Bennett Spring Trout Season Opener 3-01-2015

Ron and I had an enjoyable Trout Season opener down at Bennett Spring State Park
on Sunday. I'm guessing it's been about 17 years or so that I've been doing this,
always on March 1st. It was a tad cool this year, but certainly not the worst
I've seen. This year was a much smaller crowd, I'm assuming based on a
combination cold weather and bad roads around the area (I heard about 1,178 tags sold, compared to expected 3,000) . Much of the roads were
snow covered, and I-44 was even shut down for a while. We saw several vehicles
off the road, and a pickup completely turned over close to the park. The governor
was supposed to come but didn't make it. The person doing the honorary horn
blowing at the start was someone that Ron used to work with at Enterprise. We
stayed at the usual Sand Spring resort, right outside the park. Always a good
place to stay, even though we had a temporary "1st day of the season" water leak
in the bathroom. Just like my real estate experience tells me, a vacant
house/cabin tends to have some problems over time. We don't fish at the opening
whistle on the 1st, as it's too crowed, but go out later in the day after it
thins out some. Fishing seemed a little slower than some years, but we caught
fish, and both brought a couple home. The high temperature was about 34 on Sunday
and it started out 10 on Monday. Ron fished at the opening whistle on that second
day, and did good, although the eyelets on the rod started freezing over. The
park was really beautiful with all the snow, including an eagle that we saw. Of
course it's always fun to run into the Liberty fly fishing gang for breakfast and
a few lies (I mean stories).  Roads on the way home were just fine and dried out.
And the snow was almost totally melted when we got back home.

All the pictures are here:
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Video of siren (low quality):
http://youtu.be/4BX3QMR13nE

Rockbridge/Montauk Fishing Trip 2/08/15

Dan and I had an enjoyable fly fishing trip to south central Missouri last week to Montauk State Park, the Current River, and Rockbridge Trout Ranch. The water was a little low but we caught some fish in each place, all rainbows except we both caught a brown trout in the Current. Best flies seemed to be the wooly bugger, hares ear, prince nymph, midges, and glo balls. We got lucky and found good food each day, which is not normal. Since Rockbridge cleans and freezes the fish, we both brought some home this time. Weather was strange with the highs in the 70's, 50's, and 30's. Only one day was a little uncomfortable.
And here are some additional pictures:

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Q4 2014 KC Real Estate Summary Video

Here's a short video describing the high level real estate statistics in the overall Kansas City market. As always, I'd be glad to provide a free detailed report of your particular neighborhood; just let me know.

http://youtu.be/FyaZTZPR4d4

Fly Fishing Winter Outing - Bennett Spring 12-2014

Dan and I went to the Heart of America Fly Fishers annual winter outing December 6^th through the 8^th. Enjoyed a nice lunch on the spring branch Saturday with the club and then banquet that night. Weather really wasn’t bad at all for that time of year. We stayed up at Sand Spring Resort. We caught quite a few rainbows in the park, although maybe not as many as usual. Best flies seemed to be the Wooly, copper john, soft hackle, crackle back, egg pattern, and a few on an Adams. Twice we went out to the river at Barclay, the first time fished above the canoe takeout and the second time at the Winchester Gap area. Caught about a half dozen browns and rainbows there, which was good for us. A very nice trip overall. I haven’t really been able to fish  much this year.

More pictures at:

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Colorado Trip 10-2014

Wow, I was lucky enough to have a great vacation trip to Colorado with my 2 brothers. We went from Tulsa, through Texas and New Mexico (stopping at Los Alamos), and mainly staying in the Durango and Purgatory area. I got to ride the Durango / Silverton railroad for the first time, and was I impressed!  We also went to Mesa Verde and saw all the dwellings there. We rode bikes down the Animas River in Durango, and did a lot of sight seeing. Got to see a tremendous double rainbow, and walk some of the Colorado Trail.

For additional Pictures:

http://s1189.photobucket.com/user/flyfishkc/library/Colorado%20Brothers%20Trip%2010-2014

Stip Pit Kicking

Dan and I took a morning and tried the strip pits down south, and used out kick boats. Weather was about perfect as it had cooled off. As far as catching fish, I caught a number of medium to small blue gill, no bass, and a 21" channel cat. Dan had a little more luck with the bass with several decent sized. Nice to get away, as I haven't been able to fish much this year.

10 Moving Tips

I came across this list of 10 moving tips and thought some of you might be interested.


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