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Did anyone else see the fish trying to talk to Mike at the 2:24 mark over his left shoulder?

I think going back to Mitch's original post on this COVID or not, fast food was heading this way when workers began demanding higher pay, as if jobs like that were meant to be careers. People flipping burgers shouldn't be making $15/hr when skilled workers like EMTs driving ambulances only make $17-18/hr. You saw owners reaction to that by putting in the "order your own food" kiosks in places like McDonalds and Taco Bell and cutting the amount of workers standing behind the counter waiting for customers to walk up. Those kiosks work for pretty cheap after they are paid off. I think those kiosks are great, you can order it like you want. My big beef about the whole thing is I went to McDonalds the other day to get my kids some nugget happy meals and the drive through line was about 20 cars deep and out onto the street in front of the restaurant. So I pulled in so I could park and go inside, and wouldn't you know it, there was a sign on the door saying the lobby was closed due to short staffing. Problem is I could see they had 4 of the kiosks inside. So instead of opening the lobby so some people could go in to place their orders instead of sitting in their cars they decided they would just bog down the drive through line. Luckily the staff that had decided to come in were rocking it and I had my happy meals in a relatively fast time with respect to how many cars were in line.

I think it's still a lot to do with COVID and restrictions and such. Some parents can't work because their schools aren't back to in person learning in some places. They have to stay at home with their kids and do remote learning with them. Some day cares didn't re-open, so those parents can't work because they have to be at home with their babies and toddlers. There's a lot of other things too. People were laid off or put on furloughed last year, and then decided the hand outs were enough to live on and didn't feel the need to go back to work. You'd think that this day and age people would want to get back to work. It just befuddles me that people are just up and quitting their jobs right now for no good reason and without having a new job lined up.

They reversed the decision on this fish and now they are considering it to be just a channel cat. Photos not enough and other proof eaten: Connecticut recalls white catfish record - Hartford Courant

I like my kayak, the only thing I wish it had was a better seat like some of the newer ones have. My kayak (an older Ocean Kayak Trident 11) has a lot of internal storage and I've put a tent, sleeping bags, sleep mats and other over night stuff inside for 2 people. I can strap a decently sized cooler in the rear well, and still have plenty of space for tackle and 3 rods. I usually have 2 between my legs and the one I'm using. With it fully loaded like that I have to make sure I plan ahead for making it through sketchy sections of the stream since it's sitting pretty low in the water, but I usually have no issues. As I get older though, I think a canoe is in my future just for the ease of things, and having something that is a little bigger than the kayak but yet still the same weight. I think mine weighs about 52lbs. Also the seating position of a canoe looks to be a little better for my aging back.

But did she have as much luck Scott? LOL Happy anniversary

How do those with pickups transport, say, a 15' canoe? My truck has a 5.5' bed and even putting one of those at an angle it will stick out quite a bit if I would throw it in the back. Ladder racks?

Reminds me of a time I was floating on the Big River between DesLoge and Leadwood and found an old stubby Pepsi bottle, like the one below, floating along. Those bottles were from the 80's. Makes you wonder how a bottle like that survives that long without being broken, or who the person was that had that sitting around and decided to drink it finally and discard it in the river.

Lumber has actually come down quite a bit from where it was. We are having an addition and other things done to our our within the next few weeks and are thankful lumber is a less than it was earlier this year.

Aluminum prices are through the roof. They are almost 50% more than they were at the start of the year.

A St. Louis Cardinals fan, a Kansas City Royals fan, and a Chicago Cubs fan were taking a hike in the mountains together when they came upon a tall cliff overlooking a beautiful valley. The Royals fan remarked, "I love my baseball team so much I'm going to jump off this cliff to show my loyalty to my team!!", and he jumped to his death. The Cardinals fan and Cubs fan looked at each other in amazement that someone would do something such as that to show their loyalty to their baseball team. The Cubs fan said, "Holy cow (in his best Harry Carry voice of course), that guy is nuts to do that!" The Cardinals fan agreed and said, "This is what I'm going to do to show my loyalty to my baseball team," and pushed the Cubs fan off the cliff to his death.

Sucks. Dude was funny. Takes a lot of guts to keep it relatively secret for that long. Guess he didn't want people to jump on the pity party.

For real, why isn't this color a thing? I've looked all over and all I'm seeing with that cross hatch pattern on it is old vintage lures.

I was going to say, I looked and didn't see any lure makers making a walk the dog in that paint scheme. It needs to be done by one of them because it looks great and seems like it would be highly effective.

That top water is about as close as I've ever seen to what our creek chubs look like. Nice looking creek too.

With them being as far off shore as they were with the way those storms were coming across the Keys there was no safe direction to head to a port that wasn't going to be in the path of the storms. You can see their location with the blue dot on the radar and they were pretty well surrounded.

Looks like a typical day out on Lake of the Ozarks. No really though, that was really stupid. They are a couple lucky dudes.

Are the EWG Ned hooks you are talking about these? Seems being able to Texas rig them would work out pretty well making them weedless/snagless. I'm not sure that lead keeper would play nice with elastec though. I'd be clipping that off and just use some superglue like I usually do.

Some of those need to swim down the Missouri and into the Gasconade...

True. I guess I've only ever lost one WTD tog water, and that was on a fish on the Big River with probably old line on the reel I was using.

Whew, $20 for a walk the dog, but I guess if they work... Nice fish.

You are right. I'm thinking snakehead. And snake head are what in Dardenne Creek. Sorry, my bad. Carry on...lol

There are some in Dardenne Creek. An co-employee I used to fish with caught one out of the St. Peters Golf Course lake that had crawled up (or had been thrown in) from the creek. They are an invasive species in the US so I'm all about giving out places to get rid of them.

That double fluke "Donkey Rig" works great. I still have yet to catch a double on it but have caught fish with it.

My wife caught this double not in a traditional way. She caught the top one and was having problems getting it off the hook. I was on the other side of the pond and I told her to put it back in the water so it wouldn't die before I could run around to get it off the hook for her. She lifted it up out of the water when I got there and there were two fish on.