MOPanfisher

Gary is it stability or balance issue. I am slowly getting somewhat over a balance loss. It was bad enough that standing up in a boat at all was tough. I simply couldn't all just to the movement of the boat, haven't gotten far enough along yet to try a canoe again. I never liked pontoons, I don't know if they are any more stable or if your mind simply tells you that at least if you fall it will probably be still in the boat. My old Champion was the most stable boat to fish from that I have owned, others were aluminum.

The agent responsible for CWD (and other TSEs, such as scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy) is PRNP which is highly conserved among mammals and has been found and sequenced in deer. It is a prion, an abnormal form of a normal protein, known as prion protein (PrP), most commonly found in the central nervous system (CNS), and is capable of spreading to the peripheral nervous system (PNS), thus infecting meat, or muscle, of deer and elk. The abnormal PrP infects the host animal by promoting conversion of normal cellular prion protein (PrPC) to the abnormal prion form (PrPres or PrPd). The build-up of PrPd in the brain is associated with widespread

The most widely accepted theory is that the agent is a prion, an abnormal form of cellular protein that is most commonly found in the central nervous system and in lymphoid tissue. The prion “infects” the host animal by promoting conversion of normal cellular protein to the abnormal form. The CWD infectious agent is smaller than most viral particles and does not evoke any detectable immune response or inflammatory reaction in the host animal. Based on experience with other TSE agents, the CWD infectious agent is assumed to be resistant to enzymes and chemicals that normally break down proteins, as well as resistant to heat and normal disinfecting procedures.

http://cwd-info.org/faq

Whether or not CWD is identified in the area I hunt, if I see or kill a deer that is obviously sick, I am not gonna eat it, I will report it to MDC in case they was any samples, assuming I can't find anything else wrong with it such as evidence of a wound. This is cut/paste from CDC CWD can be highly transmissible within deer and elk populations. The mode of transmission is not fully understood, but evidence supports the possibility that the disease is spread through direct animal-to-animal contact or as a result of indirect exposure to prions in the environment (e.g., in contaminated feed and water sources). Several epidemiologic studies provide evidence that, to date, CWD has not been transmitted to humans. Additionally, routine surveillance has not shown any increase in the incidence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease(https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cjd/index.html) in Colorado or Wyoming. Specific studies have begun that focus on identifying human prion disease in a population that is at increased risk for exposure to potentially CWD-infected deer or elk meat. Because of the long time between exposure to CWD and the development of disease, many years of continued follow-up are required to be able to say what the risk, if any, of CWD is to humans.

If you are asking me I guess I would have to be one of those who just nod and say hmmmm.

If I had a problem I would be talking to the agent beforehand, assuming I didn't have a history of shooting deer illegally I suspect it could be worked out. Heck you can get a permit to shoot deer at night during the summer. On the flip side I would be willing to take it to the judge and explain.

Dang BH, now I am contemplating begging a local for a goose just to try smoking.

The cassoulet looks like a good cold evening dish. It's brutal outside right now.

They get gritty and I absolutely cannot stand a gritty reel. Occasionally I am able to clean them up and out and re lube but more often just can't get it all gone.

Smalliebiggs, I will check that reel out, wade fishing has killed more reels for me than anything else, don't know exactly why, if it's the grit, or banging it around or what. Floating is second most destructive, mostly because it usually devolves into wade fishing too.

I believe it was merely to clean up the regs, so that those areas didn't have overlapping regs, and to stick with a state wide restriction.

I like a little different sauce occasionally, I am gonna try the grape jelly and Heinz chilli sauce, I think I have some of both.

I have been quite happy with my several Pfleuger Presidents, but also with my single Abu Soron or something, it is a beast. The presidents are fabulous for the price and I expected a year or two out of them but so far they are all going strong. Figured I would toss or give them away when they got too bad. I absolutely cannot stand a sticky, grindy, catchy spinning reel.

I am saddened for the scotch. Hopefully there was a little left for the chef to have a nip.

Since MDC provides fish cleaning stations at some locations on the banks of a lake, I would assume that it would be legit. My Alumacraft has (or had) a small screen in the bottom of the livewell, it tended to plug up with slime, scales etc. I pulled it out, and run the aerator pretty heavy to keep the fish alive and fresh. When I get home I pull the lever to drain the livewell, pull out the fish and slosh a bucket of water into the livewell and let it drain while cleaning fish, then back it into the barn and leave the lid open to air dry so it doesn't stink too bad.

Norm, that is AWESOME news. A few years ago I would have been more "cool, good news" but having changed teams to survivor side, it is always great news to hear that someone is winning the battle.

A slimy livewell is a happy livewell.

Been a few years since I hunted them, but I ended up keeping the shotgun loaded with my own reloads of an 1 1/4 oz. of # 6's, killed pheasants wonderfully, even some that were a long way out. On quail, it didn't tear them up too bad (probably because I was usually behind them and they only caught part of the pattern), but yeah if we got into a bunch of quail I would replace the first 2 rounds in my 1187 with 8's. And a few times they did just find on pheasants when the unexpected bird jumped.

Dang it, it was just gettin settled in for a few close winter trips and awaiting some early ealleye, now I have to worry about the crappie finally getting where they are supposed to be.

Chief you should buy them $1 persimmons and make some jam to put on some of Ness's sourdough bread. just think if them foreign persimmons are worth a dollar, then how many dollars worth of native ones are wasted here. you could become a persimmon mogul.

Jerry, if you can figure out a way for us (generic for government agencies) to be able to "save" say even 10 percent of your annual budget to save for a larger project, say in 5 years maybe be able to replace a sewage treatment facility, or construct a large new day use area, I would buy a steak lunch and lobster dinner. Sadly I am pretty sure you will have to buy your own as I don't see that happening in my lifetime for a lot of reasons. As for throwing agencies in a panic, negative for this round or last roun, everyone knew it was a political game and nearly all employees were spectators.

I only have knowledge of the 5 that our office is involved with. our agency pays the USGS for the installation (if we requested an additional gauge which we did recently) plus a yearly maintenance and upkeep fee. I do not know who or what agencies fund the others.

Gravel mining from the rivers and creeks is one of those things that can be a double edged sword. Done properly it can remove some of the stream choking gravel and create better habitat, done poorly it can damage a stream. I don't believe the state has stopped gravel mining as much as put a lot of additional restrictions upon it. Many counties have locations in small mostly dry streams that gravel is taken from to put on roads etc. places where they can and have removed gravel for many many years without serious depletion or degredation of the stream.

The cost will vary depending upon the type of gauge, i.e. whether its stage only, or provides a CFS flow calculation as well. While I don't disagree with the sentiment from FW, with each Government Agency being pushed to reduce/cut spending, the USGS is looking at all those gauges they maintain nationwide and saying, if the state or other agency wants to sponsor one they will maintain it, I want to say but am not sure that the last one we agree to take over the cost of was a simple stage only river gauge and the annual cost is someone around 10-12 K per year, for maintenance, calibrations repairs etc. While I would love to see private gauges by Ben Gillespie or someone, the USGS gauges have many many years of data stored and accessible, providing a wealth of long term flow data, is very interesting to go back after a high flow event and see how it compared to the peaks from years past, is particularly useful when agencies try to determine the frequency of flood events and whether or not they are increasing or whether it is simply a matter of more and more stuff being built within a floodplain, also get used in the flood predictions for crest heights for rivers and lakes when we get a precip event. Someone asks how high is the lake going to get, without a measured inflow there is no way to make a prediction. I know here at Pomme our Water Control guys in KC look at the inflow from both the Lindley and Pomme Rivers, then add a percentage for unknown or unmeasured inflows to predict the lake elevation. Usually they are on the high side simply because they would rather over predict than under as it affect many things from private docks to marinas to downstream conditions allowing an increased release etc.