jdmidwest

I will see what falls out of the sky. Goose does not open up here till Thanksgiving, then I will target them also.

It was pretty slow this weekend, sunny and bright all weekend. Ice froze on the yak Sat. morning and picked duck Sun. after dark in short sleeves and 70 degrees. Not much to push them thru, but it is still early. Drought is helping local MDC areas, keeping birds concentrated where there is water.

Shoot them before they reach the coast! It's DUCK SEASON..........

There used to be a chapter in Rolla, did it disband?

Does drying out the felt actually prevent the spread of the diatom? I thought it could cyst up and resist drying.

The forestry service has been doing controlled burns along with the MDC in area where they see the need. Not all of the timber needs a good burning, especially our farm. My concern is the 1800 acres of 10 year old clear cut that joins our land that was divided up after the cut into 40 acre hunting plots. I don't need some city slicker starting a fire out of ignorance.

How would you define the "High Water Mark"? Is it where the stream ends and the land begins? If you were to define a high water mark on the creek that runs thru my property, you would have access to all of the creek bottoms and my fields also. It is normally a stream that you could wade across a riffle and not get more than a shoe wet, less that 1/2 knee deep. But in flood stage, that same riffle may be 100's of yards wide. Almost all of the streams are the same way. If you follow that train of thought, someone could leave the stream, cross a few fences and be out in the middle of my fields on dry land and still be "not Trespassing". I think what we have now is more than adequate, and more liberal than most states.

The boundary used to be the bridge as you come in to the park and above, when did they change it?

We have a local dealer that sells CAMOCLAD, puts it on boats, atv's, trucks, guns, bows, etc. Its expensive and I feel a little too shiny to be of any real use other than decoration. Nothing beats flat paint. CAMOCLAD

If they could not smell, powerbait would be unscented! I really don't think a thread sealer keeps its smell long after it dries, it is the part is evaporates in the drying process. I too use Sally Hansen, and painted all my beads with Love My Nails Pearl for trips to Alaska for Trout and Dollies.

The horn blew on Monday at the local winter trout fishery at Jackson, MO. MDC Stocking rig arrived around 11 and did its dump. I met up with a friend and his young son for a little after work fun. Little one caught one on 2nd cast with the snoopy pole and a orange and gold spoon. I landed 10 rainbows, 23 blue gill, and 2 bass in the course of an hour and a half. Past years have had the lake silted with mud from construction upstream and fishing poor. This year was clear and good fishing. Pressure was light with about 10-12 fishing at any one time. Suspended bead head nymphs were the fly of the day.

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.