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That's how you'll know a flattie, look him straight in the eye. No face, just a mouth and two beady little eyes that suggest, "I know where you live."

Absolutely. The deal with "big heads" on catfish isn't about big heads, it's about small bodies. Laugh away guys, but a fish that, for any number of reasons, can't eat, can't digest, or can't process food in a normal way will waste away, leaving little but a big head.

Yep. Mapp gas, any kind of sensor faucet or flush valve, HEPA filters, etc

'Fraid not, at least nothing that involves participation on the shad's part.

I've spent some time there, if you're seeing 'bream' on the sonar at the spring mouth, they're really big gizzard shad. Used to be a logpile about halfway in that held a few nice crappie this time of year, but I've never caught bream there bigger than bait size.

Heck, 2 of those would be just a sip shy of a pony keg!

...co-starring Festus, Jethro, and the mother-in-law from 'BeWitched'. Special guest stars, Redd Foxx and Carroll O'Connor.

I think all drugs are experimental, in that they can have their approval rejected if evidence of harm arises. That's the thing about science so many have forgotten or never learned... it's not a statement of "this is how it is", rather, "this is what the evidence says it is today".

Reckon they've been cleaning up the shad, like the cats?

Texas chickens.

Since our grid can't store a month's worth of juice, their statement could've been clearer. Better to say they powered >400,000 homes for the week that they ran. Still a great thing, even a 2hr blackout on Mon or Tues would've put me in a bind... thankfully, it never came. Prediction; In the last week, WR tailwaters have become the river they once were... The remaining real rivers will see some snowmelt influx, but nothing compared to the blast down the White. Roaming fish that spent the winter deep midlake have likely already made the choice of where to run for the year and are on their way to the party. The first flush of stored water in this deep freeze will be the warmest water around too. Perfect storm.

Some, but SWPA is hydro-only, and MO & AR still rely heavily (~73%) on coal. The WR chain combined output is ~820MW, just a fraction of the 43,661MW SPP was overseeing today.

Cold, Cold Heart.

The sister of my brothers-from-another-mother has taken a daily swim in a local lake for a few years now. Here's todays' dip with air temps of ~2 degrees.

For us west-siders; Current Grid Conditions (last updated Feb. 15 at 5:14 p.m. Central time): After directing member utilities to implement controlled interruptions of service shortly after noon on Feb. 15, Southwest Power Pool (SPP) has restored load to its 14-state region as of 2:00 p.m. Central time. The grid operator now has enough generation available to meet demand throughout its service territory and to fully meet its minimum reserve requirements. The SPP system reached a peak electricity usage of 43,661 megawatts (MW) on Feb. 15, and is required to carry additional operating reserves in excess of load. After committing all of its reserves and exhausting other avenues such as importing power from other regions, available generation in SPP fell about 641 MW short of demand for a period beginning just after noon. In response, SPP directed its member utilities to implement planned interruptions of service to curtail electricity use by that amount. Effective at 2:00 p.m., SPP cancelled the Energy Emergency Alert (EEA) Level 3 it had declared at 10:08 a.m. when its reserves were exhausted, and re-entered an EEA Level 2. SPP’s forecasts anticipate that due to high load and persistent cold weather, it is likely its system will fluctuate between EEA Levels 2 and 3 over the next 48 hours and may have to direct further interruptions of service if available generation is inadequate to meet high demand.

As a kid, those Creme purple worm rigs were 'bout all I had... and all I needed. That, and a big, red & white Daredevil spoon to snag snappin' turtles with.

$30/hr of taxpayer money for you to post on social media... Better not hear you whining about food stamps for awhile. 😉

Never been to Cape, but I spent a lot of nights on TR & BS over ~25yrs, and there are definitely some localized fog patterns that appear and persist in certain creek arms. From being there when it rolled in, it always felt to me that it was a product of the cooling air 'falling' down the hollow, so to speak. It requires calm conditions, but the air falling down the valley makes its' own breeze, from the West in places, the North in others, depending on the creek lay. The straighter (relative in the Ozarks, right?) the valley, the stronger the breeze. In the morning, the compass orientation matters though, the valleys that stay shaded longer hold the fog better.

If you could get permission from someone with a dock there to mount it, you could place a webcam that transmits photos over cell service. Just looked at some on the linked site below that lets you send 100 pics a month for free, and the cams aren't too pricey. https://www.spypoint.com/en

Given that nobody fills anything bigger than a swimming pool with city water, your chlorine theory doesn't hold water (see what I did there?). Never even been near there, so I got the sky view from Google. Both big ponds are on the river bank, with the 'cannon' <500' from the river. Dollar to a dime says that's where the water comes from. Doesn't mean something from the river water wasn't the culprit, just that it wasn't likely chlorine.

I just knew you were going to say it was still hot. Opportunity missed. 😉

What about all the ones that left small-town Mo never to return?

Have you seen Stevie Wonder's new piano?