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In my yard today. Hope it's a sign of things to come.

https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/science/how-streamflow-measured?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects

Have you seen an F22 maneuver? The ability to essentially stop in midair, fall out of the sky in a controlled manner, then kick it in the a$$ and scoot away in the direction of choice is pretty amazing. Guess it oughtta be at $40-60K an hour to fly...

Saw a foot-long copperhead on the street as I pulled in to work this morning.

I'm gonna guess regulations. Like for 16' & over you need a throwable PFD, or something similar. Kinda like why there are 9.9HP outboards.

It's just money & mobility man. When I was a kid in the '60s, fish were purely a welcome, secondary food source. Dad built & stocked our ponds for 2 reasons; to keep erosion from wasting productive soil, and to provide additional food. The fact fish were fun to catch was cool, but not necessary to the equation. The occasional community fish fries with friends and neighbors are some of my fondest memories. Fast forward to 2018, when the NMMA evaluates the recreational boating industry alone at $170B. Can't justify having a $50K fishing boat unless you use it a lot, right? And if you use it a lot you probably can't regularly keep your catch without negatively impacting your future fishing. It is what it is, and it ain't what it used to be.

There's been some interesting research on knots of late, Popular Mechanics version at; https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a30393601/math-knots/ Particularly interesting is the actual research (not particularly the PM article) was focused on explaining the "why" of empirical, observed knot characteristics, rather than predicting superior examples of pure math models.

^^what Devan said. 62 bridge +/-100 yds is the practical end of a prop's upstream run. With the recent generation trout should be scattered downstream a bit more than normal.

I was in New Orleans 20 yrs ago today. What happens in NOLA stays in NOLA,

Oh yeah. Back when I was late teens, a buddy (toughest guy I ever knew) and I used to sneak fish his uncle's catfish pond as soon as the ice thawed. He simply refused to touch the guts to bait his own hook. I made a deal that if he'd say "The Creed"* every time he needed to rebait that I'd bait his hook for him. To this day he can still say it (just not in front of anyone else). *My name is ________ ________, I'm a non-fishing, p***y b***h, and I don't like shad".

If you can't get fresh shad or skipjacks it's the next best thing for blues and channel cat.

This stuff's kind of like a jar of week-old shad guts... best to keep the lid screwed on tight before somebody kicks it over.

That's the exact method I settled on. Pretty tasty even on pellet pigs.

Cool. The blue cats should be tearin' it up about now. Quite often right below or behind the stripers, cleaning up the mess...

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Peace, Love, and Goodwill Towards Men.

Gates are 40' wide for both dams. BS gates are 29' high while TR's are 28' which might affect wide open capacity, but shouldn't matter to partial openings. The lake head will matter though, more feet of water above the opening will result in more flow. Don't know if that's the case now.

Well, I got home yesterday with a couple hours daylight left and found that a big, mostly dead pine had snapped off about 8 feet up, dropping the top 2/3 on my roof.Since it was partly dead, most of it busted up on impact, so I didn't have to round up a chain saw to pull the offending limbs out of the holes. Turned out there were 4 holes (that I found). Scrounged up a 2x3' chunk of galvanized sheet metal and some 12" aluminum flashing and slid the pieces under the uphill shingles. 3 tubes of caulk and a couple nails later I hauled my fat, ancient butt down the ladder with just enough light to see. Let it rain. Which it did. The only evidence I can find of a leak is one really slow drip, right in the kitchen sink. Sometimes you eat the bear. Oneshot, if you'd have been here to sound the siren, I don't think it would have mattered in my case, so rest easy. Hope y'all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Had a couple limbs about the size of my leg through the roof/kitchen ceiling this morning. Too dark to investigate when I left for work, and it's supposed to start raining about the time I get home... 😒

For a real hoot, show up in long hair and tie dye...

biting... tongue... club... rules...

Since small, medium, & large strippers stripers travel and feed together, catching the big ones exclusively is more a matter of method than month. That said, when the surface temps cool to ~52 degrees, they're very active and will feed shallow until it cools to ~48. Some years that's late October, some it's early December. Invert those numbers for spring and you'll be in the ballpark.

"Back in the 1970s and 80s, several regional outdoor writers, ... wrote several articles in regional magazines extolling the virtues of the fishing for big smallmouth on the Kings River, which fired my imagination to no end." They'd probably been fishing with ol' JD Fletcher, IMO the King of the King's River (RIP). He guided hundreds of folks to memorable KR bass floats, day after day, year after year. Sounds like maybe it ain't what it used to be. Thanks for the report.

If someone has figured out how to pick up a radio signal from a submerged fish with a roof-mounted antenna they ought to share that how-to with the US Navy. I'm sure they'd be really interested. Fish chasers using radio-telemetry have to shove an antenna in the water, take directional and signal strength readings and move until they find the target. Edit; ... with the exception of fish/whales that regularly surface.