Terrierman

Glass lenses if you want them to last is all I've got.

Now let's talk about ramp Karma: 1. Watched a guy back his rig, in fiddle didle around, finally jump in the boat and the truck promptly followed him into the lake. I can still hear him him yelling "Get somebody! Get somebody!" 2. Griz and I watched a guy with a fancy new Topwater and new trailer run right over the trailer of the only other rig in the parking lot (besides us). I learned some new French words that day. 3. Watched some asian guy launch his boat and trailer too with the trailer still firmly fastened to the boat. Mirth ensues.

Time to bring baseball bats and pick handles to the ramps! BTW, a pick handle is about $10. A bat is ... well, more.

Wait....are those guys real?

Yes, that was where he and his family lived most of his life.

It is. We were best friends since the 7th grade. To the point that he came to my house to die. Which was rough for everybody but not as rough as it was for Butch. How do you know Butch?

He was there just in case we caught somebody else checking our lines.😵

Back to alternative methods for catfish on a big river. If you look at the first picture in my post, you'll see David is lying on a 4' gaff. When you're catfishing on the big rivers, there are fish there that is the best way to get them in the boat. And now and then, it's the only way. Wonder if MDC will share that little bit of information in their classes? I also wonder if they'll teach about throw lines. Which is how we always fished the Missouri. They are a lot easier and safer then trot lines. I have seen a lot of bank poles used and occasionally a limb line too. But we had plenty of fish caught with our system. Our target dates were the dark of the moon in June. Moon phase definitely makes a difference. Cleaning those big fish is easy but takes time. Filet first with a big electric filet, and then chunk them up in frying size pieces. Be 100% certain to get every last bit of red cut out and discarded. A rapala filet knife is great for that work. If's its not white its not right when it comes to catfish for the fryer. And that's not a guideline, it's a rule. Done that way, those big fish eat as good as any freshwater fish I've had.

Nice ones Sir!

I wouldn't know anything about catfish on a big river...

I had great experience with Yamaha Pro 50 2 stroke and still have Yamaha 9.9 that's great too. Why lawnmowers get along great with 4 strokes and 2 stroke Lawn boy is not worth having is a question that I am sure wrench will fill us in on, Going back in time to the late 1970's, one of my duck hunting buddies had a 9.9 merc that if it ever started everybody around wanted to know what's that noise. Same time I had a newish 9.9 evinrude that was always a three pull first start and then one pull the rest of the day. Later I had an even older 6 HP johnson on my duck boat that was a never fail unit too, except for that one time we cracked the fuel line connector at the motor. Had to pump that bulb to keep it running then.😵 Which was no problem except for that one time during a gale on that one lake up in North Dakota when I died. Or at least thought we all might.

Phils' flies. Simple = good.

I guess I might have been referring to becoming involved in the legal system. Which suggests that absent getting caught and thereby entering the legal system, you are good with the law.

The thing everyone should know is the Missouri Wildlife Code is permissive. That means only game and methods listed may be used to take same. If it's not listed its not legal - if you get caught.

Sac River in that area has some nice fish in it. Me, restating the obvious.

It's good to have friends.

You jokers make me want to take up flyfishing the Finley. I really should.

Yes. I had to fail an iintelligence test.

Thank you for a great post.

This isn't really beekeeping but it's definitely related, so here goes. I've got a small orchard. Three apple trees, two peach trees, a pear, a plum and a cherry. Has never produced like it should have. I let the trees grow and did some ineffective minor pruning a couple of times. They got seriously pruned in January. They Look better. I would really like to see something positive out there. Everything there is supposed to be self pollinating or near a pollinator. I wonder if some bees would help. To the point I will gladly pay one of you bee keeper types to bring over a hive or two next spring. It's a good place, very rural mostly pasture nearby. Neighbor has fruit trees too. Lots of clover in the orchard and the fence rows and an unmowed area that borders the orchard have everything you would expect growing in them. There's no row crop agriculture anywhere near. Don't think bees would be endangered here at all. Any interest from anyone? BTW I'm about five miles NE of Ozark fairly close to Linden.

Secchi Disc clarity is one of the easiest tools to help define and document overall water quality in a lake or reservoir. Pretty much everybody understands what water clarity is. A steady decline at Table Rock Lake in secchi disc clarity and a couple of really ugly algal blooms ultimately led to more research, which showed the limiting nutrient for algal growth to be P, which then resulted in effluent limitations being placed on P in point discharges in the Table Rock Watershed and Taneycomo Watershed in Missouri. Arkansas has not followed suit. Also, major efforts were expended in Missouri to reduce nutrients and other "stuff" in stormwater runoff from municipal and ag sources. Which over the past decade and a half or so have reversed that trend. However, keep in mind this work was mostly done by biologists.

4' meaning about 4'

Just doing my job. 😇 Gotta keep you on your toes.🎯