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SteveP would do some fly tying videos for the Rainbow Fly Shop in Independence MO. I called there today, guy that answered the phone said Steve didn't work there or anything and that he hadn't see him in some time, he just did some videos for them and stopped by sometimes. I left my name and number if word gets to the shop that something bad happened to him.

Now I'm wishing I would have tied a mulberry fly for this swap instead of the fly I tied.

Where you at swapmiester.

So am I after I saw your carp lollipop fly.

Mailed my today(Tuesday)

I will have mine in the mail by Saturday.

Fishing was good. Few snook, few trout, and a mixed bag of some other stuff. No Reds though.

I just returned from 4 days of fishing in Charlotte Harbor. I was thanking my lucky stars for the absolutely beautiful weather! We left my dads action craft docked at Fishermans Village during my stay. Someone siphoned about 10+/- gallons from us on Saturday night, I filled the tank full after running all day Saturday with 15 gallons+/-. My dad thought I was pulling his chain on Sunday morning because the tank was registering half full. Normally the boat is stored in his garage but with me in town fishing both high tides, we left it in.

My wife was born on May 16th 1977. May 17th, ain't no thing.

Do we have an official due date?

Never fished it. Most of the farm was sold some years ago to Walters Gardens Inc and the house, barns and remaining two+/- acres sold about 5 years ago.

There is a reason that carp are so plentiful!!. There are very focused spawners!.

I'm in Royal Oak. I used to raft the Colorado(Pump house to State Bridge), Blue(upper and lower), Arkansas(Browns/Numbers/Royal Gorge), Frying Pan, Eagle..... White water group paddles, oar frame fishing trips, and single-man BIG!!! run-off white water competitions on most of waters named in my 16' Cataraft.(sold before leaving CO) PM if you need a third man along. I would be just as happy manning the oars as throwing flies.

Did you break your left arm when your were a kid?

Woodstock Craw by Russ Madden My absolute best producing fly on the St. Clair flats.

Oh yeah, I forgot the important stuff: I beat..... I cast with my left and reel with my right and I am not a south paw when threatened.

I'm in!

Everyone is born left-handed and remain left handed until their first sin is committed- Grandpa Schaffer RIP, left handed until that day he died at 95 years old. I'm still left handed! I golf right, bat right, throw a Frisbee right handed (broke my left arm when I was 5, learned with a cast on my arm), write left, throw left, page through magazines from back to front, and hold the thread with the right hand. I also like the regular right-handed saws and I learned to use right handed scissors at a very young age. I found my elementary school teachers discriminatory against lefties.

I grew up in Holland. My wife's family had a large farm in Hamilton with the Rabbit running along one of the boundaries. Nice photos.

Self employed Real Estate Appraiser, but before that I was custom log home and timber-frame home builder in CO.

I do not agree ... Trout can see an insect on the surface, and eat it, that we can't even tell was ever there. Fish can see better than people, they just don't have the mental capability of conscious thought. They don't think or reason, "Oh, that doesn't look like the other bugs I've been eating." Their vision is different that ours, not worse. And their interpretation of what the eye sees would be alien to us, even if we could experience it. I do agree with your statement that size, shape and movement are what's important ... but not your reason for that. Yeah but could a trout spot ham and cheese hot pockets at the back and bottom of a grocery store freezer.

I think it boils down to what is making the water color the color it is. The forage in a particular body of water adapts to the vegetation, bottom type, geology, flow, and contaminants. Muddy run off water in a generally clear lake, early season in sandy bottomed lake with seasonal vegetation blooms, rocky bottoms with changing flows and water conditions, etc I think most of the posters of touched on this aspect but knowing the body of water is the best start. I fish areas of Lake St. Clair in which the bottom is a light colored silt with pockets of vegetation, shallow water with some small deep runs. Weather, water clarity, season, specie, forage and just about every other variable imagined impacts my success choosing colors. I like to keep a journal recording the constants and the variables and then look for consistencies in the data......ah heck who am I kidding, I burn through more tippet tying on everything in my box until something works.

Heading to Denver on Saturday for a wedding. I have about 5 hours to kill from the time my flight lands to the start of the wedding. I'm just looking for a basic report on carp activity in the South Platte. Thanks.

Its irresponsible to fish for Musky with an undersized rod. Musky fights should be short and they only way to make them short is with the proper # rod and a reel with a drag that fits. "wearing out my arm" That would be a weak excuse for downsizing when the difference in weight between 6# rod and a 12# rod is 1-1 1/2 ounces tops, yeah yeah, "but the reel and the line" blah blah.

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