BilletHead

Way to go Cody!

Sorry @FishnDave, @Johnsfollyand @Ham Pitch them out on the bank along with your carp. 😉 Supersized Goldfish Could Become Superinvaders - Scientific American

Thank you, Nancy!

Since you are using weighted flys with metal eyes Daryk you need to try to open up your loop some to avoid hitting yourself or your rod as it zooms by you. I think @fishinwrench has discussed this before. You can retrieve a Clouser straight back to you with strips long or short and during the pause with dip and strip jig back up. depending on depth of your moving water in that instance if its shallow keep it moving to avoid snagging on the bottom. If its deep let the water swing your fly downstream and at end strip it back.

Went for a boat ride this morning to one of my favorite rivers. Tributary of Truman Lake. Fly rod along looking for something to catch. Not much caught but I was happy to get out. I passed a long sweeping cut bank, steep cut bank leading to a high point along the river. I know this place well. Everything the natives need is right here. Shelter in the form as an overhang almost a cave like, actually it is a shallow sandstone cave. Water in two forms. The river below and up high a ditch I have never seen dry dripping into the river. The high area never floods. It is all they need in one spot. I parked the boat and put on my rubber boots. Pretty steep. Almost vertical up top and muddy below. As I looked around, I began to see flakes. A few yards farther a bunch of flakes, As I looked up a fresh sloughed off spot Looking good and no fresh human tracks. Then something below next to water's edge caught my eye. Shape was right and color was right. I worked my way down for a closer look. Bingo! A point. Picture as it was found. One more river raise, and it would have slipped off into the abyss. A great example of a Dickson point. The top is broken off like an impact fracture might of happened. the remaining point is 2 1/4 inches long by 1 9/16s wide. It is sharpened on a bevel. If you look from the tip back it has a slight twist. Some points were sharpened that way. A bit later picked up a worked piece of chert. I thought about the prehistoric knapper working in it and thought I have been there before. A piece being worked that goes nowhere. You cannot get it flat. In knapping circles we call it a turtle. The knapper would give it a hurl as far as he could. Been there done that . Picked up a few assorted flakes. Burlington, Chouteau, and Jefferson City cherts. Also a hammerstone. A hard sandstone almost a ball polished up from use wear. It could of been used to knock off flakes for point making or cracking nuts. Fits into the palm of you hand perfect. Worn slick, Lithic material all over to be used. Down by my boat is a limestone bank and it is full of chert in bands and also in nodules. Ran into the Jeff City chert in the dirt bank first. Then some Jeff city pieces, Here is the stuff in the limestone deposit, Fun day and was ready for the long boat ride back to the ramp. This stuff is out there to be found you all!

Are you saying she is freight because of her weight?

Got out today for a bit. Great weather but windy. Jey boat ride back to the ramp was rough but worth the watching eagles, lots of blue wing teal still around and resident wood ducks. Canada geese and wild turkey. Great Blue herons were starting to gather on their rookeries. Water a bit off colored and managed two short nose gar, one crappie and a couple white bass. WT was up to 58 degrees. Pink over white Clouser,

I have been there several times. As a river helper during casting for recovery for the ladies, reeling and healing for the ladies again and a river buddy for reel recovery for the men. Fantastic place to have events like that. The fish are large and feisty for sure. I told the ladies and gentlemen that were first time fishers and most of them are not to expect this every time they go if they continue to flyfish of fish in general because some of these folks had never fished before. Expensive yes food and fishing. If you make the trip for fun, it is a hoot. Some of my participants would hand me the rod and say why don't you catch one. I did indulge and my oh my. It was fun. So, Pat and I did do a half day C&R once. Someday maybe again. Never say never.

I really, really hope you can. If there is anything I can do let me know.

Should be soon. We have found them as early as March 28th but for the most part around the 10th of this month. Pat came home from work last week and said someone had showed her a pic of a tiny grey the size of a fingernail peeking out from under oak leaves. I'm ready for a mess.

Very interesting dpitt. Keep running with this and keep us in the loop and informed on the trials please. Thanks

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Didn't know to like or laugh! My mom with dementia is always asking who I fish with. I tell her and she says where did you meet them? I reply and she says WHAT?

You are really missing out and thanks for getting out there and making this statement and making new friends!

Ran upon this article this morning. It was really fun completing the slam in 2017. Good to know that part of our 20-buck entry fee is going to more restoration projects like this. We urge you all to try it. Besides catching these beautiful fish, you get to travel to their respective native ranges seeing different bio diversities where the species reside. It really is amazing. Some things that man has screwed up can be reversed, recovered and enjoyed. Utah Cutthroat Slam Funds 2 New Conservation Projects to Benefit Native Trout - ETV News

Pat has almost the same assortment she was gifted by Chuck at her casting for recovery retreat. Plus a couple of his signed books. I got to meet him also when I picked her up.

Just don't want to claim it anyway. Looking forward to meeting you RPS Randy.

Good morning @Terrierman! Outta bed man! Happy Birthday Rick 😁

Congrats and I forgive you Daryk .

Justice served is right!

How many of you have met friends on here you would not otherwise get to meet? I have many and some have become very personal. Fishing, hunting and just good friendship. Some I visit with daily even multiple times by phone or text. Today it was a three for and one was a new meeting. So, the start of my day was solo with an appointment in Springfield. I would be without a ride for some time. Ok who can I pester early that would be close take up some of my time. @curtisce would be the closest so I gave him a call. He was on his first cup of coffee and right out of bed. Told him my plight and said I'll buy you breakfast. Got picked up and off to eat and visit. What a deal then to the fly shop and back to pick up my vehicle. I sometimes wonder if he likes me for my jet boat, endless flies he can get out of my fly box as we hammer the white bass or my south zone waterfowl hot spots. Who am I kidding he totes me around the big marsh where I won't go alone and in his scary fast bass boat chasing all kinds of fish. Then it was a trip to drop off a bunch of rocks containing dead fish, yep you heard it right 52 million year old fish fossils and some assorted leaf and insect fossils too. Off to find @Nick Adams at an undisclosed location to meet a new member. He will rummage through them and give the rest to a science teacher to help in the teaching of future adults. How cool is that? We here at the BilletHead household have a couple we kept after digging in a private quarry in Wyoming near fossil butte and it was time for someone to enjoy the rest plus Mrs. BilletHead was tired of having them around. Nick is a nice guy and a new friend like it or not. Next call was to @grizwilson for directions on getting my way back home and avoid the Springfield mess going on right now. Griz knows about everything and soon had me going around and taking a scenic route home and I seen new country along the way. Plus got to visit with him about projects we both have going on. So many friends here and more to hopefully meet someday. We should all be thankful to have a place like this to communicate with others that have the same likes. I have learned so much from this place. So lurkers come out of the closet and share what you know and ask questions of what you don't. Thanks @Phil Lilley for this platform.

I will be looking for you when it goes online Griz.

Hot Dog what a great bonus, congrats!

Big thick boneless pork chop with mashed taters Whole cranberry sauce and a guilty easy pleasure of stovetop stuffing. since Pat made biscuits and gravy for breakfast, she opted not to make gravy out of the chop drippings.