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  1. 1 hour ago, top_dollar said:

    I've heard of that bait finesse stuff.  I thought I may give it a try at some point, but id need a whole new dedicated setup.  I want to get one though and compare my casting distance vs spinning gear. 

    I often fish for crappie/bluegill from the bank and I've spend countless hours trying to throw a 1/64-1/32 oz jig with a 2 inch swimming minnow as far as I possibly can.  I feel I've developed I pretty solid technique and can get that dude out pretty far.  I know a weighted cork is a solution, but I hate those and only use them when I absolutely have to. 

    I have a dedicated bait caster for Ned rigs.  It is a Gloomis ml Bronzeback rod with a Curado XG 70 reel and 6# line.  There is no way I can cast it as far as my spinning setups.

  2. Jeff and I went out behind a 6 boat tournament at 07:00 this morning.  Most went down so we went up a few miles to check out a couple of spots.  It didn’t take long to decide on going the other way.  We hit places that had been giving us some fish but they didn’t cooperate.  We struggled and wound up with 5 keepers to 4#.  Jeff did catch a fish or so on the Pete jig.

    Someone left the gate open.  There were at least 2 dozen rigs at the CF parking lots and more at the ramp by the Flat Creek bridge.  The water was dingy and only 55°.

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  3. All I know is that the water temps 2’ down were 53-55° on Table Rock yesterday.  The big female spots have disappeared.  I’m guessing that they are in a pre spawn holding pattern some where.

  4. Jeff met me at barely daylight this morning.  There was only one other boat there in the lot.  The river has treated me so poorly that I couldn’t make myself go up.  We hit some bluff ends, pockets, and creeks.  We caught something almost every where we stopped, though not a lot.  The common factor seemed to be rocks, the more the better.  We caught 26 lmb, smb, and spots.   Keepers were scarce.  We probably only had 4.  
     

    Jeff had a 3# smallmouth and a 4# largemouth.  I’m on my tablet and don’t have the pics here.  I hope Jeff will post them after while.

     

    We threw spinner baits, crank baits and jerk baits…little to no love.  The main bait was the Ned rig.  I think we only used dirt, green pumpkin and Alabama craw.  They hit all three.

  5. 9 hours ago, tjm said:

    Pretty simple really the birds are protected not by MDC  but by a federal law that MDC must comply with, look up the  Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918.  Maybe the USA signed a series of treaties with other countries that spell out how birds are to be treated, then Congress passed a law governing that nationwide. 

     Actually the black vultures are not invasive, they were not introduced; they are simply expanding their natural range as climate change  allows then too. Invasive species, those that were introduced,   like starlings and English sparrows are not protected.

    I'm ready to take all raptors off of  the protected list, but  that requires an Act the US Congress. and probably renegotiating some foreign treaties.

    Put the Canadian goose in there and I’m with you.

  6. You guys can have your fungi.  We have people trespassing and looking for them from now to late spring.  Personally I’ll take vegetables.  I saw a couple of asparagus spears when I looked out the window at breakfast.  I just came in from a closer look.  I have at least 30 spears sticking up from 1 to 12 inches.  I’ve never seen them in early March before.  I guess I’ll pick them Monday morning.

  7. 1 minute ago, jdmidwest said:

    The whole thing started with firewood.  Ash trees were quarantined as no sell to transport anywhere.  Boards or firewood here I believe.  I did cut some up for my fireplace from one that fell in the field.

    Thankfully I was given a heads up from one of those guys about whom wrench rants.  He said if I had any plans to get another ash harvest I better get it done before the borers got here.  Which I did.  Sadly it looks like it was the last one.

  8. Absolutely.  There is no way that I would cut, split, and haul firewood to try to sell it to campers.

    When I sell logs, I hire a logger who has the proper equipment to go into extremely hard to reach areas, cut the trees and bring the logs to collection points.  Then I contact the buyer who comes, inspects and pays on the spot.  All I have to do is collect the check and go to the bank, and head to the lake, not stand by the road hawking bundles of wood.

     I also have some wood chucks who will cut up the tops, split them and stack them in the barn on shares.

  9. 2 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

    I just looked it up, it's worth about 900 per ton(premium), or .87 per board foot.   

    Campgrounds sell firewood for 4.00 a bundle.....and you can easily carry 2 bundles under each arm. 

    I'll maintain that an Ash tree is worth more as firewood until somebody proves me wrong. 

    Once again where did you get your information and to what type of logs are you referring?

  10. 3 hours ago, jdmidwest said:

    Our ash trees on the farm are almost all dead now from the borer.  I first noticed them in logs I keep by the fire place for when I need a fire.  They came from dead trees and I noticed little piles of sawdust on the floor.  Then I found the beetles dead on the window sill.  They leave telltale sign of their presence.  They weaken the tree until some other disease steps in and finishes them off.  As a mushroom hunter, I use them as a place to search for morels, which seem to be symbiotic to the root system of the tree.

    The farm is located about 20 miles from the epicenter of it in Missouri, Old Greenville Campground.  They first found it there, carried in from another state on a traveling camper bringing their own wood from back east.  The Corps of Engineers and Forestry  tried to contain it by killing every ash tree in the area around there.  But, those suckers could fly.  And spread.

    Timber is valuable if you have enough to harvest and is of good quality.  But most buyers want a quantity cut to set up shop.  They are not interested in a few yard trees.

    J D even though we are actually able to see the results we are probably wrong because wrench is a renowned forester who knows more about ash trees and logging than we do.

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