Idylwilde

Good luck on the trout stream that close to Willow Spring!

With the low and mid rang digital camera the photo shop I use is to ether darken, remove noise, de_dust, crop, lighten or darken them. I have only the basic knowledge of the program I add no effects or to the photos. If the photo needs to be lighter because of the conditions of the light when and whee the photo was taken I will one stop fix it with the program, and if the white turns out yellow in the photo I will try to make it white. I do not pretend to be an artist with a camera nor do I sell prints. So the program is what it is and in today's digital age it's just part of the deal.

Did you try Gink or Mucilin fly dressing?

J:Son Caddis Adult Wing Material Micro. Easy and quick to put on.

This is not exactly a parachute but the wings are hi-vis. It has been a great spring to fall fly for me.

Kids free fishing is this Saturday at Bennett Spring & Montauk State Park's. Day filled with all kinds of treats for the kids 1-15 years of age. Sections of the stream is stocked several times a day with trout and limited to only kids. Prizes and lunch will be free to the kids.

Big Piney is great right now all the way from Sand Shoals to Slab Town and more. Bass is good also on top water right now.

Drift just off the bottom under an Indicator or as a dropper off a dry fly, size 18 - 20 is good on the Current River. High stick it through the riffles and let it swing up in the eddies. Also their are several colors and names for look alike flies like the Ice Cream Cone, Little Dipper, and Tungsten Gray. Great little fish catchers

Out Standing rates on the pets and extra person.

It's here waiting on you!

An angler who traveled all the way from St Joseph MO, to fish the Current River, brought this nice little fly box into the shop today. He found it on the trail below Tan Vat today. The box has been there for awhile. It had some flies that came from our shop. So just give us a call and tell me how to get it to you. Most of the flies in it are bad now but the box is in great shape.

I am good with that idea also. Send it in and see what you get back. LOL I have sent three and have not heard anything back.

I have sent in my letter to MDC, but we are not going to get anything accomplished on changing anything here on the forum unless each one of us feel it would be a good thing and get our friends involved also in a letter writing campaign. we set here and get all excited and type how we feel to each other and log off and it leaves our mind until we go fishing and see how much things are changed on the stream. We could set here for two years and this tread may or may not re-jog our minds that something needs to be done. In the mean time the MDC loves for these things to die away and not be bothered with them. & if we had a 1000 letters in the mail today the system they set rules by would take the rest of this year. Several of the post on here have excellent points to why this should be changed, so we need to get them to the people that need to know. The MDC home page had links to all the people that has the power to make this happen. So can we see just how much of a ripple we can make?

1/64 oz brown on a #4 hook with brown rubber shirt with flared head & an uncle josh 101 pork chunk brown. And a 4" silver and blue Rapala. Also the Cream flat tail flesh colored 4" worm. Is about all I ever carry for Smallmouth I can put it all in a sandwich bag. If after dark I might use a Jitter Bug in black.

You bet he is! Just walk in tell him you heard he was a FFF certified casting instructor. That should get the conservation going.

I fished the Blue Ribbon area from Baptist Camp to Parker Ford yesterday. The caddis were hatching and falling back on the surface pretty much all the way down. I started using a Chubby Scud and only had two cookie cutter browns take it. I switched to a #18 tan and olive Parachute Caddis dry and started catching several 15-16" browns. At times there were dozens of bugs floating along side the fly but the fish were not rising for anything. I also saw a couple stone fly nymphs on the edge of the shallow water. The Stone fly patterns are not something I depend on to take fish that are in that area. For the 4 hours spent on the water I had 7 fish on line. That's a slow day, but I also had anglers ahead of me with spin-cast rigs and walking the high banks. This tends to put the fish in a defencive mode and stuck to the bottom. I only saw one Brown that would be 3#. He was stuck to the bottom in the food riffle in deeper water and nothing seem to get him to move. On the way back I found a hog hunter streamer in a tree If any of you guys lost it I have it at the fly shop just come in and you can pick it up. Nice looking streamer. Just tell me what size leader was tied to it.

Laker67 the fine angler I speak of I heard tell another fine angler one day the way to catch a big fish is to "harass it to a point to where it lays down in a whole exhausted and gasping for oxygen and then pull a visible jig in it's mouth and yank!" That's not my words it's the fine anglers. No matter what skill level and angler is or wither or not he is an honest angler. One Brown trout of a legal size should be held as a standard State wide.

What I have seen is the same 4 or five anglers come up with 4 brown trout all over 3 to 8 # as much as 3 times a week. One angler was on the board with over 18 browns in the 5 to 8# class. I hear the anglers who witnessed the catch tell what they saw. & believe me when I say I hear and see a lot that goes on when the brown's hit the park. I hear the anglers brag about they have found a big brown and are going to catch it on a white jig, and in less than an hour has it on a stringer along with two or three more. These guys never bring in a fish under 3#. One young boy last year caught a 8# brown on Berkley cheese bait and was so proud to have caught it. I was so happy to have heard that he caught it also. This is what the Brown Trout mean to anglers, they are a trophy fish to them. I am sure he would been just as proud if the fish would have been a 3# rainbow or brown. But the fact that this brown was not a hatchery plant for at least 3 or 4 years makes a difference. The rainbow at 3# to 18# are stocked in the park and only last a few day's. I do not believe that any fish that has been stocked inside the park will ever grow to 4# from stocking size. The brown trout that are stocked below the park stand a chance to grow to their size because of the rules which are set in that area. Then because of the instinct to find cooler water in the hot part of the summer they swim into a slaughter house so to speak. I have no trouble at seeing anglers inside the park take a 18" brown. In the same time I hate to see the complete whipe out of all the big browns. How hard would it be to just set a limit 1 at 20" for everyone? The agents would not have any question as to the size or number of browns a guy has. At least a few of the 15 to 18" fish could make the trip through the park and back to safe waters to continue to grow for another year. I also understand the economy of the brown trout to the state. We have people who spend money in the state just to come catch a trophy Brown. Gas. Motel, Tackle, Food, I don't have to tell you guy's about what you spend to travel to your dream fishing spot. Would you come back to a fishing area that you caught nothing that it was advertised as ( A trophy Area.) Just my thought on the subject.

No one is saying it's not a put and take matter. I am only saying take one 20" (If thats something you have to do) & let the others go only on the Brown Trout. I would like to see some 30" brown's in the Trophy water. Why have a Trophy area if all the bigger browns are caught in the park before they get to grow to that size. And I have been told by folks in MDC that the science does not support changing the size or limit. I have no idea where they studied science but they sure must of not skipped any classes to fish for brown trout. Or for that matter they must not do any fishing for them now. The only way to get a rule changed with MDC is make as much noise as you can and not stop. If you stop they think it will go away and you have to start all over again from the start.

I am with you on the limit of one and I would like to see it at 20". We have lost most of the trophy browns in the Blue Ribbon area over the last summer. The winter season had only a few over 3# that was hooked. The 5-8# browns which were caught in the park last summer did a job on them. And 4 guys keeping 1 20" trout is better than the same 3 or 4 guys taking 4 a day. Just Saying.

The Upper Current River had a brown trout stocking yesterday! 10"-12" fish. White # 16-18 Woolly Bugger, Tan #18 caddis, & stimulator will keep fish on the line all day. From Baptist camp to park.

Don't use them to start with! Lots of new type of strike indicators to use on the market.But if you have wd-40 will take it off, don't spray it on the line just a very lite dot of it on a rag or tissue will do the trick.

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LOL!!! In April you guy's will it pretty much to yourself during the week and the weekends are not bad.What this is is OPENING DAY! It's always crazy on that day.