Terrierman

The houses we stay in are fully furnished so you don't need anything special there. This jigfest, so bring a couple of light or ultralight spinning rods with 2, 4 or 6 lb mono or whatever premium line you prefer tor throwing light weight baits. Your box of trout jigs. Jerkbaits are provisionally allowed. So bring that stuff too if you want. You'll have a great time, guaranteed.

For several good reasons, I'm looking forward to this jigfest a lot. Really looking forward to seeing you all again and sharing some good times.

They look spectacular!

That's the way you do it. Great time to be fishing for certain.

Any good egg dinner roll recipe, rolled out and then cinnamon and sugar, curled back up cooled and sliced into rolls before baking. I like the craisins idea. Pecans in the middle are pretty special too. Butter and powdered sugar blended smooth frosting applied warm but not hot. You gave me a great memory of what it was like in my grandmother's kitchen, lo, those many years ago.🙂

I have a reliable report that hybrids are on at Truman - both on flats and at the dam- as are the blue catfish.

A meatloaf and baked sweet potato. The meatloaf is pretty usual except for grits instead of oatmeal. All we had was steel cut and they sound not good in meatloaf. Pretty usual meatloaf is a pound of ground chuck, one egg, S&P, 1/4 C ketchup, two tsp worcesterchire (Lea and Perrins please!), half an envelope of beefy onion soup mix, 6 baby carrots, one medium onion and two cloves garlic done fine but not too fine in mini processor. Made into a loaf with ketchup lake on top, in 350 oven for roughly an hour. In cast iron skillet. Everything bakes better in cast iron. Curiously optimistic about the grits. The other half envelope of soup is making slow too. Will deglace the skillet after the meatloaf leaves with the soup, and thicken just a bit to be gravy instead of soup. It's another one of those comfort food nights.

I heard speckle bellies and snows both last night. This weather is going to move some birds.

I don't want to be an honest fisherman, I want to be a happy fisherman who remembers we had to have boated maybe 50 or so. When really it was probably 25 or so. I don't like scales either. And I'm not really into rulers. They all just get in the way of good fish stories. When it comes to fishing reportage, I guess I'm kind of like Donald Trump. I like to tell the truth when I can.

Let WoundedOne look at it at jigfest. He's good.

IF I didn't own a .270 Ruger M77 RL, I would buy that rifle. The price is right and they are solid pieces.

Lovey says beaver handled the right way is not scary.

That's how you do it. With fresh hot biscuits and some sweet corn to stir into the mix. I've also done squirrel cacciatore that is still spoken of in certain circles. It's a great wonderfully flavorful meat, that needs the right care.

Hmmph. There is the exception.

How could I forget bluegill? They're there too, I'd bet your life on it.

I've had a few beaver encounters with terriers. Yeah they have big strong teeth and jaws. But they are prey in the overall scheme of things and they know it. All they ever want to do is get away. Fear no beaver.

Ooohhh. Poached pear. Wowsa.

A smoked squirrel sounds awfully tough. I know for a fact that smoked groundhog - a young one - is inedible.

Everything that swims for a living. White bass, hybrids, stripers, crappie, walleye, trout, LMB, SMB, channel catfish, flathead catfish, shad, sculpins,, eels and on and on. You put a name on it and if it swims in MoArk, it is there. Everything. Assuming by Taneycomo dam you mean the low head dam between Taneycomo and Bull Shoals.

Good job all the way.

I'd guess I cleaned somewhere around 250 bluegill this year. It's one of my personal goals to have full employment for cricket farmers.

Yeah, it's king of freshwater fish flesh. There are a lot of princes, but only one king.

I don't argue with my daughter either.

Good handmade acrylic calls are worth the money if you are at all serious about waterfowling. That one is not acrylic but it is a beauty. For an under $25 starter call, Yentzen double reed is my suggestion. Learn to chuckle and learn to read birds in the air. The very best days and places are the ones where you just highball a time or two and then go quiet until it's flaps down. Other times you have to talk them all the way in.

I've never saved venison shanks but will this year, given the opportunity.