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According to Nick Karas’ book, the Falkland Islands has the southern most brookies–put there in World War II by British officers who missed their trout fishing.
Zach:
The trout handbook which is an interpretative sumary says “closed to fishing.” The actual codebook (1/2006) says: “This area is closed to fishing or wading from November 1 – January 31.”
Thanks. I didn’t realize the code book went further either.
The eggs start to soften about a month before emergence around the 1st of February which is part of the reason for the reg.
Scott
Everybody who travels and fishes ought to consider the Aquastealth sole to help minimize transmitting invasive species such as Didymo around to others waters.
New Zealand biologists have discovered it is almost impossible to rid felt soles of Didymo algae cells.
http://www.nzfishing.com/Other/PressReleaseFeltSoledBoots.htm. Not much of a surprise there I guess.I’ve used a pair of LL Bean Aquastealth for the past 3-4 years and am getting ready to replace them with Simms L2 Aquastealth.
I was going to buy a pair Weinbrenner stealth boots as their wide fit has been one of the most comfortable boots for me over the years. However, because of the overseas imports they are downsizing and have eliminated the Aquastealth sole from their lineup just recently.
I’ve probably bought my last pair of felt boots.
Scott
Wonderful photos all. Welcome back Zach.
The Bull Shoals state park C&R area extends for .8 mile down from the dam to the wingdike at the state park trout dock. It is closed for the spawn.
The statepark area from the wingdike to somewhere below Big Spring becomes a seasonal catch and release area during that closure and is closed to night fishing just like Cow Shoals on the Little Red.
I found out today Game and Fish has redesigned their website http://www.agfc.com
and all their material is not back up yet. But their trout reg book with the maps and everything should be back up soon–I hope. I’ll have to redo all my links to their site as their redesign broke everything.Happy Holidays,
ScottGreat pics Matt!!!
Like the Sepia touch too.
I hope I was good enough this year so Santa will bring me that new Nikon camera!!!
Enjoyed the pics.
Happy Holiday!!!
JPHey guys, don’t get me wrong. I am a contributor to the Drake mag right now; it’s one of a few fishing magazines I read regularly. I just don’t care for the board.
Lauren
You all have been doing a fantastic job on this site. I know the dedication & time it takes to make a board a success. Greatly appreciate it.
This site/board does add value unlike others out there.
I enjoy reading the posts, pics, pod casts etc.
Keep up the good work!!!
Happy Holidays.How about horns on a trout with a cowboy on the other side of the logo casting a fly and having the end of the loop over the horns
Anybody here using ACDSEE Pro Photo Manager? I attended a workshop last August with Loren Neil, product line manager at ACDSee, where he demonstrated the program. I purchased the program shortly after. It is a cataloger like Lightroom but also a browser like Adobe Bridge. You can also edit raw files non-destructively, and a couple times I’ve saved some photos that I shot underexposed. You simply change the exposure compensation setting in the program. Pro Photo’s core competence is speed.
Would be interested in any comparision between Pro Photo and Lightroom if anyone has used both. Loren did say, which made a lot of sense to me, once you decide on a Data Asset Management program stick with it. You build up quite an investment in the time you spend cataloguing. It doesn’t make sense to have multiple data bases of your files.
Any thoughts?
Nope!
I can’t find anything on DXR multipliers either. I remember the DXR were originally produced as Direct Drive/Anti-Reverse reels.
The anti-reverse feature might get confused with a multiplier action.
Let the buyer beware
Photoshop Elements has a Photomerge feature that works pretty good, especially if you take care to level the camera and get some precise overlap. It has an auto and a manual mode. I am still using Elements 1.0, so they may have changed it on the menu (File-Photomerge).
Does Photoshop have the feature?
Snaggletooth:
Curious too. I don’t know anything about the DXRs but I have a couple of battenkill multipliers (5/6 and 7/8). The 7/8 would be capable of handling some of the larger species you mentioned. It has been a serviceable reel, and I suspect the DXR is quite good quality. On the Battenkill’s you do have to keep the gears cleaned and oiled, but they work smoothly if you do.
I saw one post where the later DXRs were made by Ross Reels, but I don’t know if that would have been true of the multipliers. Martin is the only one still making a multipier as far as I am aware as they have a serious steelheader following. Hardy continued for a while after Orvis stopped but they appear to have discontiued them now as well.
Would expect it to be an extremely heavy reel. Let me know if you get it and what you think of it. Or if you have had experiences with other multipliers. They are probably all going to be antiques before long.
Nice post, and I can attest to the effectiveness of the Shrimp! Mine is a bit simpler, but they really eat them up sometimes. The Mysis has been my go to under the majority of conditions in Erie for quite some time now. Here’s one that ate the shrimp the day before turkey day!
Mike: I heard Darrell Bowman say recently that the spawn on Norfork is usually not very good and that most of the successful brown trout spawn is below Bull Shoals dam. Old statistics I heard ten years ago said that G&F did not stock browns above White Hole on the White and that the brown trout spawning success ranged from 0-60% there in any given year depending on water conditions and weather.
That being said, the preceding trout biologist told me that he didn’t believe stocked browns would make it up over about 10-15 pounds and the reason was partly genetic but mainly conditioning. I suspect any fish that large or bigger is going to be traceable as as descendant back to that original stocking via eggs in the late 70s. There are probably at least 3-4 strains of browns in the river system. The ones Whitlock and NAFF put in the White were Bitterroot strain I think. It would be interesting to know the original locations of those Vibert boxes.
The biologists right now do not have a handle on the various strains of browns, rainbows, etc. But in the future, as it gets cheaper, I am sure they will start to do some DNA testing in their research, and once that happens they will definitely have some great tools to answer questions of origins and relationships of the strains of fish between the tailwaters.
Zach: Steve Wright’s book is out of print, but he is supposedly working on a new edition…but I’ve heard that now for several years. There are two used copies on Amazon at the moment available for $75 and $85!
Scuplin:
Pragmatically, I probably agree with you…it is easilier to draw more flies with honey than vinegar.
But you may want to rethink implying morality and ethics do not depend on common sense and critical thinking. If you read Walton’s quotation again, you will see there is quite a bit of common sense and good thinking in it. PRIMARY argument–He says it is against nature. Why? Because of the very thing you said…you kill not only the mother on the nest, but the entire next generation.
The secondary argument is what makes a lot of folks choke.
Mike wrote:
It’s nice to pretend we’re doing the right thing and letting the little Trouties spawn …
Steve wrote:
There is no moral high ground on this subject.
I actually believe there is a moral high ground on the subject. I just feel I cannot impose it on other anglers angling legally as you said Steve.
But Walton in Complete Angler was very clear and used biblical ethics to teach not fishing to trout on the redds. He says, “But, above all, the taking fish in spawning-time may be said to be against nature: it is like taking the dam on the nest when she hatches her young, a sin so against nature, that Almighty God hath in the Levitical law made a law against it.” See Deuteronomy 22:6. Ethics entered into much of his writing on fly fishing since it was the “contemplative man’s recreation.”
