Mark Knapp

Fish them. 😁

Interesting to know. It's funny because, those flies are legal to use in the US, but not legal to import. Wacky.

Yep, I use both methods, the needle/bodkin and the or the cauterizer, witch-ever I think suitable for the task at the time. Almost always with a guard, sometimes a guard is not needed when using the bodkin, but a steady hand is.

I've never seen a "Tarpon applicator"🤣

Very cool.

"One who is apt to wield the sword is certain to eventually need his shield" Mark Knapp circa 1999.

I've given the part to my shipping dept. for mail out. Her name is Angel. You can expect it soon.

Hey Chug, may I please have your snail mail address, I've misplaced it. (PM)

Awe Shucks

That depends, do they ever switch back?

Stainless it is. Working on the "Trappers Fling" this weekend. That's our annual dinner and fund raiser. We will work on your part Monday.

Maybe Will would hand the face book site to us for administering. Do we want to?

I have checked my steel supply, I have 3/16 in stainless, it won't blacken (I was going to) Is stainless OK with you?

You should ask for your money back, I would, double. There used to be paid sponsors on this site but people bad mouthed them on the site so much (no class) that they all pulled out. Now the whole thing is paid for by the owner. It's expensive to run a web site but free to us. People even bad mouth him as they use his site for free. We all do the best we can.

Yes, I use it all the time, I have several others including top names but I almost always use the TRV. No vise is perfect but to me, mine is close.

Gimme a minute, I'll make you one.

That's a great little trick. I just tried it. Thanks.

Just catching up from the last week. Nice ties all.

It was that, we had to wait six days to wait out bad weather before we could hunt, and the hunt was a blast. I'm still working on things, but feeling pretty good. Thanks Bud.

No offense at all, without snow mobiles, they would be almost impossible to get. With snow mobiles, it can't exactly be called "fair chase". We covered 104 miles round trip to get this one. It was a 9 hour day from start to finish. The weather changed almost by the minute. We drove through blizzard/white-out conditions to get there and back. Where the musk ox were, as you can see, it was pretty nice. We got home at 1:30 in the morning through conditions that some people would not have gotten through. I could not have done it without my guides. We first had to wait-out six days of bad weather. The hunt itself consisted of driving to high points and glassing untold square miles of hilly expanses looking for herds of animals. We would then approach each heard to look for good bulls. The animal went down pretty easily with one, well placed shot. We looked at about 40 animals, some were cows and calves, some were bulls we could not get to. I shot mine out of a group of 6, it took almost an hour to get a shot of the one I wanted because the others were too close. While waiting and watching for a shot they got away, we had to find them again and do more waiting. Its a hunt done for an experience like no other. I'm glad I did it. Also, the meat is excellent. I'm happy to answer any questions.

The kicker is, I already had a whole hide for flies. This hide will be to thrown over the back of a couch.

It was just about as much fun as when we went to Africa. It's so different there. We had a great time. Thanks Bud.

They really are. I had one on a little bigger than this a few days ago and lost him. I saw this one three times in the water under my hole and tried for him most of the day before I got him. Leaving on the musk ox hunt today. Talk to you guys later.

A 34 inch burbot through the ice. My best one from this lake so far.