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Luckily it comes in cans, and it's cheap as hell.

I wanna buy it ! 😍 Standard cab/short bed trucks are so freaking hard to find. I'll trade you this one, it has good tires!

We are trying strawberries.....again. This time in giant pots on the front deck, which my wife filled in the driveway and THEN wanted them moved to the covered part of the deck. Look how nicely that worked out...

Could the prosecutor define "normal flow of traffic" for the court, please. 😅

Kinda like bicyclists. One could swing in front of you during rush hour at a busy intersection, and if you hit him your assisgrass.

Boating laws/rules are pretty common sense. Nothing mystical or confusing about them at all, until you start assuming that everyone has common sense.

The kayak isn't "impeding" anyone no matter where it is. There's no place on Taney where a kayak can block the entire waterway. You just gotta watch out for them. Expect them to be everywhere.

Whatever the rules are you can rest assured that they will be broken. Generally the craft with the least amount of manuverability has the right of way (paddle craft and sail boats for example) but don't expect that to save you from vehicular homicide in a courtroom. Run over a PWC with a 60' cruiser and your lawyer will get fat off of you. It isn't going to matter that the PWC had more manuverability. On the other hand, let your 16'Jon boat get in front of a river barge and you just committed suicide.

The guy that I almost killed had bright orange paddle blades, but it was late evening with a tall bluff bank on my left, and I was running between 48-50 mph. I didn't notice him until he was about 30-40 feet in front of me. I probably wouldn't have seen a little triangle on a stick either.

You just need a Ghille. Or better yet just do what I do. Sit there with a cooler of beer and a pack of smokes and watch someone else fish. Cheer them on when they catch one, and tell them what they are doing wrong when they don't. It's fun!

I have a bunch of those, and hate them behind a jig 😅 Never occurred to me to try them solo on a shakey head, but honestly, the way the fish were acting, it didn't matter much what you threw at them, if your timing was right and the presentation good..... they would eat it. We caught good fish on jigs, lizards, sluggo's, wacky Senko's, and tubes. Pretty much anything you could get into a bed, without it having a wad of moss on it, stood a 40% chance of getting bit.

I have Tom's dad's boat here, they had problems after noon on the first day and dropped it off here before heading in to get their check. Somebody allegedly reported that Tom had caught a 8 pounder back on Wednesday so they called them (Tom and his dad) in for a polygraph. No deception was detectable so all is right with the world. Swamp bug on a shakey head in Proctor cr. is accurate. And an 8 pounder on L.O. during late April is most definitely a bedding fish. He's a good dude, he deserves it. 👍🤟👏

Cute!!! 🤗 Hey, according to them it's perfectly fine to catch bass and transport them all over the place constantly and endlessly, just for kicks......So why not the same number of other critters ? If I get a hankering to hug a feral hog and take it somewhere else for my enjoyment then bygod I'm gonna. IMO regulations that are contradictory, and that make no sense whatsoever, to anyone, deserve to be ignored. All you pro-life conservation agents should be throwing anyone with pregnant female Bass and Crappie in their livewells IN JAIL! Talk about contradictory! On one hand you say that life begins at egg form.....but on the other hand it's ok to possess THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of sub-legal sized fish. How does that work in your head?

Well, hate to say it BUT it isn't always ok to just run flat out. Lots of things can be floating in the water that you don't want to hit. And hardly any of them are gonna be displaying brightly colored banners for your convenience. I almost mowed down a kayaker one late evening on my way back in, and I stopped and raised all kinds of hell with him. Then after I calmed down and thought about it I waited for him to make his way back to the ramp and apologized profusely. It wasn't HIS fault, it was MINE for just assuming that anything in the water was going to be easy for me to see. Me of all people should have known better. It could have just as easily been a 60' sycamore tree, or a piece of a boat dock that was adrift. I think everyone in boats capable of higher speeds needs to realize that just because the boat can travel at 60+mph doesn't mean it's ok to do it all the time.

There's no gods on the Niangua, if you saw one you were either trippin' or you mistook one of the Burns boys for one. Don't let those beards fool you.

Best advice ever !

Water very clear and lots of bass sitting on beds. There's also lots of slimey green snot that prevents covering water quickly with a C-rig, or anything else. The best pattern I could come up with was sight fishing to the beds with a Texas rig lizard, Wacky Senko, or a jig & craw. Spending any time at all on a single fish was a waste of time, they'd either eat whatever you pitched in there right away or they'd just ignore everything you showed them all day long. Over a 2 day period (Thurs-Fri) we had two 5 pounders, four that were a bit over 3lbs., and seven that were between 15-16 inches, which doesn't sound too bad at all....but there were long periods where we pitched to PLENTY of good fish and just could not get them to bite. So way more heart breaks than hugs and kisses, that's for sure. Saturday 4 of us waded the creeks for Whites and although it was kinda slow, and frustrating because the green slime was heavy in those areas also, and the wind was blowing like crazy, we did manage enough for a fish fry that fed 7 people. Looking forward to a good hard rain that will clear all of this snot out of here.

It needs the carburetor disassembled, float level reset, and all of the orifices and passages cleaned.

What motor is it?

Well, all I can say is that if ya'll claim that agents like that are the norm I still don't believe it. And I'm not really knocking the agents (personally) either, because if you think I'd wade through 1/2 mile of mud just so some jackass could pay a 70.00 fine, or possibly not even show up to court.... Ha!

Fishing (in moderation) is the best form of physical therapy. And it's way cooler than any gym for Jerry's kids.

Every time I travel to some far away place to catch fish I can't seem to ignore the fact that I'd have caught more fish if I had stayed at home. Nothing wrong with a change in the scenery....if that is truly the reason why you are going there. Being on familiar water gives me more pleasure, and leaves me far more satisfied and relaxed at the end of the day.

Get after'em, bro !

Summer hasn't even started...and y'all are already drawing up plans on how you'll survive it. 🙄 Do ya want me to bring Winter back for ya?

I've got sexier legs than him too !