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Why are you throwing a rat at Barrett then? You are definitely matching the hatch. I have seen plenty of rats swimming at places like Barrett, Loveland, river bottoms. Had a fish cough a rat up at Loveland too. A heavily salted flylined “poop” bait may not resemble anything under a microscope but a ...

If you truly want to test your theory about not matching the hatch, why don’t you put something like a shirt button on a hook and go fish that all day. Most of not all lures mimic something in nature. Even your best friends creations. Most likely bugs. That fall into the water.

Matching the hatch or not I don’t care as long as it getting bite, cast great and look good to me. I’ll buy that LOL. I love when it matching my gears though.

Just a pic of my third cat I have caught while fishing for bass at Lake Murray. This one gobbled up a brush hog. It took about 20 seconds as I was thinking it was a nice bass, but soon realized it was probably a cat. This was the smallest of the 3 and weighed 6.75lbs. The point east of the boat dock...

Nice release….NOT

Loveland used to have a 3 strikes rule back in the day. You broke 3 in one trip: wading, throwing a bass 20 feet through the air into the water and bringing a go pro down there.

It’s all good. Honestly the wading and go pro was a joke. I’d be lying if I didn’t swim more than once for something in that lake. The release was rough. Take it easy killing time, all I had to “know” you by was your response to this post. “Agreeing” with that “toss” wasn’t funny in the context of t...