David Unnerstall

It is deep in the St. Francis river channel. But they don't call it Wap-Propeller for nothing. I had no damage in the times I ran up and down the lake. I did get beached on a sandbar in the middle of the lake, though.

I have fished Wappappello quite a bit over the years. I used to keep the old boat at Holliday Landing. Most of the lake is less than six feet deep. The only quality fish we caught there was during turkey season. In the summer all fishing turns off at 9AM. And white was the color. I have never fished Clearwater and want to see what that is like, also.

I went ice fishing over the weekend here in St. Louis. I caught enough to fill three ice cube trays.

How come the International Date Line is not a straight line? What is up with that?

If I had to fish bass tournaments I couldn't afford to eat.

Timing belts and impellors for outboards: you will replace them in your garage or out on the road/water.

I will build a wood strip canoe this winter and have decided on a Rob Roy style one man canoe that can carry me, camping gear and/or the old dog. There are companies out there, like Sandy Point Boat Works that sell plans, an "essentials" kit and complete kits. What I cannot decide is if I should acquire the wood locally and machine it myself or buy one of these kits. I have an old table saw and a newer router table and have above average skills. To those who have done this before: what is the level of difficulty in this?

Oh no. I ain't tweaking nobody. I have seen it twice and I about bit my tongue in two.

Who has watched someone wash a Dutch Oven with soap? And what did you think at the time?

I wonder...what EXACTLY changed peoples' minds in thinking the earth is not flat?

Although I live a quarter mile from the city limits I have a long driveway and a bridge over a creek with a twenty foot drop-off. The driveway was all ice. I did have an ash bucket from the wood stove that was full. It is amazing the traction you can get on ice with wood ashes.

I am more inclined to believe man is having an impact on climate change. The majority of scientists do believe this. There are those who don't but I have found that some of those have ties to the oil industry, political think tanks or some other organization who will gain from skepticism on this. The email scandal in the UK, called ClimateGate, did not actually indicate a conspiracy. It just gave the skeptics something to run with. We seem to have a propensity to believe what is convenient and also to distrust the so called experts and I believe that is what is going on, here.

Does it charge with movement?

My wife is an expert on Permafrost.....but I think you are talking about a different kind of Permafrost.

Coolest fish I caught was in the boundary waters north of Ely MN. We took dogsleds from just outside Ely. We used ice augers to drill holes into the two and a half feet of ice by hand, anything mechanized is illegal in the boundary waters. We caught about a dozen pike. The biggest and coolest is in the picture. The strangest fish...all of them. It surprises the heck out of me whenever I catch a fish.

I am going to offer my comments on this. I think by assuming big government is running amok and creating a police state we are becoming a little paranoid. Many of those in authority have been abusing their power for as long as I have been around and will continue to do so. Separate actions by some zealous individuals does not necessarily mean there is a conspiracy on this. Now there has been a lot of effort, in recent years, to get tougher on crime by the law-and-order folks. How many of us haven't said that we are tired of government letting criminals go un-punished. Maybe what we are seeing is a result of that effort.

You shouldn't worry about offending us bait-fishermen in this post. None of us will be reading it. That is because none of us know what the "heck" FURNACE HACKLE is.

Great video!

You all got me thinking about winter fishing, again. And then I remember taking the johnboat onto Lake Coffeen one February about twenty years ago. The outboard sheared a pin. My buddy stood on shore and I passed him the outboard so I could fix it without leaning over the transom and he sat down on a stump gnawed to a point by a beaver. I told him “I didn’t feel a thing”. Nothing went right that day.

I would guess that most of those fish were not reeled in but the belly boat was moved over to where the fish was.

Wow. I have definitely observed some mistrust and cynicism evolve into paranoia and hysteria, here. But I am with Chief Greybear in getting rid of all cats.

Good God, man!

I, especially, agree with number three. I read the book "Mapping Trophy Whitetails" by Brad Herndon and it gave me familiarity and confidence hunting public land that I have never seen before.

Even if it was a longnose gar it is still a chain pickerel.

Thanks Gavin.