Devan S.

Yeah I think I would/will pull all rods/reels and tackle. Trolling motors/graphs are easy on/off within reason. Its all reasonably mobile as my boat sits outside now. Lock the lockers so they can't steal my cheapie life jackets, anchor, hound dog without working for them a bit. Biggest concern was charging. I use a regular charger(not onboard) so it will be setting exposed but will probably take the boat cover along just to keep everything from being wet in the morning. If nothing else....out of sight/out of mind.

I know some of you guys travel with a boat around the area and/or country to fish various places. How do you guys handle charging? Obviously a resort or single cabin style I assume you just pull up and plug in but how do you handle motels, ect. if you are forced to stay there? Do you pull the batteries? Obviously pull all valuables and lock the lockers but what else do you or don't you do?

I don't know what rear end is in my 1/2 ton but I have a 2012 F150. My boat is smaller Xpress 17' so weight there isn't an issue. However its also my full time farm rig. Hauling calves in 16' bumper pull stock trailer, hauling 6-8 800lb round bales at a time when its time to move bales around. Is it the best scenario?...No....but pulling power is not the problem. The problem in both of my overloaded scenarios is stopping power and control. If/when things get to bouncing and moving around my truck just isn't really big enough to hold it back. That's where good functional trailer brakes make a world of difference. Edit to add: Most of my towing is between Cassville/Exeter/Golden. So I'm not exactly flat land towing either.

I've never understood this logic of all the add on features stuffed on everything for boats and vehicles. I agree 100% although I prefer a tin boat I also prefer my vehicle be the same way. Guess there's just not enough profit in the base model.

Zip ties, toilet paper/baby wipes, short section of wire to break up the mud dobber nest in the outlet hose on the water pump, Extra pair of cheap sunglasses, Instead of a helmet I use a pair of motorcross goggles, small tool kit.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/coronavirus-outbreak-may-have-started-as-early-as-september-scientists-say/ar-BB12MPqU?li=BBnb7Kz Seems to be lots of conflicting ideas.....again mainstream media so take it with a grain of salt......FWIW we may never know.

wasn't Harter house in hollister visited by a positive person....maybe last week?

No world records in Table Rock for Crappie. A 15" table rock crappie will never have the shoulders/thickness to compete for a world record. You need a fish that is just incredibly thick to get up above the 5lb mark and its just not going to happen in Table Rock.

I dont know if its "closed" or not but there is trucks and trailers galore there everyday when I go by.

So you're wearing a mask, possibly incorrectly with gaping holes around the edges, you're coughing and sneezing, heck even breathing in a public place. Any responsibility to the people you infect? I'm not arguing you specifically but in general obviously. The assumption that I am gallivanting around town willie-nillie is incorrect. That is probably my fault. My point is I am vastly limiting my exposure. Besides work, home, and farm, TSC today was the first time in a 3 week period I have been out to "town". You can also bet your socks if I didn't have $3k in fertilizer sitting having to finish being spread I would have ordered the pins from amazon and never left the house to begin with. We order the bulk of our weekly needs via amazon. My wife gets the little bit of weekly food we need every 2 weeks in a quick in and out trip to the store. Today the closest I would have come to anyone would have been the lady at the register, had it not been for the lady coming directly too me, physically making contact with me. You mis-construed the thought process entirely. I saw in 1 single short trip multiple people all WITH masks wandering around appearing to be window shopping all clearly breaking the social distancing order. If that doesn't solely represent the whole I have a mask, I'm good theory then I don't know what does. The thought process probably stands that with or without masks those same people would have likely been out but you wont ever convince me a large population exists that thinks, " I add a mask, I can push the limits" Its just to prevalent in every other faucet of our society to think that way. If you want to play the limit the risk to yourself and everyone around you then batten down the hatches, quit your job(assuming your still working or solely work from home), don't think about going to any public place including a boat ramp, once you leave your house you take risks everyday that you might have to come in contact with someone even if it is accidental. Heck half of these "essential business" aren't remotely essential. Again my theory is unless you are taking EVERY SINGLE precaution, up to and including giving up borderline "essential" activities, then the mask isn't likely providing the protection you think it is. There is far to many people out and about doing activities that are not essential. It's nothing more than a dollar store bandaid on a cut that needs stitches. A lot of opinions on the mask/glove theory changed after the CDC change in guidance. Question is how many people actually wore them prior to the guidance changing and how many will continue to wear them through flu season next year? In addition how many people you think actually use them right?

I am not wearing gloves. I am also not wearing a mask in public. NOBODY is going to convince me that if you are coughing or breathing and releasing virus that anything short of a full blown respirator that seals around your face CORRECTLY is going to provide enough protection especially in enclosed spaces. It just doesn't add up. Its like trying to use reading glasses to keep dust out of your eyes. Sure you can say lessen your viral load but you can only use that excuse under true must take chances situations. I had to visit tractor supply as I have several thousand $ of fertilizer sitting on a buggy to be spread and a broke part. I had to go in to get some pins. A group of people standing around the chick pens, all wearing masks, looking at the chickens. Most of them rubbing shoulders. I went around 2 isles to avoid them. Got my pins and little old lady in mask and gloves comes up to me, touches me on the shoulder and says, "son you really should have a mask on, you don't know what you could be spreading" Masks and gloves are going to cause more problems then they solve by giving false security. Sure I can see it as a blanket of extra protection when all other precautions are taken but clearly at this point they are nothing more than a substitute for common sense.

Take solace in the fact that there is 320M people in the US and less than 1 million US cases. Also look up number test vs. number positive. Statistically speaking provided you have followed the guidance and haven't been told you've been directly in contact with someone who is positive, then the chances are good its something else. None the less do the right thing and quarantine and take care of them which you will.

I am seeing that but the article N9BOW posted says this: Treatment Worldwide 86% of covid-19 patients that go on a ventilator die. Seattle reporting 70%. Our hospital has had 5 deaths and one patient who was extubated. Extubation happens on day 10 per the Chinese and day 11 per Seattle. Plaquenil (hydroxy-chloroquine) which has weak ACE2 blockade doesn’t appear to be a savior of any kind in our patient population. Theoretically, it may have some prophylactic properties but so far it is difficult to see the benefit to our hospitalized patients, but we are using it and the studies will tell. With Plaquenil’s potential QT prolongation and liver toxic effects (both particularly problematic in covid 19 patients), I am not longer selectively prescribing this medication as I stated on a previous post. We are also using Azithromycin. Looks like they are using it too with not good results at least their not bragging about it saving every patient. Lot's of misguided information out there, seems to be.

FWIW I also use dry-shod. Dry-shod owner was previous owner of Muck boots prior to him selling out to corporate interest. His non-compete was up and he is back in the game. I much prefer my dry-shod over my mucks.

It may not drop to 12ft. Based on the operational plan from the COE, if the total % flood pool in use was 50% or greater you get a different regulating stage that incrementally moves that date back to May 15th and gives additional downstream capacity. Today based on the COE numbers the 4 lake system sets at 46% so it wont take much to push into that higher regulating stage. Still yet....it will probably be summer.

Another heads up....looks like Eagle Rock is now open. Lots of people there when I went by this afternoon.

I have seen some of the photos your talking about and understand the concerns. *The good news is lots of those types as you said only fish during the spawn and don't fish again. I assume they were there I just never did find them. Managed to only find about 7 all year and not a single female that I know of.

It wouldn't matter. The corps doesn't take care of the stuff they have and are actively closing and restricting access already. Case in point- Kings River boat ramp, Viney Creek Recreation Area, high water parking lot ramp at Eagle Rock.

Do they normally pull the Walleye from below Beaver? I always thought they did it in the Kings. Did they move due to river levels on the Kings? I know the MDC TRL annual report mentioned the Walleye last year when they shocked up the King was one of the best years they have had. Apparently they shocked on March 18, the 2 weeks before that I caught a lot of fish up the Kings My spots this year have not produced.. Almost wondering if there wasn't the numbers this year compared to last. Of course Kings got pretty high recently and that may have shifted things around as far as their ability to electro-fish effectively.

You know what your right....If the definition of full is normal power pool.

In what world was any lake within the system within 2 foot of full directly prior to this last week of rain? March 17- Beaver was 1126.5, Table Rock was 917 and Bull Shoal was 662. 2 of the largest were within 2 ft. of normal and Beaver was being dumped prior to the start of the rain. Table rock hasn't been within 2 foot of "full" since 2017. Bull Shoals hasn't been that way since the middle of last year. Aggressively dumping every chance that conditions downstream would allow.

I agree there probably has been some degree of shift but I don't think its a large as its often made out to be. I can't remember a wetter sustained winter than the one we just went through(I'm not talking about a couple toad floater rains I'm talking continuous 1" rains). We never really got cold enough to freeze and I've been plowing through foot deep ruts all over the farm. I can't remember a year where it seemed to rain as much as last year. Lots of farmers had trouble finding 3-4 days of dry weather to put up hay last year between May and July. I cant remember the last time the dock on my small .3 acre pond actually wasn't floating and it only sets in 2' of water. Looking back was it 2006 or 2005? The last real bad drought(I'm talking months without real rain) with farmers feeding hay through the summer and people worried about ponds going dry?

Except most users of Beaver and Bull Shoals would argue that TRL is the golden child and protected at all costs meaning 2 ft. rise triggers full generation and 5ft gets you some level of flood gates. Its already metered out earlier than the other lakes. I bet the people at Taney sure prefer the 20k CFS they are getting now compared to the peak inflow last week in the neighborhood of 60+k CFS. If you want to champion a good cause then we should be taking that money from generating and investing in infrastructure so that the lake is still widely accessible at the full rang of levels. You go too low or too high and you suddenly start effecting a lot of boat ramps and parking that severely limits access.

As it relates.....curious to see how the Crappie Tournament in 2020 is held here is handled. Most crappie tournaments end in knifing. Could you image if the Elite series(and ever series below them) knifed their bass after weigh in?

Yep and the corps policy calls for more release once we hit a % of flood control pool on all lakes. No doubt we will be there soon. It's all a delicate balancing act between Montana and Appalachia.