MOPanfisher

Well I don't have much of a reason. When I registered I simply came up with something. I do like fish that fit in a pan, and am from MO so that is all I got. The avitar as best I recall was a photo stole from Chief after he posted pics from a float. Hadn't been out around a fire for a long time at that point and that pic just seemed right.

The worst thing about CWD is the fact that the infection prion are essentially indestructible. They aren't alive so they can't be killed, they simply exist. At least one outbreak near me was apparently caused by a deer killed somewhere else and he carcass disposed on their property. The prions exist in the nervous tissues i.e. brain and spinal column.

We don't need the barbershop poll. Simply each of you make a pan of lasagna, freeze a nice big piece, wrap it up it lots of newspaper and priority mail it to me. I will eat every one of them and thwm give the verdict. Don't know if I have ever had one with ricotta in it so maybe 2 pieces of that one.

It is ironic that one of the ways to help slow the spread of CWD is to ban deer feeders, however if you are in a quarantine zone you get to bait them so you can shoot them. I talked with one of the biologists about the fact that CWD has been identified for more than 30 years, if it was as devastating as feared there shouldn't be any deer left in NW Colorado, Sw Wisconson, or north missouri. There must be some natural resistance to it in the overall population, if not then they are all going to die.

Ehh, but then again I live pickled pigs feet so my tastes are questionable at best.

Our house goes through one of the large containers of cottage cheese a week. Especially since my grandson lives it, and my mom will eat it too, even if she doesn't feel up to eating much else. Sort of like peanut butter is to other folks, I haven't eaten enough peanut butter to make a cracker stink in years, except for whatever is used in peanut butter cookies.

Aerial gunning in the right circumstances is incredibly effective, a sound flushed out into open can be wiped out completely. Unfortunately much of the area in central MO doesn't lend itself well to aerial gunning for a variety of reasons from topography to a surplus of public access roads that can't be controlled. What they can see from the air is damage from groups of hogs, and then the trappers take their map and go back out by vehicle to visit the landowners to seek permission to check for damage and possibly trapping. MDC and USDA will not randomly fly private property to shoot hogs, they require the landowner to provide permission, not that the occasional chase hasn't ended on the wrong piece of property.

Political afiliation truly means nothing to me, but to not like canteloupe well that's just wrong. I have tried the salt,pepper,garlic powder mix on canteloupe and it isn't bad, a little different is all. Truly good canteloupe don't need nothing but to be eaten. Although a small one split in half and filled with cottage cheese is a pretty tasty and light supper in a hot summer, even with some s/p on the cottage cheese.😉

I sprinkle it with my huse seasoning, salt, pepper, and garlic powder. And I simply don't trust anyone who doesn't like canteloupe, they probably vote Democrat and fly fish too!

Eating off the land tonight. Fresh vine ripened tomato (can't buy that flavor at the store), cottage cheese I made myself (no I didnt), squash I picked myself (well I planted and grew them but wife actually picked them), and seared venison backstrap from a deer I killed (no I didn't, but my wife did). Pretty darn good, but the more I think about it it appears I am living off of my wife. Edited to include the dessert. Some sort of a red velvet cheesecake and a ooey gooey chocolate thing. Both good.

I liked mr. Butlers responses. He doesn't work for a public agency and is the director of the CFM, and he was specifically called out in the article. Thus he had absolutely no issues in taking on the ridiculous claims made in the original article. Sadly there are a LOT of folks who read such things and buy it lock stock and barrel. I see their comments on MDC Web pages. MDC will almost never directly comment back, but simply post links to information for readers to read themselves. Occasionally just occasionally I see a response back that you know had to result in a mild reprimand to their webmaster, followed by buying them lunch. I freely admit that I tend to fall into the "if in doubt side with the MDC" group, somethings I have my doubts about, somethings I simply disagree with but again knowing several Agents, Biologists etc., and know their dedication to the resources and also know they have restrictions and guidelines they have to follow again well.

FW, my memory isn't good enough to even brief you on what I had for lunch. Follow him on his website and you can see all his articles. You will at least get his side of things. Here is a fun one though. http://eldoradospringsmo.com/letters-to-the-editor/response-to-larry-dablemonts-fiction-column-of-the-week/

No worries wrench, I am sure someone or several someones in MDC has a folder with their responses, if those someone's even still work there. I have seen the same pattern with other folks and other agencies.

Wrench sorry but you have missed my point. " Enter the room, address the concern, then you can respectfully refuse to hash it out any further" They have done exactly that multiple time over the last 20 years, to the point if a genuine great idea were to out of his columns it would take some time for anyone to even notice.

No, when an agency "plays along" it simply lends credence to the complainer rather than minimalize him. Edited to add. If they had never addressed any of his complaints I would tend to agree but they wrote him off many years ago after trying to understand his viewpoint and explaining theirs.

They have addressed his complaints many times over the years, long before social media, he simply doesn't like the answers so he keeps harping on them. Larry has a definite bias that anything MDC does that he might not like is stupid, criminal and incompetent, and anyone who works for them is taking bribes, incompetent and doesn't care anything about the resources. While I most certainly have many things I don't personally agree with I know many MDC employees and have yet to meet one that doesn't care about what they do.

Individual vs agency not even remotely the same. Also If that same person was weekly saying wrench is a bad mechanic, doesn't know how to fish, couldnt change the spark plug on a chainsaw and routinely puts propellers in backwards every day for years, would you still be responding or would you have written him off and let your reputation stand on its merits.

Happy birthday/anniversary. Came home to fid a couple packs of t bones thawed out. Wife making a peach compote thingy out of some peaches we fought the Japanese beetles and green June bugs for. Probably made something else too but who cares.

One of these days we will read about how ole Oneshot was found floating near Barclay. Hopefully he will be found with a stringer of suckers tied to his bibbers.

In my opinion yes and no. For a state (or federal agency) there will always be some who are upset regardless of what you do. You can explain it or even 2 or 3 times but eventually you simply move on. In MDC case (also the old MSWP, AKC and a few others) they have known him long enough to know that responding only encourages him. The new MDC director did try, she actually met with him, prior to the meeting it was all about how he was going to get to he bottom of things. Oddly that didn't happen. I have nothing against Larry, he is what he is and I don't try to make him any more than that. He is very good at taking a few grains of fact, mixing it with some opinions and a large dosage of bias and creating his version of investigative reporting. There are reasons few papers carry his columns any more and it has nothing to do with any agency black balling him. He has simply written himself into a corner. Which is sort of sad, at times he has the ability to write some good stories, but then they drift off. .

Basically MDC simply ignores him. However like most of his writing there are slivers of truth. No doubt MDC or possibly Dept. Of Agriculture did fly private land that JM owns and shoot hogs. I guarantee yu that if you owned a piece of ground large enough, had a hog problem and wanted either agency to come in and fly, trap,shoot hogs they would do so. They have done it on more than one property, some owners have said no and preferred to keep the hogs around for their own shooting sport or other reasons. Dept. Of Agriculture trappers will happily set up traps on small acreages that hogs may be using and try to catch them, and do fairly well at it I might add. Actually tends to be a little easier on private lands as the landowner can make an effort not to spook them out of an area during the time it takes to scout, bait set up cameras and set the trap. A couple of the trappers are my friends and have investigated many hog sightings on small properties.

Heck I am one of Larry followers on Facebook. Occasionally interesting, other time I read and simply move on.

Man, the first liar don't stand a chance around here.😎

I am confused by muchof this but if it is sized for crappie it will catch trout just fine. Although I am having a hard time picturing Oneshot being in a HOA.

Mmmmm pickled okra!