David Unnerstall

Aren't all fishing shows one contiguous commercial?

They do serve food.

I vote Ferguson Brewery for a happy-hour. I will bring my growler.

I have a blue ray DVD player, a plasma TV and a Marantz surround sound system (Ok I went without cable for five years and that paid for it all). I feel that the experience I get with a blue ray disk is superior to streaming.

Try some other words, just in the name of science.

My dad and his brothers used to make blood sausage. Now, the last time this may have occurred was in the sixties. I liked it and loved the smell of it frying. About ten years ago I noticed blood and tongue sausage in the deli at Schnucks. It was fantastic -- I did not have a red wine on hand that was worthy.

Wow! Now that is something, right there.

This is not exactly on topic, but not too far off, this was our first meal in the campground at Yellowstone last year. The Cowboy Cut from Paul's Meat Market in Ferguson. And how many of these threads do travel a straight line?

That doesn't apply to me. My mother told me that my coming about was "an accident" in a motel in Jefferson City sixty years ago. She was really pissed at me at the time.

It has always been my observation that a guy with no women in his life has a lot of free time.

You aught to get them to read this forum -- that is ALL you need.

Candy and I bought Brewer and Shipley's album: Cimarron River; while seeing them at The Focal Point some time back. The song: Treehouse Brown, is on it. It is interesting to learn for whom the song is written.

It is amazing how deer season can turn five pre-elderly dudes into 8th graders, again. I shot this 5-pointer on opening morning. It is not bad to hang around the cabin for a day but after that first day it is not so cool. I shot a monster three years ago and this is more of an easy process.

Has anyone experience an "undertow"? Can an adequate swimmer walk out into a river and be exposed to a phenomena that will cause him to drown even if he is making the proper decisions.

Yeah a WTD dog bait is easier standing up in my boat. But I prefer any bait that floats in a canoe. At least once a trip I cast out -- say a tandem spinner bait -- and a gust comes along. I have that heavy wooden kayak paddle that requires two hands. I put the rod down, reposition the canoe, pickup the rod and am snagged.

While onsite at my last job my customer called me and told me they were running late. With nothing to do I turned on the TV in the hotel room and Looney Tunes were on -- I laughed my butt off and still remember it twenty years, later.

It had suction cups on the other side. It works perfect in this application. Here is a link: https://www.carid.com/seachoice/white-cockpit-organizer-mpn-50-79321.html

It is a cedar strip that I made about five years, ago. It gets less pretty the closer you get but it does not affect how it paddles.

' Good thread, Ness. That is my real name. The picture is at Marble Creek camping about five years ago -- Bushmills and a cigar. Roger Willoughby is the character Rock Hudson played in "Man's Favorite Sport." (It is just a character in a movie and has nothing to do with Rock Hudson). He has become an authority on fishing and has never fished a day in his life. He has learned everything from hearsay. His employer does not know this and enters him in a fishing tournament. It is a hilarious movie. I can talk fishing with the best of them -- catching fish....now that is an entirely different issue.

My solo does paddle like a kayak, and it is fun. I aim to add a short one handed paddle for sudden wind gusts, like Al Agnew mentioned some time ago If I am fishing by myself for an afternoon, it is easier to launch than the bass boat. It can go on top of the teardrop, in the bed of the truck if going down the road to Crane Lake or, for longer trips, I have a canoe carrier that goes in the trailer hitch. And the weight is no problem. Now I am sitting low but I don't mind it -- I do have trouble getting around after I get out, though.

I managed to attend. There were, perhaps, forty or so others. The Forest Service gave us a brief history of the lake, a fisheries biologist from MDC gave us the results of an recent sampling and attributed the increase in redear population to the planting of vegetation and someone who, I believe, represented the community, who discussed amenities at the lake. The Forest Service admitted that, in the past, they did not engage the public on matters. I can see why. There were some in the crowd who were hostile. The Community Development Specialist, whose only area is picnic tables, rest rooms and the like was pressed on the dam construction. I guess she just represented government. But there a lot of thoughtful reasons why the dam should be repaired mentioned, also. Now, Sheri Schwenke says the decision is hers but we don't have a formal estimate on the cost of the dam and a decision will not be made until then. A temporary boat ramp will be installed and the lake will not be drawn down any further. I did take my solo down there on Friday. I stayed a few feet from the bank and it was easy to get through the vegetation to the main lake. The spatterdock is difficult but if it is adding oxygen to the lake I am for it. Before the new lock and dam was built near Alton on the Mississippi there was a backwater slough that was full of vegetation. It was a blast catching largemouth on top-waters. After the new lock and dam was built it became a sterile wasteland.

I bought property on Crane Lake road right before the dam was lowered -- it broke my heart. I read about the Forum at The Abbey on the 12th in the Mountain Echo (Arcadia). I might take a couple vacation days and attend. I did email Sherri Schwenke. Crane Lake is the reason I bought that property. I have not caught a lot of fish there but I don't catch fish, anywhere. But it is an enjoyable experience in my solo -- I can paddle the from the boat ramp to the dam in twenty minutes when it is at normal pool. The trolling motor on the bass boat has to fight through the vegetation. The DNR offered the USDA-FS two million dollars to help with the repair some time back -- I don't know if that is still on the table. And JD, I don't see any evidence whereby the decision has been made that the dam will not be repaired.

That is Lee Bluff! Sutton's Bluff is a National Forest Campsite for cripe's sake.

Lee Bluff from MTNF. I don't plan on walking down that hill anymore.

I saw him in St. Louis before he passed. He had a lot of fun doing "One Thousand Pounds of Banana's."