fishinwrench

Well, he didn't take very good care of that gobbler or those kittens. LOL That's a nice mess, good job ol'boy.

The female dogs at many license bureau's just love to run people through impossible obstacle courses.....they get off on it...and they saw you guys coming. I make it a point to do my DMV biz immediately before lunchtime or right before closing time when all they care about is getting me out of there fast. You may think I'm kidding, but it works 9 times out of 10. Which proves that all the crap they routinely put people through is completely uncalled for and unnecessary. I "have seen" plenty of real doosey's slip through and no DMV worker has ever gotten in trouble over it. They can easily make ANYTHING real quick and simple.... when they want to.

Al, I think Eric's position was that otters are native and not the real problem. Myself I think the whole hating otter thing is just because bad otter press has gone viral. I only see enough otters (and their sign) to appreciate them, and wouldn't assume that they were any kind of threat at all if I hadn't heard/read all the BS about them. It's kinda like the quail/turkey thing, some "scientist" writes a piece about turkey eating quail eggs and from that time on bird hunters cuss turkeys.

Do you know the shaft length?

It's like the song that just won't end.

Has anyone else realized that this thread was started 3 years ago? Or are we just doing it all over again?

Oh man, you two are in big trouble! We figured you both for dead 2 years ago and have already divided up your stuff.

Reminded me of the guy that crawled out of bed at 4am to go fishing, half way there is started raining sideways and he decided to turn around and go back home. Got home and crawled back into bed where his wife was still sleeping and said "man it's brutal out there". She rolled over in her half-sleep and said "I know, can you believe my idiot husband is out fishing in it'.

That looks cool, rfd. Is it stacked discs?

No fair whipping out the logic, it was a fine rant I had going too.

When I was a pup my brother and I got into a bunch of what we thought were walleye on the Mississippi, then later on in my late teens I caught my first real walleye at Mark Twain lake and realized right away that what we got into before on the Miss were not the same fish. Those I assume were actually Sauger. They were schooled up like crappie and were less toothy and more speckled than actual walleye and had more "normal" looking eyes. Whatever they were I've never caught another one or even seen another one in the flesh.

Point made and accepted. Are native crawdads more sensitive to pollution than the invasives ? Doesn't it seem really messed up that "native" species of just about every living thing are always such pussies? I mean Just about anything will just knock them into oblivion, yet native species from ANOTHER location are always the big bad wolf when they come to town. Maybe the way to strengthen the gene pool on all these candyasses is to just keep moving them around. Wouldn't you kind of expect a "native" species to be a little more programmed to survive in its intended range? Frustrating! Who can we blame for that dunderheaded design flaw? I suppose the quickest and easiest way to conquer the world is to move into your neighbors house.

Ironically that page comes up blank on my end. LMAO!

Yeah, god forbid we waste a biologists time on something as paultry as a bunch of mysteriously dead bottom feeders..... Too bad crawdads don't float when they die.

Just seems to be too many Chiefs and not enough Indians (not You, Chief). Too many biologists and rule makers and not enough feet on the ground to enforce the rules that are already written down.. Anglers and drone planes shouldn't be the only ones noticing environmental violations and fish kills. I think they should let half the biologists and white collar fellas go and offer them a feild agent position. They could even pay them their current wage for all I care, just have them out doing sonething useful rather than rewriting and lengthening the list of rules and regs.

You almost seem surprised. LOL What it has to do with it is...... I dunno man, just seems like they are picking heavily on the fishing industry and turning a blind eye to the truly serious stuff. If I'm wrong set me straight, but that's sure the way it feels to me... and it's really getting old.

Nope, not a single one for me out of the LN below Green ford, but there are some around Mule shoe. Never understood why they are never caught down further, Tavern creek has them in the upper reaches also but not so much further down. There's something to that but I dunno what it is. Moreau river is the same way.

Yeah, bring on the rain (plenty of it) and dump Truman.... we need some dang water !

Oh, well then..... no problem unless you're worried about a scratch or two. Throw down a old piece of carpet or something.

One of these... ...with a few rocks in it makes a dandy anchor too, its weightless until I need it and always in the canoe. Just add a piece of rope.

Made from an old paddle, a few bolts and a Anchormate.... Works like a charm but I never did use it as much as I thought I was going to, and now I don't even bother taking it along.

The hardware store nearest you probably has nylon bushings that work great in place of drilled wooden dowl rod.... no squeaks either. I do have a removable anchor system that I configured, it works great but I hardly ever use it. I'll snap a few pics of it here in a bit.

That's what I'm talkin about. There were already laws, regs, and codes in place before that latest sewage mishap down by Chief's place..... Did anyone get in trouble for it? Was there even a "serious investigation"? I was under tge belief that structures containing hazardous waste are supposed to be built to codes that ensure it can withstand a potential 10 year flood situation. And if it isn't then Heads Should Roll ! There are faulty structure mishaps all the time, and heads never roll.

Was the ramp completely shut down, or just the courtesy dock being replaced?

I wonder how many crawdads got eradicated by sewage or chemical spills in the last year ? Way more died from that than at the claws of the killer craws from Arkansas I betcha. But when their all dead and gone and the smallmouth have had to evolve into midge feeders, we'll blame the Rusty Craw. Amazing!