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Wait a minute.... So, all you got to do is wade out a few yards, drop your fly in the water, start dancin' and the trout come right up and eat your fly??? Why was this never mentioned in the dozens of fly fishing text books I have read over the decades??? This seems much more efficient than those other ways.

About half the time it's a fly rod with poppers/sliders/divers, Clousers, or whatever. I'll take a 5 and an 8, and size up or down based on what's going on. If I'm in the tube, it's just gonna be the 8 weight. The rest of the time it's a 6 foot rod/spinning reel, medium action, tossing spinner baits, buzz baits, shallow or floating cranks, or Texas or Carolina-rigged plastics if the bottom is clean or rocky. Plus a lighter rod for smaller stuff like Mepps, small cranks, marabou jigs. Generally only fish this way out of a canoe.

Maybe an inch or two of snow here. 3 degrees. Supposed to only be another inch or so.

Could be a while for germination as cold as it is. I usually start peas mid-March, and lettuce gets started indoors. Glad to hear your bees are doing ok.

That's what it's all about, right there. I love that first picture -- 'I'll stay over here, Dad'

That's retail, and with a guide that already knows how to drive a drift boat. C'mon, man

How do you carry and transport one of those bad boys? It only weighs a few more pounds than my canoe, but the canoe is pretty easy to lift up on top of my car because I can get under it and walk it on holding the gunwales. I see the handles on the Coosa, but they don't look to be too helpful for getting on a car. I know I'd have to visit Yakima (yet again) and buy something different.

Lol!

Yeah, gimme jerky, dried sausage, something other than those little gray turds in a can that leave an oil slick on the roof of my mouth.

39 users, 13 members and 26 guests are viewing as I type. I don't remember anything like that kind of number before. There's your publicity, Chief!

MFU's phone number is all I need.

Thank you for using the short link -- if the name of the song had been in it the whole thing could have started again. But I don't want to think about it.

I'm stealing that one! And, I think I speak for both Chief Grey Bear and me when I say welcome to the forum, Polar Bear.

We need some wolves in the park by my house. Deer everywhere.

Yeah, but when that Yellowstone Caldera pops, it's gonna be a moot point Seriously -- that was really interesting.

What a funny thread.

Yeah, one of the tough things about doing a gumbo is the long prep time including the roux. With this you can forget it for a while. I am interested I the crock pot approach.

Pretty cool -- that guide had only one thing on his mind. Getting her back in the water.

or anything coming from a current/potential campaign donor?

I hear what you're saying. There's a point when it's just right, and it's a just few seconds away from ruined. Several different schools of thought on roux that I've seen. Alton Brown did the oven method on his show a few years back. I saw Paul Prudhomme do it on TV with high heat very, very quickly. Then there's the stir constantly for 30-45 minutes take. Now your way. I've been pretty happy with the oven results, but I've never left it long enough to get much past a medium brown. Our OA member Gavin cooked up some great gumbo a few years back and a group of us had it on a gravel bar. Commander's Palace recipe. I remember that because I went out and found the cookbook on Amazon and bought it just for that.

Aren't you a specially invited member of MSA? Why not bring it up with them?

My baby brother is a chef and told me about it years ago. No muss no fuss. I like it because it's hands off and fewer trips to ER.

Sounds great! I'm a gumbo junkie. One tip -- since the roux is really easy to scorch when you're doing it on the stove, I've taken to mixing the flour and oil and putting them in the oven at 375 degrees. Peanut butter colored roux in about an hour. The longer you go the darker it gets.

Cool topic -- fun to read other people's stories. My uncle owned the old family farmstead in Bucyrus, KS. We stayed there one forth of July weekend when I was young and I got to fish the pond -- my first experience with it. Growing up, dad didn't fish a bunch, but we occasionally went out. He was more a duck hunter, and I loved doing that with him. After school, I didn't really hunt much and kinda decided I should take up fishing since it was easily accessible and cheap to do. (Turns out I was wrong about the cheap part). My uncle-in-laws were lifelong fishermen and I started fishing with them in the local reservoirs for bass, smallmouth, walleye, crappie, whatever, out of a Ozark fish and ski. Along the way I became interested in fly fishing, and that kinda took over. The uncles used to spend a lot of time fishing at Roaring River (one had his honeymoon there) and about 15 years ago we started a tradition of going down there each year.

Dude got a GoPro. Don't know when to not use it yet.