jdmidwest

We have just went thru the driest October in a long time. I think I only had a single 1/2" rain and that was last week when the big low front went thru. We have had alot of wind that has further dried things out coupled with very low humidity. The woods are a tinder box waiting to be fired up and alot of hunters will be hitting the woods for deer season soon, smoking and building camp fires. How many acres of timber will be burnt up this season if we don't rain soon? Should season be postponed till it rains?

Sorry Geoff, I was just going by the models he stated in the original post and he was comparing the older model D60 and the t2i slr. Whether he has the model confused is unknown to me. Video is handy and about the same quality of other standalone video cameras of the digital variety. Mostly good for internet posting and making a few memories, but low quality compared to the old analog video cams. My carrying around camera shoots decent video with zoom and autofocus, my Pentax SLR does not.

I don't know what you call "Buddy Brand", mine have been from Orvis, Cabelas, Hodgeman, and Simms. All seem to have the same dense white felt that loads up with mud and debris, freezes up in cold weather, and does not perform. My rubber sole waders are by Drake, but I have used Red Ball, Lacrosse, and Hodgeman. Majority of the slickest streams are waded in summer in Crocs which has a softer sole than rubber waders. Slickest rock are usually limestone or shale flat spots or shelf's on the Spring River and various warm water streams I smallie fish. Anything is worthless on the hard slick granites of the St Francois river systems, you just hunker down and skate thru the slick spots. Maybe it is your sense of balance when you are wading that is causing your ankle probs, I have noticed you tend to lean to the LEFT.....

Canon makes the top of the line digital camera and has held the market for a long time. Your price differential in the 2 cameras is mainly due to the additional lens. The D60 is a professional series, the Rebel is more situated to an everyday user. Check the imaging system and features and make a decision based on the camera body itself first. You can always purchase the additional lenses to do what you want to for taking pics. The Rebel series allows movie mode, the D60 is an older model that does not allow movies. Rebel 18 MP, versus the D60 6 MP image quality. Go to Canon website or check out Dpreview other camera sites on the net for more info.

The ones that are sticking to their felts seem to do so to keep from busting their butt on slick rocks, which in my experience, does not seem to make much difference. Is there some underlying reason someone would want to hold on to the felts? Other than economics of having to buy a new pair of boots. It does not seem like many on here deny the fact that they will transmit organisms. I don't deny it and don't want it in my part of the state. BTW, I don't travel the globe for fish, I seem to find plenty of them around here. I find it hard to justify a trip to Taney or Mtn Home these days with all of the good fishing I have been doing locally. And thanks for confusing Jon with me, I would have posted the same thing, but really, the government does not care to help us. Funny how some on here only pick and choose the posts and not seem to read the whole thing.

Where is the research that felt soles really add any traction? I have busted my butt on the banks many more times with felt soles than I have in the river with regular boots. Grass, Frosted Grass, Mud, Snow, Sleet are all just as slick or slicker with felt soles. I have tried studded soles and not found much more improvement, they seem to grip better but make more clicking noise that will transmit in the water to scare fish. I will not wear them around any boat anymore, they chew aluminum, fiberglass, and poly and get tangled in carpet. I fished for years with regular waders and rubber soles with no more events than I do now with felt. I wet wade and float in Crocs now and they seem to have good traction. Before, I wet waded in tennis shoes and some of the plastic soles would get slick. I duck hunt in rubber soles with no problems. Why is everyone stuck on felt? The only reason I use them is that is what wader boots are made of till recently.

Or maybe Mr Depressed with a gun, dropped the last cigarette on the seat and flamed out....

Plenty of feathers for streamers, bass bug tails, tails on dries if you tye that sort of fly. I could find a few good uses for them myself, may have to pull Beeson out by the ankles and dive in myself.

Why are you trashing perfectly good hackle??

Probably run out of Peppy Fur!

MDC agent offices are the best place for maps. Here is a link that has pretty good info on the streams with the counties they are located in. MO Sportsman Trout Streams

Your next step up for a big river rod would be a 6 or 7 weight in 9 foot or more and a faster taper. But that would only be if you want to toss bigger flies farther. What you have will still work fine in distance ranges that you are currently using it.

They move up into the spring branches where the water is warmer due to the constant temp of the spring flows. They also drop deeper or just feed less.

It was one of Orvis's Superfine graphite actions, medium to full action, 8 1/2 foot, 5 wt. It may have been one of the unsanded blanks, the rod name has been around for many years? It casts great and is an all around good trout rod for MO streams. It will handle larger woolies and medium bass flies, and with a little practice, smaller dry flies. It was my first real fly rod back in the 80's and still is a good all purpose stream rod for medium and large streams. I have handed it to many new fly fishers, it is a good first rod. The action is very forgiving and will protect light tippets.

I saw this on the Spring River in Ark a few years ago, still don't know what it was.....

Gonna hit the river at Whitten Thursday with the jet and try to find a few trout. Should have better luck with them than the bass this time of year. And the scenery should be in full bloom. A nice pickerel is always fun to catch, I tend to target them on the 11pt with a fly rod if I get a chance for some added sport. One of the few rivers where you can still find several of them.

Where is this Bass Pro Return Shop at in Thayer, I was all over that town a few months ago and did not see it? There was a guy between Thayer and Alton that had some Bass Pro return stuff, but was closed the last few times thru.

Hey, just probably some hunters that wanted to sleep late in the morning and already have the deer "tied" up. In that neck of the woods, they are better shots in the dark than they are in the daylight, more practice at night...

More of a hunt with hogs than a kill. They seem to either be nocturnal or really reclusive around here. Fellow worker has developed a problem with them on the Castor River, just recently developed wallows and signs of activity in a hay field and river bottom. They have been a problem for years on Corps lands at Lake Wappapello. Areas around the St Francois Mountains in Iron, Reynolds, Washington, and Ripley counties have problems also. MDC and Army Corps of Engineers track activity and will be more than helpful trying to find you some. I assume it will only be a matter of time before they invade the farm since it is in the middle of all of these areas. They do seem to stay close to lakes and rivers for some reason. Cousin saw one dead on the road outside of Ellington the other night on way to Jack's Fork.

The survey system is flawed due to the fact that the majority of permit vendors fail to ask the right questions when you get your permit. I have had vendors blow thru the questions quickly, especially at a C store with a line of people behind you. They have plenty of time to sell lottery, but the licenses are low income items. The new electronic license system is a joke as far as data collection. I remember the smallmouth question and I received the survey. I also was asked about the walleye a few years ago and ended up in an argument with the vendor over my answer, at Wally World. She said "are you sure, nobody ever says they fish for them". She was not used to anyone fishing for them in the area I live as most walleye are located in other parts of the state. The new waterfowl survey is a joke too. When you show up to get a Migratory Bird Card in Sept., you are supposed to remember the number of birds you killed in the previous season 7 or 8 months ago. Old days, you had a card to fill out during the season and mailed it in. This way, you are just guessing.

That always happens when you let someone else cook the White Castles....

Wally sells some little $2 packages if you need some touch up. We have a Hobby Lobby here and the raffia hanks were about 5 foot long but are $6 a package.

I always feel kinda queer shopping there, but I find some good materials from time to time. The fly foam selection, various feathers, copper, gold, and silver wire, paint, and other things make up for it. I was hoping it was a report on a good early goose season.

Nothing short of filleting them to the point of extinction would have or will still curb this problem. Eat more spots or learn to enjoy fishing for them, they taste and fish like largemouth bass, only smaller. They invaded thru the Mississippi River, same way the Asian Carp is. They were not stocked, so you can't blame the MDC. MDC has encouraged catch and keep on this species on the infected rivers in check with an increased limit. Problem is, people seem to have an aversion to eating fish lately.

If his nose is that good, asked him if he caught a whiff of my cousin last Sat. He showed up at camp after eating alot of White Castles. I am sure it drifted for several states.