Welcome back to the new NEFF. Take a break from Twitter and Facebook. You don't go to Dicks for your fly fishing gear, you go to your local fly fishing store. Enjoy!
I recently sampled these tacos and heartily endorse them. He is also a pretty good fly tyer, as are you fin-ite. I will shortly start a new fly tying thread moving on from real cdc to something, I'm not sure what, but it will be good. It's a good chance for the new guys to outdo me, which should...
I'm impressed you caught a shad on the fly rod. I tried that half hardheartedly a few times eons ago and was never successful, but I did catch some on spinning gear. They are a great fish to catch.
Here is a site that shows water monitoring data for the S Branch and from which you can get the water temperature again. The array is at the same place the USGS monitoring equipment is. There are others river sites that give the temp where the USGS doesn't on here also...
I swore this off 20 years ago. But I will go on a following weekday if I can get there without an ark. And if Lightenup is open, I will get some tacos.
I don't think I resemble that description, but I'll take it. I think this thread has a record page count for the new neff. Look what 3 people can do! And we found out that finite really does tie flies.......