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Alfalfa is more like browse. Peel open a bud on any sapling....that is what they are eating. A little green...a little brown plant material. I would be leery of corn from everything I have read. Notice the bait piles shown on those big Saskatchewan deer hunting shows are bales of Alfalfa.

Illegal in NY. Now if you were to lets say.....put up a giant "bird feeder" that would be ok. Of course bales of Alfalfa is great for soil erosion too.

Can only help in stained water. Classics such as Storm Thunderstick Jr, Rattlin' Rogues, Bombers, Rapala Husky Jerks, and my favorite Renoskys all clobber fish in the spring..... then again so do spoons (no rattle). Fish are stupid in the spring.

All that time in the saddle...you truckers always get hemi-roids.

I am going to pull my Redass card on this thread. Jeepers you guys have cabin fever!

I believe Capt. Samia posted something on his blog last year about lead length off a downrigger ball and the effect on the flasher's rotation diameter as observed on underwater camera. I believe he said it was similar to what happens with a kite when you decrease the lead length you increase the whip action......I think.

Ya that will catch fish.....esp. west of Rochester.

Hey a nibble....thanks Stinger.

I was wondering if all the different colors that pop out of the pattern would either lite-up kings into a frenzy or make them cross-eyed and confused. I am worried now it is the later as nobody has commented on the pattern. I am picturing a couple hundred LOU members staring cross-eyed (more cross-eyed than normal actually) at their computer screen......maybe I should not have posted the pictures. Come on !!!!!! I need stroking as these are my first attempts at tying trolling flies on bullet heads. OR . If the patterns are then .

This is the latest in the "got-to-have" materials.... lateral scale mirage that looks UNBELIEVABLE. Looks "purple" from the side but changes so many colors at different angles with a scale pattern that gives the pattern realism. Trying to get Tom Allen to produce these as I could not find the material in a banded form making it tedious to band each indivigual strand myself on double-sided tape. If you would like to see this material in a fly you should flood Tom Allen's PM box with requests ...hehehehe . First pattern is just the Mirage, the second is an Aqua-crinkle (little boy blue) over the mirage. The material is available in non-banded form at Cabelas...and it aint cheap. There is a "mountain-dew" looking version that the boys in Oswego might find interesting. http://www.cabelas.com/product/Hareline-Lateral-Scale-Tying-Material/1791654.uts?Ntk=AllProducts&searchPath=%2Fcatalog%2Fsearch.cmd%3Fform_state%3DsearchForm%26N%3D0%26fsch%3Dtrue%26Ntk%3DAllProducts%26Ntt%3Dlateral%2Bscale%2Bflashabou%26x%3D10%26y%3D11%26WTz_l%3DHeader%253BSearch-All%2BProducts&Ntt=lateral+scale+flashabou&WTz_l=Header%3BSearch-All+Products

Agreed. My flies have four large 12mm beads and 30" leaders... more of a scoot and glide rather than a whip action.

Great video aid.....and very clean cuticles for a fisherman!

Balloon knot of course.

An unfortunate occurrence with antler restrictions will be some waste. A hunter who thought he was shooting an eight pointer only to find the deer had no brow tines will leave the dead deer rather than face a fine (just an example). I have witnessed this play out on QDM managed properties where fines were levied to members shooting "subpar" bucks. The best plan continues to be voluntary QDM with verbal agreements between adjacent landowners if possible. Agreed we don't need anymore rules levied by the state.

I call them rod movers because if you want to get some rods moving put one of them out. An orange double crush spiny with cutdown 3" fly on a 4 or 5 color will catch fish every time out.

Most of us don't change all our spoon hooks to Owners. Owner is a quality hook and I use them but I started using extra old spoon hooks on flys and actually saw an increase in land ratio esp.with a hook that had a longer shank and a kirbed down point. Most of the hooks I speak of are the old Fishlander spoon hooks. I think a shorter shank is more likely to cam back and forth and loosen. Also keep In mind there was a lot of nipping going on with the fly bite last year with negative or neutral fish from the goofy lake conditions and numerous East winds.