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Iowa - I/we tried almost everything in my fly boxes from Dragon Fly nymphs to minnow imitations, scuds and a host of Chronomids, even some larger dries.

I noticed the brookies I saw, were actually taking 'something' just under the surface, of course being brookies, they make a splash making many people think they are targeting surface flies.

The "odd" disturbance was obviously an under-the-surface 'take' or swirl, even though quite violent as brookies can be, so I put on a dry line and a long #8, green bodied (seal dubbing & underneath copper wire for weight), thin silver tinsel wrap, long thin flowing hackled (full length of body) Caddis emerger. There were a few larger travelling sedges I saw coming of the surface, so figured the very odd surface take was probably on the nymphs. There were a LOT of little Brown Sedges(Caddis), about 5/8" long but the fish were not targeting them. That was obvious.

The fly that worked for 3 hookups but only two landings, was almost like a Green Carrie, but a straight hook & I am sure the Green Carrie would have worked just as well. Quinn kept using muddlers and leeches, but only had a few "hits" and no hookups.

Yes John - 2 trailers - he snores so loud, he even woke me up in my trailer once. I cannot sleep with a snorer. My sleep is shitty enough with the PTSD, I need my own trailer.

I am quite happy with the F350's performance. The 6.7liter Diesel makes 460 HP and has 840 pounds of torque. It actually passes just like a normal V8 truck without a trailer, but that can be hard on tires if using an equalizer hitch as I found out last year. I wore out the stock Michelins in one 4 month season, so I put Hankooks on for this season.

Gotta watch the speed, though on a pass. It'll run from 90/95 kilometers per hour to 140 in the length of a 30 wheel transport truck.

My Hemi Dodge would only get 12.2 to 12.4 at best, but had to drive at 110kph. That truck felt too light for that speed, but dropped to 9.2 to 9.4miles per gallon if I drove at 95 kph where it felt comfortable. It was not capable of passing squat - not enough power, even though it was supposed to have 390hp - no (poor) torque.

Couple winters ago, Quinn rolled his F250 Diesel in the Pine Pass on a trip to PG, so we bought a pair of trucks for a really good price - brand new 2015's in November 2015 - only $54,700.00 ea. for XLT's.

They pull trailers very nicely.

The mosquitoes and black flies were very bad, but with mosquito coils and my Thermacell, we got by without having to use bug dope.

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Daryl

"a gun without hammers is like a Spaniel without ears" King George V