MOPanfisher

Tonight is all about re-purposing and cheating. Took some leftover smoked chicken from this weekend and pulled the meat off and rough chopped it up, warmed it in a skillet then added my old family recipe for Alfredo sauce. Turns out my old family is lazy so the sauce came from a jar, but I did add some extra garlic. Sliced the remaining g half loaf of Italian bred, added butter, garlic powder and some cheese to microwave into quickie cheesey garlic bread. Jar or not that smoked chicken Alfredo is smelling wonderful. Will have it over some linguini noodles that I boiled myself.

Definitely not hydrilla. The needles appear to be forked which is indicative of coontail.

My blackberries I planted last year have a few on them, but are still fairly small and green. Seems like I remember blackberries always ripening when it was miserable hot and there were lots of chiggers and skeeters. Always had to carry a big knife to cut my way out of the patch, and smoking a big nasty cigar later helped with the skeeters. Looking forward to picking thornless ones, if I am able.

Rip rap under the bridges and floating minner or night crawler wouldn't be a bad attempt.

Lol, I wouldnt be skeered, you would need a BIG skillet. Very nice of your to invite that wally feller to supper though. Maybe I should do more inviting instead of trying to force them.

Many animals when confined will essentially eat themselves to death. Wild animals generally don't do it.

Taneycomo used to have a lot of white suckers in it years ago when I lived down there. Spent some memorable days grabbing suckers on Roark Creek. Haven't seen that area in years. Have had people tell me while gigging a brown trout looks an awful lot like a sucker, but I never saw one while gigging or grabbing.

Agreed, the only real difference I see would be that early spawners have a very small amount of additional time to eat and grow. Of course environmental factors will likely overshadow that advantage in the event of rapid lowering or raising of the lake pool. Would also like to see and age structure of fish and relatative growth rates across the lake. Most lakes have an arm or area that has more phytoplankton and thus zooplankton which as the basis of the food chain (shad gotta eat too) affects growth rates.

While I don't discount the genetics angle I would suspect that the primary thing affecting growth rates would be amount and availability of food sources and what sort of food, more nutritious food means faster growth rates. I am intrigued though by a study about how fry from a later spawn grow compared to an earlier one.

I still have my first baitcasters also. An old Ambassador 6000 that my uncle gave me, along with a Shakespeare wonder rod. Determined to learn to cast it, spent a lot of evenings in the yard, casting and picking out back lashes befor I figured it out, or rather my thumb figured it out. That old 6000 and wonder rod was a beast, I have caught bass, catfish on it and snagged many suckers and carp on it. When I made a foray into modern bait casters that ended with 3 Shimano Curados lest handers it seemed like it was easy to cast. Don't use them much any more though, prefer spinning reels most of the time but I will.still keep hem around. Somewhere I also still have dad's old Diana black gold BG13 reel that was his pride and joy, bulletproof and the only spinning reel that survived the old days.

Love seeing kids fishing, mine have outgrown it, and grandson isn't quite ready yet. Although everytime I mention going somewhere he says, "and then I go fishing with Papa"..

Coyotes love little dogs and puppies. Foxes love kittens too. Which is another good reason to have them around.

That's cool. Hope a big rain doesn't flush them and or their pups away.

Stopped by a produce market on way back from yesterday's dr. Appt. So after today's appt, I made one of my favorite summer items. A big bowl of cukes and maters. White vinegar, apple cider vinegar, sugar, and S&P, heated it in the microwave, sliced the cukes thin and poured the liquid over the veggies. Added ice to cool it down and smooth it out a little, still pretty vinegary but is a good harbinger of summer.

We replaced the carpeted wooden bunks on our boat at work a few years ago with 2x4 plastic. He short ones were put in a thin chromed channel looking thing. The loner ones were just the 2 x 4 plastic. They have warped and are not strong enough, needed to put a 2x4 wood in a T configuration to stiffen it. The older non CCA treated lumber did react with aluminum, not sure about the newer stuff. The boat does slide easier on the plastic stuff, you certainly don't want to remove the bow tie until the back of the boat is at the water or when you hit the brakes it may want to self launch. Treat it like a roller bunk. We did it as a preventative to lessen the liklihood of transporting zebra mussel veligers from one water body to another, and still have to go through a decontamination process or allow it to dry in the sun for a period of time.

That's good news then, because it was not hydrilla. Old timers called it coon tail but may actually have been a milfoil.

If you pull some.up by the roots that would be even better.

If MDC knew hydrilla was there they would have "nuked" the area. The signs and painted stencils are part of a campaign against invasive species of several species. Funny thing is I was at a meeting today that included some refresher identification of hydrilla, so when I saw "hydrilla" it caught my eye. If it truly looks exactly like the hydrilla photos with whorled leaves then the quick check is the edges of he leaves, if smooth it's elodea, if toothed that would be a hydrilla. Until I got into it a little bit they all looked like hydrilla, after looking closer at the different plants it's much easier. But I had to buy a magnifying glass, eyes don't like them little bitty thinge any more.

Go get em sir, wish I was, but I am out for a couple days of Dr. visits.

If you can please send me a pic of it. As close up as possible. Most likely it is coontail, water milfoil, or the close look alike Elodea.

Possible but unlikely that it is hydrilla. Hydrilla is not a grass. If you can, post a pic of it. If hydrilla then the MDC will want to know as it's an invasive they are fighting tooth and nail against.

We never closed any of our ramps, some yiu had to use the parking lot but all were useable. Some of the licensed ramps around the lake were unusable but otherwise good to go. Docks by the dam are still not useable but you can see some of the handrails now so we are getting closer.

What ya mean no dock at Bolivar and Lightfoot, there is a dock in both places. But no you can't get to it, it's sort an island right now. Still around 852, dropping a little over 6 inches a day, so roughly 3 weeks till normal. I honestly haven't heard a lot of good fishing reports from Pomme lately. But think of how good the hatch will be, and 3 years from now there will be another great class of keeper crappie, just like the year class from 2015 that were all short this year but should make the 9 inch limit next year.

Used to always find big black snakes in pairs, have one then a day or so later the second one. Always tossed them into the hay barn to eat mice. Have only found one or two copperhead around my house in my life though.

Only one around I know of is on truman. I know Alaskageek knows where it is, he and his dad used to fish it. I believe Truman Lake covers the parking lot at 710 or 712. The Pomme river releasing 3500 cfs will not cover it if Truman is any semblance of normal, does make for a lot of current there though.