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Wait a minute, didn't Beeson say he was going to buy a car? Where was he yesterday?

Staying at home this weekend too, gonna float local streams and catch a bunch of smallies. F big oil and all the worthless ones that jack gas prices up. The ethanol is a scam, it uses more fossil fuels producing the corn and pollutes more water than a nuclear power plant. It gets worse mileage and you still mix it with gasoline. But, let's waste my tax dollars making it! When it burns, it pollutes like gas and leads to global warming. That will muddy up the stream I am fishing in Alaska this year and ruin the second trip of a lifetime. Tree huggers make it hard for anyone to make a new refinery or to use what we own. Its not the oil prices, we can't (or really won't try) to make more gas to meet demands. Why don't we take off the gloves and try finish off Al Queada in the world and all of the terrorists to stabilize the world again. Make Memorial Day something worth fighting for, remember those who give us freedom. (Note: "Views expressed by this individual are complicated by a stressful week at a job dealing with the public. I need a 3 day weekend.")

As more info comes out, nobody notices. Ducky says he was an old man with a clean car. He has photos and the license plate. How hard can the detective work be? Maybe the old man swiped a card and thought it went through? Maybe he thought it was paid for! Maybe he has oldtimers so bad and forgot to pay. I did that one time, even walked out of the C-store with a soda and was on the payphone with the office checking in when the helper started chewin butt wanting me to pay. My pager went off while in the store and I lost train of thought for a moment. I have also paid at the pump, then realized the pay at the pump was out of order and had to go in. Needless to say, Barney should check it out and find what is going on. Maybe all the fuzz is going to the stream to bust the titties and beer this weekend!!

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I thought MO had a policy that drive offs lose their license. I have noticed stickers on most pumps with a Highway Patrolman and a little phrase stating that in our area. Contact the Missouri State Highway Patrol and give them the license plate and other info.

I posted a pattern Monday under Fly Recipes for my foam cicada with a krystal flash wing that work well. Apparently the report just said it would involve 15 states in the midwest. If they were going to be thick, we would already be seeing them.

Al, you need to fish the Kenai above Skilak Lake in September for the 30" fish. Great spawning area for the reds. We fished it right after labor day. The big rainbows and dollies move into the river out of the lake and feed on eggs then dead salmon. It produces some big ones.

Arkansaw is its own little world...... I said that in my best southern hick accent!

Yes, I might have jumped the gun on this, but it said parts of 15 states along the Mississippi Valley. 98 was a tough year with both hatches coming at the same time. I did not even see any last year.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070521/ap_on_...cada_invasion_4 The article stated parts of the midwest and was based out of Chicago. I am sure it will hit here also. It has been awhile since we have had one. I just tied it black and it worked. I could not find any patterns back then so I made one. Did not have the internet yet back then. That year it was the smaller one with the orange eyes and the dark body. The standard cicada we have every year is the one with the white belly and is larger. They were targeting the standard shape and did not care about the color. It was killer on bass and trout. We were camped that Memorial Day weekend and they were falling out of the trees like rain as they died. The noise was almost too much to talk over.

Time to tye cicada patterns, the 17 year locust will be here soon. Brood XIII is due to start hatching and fish sure love them. Back in 1998, the locust pattern was great for trout and bass, they were falling like rain from the sky. Streamer or other large wide shank hook size 4 or 6 Black foam 3mm Pearl Krystal flash Tye foam on the hook leaving it stick out the front. Fold over and make the head. Tye in the wing material (krystal flash). Tye off leaving the tail extending past the end of the hook, taper the butt. Fish! I'll try to post a pic tonight.

Science is just one man's theory of what is going on... Except, maybe entomology!

If garbage bags have worked so far, then any dry bag will work. A heavy gauge material and a good sealing roll top is what you are looking for. Compression straps may help depends on what you are using them for. Carrying options would be according to need, if you portage a canoe for any distance, go with the backpack. I have found something in the housewares of Wally World called Lock and Lock by Case Logic. Tupperware style dishes that are rubber gasketed and clamp sealed for waterproofness. Great for small stuff, a canera, or a pistol and some ammo. 3 pack of different sizes for around $8. Another thing is the new oversize ziplock bags 10-15 gallon size and larger, 4 for $10.

You could either pluck the feathers you want or skin the bird and cover in borax, then freeze for a couple of weeks to kill any bugs. Take it out of the freezer and add more borax then let dry out.

Unbelievable for a magazine to publish something like that. A few years ago, the MDC Conservationist magazine published an article by a local teacher in Jackson that really burned me. In the article he promoted keeping goggle eye's as they are a plentiful fish species and can't be overfished. Anyone that fishes knows the goggle eye can be over fished and is only found in streams that have a good water quality. As a matter of fact, local streams around here have very few compared to 20 years ago due to siltation or other reasons. I release everyone I hook. MDC even has size limits on them to increase the populations in 11pt from overfishing. Smallmouth guard their nests till the fry are large enough to fee on their own. If a smallie leaves a bed of eggs, longears and bluegills dive in and feed on them. Later, when gills bed, smallies give them a good working over to repay the favor. After smallies hatch, the parent will still protect the young that stays schooled up for a while, then they go their separate ways. They have enough natural predators, they don't need us. Is that not why the season is closed on bass in streams till Memorial Day?

Sorry BK, pics were all pre digital. Things will be different this time, already loading up on 1gb memory. Towards the end of August and early September, the tourists are almost gone and so are the big salmon runs. I like a big fish now and then, but 10-12 lb salmon is like work if you hook a bunch. I was targeting the trout and dollies. The spawned out Reds were a pain after you caught a few of them. Most of the time you would just break them off or tear the hook out of the rotting flesh if they were foul hooked. I'll take a look at Tom's fly, pink was hot on the silvers last time. We would catch our salmon first thing of a morning, then go after the trout for the rest of the day. The afternoon at the Russian was great, I hooked Reds, Pinks, Silvers, Dollies, and Rainbows in the same place. The pink humpies were the most fun, the hump made them real hard to turn, but they give up pretty easy. Phil, the last time we used the 6mm and 8mm faceted beads from Hobby Lobby painted with Wet and Wild Platinum nail polish. We seemed to have better luck than with the round beads.

I believe the charge was stealing by deceit. As far as game laws, I could think of a couple, leaving fish unattended, not properly marked with the proper information. Of course the dee dee dee may have left his name and address and that was how they caught him. The Water Patrol was the arresting party, so who knows if there was any game violations.

Cast it, let it drop a little and then short strips on the way back. It helps to see what they are doing as they sometimes just nudge it. Learned this trick a few years back while fishing a pay pond for bass on Memorial Day weekend. Just like Montauk, I caught a cat and the guy down the levee came running up and plunked a hunk of liver into the same spot. I caught 4 before it was so crowded that I could not cast. Fly fisherman 4, rude bait slingers 0. I use the same technique when I see a cat cruising on a stream and it works great.

Size 4 streamer hook, purple marabou for tail, purple estaz and purple hackle for body. Tyed wooly bugger style, works great in ponds and creeks, weight it down to get it deeper. Same fly tyed with black material is a close second. Talk about a fight, Channels on a fly rod. No stinky fingers and has out fished chunks of liver in the past.

They make excellent soft hackles and there is no closed season on them in MO. They are a nuisance bird that can be killed any time. For the cost of a well placed pellet and a little borax you can make your own. Make sure they spend a little time in the freezer to kill the bugs on them. Or Feather Craft in STL sells them for next to nothing already treated.

Back in 2000, beads were legal on the Kenai and they were deadly. We crossed the Moose near Talkeetna, looked great. Sheep and Montana Creeks up there also, we hiked in and fished the Montana Creek for rainbows. I made the mistake of taking my 4wt that day, I could not control those wild trout. They would hit the fly and be 2 holes down and busting off in a matter of seconds. We did not make it all the way to the falls that day, maybe this trip. Or maybe one of the other creeks along the Sue. Twentymile is on the Turnagin Arm near Portage. It is fed by glaciers in the Chugach range. The great thing about our trips have been the unplanned nature of them. No guides or schedules to meet except for the plane home. We just rent a car and drive and fish, pitch a tent or crash at a friends house. We were up for 9 days last time and probably have 7 this time.

I agree with deep diver, you should look at the older post. You can't go wrong with Creek Co., great boats, but for covering alot of water, a kayak is better. Faster, easier to paddle, durable.

I think Hummer makes one that can!!!

As far as I know, there are no fees or licenses to be a guide in MO, but there are in Ark. In the last few years, Mo. Dept. of Conservation made a rule against guiding for money on MDC lands. Technically, a lawyer could make a case if you access from a MDC rivers access on a paid guided trip I suppose. I do know the NPS requires float camps to register and pay a usage fee per person on the Scenic Riverways and they are required to keep records of it. Guiding for hire in a put and take area where trout is stocked by the MDC could also be questionable. Basically, the MDC is managing the river. I am not quite sure why the MDC started posting the guided hunt rule or when it was passed. The first time I saw it was at 10 mile pond while duck hunting. I assumed it had something to do with the reservation system or limited amount of hunting spots and people trying to get them. But I really could not figure out how the system could be manipulated or abused to benefit a guide.

I am sure it is a blowout on the upper end also. The snags and gradient on the upper river would make it pretty technical this weekend also. Fishing would not be very good either. This weekend is for lakes and ponds....