Seth

Anybody have these for sale or know of a place where I can buy a bunch of them in bulk?

Have you guys been down lately fishing? I was wanting to know if there are any good smallies in there right now. Last year I watched a guy catch a 19" in the long stretch below the pond hole. She was a dandy. I am planning on sneaking down there with the fly rods this Saturday if I am not too busy and thought about just fishing streamers to have a chance at catching a good smallie along with the trout.

Now that bow season is over, I will hit the springs a couple times during the C&R season. I will try to get you a few pictures taken and sent to you. Do you want any pictures of scenery or landmarks there?

I seen the cardinal logo in your avatar and I thought that it was going to be a picture of a Scott Rolen home run

I usually catch a lot of fish at outlet two when the water is up, but you have to fight everybody else too. It aint as fun as when the water is offf either. You just keep drifting the same 4 foot stretch over and again thats it and then try to keep your cool when the other goofballs standing besides you snag you or your rod.

Is that cam just right below your doc ??? That place is loaded with fish.

Common or Grass??? I take it your talking about grass carp. I have tried to catch grass carp on a fly rod but never got any to take. These fish were pushing 50lbs probably. I shot one with my bowfishing rig that weighed 45lbs. I've watched them do it on TV and it just looks like a total blast. I know carp sure do put up a heckuva fight on regular fishing tackle, even the small ones.

Just get rid of the red meat out of carp, suckers, or other "trash fish" as people like to say and that will make them taste delicious. I like to score mine up pretty good on both sides, but not so much that the fillets fall apart. Fry them good and crisp and that will take care of most of the problem with bones. a mess of carp and suckers along with some hot grease and some Andy's make for some darn good eatin!!!!

A few years ago while fishing below bagnell we found about a 10-12lbs walleye floating dead on top of the water. It might have came through the turbines though and that is how it died. Sure was a dandy though.

I went to Pomme one time with my grandma and grandpa like 6 years ago or something. It was alot of fun and I want to go back up there again sometime. We caught mainly crappie dropping minnows and jigs besides the stumps and sticks. I think I had a muskie attack my float too while fishing too. I was using one those orange cigar looking floats and we cranked the trolling motor up and started moving and something big came up and nailed my float. It was pretty awesome. I need to study up on muskie fishing and go try to catch me one

Well the guys that I snag with always call it Walnut Springs. It is up river from Flat Creek a little ways I know that. The only way I know how to explain it is you there is a little old boat house on the left of the river below walnut springs. You go past that and then the river turns to the right again and there is a lot of stumps and brush in the area. The easiet way to describe it is when the water is really low, there is a line of trees on the left side of the river if your coming up from flat creek. I'm not very good at giving directions Duckman....how big is that spooner is your picture????? Here is one I caught last around 2 or 3 am on opening night. She weighed 74lbs, which is my biggest to date.

Well the way I see it is that if somebody keeps a 13" fish in the trophy are, then they are breaking the law and that is no different than keeping too many fish. I know it wouldn't destroy the whole fishery or anything, but still rules are rules. On the other hand, if you catch a 20" trout and somebody recommends you release it and get a replica and you choose not too, well there is nothing wrong with. It's legal and your choice to choose what to do with it. If you let the people who make suggestion to you bother you, you need to lgrow up and learn to worry about yourself and not what others think of you.- It is nice to see a big fish released I will agree, but not everybody releases them and there are plenty of them in Taney to make up for it due to how awesome this fishery really is.

We usually do best up below Walnut Springs just throwing towards the rock banks and jerking back. Most guys troll but we seem to have better luck casting to the banks. I guess it is how the fish swim along the banks, becuase we have hit alot of them on our first or second jerk many times. We have nailed a few at the mouth of flat creek snagging around the point and up into flat creek a couple hundred yards also.

Well everytime I fish there I seen a ton of stocker size trout in there and sometimes there are so many that you can't get to the nicer fish before they take the fly. I think people should start keeping a stringer of under 12 more often. There are lots of nice fish in there to make up for the stockers you take out. Most of the time it's hard to catch four fish that are under 12". It's legal so there isn't any reason to feel bad about taking what is legally yours.

I love Andy's fish batter. That is all I ever use. Don't really know any good ways to bake fish, I always just eat them deep fried in Andy's

That pic of those gobblers has me thinking about spring turkey season . Man I cannot wait that is such a fun time in the woods.

I think a gallery is a good idea.

If the guy tried and put his hearts effort into reviving that fish then there is nothing to hate him about. My big trout died on me becuase I never could get her revived after I caught her. It sucks to know you caught it and that was its last fight, but there are more in there thanks to the awesome trout fishery taney has

Its open up March 15 and I am not sure exactly when it closes. I like to use a 10 foot surf rod with 80lbs Rip Cord spooled on the reel. Alot of guys use the 6 foot broomstick rods and big levelwind baitcaster reels, but they wear a person a lot faster in my opinion. A surf rod will handle a big paddlefish just fine as long as you have the drag set to slip a little bit. As for rigging, I usually use a 4 or 6 oz bell sinker on the end of the line and then about 12-18" above it I put a big treble hook , not sure what size but its about as big as my hand, and then another 24" I put another one on the line. Make sure the hooks are inline with your fishing line when you put them on. To do this I loop the line through they hook eye and then around the hook. Then I make a couple loops and put around 2 of the 3 barbs to keep it lined up. Do the loops around the 2 barbs three times atleast so that each barb has a loop on it. When you pull on the line the hook should be inline with the fishin line. We have had the best luck up around where Flat Creek comes into the James River arm and up around Walnut Springs. A lot of guys troll for paddlefish, and we have done good trolling at times, but last year we did the best throwing towards the banks and then jerking them all the way back to the boat. Usually snagging is good when it first opens at midnight all during the night. I think you get alot of the resident fish that stay there all year long. After that they are pretty spotty to get. One thing about snagging though is that you can snag all day and never touch a fish. But once you find a pocket of them, you can catch your limit of two in 15 minutes. It just takes persistence and you will catch one. Usually though its one guy who catches all the fish becuase he will be doing something just a little different that the other and he will be the one hitting them. Hope this helps, Seth

How many strands of ostrich do you use for different hook sizes? I tied a few in a size 20 up like that ray charles, but I used only 1 strand. Should I use 2 or even 3 to make it "buggier"?

Thanks a bunch guys... I will give these patterns a whirl whenever the next time I make it back down there to Taney. That might not be until January though after all the hunting seasons are over with.

I seen a guy one time catch a 22" bow and then he let it flop on the gravel and then he kinda just booted it into the water. Another guy who was fishing besides me went over and waded out into the freezing water and spent 15 minutes bring that fish to life. My hats off to that guy for doing that definetly. You would think if you land a big fish like that, to atleast being careful handling it so it gets released as harmless as possible. People might just not know any better I guess . It sure is hard to see a big fish get treated like that though.

Do you guys have any scud patterns that use ostrich herl that you would like to share with me? I have always just used dubbing to tie them and picked out the legs. I have tried to tie some up by just wrapping the ostrich over the hook and trimming the top and the sides, but they come out really thin. How do you guys make the bodies bigger? Just build it up with thread or what? Thanks guys for any info.

I try to atleast keep my feet in ankle deep water so the fish dont swarm my feet while I am fishing for them.

A long time ago, I believe in 1991, we went down and stayed at Lazy Valley Resort and my dad caught a 20 pound common off the dock on either corn or a night crawler. They have his picture in the shop and said it was a 20 pound sucker .. lol