Thursday, 11 of March of 2010

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Culled Out: Banning Fishing?

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?The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.

This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is “fluid” and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force still hasn’t issued its final report on zoning uses of these waters.

That’s a disappointment, but not really a surprise for fishing industry insiders who have negotiated for months with officials at the Council on Environmental Quality and bureaucrats on the task force. These angling advocates have come to suspect that public input into the process was a charade from the beginning.

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Read the rest of the story by copying and pasting the link below.

http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/saltwater/news/story?id=4975762

An opinion piece by Robert Montgomery of BASS.  Disturbing to say the least.

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Low Water Afternoon Last Week.

It looks as though generation has begun this morning at 3:00 am and is scheduled to ramp up through out the morning from one unit to two units and then to four units.  If you have ever used these charts to try and plan a day of fishing then you know how frustrating it can be as yesterday generation was schedule to be off for a bit.  Of course that did not happen.  Today I will try and catch the rise at about white hole or wildcat and ride it down stream.  It would have been nice if the water was shut off for a longer period of time but then we don’t always get what we want.  The lake temps are at 42 and 43 with some warmer temps on the north side in shallower areas.  Our weather is much warmer that it has been this past week and this guide has been able to wear flip flops for the past couple of days.  I like it :)

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Fly Tying Contest

Check out this you tube from our trip this past thursday.  Created by  Brent M of Feather-Craft in St. Louis.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zGHRFFScDE

fly tying contest where the winner has their fly in Feather-Craft’s 2011 catalogue AND other super-sweet prizes?  Well, it is happening.  I’ve been working with Feather-Craft to get this thing rolling and I have to say…it is the best fly tying contest I have heard of.   The winner will have their fly produced by Rainy’s, will win a new Renzetti Traveler Vise along with other awesome prizes (one of which I am completely freaking out about.)  Prizes like these are literally unheard of as far tying contest go so you would think the major production tyers will be submitting their patterns right?  Wrong…no “ringers” allowed, those tyers that already have a fly in production are not allowed to submit.  In other words this contest is for the average joe fly tyer.

The contest site is in blog format and will feature every-single-fly that is in the contest, with a photo, and ‘recipe’ for all the flies as well!  And since it is in blog format comments are allowed and VERY welcome.  As a matter of fact you can go to the site right now,  post a comment on the March Giveaway page and you could win a Renzetti this month!  When you are there sign up for email notifications because the site will be changing all the time.  Pretty cool customer service kind of thing from an awesome fly shop!

So go to www.flytyingcontest.com to check it out.

UpDate: Tuesday

Generation continues at Bull shoals Dam with 1 to 3 1/2 units around the clock.  This past thursday I did find a caddis at the C&R area and yesterday was getting reports of caddis further down stream.  It is time for a caddis hatch.  A dry Humpy with a dropper on lower flows can be deadly from tucker down at this time.   Good fishing.

Stay fishy my friends

Jim


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