jdmidwest

I met one the other night in town of Salem Ark. running one of those full width blaster LED's. I politely bright lit him up and he turned them off. In all reality, he may be night blind and need those to see the road while driving. I would feel more comfortable if he is able to see where he is going and my vehicle on the road. Back to averages, I think the current population in this area leans to almost 80 % idiots any more. I have to drive a few hours to bring that average back down to 50 %. As far as driving, the town I spend most of my daytime driving in has 30k people and has about 1 rollover death accident on the streets that have a posted 35 mph speed limit. That takes some talent. Pretty hard to roll a vehicle on a nice level street with no embankments at 35, but they do it.

15'???

I never eat the stuff anyone delivers to our office. My boss is a dick and makes alot of mad customers.

There used to be good Wade fishing from the trout dock down thru the park. But now it seems to be a flat barren wasteland devoid of structure and fish. I fished from the spring down thru the first riffle.

The 20' jons are the basic White River design. Length lets them run shallow and stable, but narrow. You can push them with smaller, short shaft motors. Its a local style but is nice to fish from.

The skunk was on Sat. I waited for the fog to boil off and headed for Norfork. Found it pretty crowded, lower parking lot full at the catch and release area. Drove up to the Bull Shoals Dam State Park and found it empty, no fishermen wading. Found out soon why, no fish to be seen. Nice hatch going on, truck filled up nicely with tiny little mayflies. Aired it out on the way back to Cotter. Parking lot full there. Waded out from lower part and still could not get into the fish. Called it quits and headed back to the Spring River on Sunday. Not much better there. It had been 15 years since I had been in the Mountain Home area and things have changed, alot. Next time, I am bringing a kayak and floating thru.

I am in Salem Arkansas at the moment. Pretty well centralized between the White River and Norfork and my old time standby Spring River. Nice little laid back town with a pretty advanced medical center. Property values should be cheaper than those nearer the main lakes. I could kick back here and spend my last years. Hunting is pretty good here too.

Nice mounts too.

Good looking boat. Who made mounts for the electronics?

Can't beat that Dabblemont book for good reading. Looking forward to hearing some Dale Hollow stories too. Being from east TN, there should be some good high mountain trout stories too.

And it is a bargain at only $50.

Looks good. I don't think I own a hook smaller than 18 though. Those little dog pecker gnats drive me nuts tying them. Good thing I don't spend alot of time on Bennett. Fished local stocked pond today with a size 14 bead head nymph and was yanking them out fast enough. Tried to get the grandkid to settle down and cast, but did not work. Let him land some of mine. At least he did not hook himself.

Size 20? They look so much bigger.

Thanksgiving has been the season of survival for me also. 3 years ago this coming Monday, I underwent surgery for cancer and spent the next 7 days in Barnes Hospital recovering thru the Thanksgiving weekend. This year, I am spending the first part of the week at the farm watching deer. Then off to TN to fish for big smallies for a few days. Thanksgiving Day with the family. Then off to Mountain Home to fish for lunker trout on the fly rod. Something I have longed for the past few years. Maybe we will cross paths. Life is short, live it all.

Nice one.

The label maker was a good idea. My collectable hand me down is an old Savage 99 in .22 Hi Power. It has Dad's name engraved on the receiver with one of the old buzzer engravers that was just a bunch of dots. Of course, I will never sell it, just keep passing it along. Along with the dies to reload and bullets from the 60's. Grand kid will have to keep the family name going from my side somehow.

Beer shootin out my noise.

Locals have probably been tossing McDonalds into the water. I have seen the same effect on the locals that eat there. It makes some whoppers.

I read today that the convoy is lead by LGBT refugees. What does that stand for? There is a B in there, must have something to do with bowfishing. T for trash fish. Figure out what the what the LG stands for and we have an answer.

Does that thing really work? Or you just funnin us. Looks like $13 bucks lost at the same time as the lure on a flowing river. That being said, I have a device I purchased many years ago that looks like a little boomerang with a nub and a string. You put the nub on the tip eyelet and hook the boomerang over the limb that fly is stuck on. Yank the string and pull the fly off or the limb down to take it off. Works pretty slick. Longer the fly rod, the more reach you have into the trees. I have used it to retrieve others lures left behind in trout parks and streams also. Paid for itself many times over and helped me find some new local patterns to tye.

Do chickens have weiners? Maybe that is a butt shot

Only allowed 12? Not sure how that works. I would rather depend on a mechanical device that rusts and fails and needs replacing every so often.

Looks like Gavin's tax figuring thing a ma bob.

Alot different than it was my last trip down 10 years ago.

I keep them in the boat to track bluegill in livewell, one for each person. As we have aged some, we do track the boat total fish on one during the outing. BTW, they are $3.99 normally at Academy in fishing Dept.