drew03cmc

I had a tube, but I used it once in a year, so it got sold to fund a rod.

You too? Hmm...I thought I was alone.

Roaring River is put and take as well, but its location requires a longer driver for a lot of folks. All the parks are on equal terms. You can catch big fish, but you have to find them.

J. Austin Forbes Magnesium for sale. Like new, I used it once. I bought it to fish on the Superfine 1wt, but like the Tuna Can Martins better. I am looking to get $58 shipped for the reel. These reels retail for $79 through a Forbes USA dealer in Connecticut. I bought it two weeks ago and fished it once. The reel weighs 2.2 ounces, and has a capacity of WF4F and 150 yards of 12# backing or 100 yards of 20#. It is a great reel for your short creek sticks. Here are a few pictures. The line and backing are not included. Also, for an additional $10, I will throw in a Fishpond reel case, the blue model. Get the whole shooting match for $68 shipped or offer me a trade for something you have. I am interested in WF2F fly lines like the Pocket Water by Rio or something similar, as well as vintage Tuna Can Martin 61s, especially the copper colored models. Let me know! Let me know what you are interested in via PM. Paypal or a trade is preferred. Thanks!

It's called fishing, not catching. There is nothing to be resolved. It was a bad year in the hatcheries. Deal with it or stay home. I am sure one person not going there will not hurt anything. You caught 7 fish. That is more than a lot of people catch in a year, but hey, who am I to speak? For someone to be upset because they can't catch 20 fish a day, is a little ridiculous. Why do you want to pay to catch fish anyway? Go chase some wild fish. Get away from the hatchery managed streams.

I suggest Panther Martins. They are amazing, and they spin freely with a minimal retrieve speed.

Congrats!

I have used one of Dane's (DF) 3'10" shortie Light leaders for two plus years now and have had no issues with it at all. They roll over better than the comparable BlueSky leader. I will only use furled leaders. Never going back to a knotless leader again if I can help it.

Thursday is going to be good! I can't wait to watch the Tigers win...wait, which Tigers you might ask, MIZZOU of course!

Hmm...rainy fishing...that works for me. I love fishing in the rain, and I use that Bug Luggage box without a problem. Also, I have a pair of the Orvis foam lightweight boxes that I have fished with in the rain and didn't have any issues either. If I need a watertight box, I will get the cheapest one I can find, and then pick up something else I need. I have gotten to only carrying one box with a variety of flies in it.

I have not experienced the problem with flies spinning, however, I have noticed that when you point your rod tip at the fly to break it off in a snag, it does recoil. It shows the shock absorbency of the leader.

Buzz, I haven't had a problem with any leaders untwisting, but I had a Blue Sky twist shut the loop for the tippet. The way DF does his tippet loop, it never closes or twists shut. The shorb loop he uses is great. I am not a fan of the metal ring personally, but that is just me.

I put a furled leader on EVERY line I own. I won't fish without one unless I absolutely have to. My favorite ones are from http://dffurledleaders.com/. He sold me a few leaders before he went public with them, and I still use one of them (other is too heavy). I have a thread furled leader that I am going to try out this week from him as well, but they are amazing. I can throw any fly in my box on a 1wt, and it turns over and lands delicately. Also, when you hook a large fish, the furled leader acts as a shock absorber preventing shock damage to your tippet and therefore saving fish. BlueSky makes decent leaders and will take care of you as a customer. I had one break on me at the loop for tippet attachment, and I let Jim know, in three days, I had a new leader in the mail. They get an A+++++ from me for customer service. I am still using the broken leader though. I cut it off, and used a perfection loop in the end, sealed with super glue and it works just as well if not better now than it did before. You owe it to yourself as a fly fisherman to try a furled leader...well, I say try, but you will never go back. Try one from DF Furled Leaders! Dane is a good guy, and can make about any leader you want.

Generally, when I fish my spin gear, I give the spinner a sharp jerk before reeling to start the spinner blades going. Try that and see if that works for you. If not, try Panther Martin jk.

Good call Doug! Thanks a million. You, dpenrod and I should get together to harass some bluegill soon!

I hope I have a good photographer there too. Nobody would believe a 1wt fish weighed 20#. Anyway, those people who come along like that need to be ticketed for poaching. When I release a fish, I keep hold on his tail until he pulls out from my grasp.

Only one SEC team, LSU, has advanced. The Big 12 is the only conference that has won all their games. We are the most underrated conference in the nation, and MU will whoop Marquette!

OTF, we kind of did hijack it...oh well, it happens. Now, I want you to think of this. How many fish did the state stock at Bennett before C&R season? Do you figure those fish into the figures the accountant can figure out? Also, how about holdover fish? Are they figured in? No. The stream has many holdover fish every year, but honestly, the park is there for put and take fishing. The parks are great places to take your 1wt fly rod and some 6x tippet. Swing a soft hackle in the riffles in Zone 2 at Bennett and have fun with 10" rainbows. Maramec, in its current state has no gravel riffles that can support redds. If they refilled it in with gravel, and knocked down those dams, there would be many benefits. Better fly fishing access, more browns in the park, more smallmouth in the park all year, and they could even leave a few pools over a few feet deep for bait slingers to soak bait in. Roaring River is ideally set up IMO, and with the deep pools, you can soak bait, swing streamers, and fish dries.

Saluki, you mentioned smallmouth's problems, and personally, in a few waterways, their major problem is trout. I have no problem keeping a big fish. That is my legal right, and nobody can sway me either way. If I caught a 20 pound brown, the fish would be photo'd, and taken to a taxidermist.

Ok. There is a difference in a better box and a more expensive box. I, personally, like the Bug Luggage box I got for half price. I won't spend the money on C&F boxes, as there are better things to spend it on. Fly boxes are expendable, and why are they filling with water? Are you swimming with them?

You mean the hatcheries can't keep up? We might get some of our native warmwater fisheries back? No way...MDC won't allow that.

They are roughfish, but the way they have a kind of iridescent purplish sheen on their sides is kind of pretty.

I caught him on a 5wt, but wish I had a 3 or 2 to fight him. It would have been more fun.

Montauk, yes, Maramec, no, Bennett, maybe, Roaring River, possibly in the lower 1/3. A wild trout fights harder than a silver bullet also.

Drum like holding in slack water near deeper water just off the channel of the river. I caught mine casting cross channel onto a rock flat. Here is a picture of him. and another one of the same fish. The fly in his mouth is a 2" woolly.