Devan S.

Or cut pay, mandatory layoffs, "right sizing the business", postpone yearly performance salary adjustments then in Q1 have record sales, record profit, increase dividend 10% and yearly raises of 1.4% after being labeled Key Contributor. Been there done that.

I agree with you at RR.

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It would take someone that regularly fishes all the parks but I would say RRSP isn't nearly what it was pre-hatchery closing for upgrades. A guy can go and catch lots of 8-12" fish but lunkers/browns are very few and far between. My only problem with the urban trout program is that they put in any lunkers. I just don't understand why you would put the bigger fish out there to potentially die if they survive the winter. fill those ponds up with stockers and keep the lunkers in the river where they can survive.

Cape Fair Jenkins Golden Eagle Rock Carr Lane Shell Knob Beaver Busch Viola Blue Eye Lampe Lots of options to make her feel at home and still near the lake.

RRSP cant participant.......they would have to actually have a working hatchery been subsidized by the other hatcheries for 3+ years.

Yep...not a single item at either location has gotten any cheaper either. They wont have any problem passing on cost increases too. Profit must increase at all costs.

I think its funny that large corp. like Walmart and McDonalds and other chain restaurants are struggling to find people. Companies that profit hundreds of millions(if not Billions) pay out hundreds of millions if not billions to shareholders yet in turn they offer $300 sign on bonus for a $10/hr job at 24-36 hrs a week. What a joke.

I follow half a dozen facebook groups for the area and all the guides are saying they are catching fish that way but I'm not seeing it. Last year you could sit on a point and see 30 "Swirls" over a 30 minute period and chase them but nothing really this year.

Put in at Indian Creek and headed south this morning pre-daylight. Goal was to be around point 5 by daylight and start point hopping looking for activity on top. I checked several locations I would normally fish and nothing. Headed off farther south and found many boats(some appeared to be guides) all working a small area. I'd rather not combat fish so I left them be. I bailed and headed back towards the dam. Pulled out my perch poles and went to running the bank. No telling how many I caught. Mostly these handsome guys and some nice green sunfish. WT 84

Something doesn't add up.....did you say you or your wife didn't get both shots due to some reaction? Why are you quarantining? Current CDC guidance is vaccinated people do not have to quarantine upon contact until they show symptoms.

This is the way....although I will add care must be reasonably taken on where you anchor. You want very little slope in the bottom...In a cove depending on bottom slope you can easily pull a very large anchor down hill on a short rope. I've always been a fan of tying off to a tree.

Yep and in the gig world you can pick and choose what you want to do. Get paid very well for stuff you don't want to do if you still get the business and be competitive on the easy stuff. I know of a very similar success story and he isn't in the burbs so its possible to make it work very well in rural areas.

This is actually a pretty reasonable idea. Mobile Mechanics-Think farm equipment/heavy equipment. @fishinwrench if mobile boat mechanic makes sense? HVAC Plumbing Surveying Welding Power washing/painting

May not get there.....just looked at the 4 day pool forecast and were only at 70% now. 12ft here we come.

If your 1/4 done with an Mechanical Engineering degree I would focus on a degree like manufacturing technologies that isn't full blown engineering. My experience only but lots of rural America manufacturing facilities look for people with engineering qualities + real world knowledge without a degree that they can avoid paying engineering wages too. Its not right but its the reality. Those people are few and far between, most degreed engineers cannot weld or work on production equipment or want to in a work environment. Most maintenance guys cannot or do not want to do things like prep power points for cost savings or design manufacturing fixtures. Most companies don't want to pay for a manufacturing engineer(60k+) but would gladly pay 45k and benefits for someone that can handle both maintenance and engineering. Lots of these positions exist and are taken by guys that are 55+ without a degree and they "worked" up through the company to their position. When they replace them they look for degrees but they don't really want those people if they can find someone who fits the bill. I know Sedalia has several places like this at a minimum.

I would like to upgrade to a 3/4 ton or bigger but just cant handle the prices. I need to haul cattle 2-3 times a year(think 20+ 6 wt calves), ability to haul 10-15k tractors and equipment, and hay. Its got me seriously considering a larger series trucks(450,550) or a day cab semi. You want a no frills work truck for actual work and start shopping for semi's and you suddenly realize what the US truck market is.

Bummer on the striper....I'm still seeing reports on FB of people finding top water fish but I think these reports are happening father down lake than the dam area. Most of the time they are guides too so it helps to spend every day on the water. Did you see many guide boats in the area? I may give it a whirl Sunday.......going to the hatchery in Centerton Saturday morning so Sunday will be my first shot in awhile.

I did not although I wanted to try. Rumor has it there is pretty good catfishing there too.

I threw drop shot with worm on it some and nothing(not vertical just casting and working back slowly). We had 2 other boats ask how we were catching fish because they weren't and we determined they were fishing worms and us crickets. One thing I noticed.....the lake was very dirty. Like I couldn't see my trolling motor head 8" under the surface. I don't know if that's normal but I figure it means you really got to bang em right in the head with your bait. Also we never fished in a spot much deeper than 6ft.

Only caught the one red ear everything else was a gill. We got there early and caught lots of fish the first 2 hours....after all the other boats started pan fishing it really slowed down.

Drove down to Bob Kid on my panfish quest. Water temp was 72-75 everywhere we saw. Spent the whole day throwing crickets about 3' below a float basically running the weed line or spawning cuts. Ended the day with about 80 bream.....biggest fish was a 3/4lb red ear. Lots of 7-8" gills which run between .4-.6lbs. Just an insane amount of pressure for such a small body of water. We saw at one point 14 boats not counting kayaks/paddle johns(people constantly coming and going). There was 5-6 boats doing exactly what we were doing.

How big were the bream? Were they up shallow or deeper?

Thanks for the update. I fished Saturday/Sunday and blanked both days and never saw anything. Saturday the wind made it difficult to spot anything. I put in @ Indian Creek but ran nearly to Rocky.

I knew Swepco would be bad but a buddy said it generally gets that way when I'm thinking about trout/walleye(late fall into early spring). If I get to Bob Kidd and the parking lot is full can you park in the grassy area around the parking lot? I just dont want to drive 1.5hrs to not be able to find a parking spot.