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I hear you on that. My family calling in and an occasional outbound call to Domino's.

As far as getting the story straight -- I did, you had trouble with the law. And a landowner. It's documented pretty well here. If you conduct yourself in person like you do here, I'm sure it's nothing new for you. Even though, I called the sheriff and put in a plug for you, and all fishermen, as did a few others here. You're welcome. And why on earth would you criticize me if you admittedly don't post reports? If you were paying any attention, you'd see I just recently posted a report on a trip I made to Iowa. I guess it didn't look like something you'd be interested in, being about fishing and all. Regardless, this forum is about a whole lot more than reports and posting pics of the kids. A quick look of the last 10 or 20 posts from each of us would help you understand who contributes what around here. You could probably add some value to this forum if you could keep your ego in check, quit ham-handedly trying to turn every discussion into a political fight, and just be civil to people. And it's fine if you want to post a report about your expedition today, but don't make out like you're doing us all a favor. Geez.

...and this is the kinda unnecessarily confrontational reply we can expect from you. Don't need to go too much further than the thread you blew up earlier today to see that. Honestly, the last trip report of yours I remember was when you got in trouble with the law. You've sure got me beat on the pics. Wait...

Geez Cheef -- take your meds. Here's something to tide you over until they take effect.

You betcha!

Nice! In my limited experience there, the higher up you go the better your chances at a brookie. Browns and rainbows lower down.

Best quote I've heard related to this: “If you’re doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government’s been hiding.” – Stephen Colbert

He's talking eats Wayne

Yep.

Why am I here?

Sand Springs, just outside the park gates, is pretty good motel lodging with a decent restaurant on the premises.

Nice -- thanks for sharing that.

Good stuff Al! I'm curious what you use to bend the wire -- pliers or some kind of tool? You draw pretty good too

Couple weeks ago I noticed premium was cheaper than regular. I think we need congressional hearings

Sah-weet! I can't hardly drive by a golf course without checking out the water. I've hopped some fences, just never on a golf course.

Looks great! Sierras are on my bucket list. mic: that's a great trip you're talking about. My favorite thing on your list are the redwoods. We've done Muir Woods north of San Francisco a couple times, and it's spectacular. You can't fish in there, but it's pretty cool to see the salmon in the streams in there.

We've always talked about a place of our own, but there are just so many negatives that I doubt we'll ever pull the trigger. I don't want to maintain a place, and I don't want to feel like I have to go somewhere with the limited open time I have, especially at this point in my life. When I figure out the costs of owning and maintaining, or dealing with problems, break ins, and people -- well it just seems like I've got better things to do. And if you don't own everything in sight, or build in a planned area, you never know what's going in next door. With the networks of vacation rentals like VRBO out there, I can take advantage of other people's mistakes. We've done that several times in around the country, often with word-of-mouth recommendations from friends. We like to travel to new places, and return to a few old favorites too. Lots and lots of places we'd like to see. I like the freedom of mixing it up if I choose. So that's a bit of a hijack, but hey, we're on page two and it was time.

I can never tell it those are coming or going

Do you mind poop?

Oh yeah -- it also interfaces with Facebook, Smugmug, others

Phil: I would highly recommend you give Adobe Lightroom a look. The photo-editing portions are much more intuitive and easy to do. You can affect bright spots, dark spots or mid-ranges with sliders. So, if you have a nice picture with a sky that's too light, you can fix just the lightest part and leave the rest alone. They are global adjustments, so you don't have to go draw a line around something. You can also do the same with color channels -- like deepen the reds, etc. There are also "brushes" that let you fine tune the area you're affecting. I really, really like the cataloging and keywording features, keywords especially. You can keyword photos and have a hierarchy too -- it makes finding things so easy if you're diligent about doing it. I don't use computer folders anymore -- I trust the program. It does a ton more than I ever use -- printing, web galleries, what not. I gave up on Photoshop Elements several years back and have never regretted it.

It's been a long time since I've been down at Dawt. I just can't picture what you guys are talking about. Anybody got a picture of this? Justin -- that low bridge upstream sounds like an accident waiting to happen. I always though McKee bridge was too.

I Googled appalachian and the canoe wasn't in the top six listed in the little box. I get trail, state university, mountains, trail map...

Another thing to mention -- the locals I ran into seemed to be mostly focused on hitting just the big pools near the access with spinning gear and there were more at the close accesses than at the more remote ones. The trails always seemed to peter out at just about the right distance from the access too. There's a lot of water to fish up there, so for me it was a non-issue. Iowa regularly stocks a lot of these streams, but doesn't announce the time or place. The guys I ran into and talked to were apparently hopping from stream to stream trying to figure out where they'd been stocked. I mentioned a couple places and they poo-pooed them, but they were excellent for what I like.

Troutnut69 -- People were never an issue. Lots of folks out and about because of the holiday. It was pretty rare to see somebody on the stream though. Thanks KCRIVERRAT -- yes it is beautiful country up there. Did this trip solo -- kinda nice to just get away sometimes.