Kenny Klimes

Gabby is a known closet fly tying video watcher!!

Haakeg,

You have received some great advice. I recommend taking up Terry’s offer of a beginner’s class, attend the Thursday fly tying sessions and pick out just a couple of flies to start tying. The woolybugger and the midge larva would be a good place to start. Buy just the materials for those flies and learn how to tie them. Tools: Good equipment is important – don’t need the top of the line. scissors, a couple of bobbins, threader, bead tweezers, hackle pliers, bodkin, a martinelli whip finisher and a few others that the FATC can tell you about. Have fun with it.

Bill

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Great way to tie them in.

Bill

We used black ones (they adsorb heat) that you buy at an automotive store or Lowes/Home Depot. They lasted the entire day of fishing and I put mine in the wash and dryer – they are still as good as new.

K

Haage

This year the hatchery put red/orange “tattoo” marks just behind the left eye for all browns that will be stocked this year in the Meramec river. (i.e. October 2018 – February 2019)

Tim
I’m not sure what the Sensei would say about this subject but I thought I would throw my two cents in the pot. I think your fly box is very personal. What I mean is we all don’t have the same ideas for how to set up a fly box just like we all don’t have the same taste in the ladies.

I arrange my fly boxes by aquatic insect type but then again not always. All my midge larva are together with my Griffiths gnats and all my caddis larva are together with the caddis emergers and caddis dry flies. All my soft hackles, RS2s and mysis shrimp are together (if that makes sense) and my scuds, worms, and cracklebacks are together. I have another box with just Czech nymph flies of all sizes and weights. I have a box with Da Big Flies like buggers, mohair leeches, and stoneflies and a box full of mayfly nymphs and emergers. Oh Yeah, I have a big box of mayfly dry flies. I weigh 250 pounds when I hit the water.

But I think you are correct in that we should have a “reason” for where all our flies are placed – so we can find them easier. Some can make seasonal boxes or a mix bag of the flies they use the most in certain rivers. I just like to keep the flies in some order by aquatic species/life cycle.

Hey Sensei, what say you????

P.S. I also have a two boxes full of Musky flies!!!

Great question! This has come up before and we as a group received some clarification on a couple of things that you have asked. Let’s see if I can clarify some of the rules and regulations that many of us do not think about. I say this because I feel that the MDC regulations are poorly written and can be confusing. Especially when you have to look in several areas to confirm a regulation.

To answer your questions. Definition of a Fly — An artificial lure constructed on a single-point hook, using any material except soft plastic bait and natural and scented bait that is tied, glued, or otherwise permanently attached. Notice that articulated flies are not considered a fly but they are considered a artificial lure. We asked the question to MDC are rubberlegged stoneflies considered “flies”? The answer was yes. But we have not received words on squirmy worm oe Son of San Juan worms. All Foam flies are OK. I will ask the question to MDC and get a definitive answer to the term “soft plastic bait” I do not think it means the Son of San Juan fly but it may make the squirmy worm a non-fly.

Other rules that we don’t think about:
1. During the winter catch and release season, in the trout parks, you need both a fishing permit and a trout permit. If over 65 yrs old you still need a trout permit to fish in the parks. Fishing outside the parks at any time you only need a trout permit if you possess trout EXCEPT when fishing Lake Taneycomo you DO need a trout permit in addition to your fishing permit when fishing from the Table Rock dam to the US Hwy 65 bridge. This includes the areas we fish when we go as a group to fish Lake Taneycomo.

2. In the Trout Red ribbon areas and Trout Blue ribbon areas you can only use flies or artificial lures. If you possess trout know your length limits and how many trout you can possess.

3. In the summer catch and keep season in the state trout parks (including Maramec Spring park) you must have a fishing permit and a park trout tag (trout permit not needed). You can only keep four trout and once you have caught and kept four trout you are done fishing for the day. No culling of trout once you put them on your stringer.

Definitions of bait and lures:(A) Natural and scented baits—A natural
fish food such as bait fish, crayfish, frogs
permitted as bait, grubs, insects, larvae,
worms, salmon eggs, cheese, corn, and other
food substances not containing any ingredient
to stupefy, injure, or kill fish. Does not
include flies or artificial lures. Includes
dough bait, putty or paste-type bait, any substance
designed to attract fish by taste or
smell, and any fly, lure, or bait containing or
used with such substances.
(B) Soft plastic bait (unscented)—Synthetic
eggs, synthetic worms, synthetic grubs, and
soft plastic lures.
(C) Artificial lure—A lure constructed of
any material excluding soft plastic bait and
natural and scented bait as defined in (A) or
(B) above.
(D) Fly—An artificial lure constructed on a
single-point hook, using any material except
soft plastic bait and natural and scented bait as
defined in (A) or (B) above, that is tied, glued,
or otherwise permanently attached