Felt Soled Waders Banned In Mo Trout Waters!

[Mitch f]

Ya gotta give OB credit, he has addressed a lot of slanted questions intellectually and still hasn't called anyone a flippin idiot... and that's better than I coulda done. Your points are all good, OB.

I think for myself personally, a ban on felt will be a tough pill to swallow because I don't like someone telling me what to do when I know that I am causing no harm, and in essence care more about the streams than the ones making the rules do.

I know that! I'm proud of OB on this one, standing up for his opinion with no name calling

[bigredbirdfan]

Yeah its kinda like all the different speed limits on every fricking different road. Heck sometimes the speed limits changes multiple times on the same road!! And then you toss in school zones, work zones, this zone, that zone...I mean come on! Just set one speed limit for all roads and call it good!

You probably enjoy our current tax code as well?

[bigredbirdfan]

My point was/is that with a wildlife code book approaching the size of a small text book the more regulations you come up with the less likely poeple are to abide by most of any of them. They don't take the time to read it as they should. At some point will we have a test to get your fishing license like your drivers license? We are quickly approaching enough regulations to justify it. And I would venture to guess most (including a lot of you here) would fail it on a state wide test.

And BTW even with banning felt this crap will end up there anyway some how some way and were will I be. Sliding around on it wishing I had my felt soled waders that are illegal.

[ozark trout fisher]

And BTW even with banning felt this crap will end up there anyway some how some way and were will I be. Sliding around on it wishing I had my felt soled waders that are illegal.

I don't particularly like that line of reasoning, as in, I don't think we can prevent it anyway, so we shouldn't even try. No, when it comes to things like this, you do everything you can to prevent the spread of didymo to our streams. And then if it happens anyway, well, then at least we tried.

[bigredbirdfan]

I don't particularly like that line of reasoning, as in, I don't think we can prevent it anyway, so we shouldn't even try. No, when it comes to things like this, you do everything you can to prevent the spread of didymo to our streams. And then if it happens anyway, well, then at least we tried.

I didn't say not do anything did I? You made that intrepretation. Which happens frequently on this forum. Let me explain what I did say. It will end up there some how some way. Have you not seen Jurasic Park?

[Brian Wise]

If me using rubber soles instead of felt gives my little boys a 1% better chance at not having to see the North Fork of the White or any other Missouri trout stream infected with Didymo then I say great.

It may not "decimate"...but how awesome would it be to fish here...................

[fishinwrench]

Check out the background scenery of that pic though, Brian. Looks beautiful! Didymo may just be the best condo repellant ever !

But yeah, that's the anti-felt poster everyone has seen, pic obviously taken after a long dry period. We get similar sporadic blooms of algae from time to time on the tribs of LO, Truman and Pomme. Usually in the early Spring before we get a good rain, and afterwards it is gone for the rest of the year.

Seriously though, Id like to see a current pic of that same spot, I bet it all washed away in the next high water event.

Nobody is gonna fish in that slow shallow frogwater (where algae grows) anyway.

[ozark trout fisher]

I didn't say not do anything did I? You made that intrepretation. Which happens frequently on this forum.

Okay, so if you are not advocating just sitting back and doing nothing, what course of action are you saying we should take to prevent the spread of didymo? If you have some idea better than banning felt, then we would all be very interested in hearing it.

[Brian Wise]

Check out the background scenery of that pic though, Brian. Looks beautiful! Didymo may just be the best condo repellant ever !

But yeah, that's the anti-felt poster everyone has seen, pic obviously taken after a long dry period. We get similar sporadic blooms of algae from time to time on the tribs of LO, Truman and Pomme. Usually in the early Spring before we get a good rain, and afterwards it is gone for the rest of the year.

Seriously though, Id like to see a current pic of that same spot, I bet it all washed away in the next high water event.

Nobody is gonna fish in that slow shallow frogwater (where algae grows) anyway.

Actually Wrench, talking with the guys on the White the blooms get bigger with more flow which I thought was crazy. That picture is for sure the massively bad end of the stuff.....but I have seen the C&R area below BS Dam in not 'that' much different shape.

[sean c]

Here's one, and I'm guessing I speak for hundreds of folks who haven't posted:

No big deal. I'll get some new boots if I have to.

I'm with Ness. Outside Bend if I ever meet you in person I would like to buy you a beer.