BJ Conner wrote:

Yes keep it up.
I miss a lot about living in "the flyover zone". The people were
great and the land was beautiful.
I am waiting to read some reports on those burrow pit lakes by the big
highway.


I fished the sandpits along I80 for years when I lived in Lexington. I
taught myself to fly fish (around 1965) using my new Fenwick 6 wt. spincast/fly
fishing rod that had a green plaid "sock" that stored in an aluminum tube and a
"Medalist" reel (still have all that stuff).

The pits are full of crappie, blugill, small and large mouth bass, rock bass,
perch, various sunfish, catfish and carp. We had one pit near home that had
giant blugill and they were a blast on a fly rod. I did a lot of spin fishing
for bass using top water lures & fished a lot out of my Grumman lightweight canoe.

Frank: good write-up on Verdigris Creek. And, nope, no copper in Nebraska.
I don't think there were any rocks, period, within a 100 mile radius of where
I lived. I remember the first time we took our little girls on vacation to
Colorado. They'd never seen rocks and wanted to bring home a trunk full.

Snoop