled waders or footwear incorporating or having attached a porous sole of felted, matted, or woven fibrous material when fishing in trout parks and other specific trout waters. August Conservation Action

You missed the fly foam for hoppers, beetles, ants, and indicators in the craft foam isle. They also have a pretty good assortment of adhesives, paint, and balsa for popper bodies.

In the fall of the year when they are feeding up for the winter, it happens frequently on my floats. Bass are schooled and really turned on. When fishing with a friend, when one hooks one, the other usually tosses into the same area and hooks up frequently. I use the size 11 or 13 and come up with doubles several times a year, mainly in late summer and early fall.

Yuck, that explains the extra time in the hospital. Friend had an inflamed one a few years back before a trip to Spring River. He went in and had it taken out as an outpatient thing on Wed. Was at camp on Fri. but stayed around the cabin and did not float,

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Just to try something out, I took my Drake Lightweight Boot Foot waders last time to Montauk. I turned an ankle once and slipped and slid all over the place. They do good in muddy fields but are not worth a crap on rocks. I still have 3 pairs of felt sole boots. No more than I fish trout streams, they are completely dried and cleaned between streams.

Wow, what dedication. Didn't they have a wireless point in the hospital?? Hope everything came out alright. Did it burst or just get inflamed?

Low water to some is just normal to others. When you are used to getting out and wading the riffles anyway to fish, you never even notice that you have to walk the boat thru

Fish do what they want to do and adapt to their surroundings. I caught a nice 19 inch rainbow a few weeks back from under a group of canoes full of party animals while floating in a yak myself in a riffle on the spring river using a little cleo. There was shadows, banging boats and paddles, noise and confusion, and almost a spilled beer in the water while I was reeling him in. But he was still bent on grabbing that little plug. The rest he was used too.

I have observed that the fish stompers that most people wear scare more fish than anything else (waders). Most use them to stand out in most streams right where fish were laying and feeding before they enter the hole. It makes them impervious to water over their balls and allows them to wade into most of the best fish water. I have not really had many problems with the shirt color, if a fish can see me, it is usually coming in on the end of the line or getting ready to look for something else to eat. Fishing out of a boat or a kayak and having fish explode on a lure next to the boat tends to make one believe that color and shapes does not really bother them. Shadows do, movement does too.

I was in Cabela's Sat and it was so packed that you could not get to the gun counter without an hour wait. I was looking for some binoc's and that counter had 5 people standing around waiting for some help. The fine gun room was empty and I made a cruise thru that, found an nice H&K 45 semi auto carbine that I had not seen before. I was wishing I had an extra 1400 on hand to take it home. You should be happy with the Uberti, we sell a bunch of them at the shop. One of Benelli's/Beretta companies so they turn out fine stuff. I have a Ruger Blackhawk convertible 9mm/357, that is as cowboy as I get with a handgun. I use it as a sidearm during firearms season.

Your version has a nicer head, and it is hackled more like a wet fly than the other guy's fly. It should do well. If you ever get to Montauk, it should work well in the catch and release section.

I always stop catching and releasing when I am done fishing. When I am done fishing I have reached the limit of time allowed for that activity.

I keep a long shank padlock thru the thumb turn holes just to prevent that from happening. But I do worry about the trolling motor everytime I leave it sitting in a parking lot. I have not found a good way to lock it down.

True emerger patterns float in the film of the water, the majority of patterns have some small floating device built into the pattern. I have used caddis nymphs with cdc feathers to float the pattern and have used small pieces of foam on others. The idea is to match the stage of an insect nymph trying to break out of its nymphal stage into its flying stage. You would fish it on a tippet much the same as you would a dry fly. The cdc or foam is your indicator to track it in the water.

Yep. Its brown and winking.......

Tracking is what a boat does when you paddle it forward. Most kayaks have a small keel to them to act as a rudder to keep them running straight as you paddle them forward. Without it, a paddle stroke on the right side would result in the nose of the yak to go to the left and veer off course requiring another stroke on the other side to counter balance. With a little keel, the boat should track straight as you paddle.

The portable version I have is black and white with a high contrast display that is easy to read in daylight. Comes with its own little stand. There is an optional 12v powercord you can buy to plug into a boat system, just never needed it. I have seen a newer version of it that is color for a little more. I use it for depth and contour changes in the bottom for the most part. Water temp is handy to know. Eagle Cuda 300

I use an Eagle Cuda 242 for the last 3 years. It is compact and portable, runs for 2 full days of fishing on 8 AA batteries, suction cup transducer. It shows bottom, the temperature, and fish ID and depth. I can stick it in the yak or on the jon boat and it fills all of my needs. I have a handheld gps unit I can use if I need gps. And it was about $80.

I had a friend try one out near Hot Springs at a shop there on a demo day. His main gripe was the seat and the hull design. The seat is cheap and sits at a weird angle and a little high. The pontoon hull design makes it hard to track in a river current. You could stand in it, but you can stand in a Tarpon too. He ended up with the Ride from Wilderness System, sold a Pungo for it. It is hard to tell what you need, it depends on how you are going to use it. Best idea is to try out a few and see what fits.

I would go with the Tarpon, have not heard much good about the Coosa. It seems like they got some good hype off the bat but failed to impress later on. The Tarpon is a great product, paddles and fishes well in most Ozark streams and lakes. It handles well in the current of the streams and the hull design tracks well in the lakes.

I would second the Whitten to Riverton float. More water and river if there are other floaters and quality of scenery and fishing are better than on the trout portion of the Current. Your only downside would be the jet boat traffic. This time of year, the Current can get crowded on the trout portion, it is narrower and smaller, and is used more by recreational floaters.

Hopefully his intentions were better than the time that Bill Emerson floated it for a promo. Bill was promoting the lead mine and other mineral expansion in the Irish Wilderness. Gov. Nixon seems to be quite an outdoorsman, and has been a pretty good Gov. so far. I liked seeing him on the ground in all of the disasters this spring between the flooding and the tornado's.

So the light app does not count on small vessels? The only time I venture out at night in a paddle boat is duck season on small protected lakes. Then I am armed with a headlamp that is either a bright white led or red led for night vision, so I am legal. If I am in a motorized boat, the Q Beam Spotlight is out for running.

Looks like they are all better tonight.